Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life with Dr. Kevin Skinner

Reclaiming Core Values and Identity

Summary: In this episode of the Reclaim Podcast: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores the essential process of rediscovering who you truly are beneath the layers of shame, secrecy, and behavior patterns. He introduces three key pillars of inner transformation—core values, identity, and differentiation—as the foundation for la...

Drawing on 31 years of clinical experience, Dr. Skinner unpacks how secrecy, betrayal, and shame fracture intimacy and safety in relationships. He exp...

In this episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores one of the most common challenges in recovery—triggers. Whether external (images, places, sounds, people) or internal (stress, boredom, loneliness, anger), triggers are inevitable. But as Dr. Skinner explains, the trigger itself isn’t the problem—it’s how w...

Guarding Your Mind:

Digital Boundaries for Real Freedom

In this episode of the Reclaim Podcast: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time: navigating a digital world overflowing with sexualized content. From social media feeds to billboards, temptations are everywhere, and wi...

The Power of Honesty:

Accountability and Disclosure in Recovery

In this episode of the Reclaim Podcast: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores how honesty, accountability, and disclosure accelerate the recovery process. Pornography thrives in secrecy and isolation, but when the truth is brought into the light, shame loses its grip...

Buffalo Up: Emotional Strength for Lasting Recovery

In this episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner introduces a powerful metaphor from the plains—the difference between cows and buffalo in facing a storm. Cows run away, only to suffer longer. Buffalo turn toward the storm, facing it head-on, and pass through more quickly.

Much like the buffalo, recovery requires us to “buffalo up”—...

In this powerful episode, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores how habitual pornography use becomes neurologically reinforced and what it takes to interrupt that cycle. By breaking down the habit loop—cue, behavior, and reward—Dr. Skinner explains why willpower alone isn’t enough and how neuroplasticity makes real change possible. Through strategies like the 10-minute rule, the five-why exercise, and habit tracking, listeners learn how to de...

When the Craving Hits: Why You Need a Plan

In this episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner dives into one of the most critical elements of long-term recovery—understanding and managing cravings and urges. He explains the nuanced difference between cravings (a mental and physical longing) and urges (a strong physiological compulsion), and why re...

🎙️ Episode #3

Mapping Your Sexual Stress: Using the Six-Factor Inventory to Jump-Start Recovery

📑 Episode Summary

In this deep-dive episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr Kevin Skinner walks you through the Sexual Stress Inventory, a six-category framework that pinpoints where—and why—unwanted sexual behaviors keep showing up. You’l...

Episode 2: What Successful People Do To Reclaim Their Lives

In this episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner introduces the Recovery Capital Model—a research-based framework built on what successful people do to heal from addiction. Drawing from global studies on substance misuse recovery, Dr. Skinner outl...

“What Does It Mean to Reclaim Your Life?”

In this foundational episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner opens the door to a journey of emotional, relational, and spiritual healing. Drawing from 30 years of clinical experience and the insights that inspired his book Treating Pornography Addiction, Dr. Skinner explains why reclaiming your life is more ...