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How to Quit Porn Forever

Are you ready to quit using porn – for good? If so, the tips and information found here will help. You must keep in mind there is no magic solution that works for everyone. What someone finds effective may not work for others. While this is true, the tips found here will help to put you in the mindset of quitting this habit and getting back to life. 

Don’t Give Porn Any Power 

For many who are trying to quit, it is common for them to equate porn to a dark monster, war, pandemic, or plague that they must fight every step of the way else they will succumb to it. However, this mindset isn’t very helpful. 

It’s this type of self-talk that may actually backfire in the long run. There is research that suggests the reason this type of rhetoric is what caused the D.A.R.E. program to fail in the 1980s and 1990s, which was focused on reducing drug use among high school teens. There was a study that showed when compared to middle schoolers who did not participate in this program, and drug use was up among those who did. 

One of the most powerful things that can help someone effectively quite porn is just to understand how it affects the brain and what makes it so appealing. Rather than seeming like an unstoppable, menacing, or mysterious force, the addiction a person has to porn is driven as something natural and normal that’s been hijacked by a supernormal reproductive and an evolutionary reinforcer. 

Once a person understands the science between the use of porn, a person can see what it truly is: sexual junk food. If someone wants to stop eating chips, they learn the bad ways that chips affect the body and take actionable steps to stop buying these and bringing them into the home. 

Accept That You Look at Porn but Want to Stop Looking

Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do.” This is true. Cognitive psychology has shown time and time again that your behavior shapes the way you feel and think. Action is what shapes who you are. 

If you look at porn often, you must accept the fact you do this. It may be hard to accept, but just looking at this as an addiction makes the problem even more difficult to overcome because you give yourself an external locus of control.

Accept and Quit 

Remember, though, acceptance and resignation aren’t the same thing. Now that you have accepted it, you can begin making proactive changes. 

If you want to become a guy who doesn’t look at porn, you must start acting like that guy. This is a fake it until you make it situation. 

There is also outside help that you can seek. Someone to help you overcome this situation can be invaluable, so investigate the options that are in your local area. With the right support and guidance, you can overcome your porn addiction once and for all.

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Two Ways You Can Respond To COVID-19 as a Porn Addict

Our world will never be the same again.

If you are struggling with an out of control behavior with porn and masturbation, you WILL be at a high risk for  relapse.

Let me get real with you.

In the next 8 weeks, many men will go from Level 2 addicts ( occasional porn users) to Level 6 addicts (acting out in real life, watching illegal material, getting addicted to gay & shemale porn, developing disturbing new fetishes- violent rape and pedophilia themed porn)

PornHub and other porn sites are experiencing record breaking traffic as more of the population are confined to their homes to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

2 ways you can respond as a man trying to quit porn.

Option #1: Attack.

Go on the offense. Rally and encourage your family. Tighten your boundaries. Increase your investment in improving your mindset, finances and any areas of weakness. Seek opportunities to thrive while other focus in surviving. TAKE ACTION.

Option #2: Defense

Victim. Play safe. Cut spending. Get Scared. Give in to anxiety. Keep your family in a state of paranoia and fear. Compulsively watch the news. Worry about job instead of finding new income sources. Lose hope.

Which do you choose? 

One of these puts you in control. Allows you to build up extra reserves of Reboot Capital™, an arsenal of coping strategies , an iron mindset, save your family and your livelihood from whatever is about to happen in the world.

The other forces you to be a passive observer. It allows the fate of your reboot and your life to rest on uncontrollable forces. Gets you stuck to the TV. Has you masturbating and watching porn to take the edge off your stress and anxiety. Defaults you to lose.

Neither may work. But one allows you to go to bed at night knowing you did your very best. Another leaves you impotent- waiting for someone else to solve your problems.

You get to pick your path.

Which do you choose? 

Do you choose to play the victim? Or do you choose to take responsibility and accept the fact that the past decade was the best time in history for a man to regain control of his life and achieve all his dreams  and NOW is the time to get to work (not to roll over and “see what happens”)?

I choose Attack!

I choose to not sit back and give in to fear. I choose not to accept that the economy sucks. We choose to not roll over and die. Our clients are doubling down on the next 8 weeks. We *will* create the best reboot results in Porn Reboot’s history and this year will be the last

Why?

Reason #1. Most men are scared.

How do I know? Men all over the world are diving even deeper into porn. I’m receiving emails from men freaking out about being at home for days because they fear they will undo all the progress they have made in rebooting so far. Everyone is spending less to play defense.

They are scared.

In times of crisis, men who act in spite of their fears win.

At Porn Reboot, we are anti-fear and anti- playing small. All our clients understand that fear activates biochemical reactions which lead to relapses.

We work with high achievers and if you are wired that way, here’s what to expect:

If you are in a career where climbing the corporate ladder matters, you will perform better and demonstrate more leadership.  Our clients are investing more in the skills that’s make them better at their careers.

If you run a competitive business, you will expand as your competitors play safe and cut expenses. Our business owner clients are spending more in advertising, forming new partnerships and creating new products.

Our clients want to THRIVE! And we are stepping up in a huge way to support them.

At Porn Reboot, we are spending more than ever by creating more powerful resources and support. From expanding our curriculum to cover managing marriages affected by porn addiction (BetrayalReboot™), dealing with over 11 different types of fetishes, training clients in powerful mindfulness techniques, providing a full recovery program exclusively for PIED(PIEDReboot™) and an in depth HOCD course (Homosexual Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and even expanding our support from 90 days to 1 full year!

Personally, over the past four weeks, I’ve probably spent $15,000 on mentorship and personal development in the past week ALONE  ( and I’m far from done!)because I’m someone who sees the opportunity to get BETTER….FASTER with all the extra time I’ll be spending at home.

 

Reason #2. Everyone wants the same thing (security) 

Every man is worried about the same things right now- security.

That means retreating into your home and playing small is very tempting. You think security means less exposure to risk and avoiding dangerous situations ( health-wise, socially, and financially)

The reality is that REAL security comes from being PREPARED. Aside from being prepared to weather a storm, the biggest challenge is going to be MENTAL preparation.

Are you mentally ready for tough economic times?

Are you mentally prepared to deal with a loved one potentially getting sick?

Are you mentally prepared for government imposed quarantine- lack of access to basic commodities?

Or will your crumple under pressure? A scared, overwhelmed addict jerking off anxiously as you try desperately to block out the reality of our world.

Our clients know that while there might not have been serious consequences a few months ago, they simply cannot afford to allow the negative effects of porn addiction to hold them back at this crucial time in history.

Brain fog, fatigue, loss of focus, intrusive and distracting sexual thoughts, irritability and depression- all of these MUST go!

Reason #3. Your loved ones need you now more than ever.

Many of your family members are scared. It’s uncertain out there. However, it’s YOUR job to show how playing offense rather than defense is the single best thing you can do to help your family thrive in these times. You cannot support them if your are hooked on porn and masturbation.

Don’t let your wife, your girlfriend, your parents succumb to fear and uncertainty.

That’s how we’re thinking and acting at Porn Reboot.

How about you?

What are you thinking right now? 

Do you want to roll over and accept what comes?

OR

Do you want to go on the attack?

If you’d like to talk with one of our specialists and create a custom reboot plan for your situation, click the button below:

Schedule a free call with a Porn Reboot specialist!

 

 

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Porn Addiction Is On The Rise, But Recovery Is Possible

Just like any other addictive product, pornography can trap people in a web that can be difficult to free themselves from. Not every addictive substance is drug-related, but like drug addiction, pornography addiction can alter the reality of the addict, and become a series of highs and lows that cause isolation, depression, loss of livelihood and strained interpersonal relationships. 

Rise In Problems Coorlates With Pornography Accessibility

Pornography has been a part of society for as long as anyone can remember, however with the technology of today, it is easier than ever to attain. At the press of a button, anyone at any age can become immersed in a dark underworld from the comfort of their home, office, school, anywhere with a wifi connection.

