What are the 2 root causes of porn addiction? Knowing these can help you quit porn, as you learn what leads to it in the first place.
To learn how to break free of porn addiction, it's necessary to talk about stress. Our mental state is like a pressure gauge. When it's in the green, we typically don't experience porn cravings.
When it's in the red, however, we can last for a while, depending on who we are, but when we are in a heightened state of unchecked stress long enough, we almost always begin experiencing cravings.
This is why we need to know the root cause of porn addiction - the two emotions that drive negative feelings and trigger us to view porn.
If we want to stop watching porn, we also need to know the root cause of porn recovery, right?
Because it's not enough to simply know what causes addiction. We also need to know how people stay sober long-term. What is their secret?...
In this video, I share the 2 emotions that underlie porn cravings, as well as 3 things that keep us clean and sober long-term...
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