Because the accessibility to porn is so readily available, the number of people who become addicted to the images or videos has grown tremendously. Research suggests that in the United States alone, the porn industry generates over 13 billion dollars each year, with three billion of those dollars coming from the internet alone. 

Since smartphones and tablets are in almost every hand, it is safe to assume that the problem of porn addiction is greater than reported. Due to this fact, people who find themselves in the midst of this addiction can have a difficult time finding their way back to a healthy life. But the good news is that there are steps that can be taken to regain control over porn addiction. 

How You Can Overcome Porn Addiction

The first step to freedom is deciding that it is time to make a change. Once a person has made the decision to make a life change, it is important to seek professional guidance. Just as in alcohol and drug addiction, guidance and support are necessary in order to develop a clear plan of action.

This support system is crucial to the success of any addiction rehabilitation as it provides both self-accountability as well as accountability to others. People often become withdrawn and isolated when in the midst of porn addiction, typically suffering

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Online Porn Industry Increases Porn Addiction

Online Porn Industry Increases Porn Addiction

The internet has opened up the world to us with a touch of a screen and click of a mouse.  Anything and everything you want to see, hear, watch, and learn is right at our fingertips in the privacy of our own homes.

However, the internet can be a double edged sword,on one side it has revolutionized how we obtain information and communicate with others, while on the other it can be a conduit for darker primal desires.

As technology has evolved to liberate a generation of people, it has also created a dependency for constant contact and emotional stimulation. These desires that are fuled by the internet have created a hightly lucrative business for the sex industry.

Synthetic sex is by far the most sought after and abused desire based internet addiction. Online pornograbpy has gained leaps and bounds in popularity over traditional media methods of print and film, and the market seems to be only expanding.

In part this is due to the ease of access, having everything you want to see right in the privacy of your home at any time of the day or night. Where at one time, professional photographers, film makers, models and actors had to create porn in a more restrictive arena, anyone can create and post any type of porn easily online.

An unfortuntate byproduct of the internet pornography industry is its crippling effects on both men and women. The percentage of people struggling with porn addiction is growing rapidly due to the availability of images online.

No longer do people have to muster up the confidence to walk into a store and ask to purchase a dirty magazine, now some of the darkest desires can even be accidently found by unintentionally typing the wrong words.

Porn is actually changing consumers’ bodies and brains in a negative manner, and many people who partake of internet porn find it begins to take over their thoughts and their lives.

Social isolation, diminished relationship bonding, and lack of motivation are among the most common behaviour changes that result from online porn addiction. Often times, people find that their thoughts are so consumed with their addiction that they begin to draw into themselves, triggering loss of jobs and healthy relationships.   By taking over the lives of those who are addicted, online pornography has become a leading cause of failed relationships and failed careers.

Fortunately, there is help for people who want to break the chains of online porn addiction.  Many find it difficult to quit by themselves, as the erosion of their addiction has left them weak and without direction. Elevated Recovery specializes in providing professional services for those who are addicted to pornograpy and are ready to create a change in their lives.

Seeking a more meaningful life, one free of the burdens of addiction, is the first step in gaining control over what so many people find a crippling problem.

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How To Quit Porn

Hi, I am J.K. Emezi.

I help ambitious men to quit their sexually, out of control behavior like porn, masturbation, and sex addiction so that you can maximize your life, perform at your potential and remain in the driver’s seat which is what you need to do in order to have or maintain the success that you want in life.

Now, I wanna ask you if you ever experienced any of these challenges. For instance, have you ever been in a situation where due to your out of control sexual behavior, you experienced any of these symptoms? I’m going to list them out for you.

Do you sometimes find yourself feeling lost as if you really have no idea what you want to do in life and this been goin’ on for a while?

Do you have no real focus path for where your life is headed?

Do you feel like a fraud sometimes? Like, everyone thinks you’re this nice, normal, confident, responsible or funny guy but in reality, if they found out the sort of nasty, porn that you watch, they would be absolutely shocked.

Have you been facing the challenge of second-guessing every decision that you make? Like you start something, then halfway through, you just quit and decide that you’re going to do something else. And then you end up having this life history of starting things and never finishing them.

Maybe you’ve been using porn or sex to cope with stress and anxiety in your life. You know, you’re dealing with a situation that’s out of your control and the only way to feel better about it or to relax is by watching porn and masturbating.

Do you feel a lot of regret after using porn because you feel like you have no control over your urges when they take over? Like you’re promising yourself that you’ll stop, but you’re constantly letting yourself down.

Have you started feeling like you’re becoming more awkward in your social life?

More withdrawn and spending more and more time alone and disconnected from those around you?

Or, you feel that you have no drive or motivation to accomplish anything in life? You know you have a lot of potential but you’re really doing nothing about it. Maybe you suffer from PIED (porn-induced erectile dysfunction) which is holding you back from your relationships. Basically, you can’t get an erection unless you’re watching pornography.

Have you gotten to a point where you feel that you’ve started really wrong things? And those are the only kind of things that get you aroused.

Do you feel that you have constant mood swings and fatigue? Like you’re tired all the time.

Do you find that you hate yourself and that you have a lot of self-loathing? You’re constantly thinking that others are much better than you? Now that was a long list of different ways you could feel but I struggled with all of these issues as well.

See I was exposed to pornography at the age of eight. And I began using it compulsively when I was 13. Now by the time I turned 18, I was pretty much a full-blown porn addict.

I remember thinking that I had a problem when I was about 20 years old and I started going to college just totally exhausted because I would watch porn for hours and hours all night looking for that perfect scene. And sometimes I would masturbate, four or five times a night.

Eventually, I discovered live cam sites and began spending my entire paycheck on watching my favorite cam girls strip. I was so seduced by them, and many times, you know because I was socially awkward and I wasn’t good at talking to women, the women on these cam sites, they gave my ego a boost.

You know they were good looking and they told me that I was attractive. And before I knew it, I had just reached a limit for the amount that I could spend that day. I think back then it was about $100.

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So, I’d been trying to quit for a few years but I only started to so seriously when I turned 22. And I realized that my sexual behavior was escalating. Basically, sex with women was not enough for me. It just wasn’t exciting enough. That thrill just wasn’t there. I didn’t feel an adrenaline rush from being with a woman.

I needed porn and I needed really disturbing porn. I need the cam sites. And I started looking for sexual encounters beyond my relationships with women that I was seeing.

You know, I tried meditation. I tried mindfulness. I got into SAA and 12 step groups. I used my will power. I bought all sorts of books on changing your habits and replacing one habit with another habit. I tried working on my issues from the past through therapy. I had group therapy. I even joined these spiritual groups for men which promised to rid men of all their issues from the past.

Now, some of these things gave me relief. Sometimes I even felt, “you know what, this is it. I’m going to quit porn this time.”

And many of these approaches that I tried helped me stay off porn for really long periods of time like 80 days, three weeks. But I always relapsed. Eventually, I stopped trying to quit in 90 days. I realized that this might actually take a while and I accepted that. So I spent the next two years tracking my slips, my relapses, and studying others who had successfully recovered. Now, I’m a very driven person and I realized that many ambitious men actually secretly struggled with an out of control sexual behavior.

But the one difference between them and the other men who struggled was that they actually had a focus and a purpose in life that was bigger than the pain they were medicating with sex or porn, a purpose that was bigger than they need to orgasm. They also realized that they would never achieve anything worthwhile as men while they struggled with addiction.

I learned that many of the things that were holding me back in life were connected to my out of control sexual behavior. So I was basically using this behavior because it was the only coping mechanism that I had available to deal with my pain. So instead of developing skills to deal with adversity, you know, like loneliness, stress, strong emotions, conflict, I reached for porn. Now all these things, stress, loneliness, strong emotion, and conflict, ironically these are things that every man, especially ambitious men need to overcome in life to become somebody.

Now,  I’m not talking about becoming somebody for the world or for society, I literally mean somebody that you can look in the mirror and be proud of and say you know what, in my own way, as a man, I fought my battles and I won and now I can stand tall and proud among other men knowing that I’ve earned my place. Not, and I can pay that price every day. You know the speaker, Rory Vaden said, “Success is never owned, only rented. “And that rent is due every day.”

And you know, once I understood this and the biological reasons for my addicted behavior, something clicked within me. And I knew that I found a solution that would not only end that behavior, but that would actually fuel my ambition and my eventual success. And to be honest with you, it did. And it did so many times over.

Do you know how sometimes you, you dream of being a certain type of man or living a specific type of lifestyle, just you know just dream movie, almost movie-like lifestyles?

Well, the result I got from overcoming my out of control sexual behavior gave me the keys to living the life that I wanted.

Now first off, my self-confidence grew. As I perfected my recovery system, I began to experience small, little wins. Like you know for the first time in my life, I was able to actually start a self-improvement project that required months of consistent work and I actually complete it. Now once I figured out that recovery could be self-development, then I went crazy with it. So I focused on my biggest sticking points which, at that point was really social anxiety and motivation.

Now six years ago, I would die at the prospect of standing in front of a camera and talking about sexual issues that I had because I come from a relatively conservative background. But I was learning skills which I used to deal with my pain, instead of using sex and porn to deal with it.

So, the more that I applied these skills, the better results I experienced and over time, my social anxiety went from like 90% which is really bad to something like 5%. So, it’s still there. The only difference is that I can act in spite of me. And my recovery taught me that motivation is not external. It’s literally within you. You were born with the ability to be self-reliant and we’ve been born into a modern world that actually gives us all sorts of crutches to lean on.

Now, this self-motivation became almost like the superpower that I could turn on within myself and it made me believe that I could accomplish anything that I put my mind to.

Now, of course, I set realistic goals and I started to go for them. So in the summer of 2012, I was in a happy relationship. I was running my own business. I’ve been in control of my sexual behavior for a while. No porn, no masturbation, for a few years actually.

And I realized that I had actually stumbled onto something that had improved my life drastically. And, maybe I was taking it for granted. You know maybe I was just lucky. Maybe certain life circumstances came together and just you know, put me in a position to recover.

But, I just couldn’t help but wonder how many other men like me were out there and this was actually their solution. So I started writing anonymously about my experience and my system on a blog online.

Within two years, that blog had blown up and thousands of followers and men started asking me to work with them one on one. So, I started teaching my system of recovery.

Now within three to six months, men who had struggled with porn and sex addiction for most of their lives were gaining control over their behavior in the same way that I had. Men who had social anxiety couldn’t believe how social they had become and it’s a very exhilarating and liberating feeling to naturally come out of your shell.

Do you know? Guys who are always demotivated and getting tired every time they tried to go for their goals were getting work done in less time than they ever had. So, their focus and drive had increased. So many men wanted to give back to the world. They wanted to contribute and help others. But, they were stuck because they couldn’t even help themselves. When I began hearing back from men, six months later telling me that they found what they were going to do in life and many times, it actually involved serving other men.

You know others just wanted a solid, happy, you know a stable relationship with a good woman and they got it. A lot of them were normal guys. Great personalities, good looking but they never had much success with women. As their anxiety reduced and their confidence increased, they actually found that missing piece and truly became attractive men.

And many men also wanted to be financially successful, so many. They wanted good careers. A huge number of them wanted to be entrepreneurs. But they knew that unless they learned how to manage loneliness, stress, their emotions, and conflict, they could never succeed at running their own business. It was impossible!

So, my system taught them how to replace their unhealthy pornography and sexual habits with the skills that they could actually use to become ambitious, successful, fulfilled and happy men. So basically, the energy that they were using for porn, started to be used for growth. Now, unfortunately, today, many treatment professionals still don’t believe that porn or sex addiction exists and many that do have ineffective treatment methods. That’s just the truth.

Click here to read 10 Reasons Why Highly Successful People Don’t Seek Help for Sex & Porn Addiction

Just like, you know how back in the day, when doctors cosigned on cigarette and tobacco use, many medical professionals still advocate actions which are hurting people and destroying lives. Here are a few examples of some of the things that you still hear which are just ludicrous to me.

The first is that masturbation is healthy.

Now, it’s important to know that masturbation is a normal human function, okay? There’s nothing wrong with it.

However, the old way of thinking doesn’t take into account the fact that most masturbation today is done with the aid of online pornography which leads to altering your natural masturbation pattern and masturbation combined with high-speed internet, becomes a tool that alters the way that you’re aroused. The way that you’re naturally turned on.

Another one that we hear often is that porn can enhance your relationship.

Now for a small number of couples, it actually does. But for the vast majority, however, porn ends up creating unrealistic expectations in the relationship. It leads to infidelity or cheating and it also trains a couple to perhaps engage in sexual behavior which might break the emotional bond. Such as swinging or engaging in different sorts of fantasies.

Now sex and porn addiction are a result of guilt. That’s a big one.

Now some professionals still talk about porn addiction being a label picked up by religious individuals struggling with their guilt. And I actually happened to believe that there are some people who label themselves as porn or sex addicts because of religious or cultural guilt. And when they come through my practice and get professionally evaluated, I let them know that you know what, you’re not an addict but I would like you guys to know that this is a very negligible demographic.

They’re not many.

Now there’s another group that says that there’s good porn and I’ve started seeing this recently and usually from people who are trying to take advantage of porn addicts. They claim that porn has become you know worse, more violent, it’s easily accessible which is true. It’s very demeaning to women and so on. And their solution is to create what they call healthy porn or good porn. Now, this is the same thing as people saying that the problem with cigarettes is nicotine so we’re going to start vaping. First off, while vaping is definitely safer than smoking a cigarette, there’s no conclusive evidence that points to it being safe. Also, it doesn’t get to the root of the problem. Why do you need to vape all the time?

Now good porn is still porn and it becomes a substitute for a porn addict and besides, everyone who’s ever been hooked on porn knows that you don’t just go back to the plain, vanilla porn that you, you know once you’ve progressed and gotten past the certain level of explicit material, you’re either in to porn at a certain point or you’re not.

Now in terms of recovery, the most popular method out there is based on will power.

So you know guys make a decision to not masturbate or fap for 90 days or one year or forever. Now this works but again, only for a very small subsection of people. Yes, you know using your will power and certain techniques can help you rewire or reboot your brain. But the vast majority of men simply don’t have the will power to do so.

A large number of people are also using pornography to medicate an emotion or a feeling. It could be stress, emotional discomfort, lack of an intimate connection with another human being, or loneliness, conflict in their life. You know like being unsure of their values or principles in life. And if these issues are not addressed, no matter how long a man stays off porn, he will relapse.

So after all of this, what is the solution?

Now since my recovery, I’ve worked with over 1,200 men. And I’ve noticed that there are seven things that those who are fully recovered and actually living amazing and fulfilling lives do. And I’m going to share these things with you today.

The first is that they accept that they have a problem and they don’t minimize it.

Listen, if you don’t take a serious look at yourself in the mirror, if you don’t humble yourself and admit that you don’t have control over your behavior with pornography, you’ll always struggle with it.

All my successful clients realize that as tough as it might be to admit that they had an addiction, everything would become so much simpler if they did.

So for a temporary period of time, they treated it like a big deal. They made recovery their priority. And after that time, they were done with pornography forever. Now you may also still be holding on because you don’t know what you could maybe replace porn within your life.

Let me assure you brother, there is always something more healthy that can replace porn in your life.

They have a morning routine. This is the second thing.

Now men who work with me who have successfully quit porn, I’ve noticed they all start their days right. So instead of struggling with their urges throughout the day, they put aside time in the morning to prepare themselves for the entire day.

That way, they know that whether they have strong urges or not during the day, they have all the tools and skills necessary to help them.

And this usually involves them waking up early, writing out their recovery goals, journaling, working on exercises which improve their connection with their emotions. And also exercises which help them manage their urges and identify them, how’d they call it, the motivations behind their problems with porn and sex.

They also are involved in gratitude exercises in the morning what they are thankful for, meditation, some of them pray and they use a few other tools. They don’t necessarily do all these things. But they pick what’s most effective and consistently prepare their minds for having an amazing porn free day.

The third thing is that they have a filter or a deterrent.

And this means that they have a filter installed in all their devices. We all know that filters can be bypassed. But a point of a filter is to do two things. The first is to buy you time and the second is to provide accountability. And this is why I highly recommend Covenant Eyes.

Because it not only provides filtering services but allows an accountability partner to actually monitor your activity online.

Next is that they have accountability.

Now every man who has worked with me and who have successfully overcome their porn addiction has included accountability in their life for a period of time, they have someone who helps them stay on track with their recovery.

Now whether it’s via text, phone calls or some sort of app, they incorporate accountability into their recovery from porn use.

Next is that they are part of a healthy, preferably recovery-based community.

Now porn addiction thrives in secrecy. There’s a lot of shame and guilt involved. And the people whom you associate with, they have a huge impact on your behavior. So men who have successfully quit porn are part of the recovery community. Maybe it’s SAA, Sex Addicts Anonymous, a 12 steps groups or a mentoring group or a men’s group.

The purpose is to show them that they are not alone in their struggle and it also provides them with healthy, masculine support.

Next is that they have a coach or mentor.

And this could be online, it could be through a book, whatever it is. Now obviously, these men are my clients, then they’ve worked with me at some point.

But they have the direct support of someone who is either overcome this addiction, who can guide them along the right path or a person who is professionally trained to guide them to a life free of addiction from pornography and out of control sexual behaviors and they’re willing to invest in that.

Now personally, over the years of my recovery, I invested thousands of dollars to not just understand my addiction but to catch up on the areas of life that I’d actually lost through to pornography.

You know I saw that most successful people in their fields had coaches. So I did what they did. I invested in learning how to build healthy relationships with women; I invested in learning how to manage my money better; I invested in training myself to be more mentally tough and disciplined and I did all these things by seeking out professionals who had accomplished these things in their lives.

And as a result, I saved years when it came to building the life that I wanted. So a mentor or a coach can save you an immense amount of time. And every man that I’ve worked with that not only quit porn but came closer to achieving their potential, invested in a coach or a mentor in different areas of their life.

Still not convinced that you need a coach or mentor? Read my article on “10 Reasons Why You Need a Coach or Mentor

Now finally, they constantly learned about themselves and their addiction.

Men who successfully quit porn took the time to fully understand how porn affects the brain and their lives. They studied; They read books; They watched videos; They educated themselves and some of them even became experts on themselves.

This is part of taking responsibility for their problem. They didn’t put all their faith in one person or in a system to help them. They also strive to understand the problem and the different approaches to overcoming it.

Now while these are the seven things that I’ve noticed that guys who successfully quit porn have done, there are two more things that I gotta talk about and these are the two things that actually hold guys back from overcoming their porn addiction.

And the first one, which I’ve mentioned several times is minimizing your problem. So many guys, it’s been six years, eight years, nine years, 12 years, 20 years, and they still haven’t admitted that they have no control over it.

I have guys emailing me and they tell me, “Hey JK, I don’t really have an addiction. I have more like a dependency on porn”, “Or I have more like a bad porn habit.”

I’m like, “Dude, you’ve been struggling with this thing for 22 years. You have a very serious problem and you’re still minimizing it.”

It’s not a bad habit. It’s something that is out of your control and until you accept the fact that it’s a big deal, nothing’s really gonna happen. You could watch all the videos, you could read all the books, you’re not gonna help yourself.

And the next is, they think that they can do this on their own.

Now is it possible to quit porn addiction on your own? Yes, just as it’s possible to quit any addiction on your own, but you must understand that it’s only a very small, minority of people who achieve this.

If you’ve noticed your life passing you by, let’s say you’ve lost relationships, you’re getting older, you’re losing money, your kids are looking at you and going like wow what kind of dad do I have? If so many things are happening in your life and the years are passing you by, you’re losing your focus, you have no motivation in life, your dick is not working anymore, if these things are happening and you’re still thinking, you know what I can do this on my own. You’re on the forums and you’re online, believing in yourself. You’ve tried to quit.

Guys call me and they are like, “Yeah man, I’ve been trying to do this on my own for a while.”

And I’m like, “Well, what’s the longest amount of time that you’ve spent off porn?”, “What’s your longest streak?”

And they will be like, “Well, 17 days. “And how long have you been trying to quit?” “Like four years.”

So in four years, you’ve achieved 17 days. And then after that, maybe you achieve, a week. After that maybe two weeks. But it’s never anything that’s lasting a long time. It’s never anything that’s producing serious results in your life. Listen, if you’re one of these guys that keeps starting and stopping, it’s time to stop believing that you can do this on your own.

Humble yourself and get help, from a therapist, from a professional. There all kinds of programs out there. Get some help. Admit that you have a problem. You are not an island. No man is an island. You’re not a lone wolf. We are human beings and human being need help.

Now here’s the first thing to do. The first thing that you need to do to quit porn is very simple. Decide what you want. Decide why you want to quit watching porn and masturbating compulsively to pornography. Write out what I call a statement of purpose. Again, a statement of purpose, you start by accepting the fact that you have a problem. You write down why you want to overcome it. And you vividly describe your life three years from now, living without this problem.

It’s easier for us to imagine what our life is like in three years than it is to imagine what it’s like in five years. So take that piece of paper and you read it every day. You constantly remind yourself of your purpose. It needs to be on your mind every day until you overcome it. It’s your new priority. That is the one thing that will make the most difference in your recovery. It’s the one thing that will bring everything else that I’ve talked about in this video together.

Now, if you have any questions about anything mentioned in this video, leave your question in the comment section below. If you have a question which you maybe don’t feel comfortable leaving in the comments and you wanna ask me privately, you can simply email me at elevatedrecovery@gmail.com. And if you want to work with me, one on one, click this link now.

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3 Enemies of Recovery From Porn Addiction

I have clients who don’t recover from their porn addiction.

That’s the reality.

6 years of recovery mentoring and a few hundred clients in, I’ve seen men in their mid to late twenties who choose to keep on watching porn enter their thirties and totally f**k their lives up.

While, as a professional, my clients do have the highest porn addiction recovery rate out of all the options out there, I still fret and stay up late trying to figure out how and why some clients don’t recover. Not everyone can be saved and this frustrates the hell out of me sometimes.

Not to sound all “zen” and deep- but today, during my morning meditation, I figured out a few reasons why. (this also means that my meditation session sucked, lol)

Don’t get me wrong, though. This process took about 5 years and today was the day I experienced my “revelation”.

The first thing to understand is that YOUR BRAIN DOES NOT WANT TO CHANGE.

The older you get, the tougher it is to recover. If you are over the age of 26, your brain has made enough sense of life and society that it doesn’t really need to change that much. You’ve created mental models for most things in life and complacency sets in. The human brain naturally resists rewiring of any sorts and prefers comfort and familiarity.

This process is called homeostasis.

This is one reason why recovery from porn addiction is not as easy as “staying away from porn for 90 Days”.

There are MANY things that our brain doesn’t want to change- not just watching porn and masturbating to it. I’ve compiled them into three main things which I call the three enemies of recovery.

Enemy #1: Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is the way your brain goes through information and discards anything which doesn’t fit the way you see the world. Remember- the brain resists change. Confirmation bias keeps us comfortable and prevents us from rewiring our brains neural pathways.

You can see confirmation bias demonstrated online where different people have polar opposite reactions to a video or article.
Another example is religion or some sort of ideology. Your ideology comes from two things: your beliefs and emotions.

Your beliefs are formed from a neural pathway in your brain being used over and over again- for years. Your emotions are neuro-chemical reactions. When combined, you get an ideology- like a religious conviction, political belief, radical feminism, socialism, radical veganism (this is apparently a thing), and so on.

The problem is that confirmation bias makes it difficult to analyze anything which is different from your belief or emotions. This is why many men cannot accept the fact that they are “porn addicts”. Your idea of an addict is not linked to pornography. Your beliefs about quitting porn hold you back.

Here’s an example you can probably relate to:

When you are experiencing a streak of not watching porn and masturbation, you begin to believe and tell yourself that “I’ve got this under control”- then you start getting sloppy with the things that kept your off porn in the first place and next thing you know, you are relapsing to something like a very light sex scene in a movie.

This happens OVER and OVER again…but you never change. You never change and keep thinking you have it under control because you haven’t changed your belief to something more realistic such as: “I don’t have this under control until my brain rewires itself AND it takes more than a few months to recover from porn addiction.”

Enemy #2: Technology

Many men- especially millennial men, use technology irresponsibly and there is a price to pay for that. The cost is damage to their ability to synthesize information and to think independently.

My research into my clients revealed a few things:

The more you watch T.V, the less likely you are to recover from your porn addiction. Men who watch T.V, Netflix, and Youtube as entertainment for more than 10 hours a week have a HIGH relapse rate.

Men who are most likely to relapse consume information via technology without discipline. They look up anything they don’t know on their phones before thinking for themselves. They would rather watch a video than read a book about recovery.

See, the majority of modern humans cannot deal with boredom or lack of satisfaction in their lives simply because every time they feel bored, they tune into T.V, Social Media or….porn.

We have not trained ourselves to sit and think in silence. As a result, many men cannot sit still and evaluate their emotional state- a necessary step in recovery.

They don’t THINK enough and as a result are not only prone to relapse but are prone to being unfulfilled and unsuccessful.

In our current world, success is not determined by how much manual labor you can do, or how hard you can work. It’s predicted by your ability to think and be creative.

Enemy #3: Lazy Thinking and Beliefs

Lazy Beliefs are basically beliefs which you formed to make life easier for you and make you feel better when you don’t achieve your goal.

Easy thinking makes you soft and fragile because it often puts the responsibility of your situation on someone else.

Here are a few examples:

a) “This time will be different because____________ will happen!”

This is the belief that something positive will happen in the future that will change your life without any effort on your part. For instance:

“I’ll stop watching porn and masturbating when I have sex /get a girlfriend/to get married to the right woman .”

“I’ll become more attractive/ stop being stressed when I get a good job/ become very successful ___years from now.”

“I won’t slip or relapse this time because I got a therapist/ recovery coach/ joined a group.”

b)”I’m ___________ therefore ____event probably won’t happen to me.”

This happens when you believe you are exempt from something happening to you because you are “special”.

Let’s start with my favorite:

“I watched 70 videos about not fapping on Youtube and I am a Level 5 Black Belt with 500 Days of not fapping. so I’m going to recover for sure!”

Reality: You can remain in the early stages of recovery from porn addiction with no relapses for months and even YEARS only to relapse 2 years later because you still haven’t rewired your brain or dealt with the underlying issues that made you addicted to porn in the first place.

The ugly truth is that many men who claim to have recovered from porn addiction have not. They simply regressed to a stage of their addiction where they can go months without watching porn or masturbating- but they eventually slip and binge for a few days, then get back on the horse. This pattern will likely continue throughout their lives.

“I’m a strong Christian/Religious person- my faith and belief in Jesus Christ/ religious deity will pull me through”

Reality: God helps those who help themselves. Faith is an amazing thing to have in your arsenal against addiction, but Faith without a realistic goal, faith without doing the necessary recovery work, heck, even faith without a filter installed on your devices will NOT work.

” I won’t be unemployed and lonely in my thirties because I’m in college now and I have some friends.”

(Actual quote by a twenty-something-year-old porn addict who is an “introvert”, has no close friends, is failing his sophomore year in college and is broke because of his severe addiction to live cam sites).

Reality: As I mentioned earlier, I have followed the lives of dozens of my clients over the years. If you don’t fix your porn addiction and any other unhealthy behaviors in your twenties, it only gets tougher as you get older.

It is heartbreaking to speak to men in their 40’s who literally watched all their dreams slip away because of their effects of pornography on their lives:lack of focus, complacency with their career, lack of friends and an encouraging network, never attaining any form of financial independence, never being in a fulfilling long term relationship, or choosing porn over their one relationship.

“I can’t wake up early because I need at least 9 hours of sleep to function”

Reality: Sleep is important, so sleep as much as you need, but if you consistently go to bed at 2 am because you’re up watching Youtube videos, catching up on TV series, edging to porn or juggling 5 dead-end conversations on Tinder, you are only fooling yourself. Try going to bed at 9:30 PM if you can and see how many hours you really need. Some of you will literally solve 90% of your problems by being in bed by 10 PM every night.

“I would be more successful/ have more money if not for the____(blame someone else) who keeps me down!”

Reality: Who is the scapegoat in your life? Your parents? Your wife or girlfriend? Trump? The porn industry? Take 100% responsibility for your life.

Here’s what I mean by 100% responsibility: If my car gets rear-ended while I’m rushing to an important meeting and I am late as a result, its MY responsibility, not the idiot behind me who was texting and driving. If I wasn’t rushing and had left 30 minutes earlier, I would not be the victim in the accident.

If I am in a bar with friends and some drunk pick a fight with me and I get knocked out, it’s 100% MY RESPONSIBILITY because I could have

1) Not reacting in a way that resulted in a fight

2) Not been as easy to knock out (taken my martial arts training more seriously)

3) Not been drinking in a bar

One last one since I’m on a roll (this will probably lose me some subscribers- but whatever): if you are in a relationship and your girl cheats on you, its 100% YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

1) There were probably warning signs that she was not long term material, but you ignored them because “she was the One”.

2) You got comfortable in your relationship and didn’t give her what she needed, so another guy swooped in.

3) Your relationship game wasn’t great/you weren’t experienced enough and some other guy who was better suited to her seduced her. In which case, she wasn’t long term material in the first place and most likely not the right woman for you.

The point is- take full responsibility for your life and trust me- you’ll be a much happier man.

There you have it- the three enemies of recovery.

It is my hope that bringing these to your awareness will prevent you from falling into this trap.

Your brother in this struggle,

J.K

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10 Lies You Tell Yourself About Porn

For those quietly battling porn addiction symptoms, the fight can be brutal.

Multiple relapses over the years, the guilt, betrayal of loved ones, the erectile dysfunction the jump into acting out in real life

It’s a rough journey, alright!

Sometimes, its easier to deal with everything by unconsciously telling ourselves lies. These lies grow and overtime turn out to be the greatest hindrance to our progress.

This post will help you identify the most common lies we tell ourselves about our porn use.

 

1) Powerless Lie: I can’t stop watching porn. I can’t quit.

This another lie and a red flag for low self-esteem. Most frequently told when you feel that you are completely powerless to control your addiction.

You CAN quit. You are more powerful than you imagine. Perhaps you grew with some rough experiences that knocked you down a few notches. You can still rise.

Willpower is a muscle- it gets tired, but it will get you far enough to see the mountaintop in this tough climb. Once you have a glimpse at freedom, you will do whatever it takes to get there!

A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind. – Elly Roselle.

2) Downplay Lie: I must have recovered.

This!

This was one of the biggest obstacles in my porn addiction journey.

I would quit porn and masturbation for a few weeks and feel amazing then the thoughts would begin to slowly creep in well, I haven’t felt the urge in so long- I must be fine! Phew- thank God it’s not an addiction!

Well, guess what downplaying led to?

I fell right back into the porn and masturbation cycle.

Another variation of this lie occurs when you quit watching porn, but then try to masturbate. To your surprise, you find that it’s almost impossible to do so without watching porn. Back to porn again. Both are lies we tell ourselves to rationalize the addiction.

3) Whitewash Lie: I was drunk., I was high, It was right there.

In my college days, excessive drinking and smoking was a one-way ticket to the masturbation station.

No matter how much I wanted to quit, putting myself under the influence invariably led to a relapse. For those trying to give up porn, the effects of alcohol and drugs on the process of quitting cannot be emphasized enough.

Once your inhibitions are lowered, or certain senses chemically heightened, the last vestiges of restraint fly out the window.

4) Minimize Lie: Just 5 minutes.

I’ll only look at this anime porn on Tumblr for 5 minutes.

Two hours later and 30 Firefox tabs later, you’re exhausted and disgusted from your porn binge.

The time trap always escalates. You play down and attempt to minimize the actual amount of time you know you will spend on porn.

5) Inflation Lie: I’m stressed

I feel like crap, so I deserve to watch porn. It’s been a crazy stressful day, screw it, I need this.

Another common lie where you inflate a rough situation into an excuse to binge on porn.

You haven’t developed alternate means of coping with stress, so when you experience above-average stress, you automatically return to the thing that soothes you.

Solution: Work on developing positive habits that you can turn to the moment your triggers kick in. Meditation has worked very well for me.

6) Implication Lie: My significant other isn’t into what I want.

My girlfriend doesn’t give blowjobs and she doesn’t like anal.

Yeap- I used that one too, and it nearly cost me my relationship.

It’s easy to blame or implicate someone for your porn habits. An easy, but a weak lie.Its also one of the top lies we tell ourselves before, during and after we act out porn fantasies in real life.

In our program Porn Reboot Intensive, I emphasize that taking responsibility is among the first steps to giving up pornography.

7) Privilege Lie: I’m a late bloomer.

I’m a late bloomer, and I missed out. I married early, that’s why I’m acting out. Wow. I feel like I’ve used every lie so far!

As a guy who teaches men how to meet and attract women, I’ve noticed that this lie is most common among the “Get Girls” crowd in the community.

Men who gain success later on in life develop confidence and improve self-esteem through self-improvement or career success tend to develop a sense of entitlement when justifying their porn or sex addiction. If your habit of having with women outside of your relationship is fueled by porn, it’s time to start cutting back.

8) Standard Lie: A man’s biology dictates that he should sleep with many attractive women as possible, or every guy does it.

I am guilty of this lie as well. While the statement is true, painting the picture of porn as a normal, standard part of a man’s lifestyle as an excuse for porn addiction constitutes lying to yourself.

Not every man watches porn and masturbates on a daily basis. In fact, some of the most accomplished men in history stayed far away from pornography.

9) Non-acceptance Lie: I don’t watch porn anymore.

I used this lie for too long. My rationalization was that spending the same amount of time that I used to spend on porn browsing Instagram for chicks in bikinis was obviously not watching porn.

The reboot process is sabotaged the moment you replace your addiction to porn with something else. Its the equivalent of someone addicted to cigarettes trying to quit by switching to e-cigarettes. It doesn’t work.

Quitting porn by rebooting involves completely avoiding and isolating yourself from any habits that that may potentially lead to a trigger.

10) Negating Lie: There is nothing wrong with porn, or playing out my addiction in real life.

If you say this, but one day you are attracted to women, and the next you’ve had sex with more sex workers or prostitutes from Craigslist than actual women, you’re lying to yourself.

Porn use escalates as our brain craves more stimulation. Negating the effects of pornography is the singularly most devastating lie you can tell yourself.

What are some of the lies not included here that YOU frequently tell yourself?

I’d love to know. Leave your comments below.

 

 

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6 Levels of Porn Addictions

Do you have a resistance to admitting that you have a porn addiction?

 

 

I admit- when I began my journey to end my out of control porn and masturbation behavior, I simply refused to categorize myself as an addict. After all, I came from an educated, moderately religious family with conservative values. I experienced a relatively happy, and memorable childhood. I never tried any hardcore drugs, and in early adulthood, I tried to live my life by the book.

Yet, I would find myself acting like a possessed heroin junkie anytime I went without porn or masturbating for three days.

Many men find it really difficult to admit they have a problem with pornography because it simply hasn’t been labeled an addiction by the mainstream media or society in general. That’s going to change over the next few years, but in the meantime, I’d like to point out why porn and masturbation addiction is so much trickier to beat than other addictions.

In fact, some of my clients who recovered from alcohol and drug addictions confirm that porn addiction effect, sex, and masturbation are harder to quit than those substances.

There are two simple criteria when it comes to identifying where a person’s porn use is addictive:

1) You have no control over it. This means you’ve made a firm decision to quit, but gave in several times.
2) Negative Consequences. It is affecting your emotions, career, relationships, productivity, academics or lifestyle in a negative way.

BOTH criteria must be met for porn, sex or masturbation to be classified as an addiction.

But the LEVEL of loss of control and the level of negative consequences must also be considered when trying to stop this behavior.

In my experience, the LEVEL of porn addiction varies depending on different factors in your life.

This is one crucial fact that many things all the quit-fapping influencers on YouTube, and even therapists don’t understand.

Excuse me while I rant for a moment.

This is not a game or a challenge – it is a serious problem that destroys lives.

A handful of techniques, tips, and philosophies MIGHT help a 21-year-old who spends 80% of his day glued to his smartphone or computer- but it will do nothing for the 28-year-old young professional who is trying to succeed at his career, or the 33 year old who realizes that he’s thrown away his twenties, or the 40-year-old who feels that he sabotaged his career and serious life relationships perhaps losing his kids to divorce, or the 52-year-old who feels that its pretty much over for him.

Just because a high testosterone 21-year-old feels guilty about masturbating twice a day doesn’t mean that a 27+-year-old man going places in life has the same problems as he does.

Some young men don’t know what it like to go through a break up (because they are so stuck on porn, that they can’t get in a relationship), deal with real-life stress such as paying mortgages, keeping employees on payroll, juggling work and kids, taking care of aging parents, paying taxes, deal with workplace politics- the list goes on.

Any 18 to 24-year-old reading this email is without a doubt above average and has some big aspirations in life. Take your problem with porn seriously, handle it and start living your best life instead of spending years playing 90 Day challenges.

[Rant Over]

Ever wonder why sometimes, you binge watch porn for weeks and sometimes you have the ability to 100% abstain for months or even years?

I used to wonder the same thing as well.

This happens because your level of porn addiction and your COMMITMENT to quit varies depending on life circumstances such as your :
1) Emotions
2) Stress
3) Relationships
4) Financial situation
5) Family

Next time you are watching a video, reading a book, or looking for a counselor to help you with your porn addiction, screen them to find out if they understand this.

Here are the levels of behavior with pornography:

Level 1

This is the person who watches pornography three or four times a year. In fact, if you can count the number of times you’ve watched porn in a 12 month period on one hand, then this is the level you are at.

Due to the highly sexualized world we live in, there is of course always a risk of increasing involvement with pornography. If you have well established healthy ways of managing your emotions, stress, and family life, you are in a good place.

Level 2

At this level- you are not addicted either. However, you have watched porn and masturbated to it 6 to 12 times a year. In some of those cases, you were not simply aroused.

One or more sessions may have been triggered by curiosity due to something you came across online or perhaps because of a reference someone made. At this level, you may have watched porn to medicate/feel better about some undesirable situation in your life.

Level 3

At this point, pornography is quite likely to become a problem. You are viewing porn at least once a month, possibly for a few months or years. You know you are at level three when you try to stop yourself each month, but no matter how hard you try, you always end up slipping. Usually, you binge for a while, then try to quit again.

This is the point where many men begin to use their will power and count down the days which they have spent off porn. It’s not an out of control problem yet, but it does take an effort to quit since the porn you are watching at this point is no longer soft core porn- your tastes are gradually changing.

FANTASY is what moves you from level 3 to level 4.

At Level 3, when you are not watching porn, there is a very high chance that you are fantasizing or sexualizing your encounters with other people.

When you fantasize intensely for prolonged periods of time- away from your device, you release chemicals which make you feel good- a feeling that only gets better by watching porn.

Level 4

At this level, pornography is having an obvious effect on your life. You may start noticing that porn is affecting your career, your family or your school work.

Your fantasies are out of control at this point. When you are not watching porn, you often find yourself fantasizing about porn and sex. You are watching pornography a couple of times a month and you have been trying to different ways to stop. Usually, nothing works at this point and you start getting worried about why it seems so difficult to quit. This is the point where you may search for how to stop watching porn online.

In my experience, this level is also your final chance to end your porn use on your own. Beyond this, your entire life, whether you realize it or not, will begin to be dictated by your porn addiction. The reason why is that left unchecked, your behavior with pornography begins to generate deeper psychological issues.

Over the years, I’ve realized that there are only TWO responses to level 4. For the purpose of simplicity, I’ve divided these responses into two groups of men which we will call Type A and Type B.

Type A:

This is an already accomplished person who understands what it takes to achieve success on a consistent basis. They have usually established themselves in their career, and have a relatively balanced lifestyle. This means that you have friends, close bonds with family, take care of your health and know how to go about getting most of the things you want in life. If you are a student, you are also relatively successful in your academic life.

Type A men, once they understand that they have a problem, see it as an obstacle to their life. Their natural reaction is the same as it is to every other obstacle in their life- to get rid of it by any means necessary because they have places to go. They will usually visit a counselor, get a mentor or invest in something actionable to get back their edge on their own.

When searching for help online, they screen everyone for results and success – that is, whomever they seek help from must be moving forward in their life as well. Action has always worked for them and thanks to this habit, they usually experience positive results in their recovery.

Some of my most successful clients are driven lawyers, engineers, students in law school, student-athletes, salespeople, doctors, and business owners.

It must be noted that some Type A people do not seek help- usually because they are never informed that one could have a compulsive behavior with porn, they are misdiagnosed by a counselor or they are at a level of financial success that insulates them from the true impact of their problem.

Type B:

This person has usually not achieved their goals or is lagging behind for one reason or the other. Typically, they have good intentions but already have problems motivating themselves, have developed bad habits such as social media/smartphone addiction/internet addiction, bad diets, play video games compulsively or a minor drug/alcohol problem.

They may have a career or be in college, but they would not rate themselves at anywhere near their potential. Some have a genuine desire to be successful and have tried, but their repeated failures have left them with a lot of self-doubts.

As is sadly the case of most men seeking direction, I have noticed that Type B men were often diagnosed with depression, ADD/ADHD or some other disorder at some point in their life. This diagnosis then served as a subconscious crutch throughout their lives- frequently sabotaging their attempts to excel in life.

Type B men, once they understand that they have a problem, will respond as they have to most things in life. Typically, they will seek the opinion of someone who is similar to them. They gravitate towards influencers on social media who are entertaining or are in a similar demographic to them. They are more likely to accept popular opinion as fact as opposed to doing their own research.

The popular way, of course, is usually the easy way. In the case of quitting porn use, it is:

1) Stay off porn for 90 Days and count REALLY HARD
2) Improve your lifestyle and be a man
3) Watch more videos about not masturbating and the more you watch, the more you will understand

Type B men take massive action- but their action is typically limited to watching a lot of videos or reading a lot of articles, comments, and opinions. When they do try to curb their behavior with porn, they usually fail since they don’t have a definite plan.
Their self-doubt, reinforced by underachieving in other areas of their lives kicks in. When the effects of porn addiction on their life become too unbearable, the Type B man start seeks help, but unfortunately, because he doesn’t believe in investing in himself, seeks cheap and quick fixes which usually makes them prey to scams and hustlers looking to make a quick buck online.

If you fall into the Type B category or are a Type A person with a few character traits of Type B showing up in your life, don’t get discouraged.

I was in that category as well till I was fortunate enough to find a mentor who opened my eyes to my self sabotaging way of thinking.

Level 5

At this point, viewing pornography is a daily habit and a major part of your life. You are watching porn and masturbating just to fall asleep. You sexualize every single woman (and sometimes even men) you see.

Level 5 is when you stop growing and developing as a person. Your career, your relationships with people- everything is set up to maximize porn use.

For instance, you spend a lot of time alone in front of your computer or phone. You never initiate a social meet up of any sort for dinner or a movie. All your hobbies are solitary and you never step out of the comfort zone of those who were already in your life when you reached Level 5.

Anytime I speak to a man at Level 5, I find that he has paid a heavy price for his porn addiction.

Some of the things he has sacrificed at this point are:

1) Career: He has lost a job, or severely underperformed at his career due to his porn use.
2) Relationships: Intimate relationships have ended. Either due to his partner leaving him because of his incessant porn use or due to him sabotaging the relationship due to his inability to fully commit. He always feels that there is a better woman out there..always wondering if perhaps he can upgrade.
3) Education: Mediocre to failing performance in academics

When you try to quit at this point, you begin to experience strong withdrawal symptoms such as erectile dysfunction, irritability, extreme daytime fatigue, headaches, problems sleeping and social anxiety- worrying more than often about peoples opinions.

By this point, you quite literally do not know how to stop. Both Type A and Type B men realize that they need help at this point. Again, their responses at Level 5 are quite different.

If you are a Type A person, you will usually disclose your struggle to a trusted friend or some sort of mentor. This is usually a good step, as it brings your porn and masturbation use out of secrecy. You then have the courage to share it with more people. Many Type A men are surprised to learn at this point that the person they shared it with faces the same problem!

If you are a Type B, you will do one of two things.

Break psychologically and ignore the problem-effectively incorporating Level 5 into your life. You might find rationalizations to back up your decisions such as everyone does it, sex/porn addiction does not exist, on and on…

At this point, you fall for the ideology of sex-positive counselors, MGTOW, or some group with relieves your guilt and shame for viewing porn.

The second thing a Type B man does is send desperate emails, comments, and one-liners to others online asking for advice. Since you haven’t developed the habit of taking action like the Type A man- which involves a small element of risk, you take action any way you know how- by seeking help in the most risk-averse way.

Level 6

This level is characterized by feelings of being completely out of control. Every single day of your life involves thoughts of pornography and in an age of free porn, you are spending money on porn in the form of paid sites and cam sites.

Depression and hopelessness are two common feelings at this level. This doesn’t mean that you have no desire to quit, on the contrary, you do want to quit, but your self-doubt and lack of hope are overwhelming. Many men at Level 6 continue using pornography, even after being caught with it.

The type of pornography you are viewing has drastically escalated to violent material including bestiality, gore, snuff ( death), incest, rape, extreme violence, and other depraved material. These are the only genres of pornography that can elicit an orgasm and sometimes even an erection. Staying in Level 6 leads to acting out.

This means seeking real-life sexual encounters to satisfy your addiction. This can range from seeking female, male or transgender escorts via different websites and apps, searching for random hookups, or in some cases, predatory behavior towards vulnerable people.

At Level 6, every aspect of your life is filled with lies as you need to do so in order to cover up your secret life. A man at Level 6 can maintain this behavior for years-even decades. When discovered, there is always a very high price to pay. Relationships fall apart in traumatic ways, careers are destroyed, sometimes, men end up in jail.

The good news about Level 6 is that the stakes are so high when you get caught, that it can trigger a very strong emotional desire to quit.

The bad news is that in Levels 5 and 6, you are delusional in your beliefs- that is, while you may acknowledge that your behavior is out of control, you don’t see its true impact on your life. You have also incorporated compulsive lying and manipulation into your day to day life since your behavior must be maintained in secrecy.

Breaking The Armor

Over the years, I’ve developed an exercise which I call breaking the armor. The purpose of this exercise is to help a man at Level 5 or 6 drop his conditioning for a brief moment and actually see what his life could look like without porn.

In my opinion- this is VERY important. After years of porn use and masturbation- let’s say you started between the ages of 8-14 and carried on for 12-15 years, you truly have no concept of what a life without pornography looks like.

Porn is your first “relationship”.

Its comforted you as a teen when you were anxious.
It kept you company when you were lonely.
When you were stressed and overwhelmed, porn was always there to take off the edge.
On restless nights it helped you fall asleep.
It taught you about sex and perhaps even gave you some sexual confidence.
It was always there for you when your heart was broken.

Unfortunately, porn overstayed its welcome…

But how do you let go of the one thing you could depend on for years?

What would life look like?

That where Breaking The Armor comes in.

Through a series of coaching questions, we gradually remove all your emotional armor or conditioning. This is a temporary process- but for a brief moment, you are free of your shame, your guilt, your lies, and your rationalization.

You are YOU.

This is a powerful moment for many men.

When some of my clients at Level 5 and 6 see the incredible damage porn has had on their families, finances, careers, relationships, self-esteem, social life and on their emotions, some break down and cry.

It’s like being possessed against your will and knowledge by a different personality which pretended to be you for years…and one day realizing who you really are for the first time.

The loss, self-betrayal, and lies you told yourself become evident. You see the man you COULD have been if porn didn’t get out of control in your life.

At that moment, most men decide that they are done for good. This is when the recovery process truly begins- when you have actually FELT what it’s like your greatest self.

Understanding these levels are so important to your recovery. This is why I have never paid much attention to all the fapping/not-fapping movements. It is a willpower solution that only helps men at Level 3 or below.

To effectively recover, you or the person guiding you in your recovery must first determine what level you are at.

Once I determine what level a man is at, I know the exact steps needed to help him recover.

He will be able to identify his boundaries, develop the right amount of self-awareness, control fantasies, dialogue with himself, anticipate urges, deal with strong emotions of sadness, loss or hopelessness, accurately examine his rationalizations and much more- depending on the Level he is at.

Withdrawal symptoms are also experienced differently at each Level. The effects of withdrawals are physical and emotional. In the past 7 years, I have not met a single client out of 400+ who could identify more than two withdrawal symptoms. They are able to identify them weeks later.

Now, at this point- a Type B man will be thinking:

“J.K…man, I really want to quit, but you make it sound so complicated and even impossible.”

If that is you, understand that your habit of taking the easy way is kicking in right at this moment. Fight it.

The Type A man will be thinking of how he can best put this information to good use.

I could keep going, but I’ll end up writing a book. The point is – take the first step of identifying your level of addiction to pornography.

  • Bookmark and review this blog post again and ask yourself whether you have moved from one level to the next (up or down) over the years.
  • Honestly identify whether you are a Type A or a Type B kind of man.

There is nothing wrong with either-such is life, although the Type B man is clearly at a disadvantage. As I mentioned earlier- I was a typical Type B guy with a few Type A traits until I broke my armor and dedicated several very painful years to change my life.

If you want to hear a little bit about how I changed myself to more of a Type A man, watch this Video:

How To Quit Porn and Be Successful

Finally…

I would REALLY like to know your thoughts on what Level you are at and what Type of man you are.

Leave your comments below and share your story with me. I may not respond right away but I do I read every single comment here in this blog.

You brother in this struggle,

J.K

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5 Ways Porn Make You an Angry Partner

Over the years, research has increasingly shed light on the negative effects of pornography on the brain. The effects of pornography on behavior are particularly damaging to relationships, due to how pornography changes a man’s view of the opposite sex.

Pornography increases the objectification of women and, reduces a partners ability to empathize or even express intimacy. However, there is one common effect of pornography on relationships that is rarely mentioned, that is the connection between pornography and anger.

Over the past 6 years of offering accountability to men struggling with a pornography problem, I’ve noticed that anger is a common theme in almost all relationships where pornography is present. Often, the women in the relationship are puzzled and confused when her partner begins to express an angry response that is not proportionate to the situation that triggered it.

Disproportionate anger becomes even riskier when the couple has children since children usually haven’t developed the skills to process, in a healthy way, such extreme emotions from adults they depend on.

After working one on one with over 300 men struggling with pornography, I’ve come up with five main reasons for anger in a relationship where porn is a problem. Sometimes, there may be other underlying issues facing a person which leads to anger, but when pornography is added to the mix, it will only serve to escalate this emotion.

 

 

1) Shame: Porn use thrives in secrecy.

For many men, the shame of watching pornography comes from repeatedly acting against their values. Your anger, however, comes from the feeling that deep within you, you are inadequate.

This becomes a belief that you are not worthy of love. Porn truly does kill love. Living in shame and being disconnected from love generates feelings of low value and lack of control over your life. Anger is an emotion which can mask these scary, vulnerable feelings.

When you are angry, you feel as if you are back in control…you feel safe. The reality is that behind this illusion, this wall of anger, you still experience deep shame, loneliness, fear, and sadness. The solution to shame is to always shine a light on it. To first take responsibility by admitting you have a problem, then reaching out to an understanding, trustworthy person or community for support.

2) Porn leaves you disappointed

Porn promises many pleasures, and highs. It promises to make you feel better, improve your mood, satisfy your cravings and much more. At the end of the day, however, all it really does is leave you unsatisfied, empty and angry. You feel cheated when you realize that over time, porn really doesn’t deliver anything it promises.

Worse still, you are unable to stop going back to porn despite knowing that it offers nothing of value to you. Similar to repeatedly going back to a relationship where the other partner hurt you, only to get hurt again, you generate anger and resentment not just towards that person, but towards yourself for your self- destructive decision.

Healthy, intimate sexual behavior doesn’t leave you feeling cheated or taken advantage of. Instead, it elevates your mood, leaves you feeling better and deepens the intimacy between you and your partner.

Giving healthy relationships a real chance will prove to you that as human beings, we are capable of much more than our most basic biological instincts. A human brain is a wonderful tool which can generate infinitely more satisfaction and happiness in your life through intimacy with one partner.

 

 

3) You have good intentions

You are fully aware of the dangers of pornography and are actively participating in not only creating awareness but eliminating porn from your own life.

Perhaps you are looked up to as a role model, a leader, or a well-respected activist. For a person with such a positive self-image, which you undoubtedly worked hard to develop, it can be challenging to face your failures, slips, and shortcomings. The prospect of divulging this to others is daunting especially if your mistake makes you feel like a disappointment or a fraud.

Unfortunately, keeping this secret to yourself only generates the very emotions you have tried to help others escape. In this situation, it is quite natural for our minds to seek out someone or something to lay the blame on. Anyone but yourself. Usually, that person is the one closest to you-your partner.

It’s not unusual to hear men say:

If my partner was a little more open minded…

My partner isn’t sensitive enough to my needs…

If only my partner wasn’t so selfish…

If your partner was also an accountability partner of sorts who was aware of your struggle, it is not uncommon to blame them for not being as committed to helping you. Now, since its no longer your fault for slipping, you can take it out on this person to release the pressure of falling short of your self-image’s expectations.

At the end of the day, regardless of our good intentions, we are human. No one is perfect, and the best leaders are those who can, at the very least admit their shortcomings to those closest to them.

Instead of weakness, strength and freedom are created when you become vulnerable and give yourself a chance to renew your commitment to serving others and avoiding pornography.

 

4) Your partner is getting in your way:

This is a big one.

Since you have programmed yourself to derive more pleasure from porn than a healthy sexual connection with your partner, every moment when you feel an urge to view pornography when your partner around becomes a problem. Your partner actually gets in the way of your relationship with pornography which makes you frustrated.

The more often your damaging routine is disrupted, the more you direct your anger at your partner. Many spouses are often confused when one moment they were enjoying an intimate moment with their partner and the next, their partner is expressing anger and acting as if their presence is unwelcome.

Of course, if there was no secrecy or shame attached to a behavior, you’d be able to express your emotions in a healthy way. In this case, despite your partner’s well-meaning concern about your behavior, you aren’t ready to open up. The dangerous aspect of this situation is that while your anger stems from your partners getting in the way of your porn use, the damage is far from done.

Repeatedly directing your anger towards someone whom you care about a person whom you know is innocent, becomes emotionally in-congruent over time. Therefore, after some time, your brain begins to find other reasons to justify your anger.

Before you know it, all sorts of trivial issues become opportunities and evidence to become angry at your partner. Realize that by expressing anger towards your partner, you are not only rejecting her but choosing to allow fantasy to dictate your emotions in the real world.

 

 

5) Discontent with your partner

Porn changes the brain.

Repeated exposure to pornography alters your arousal template, changing the cues that arouse you. Unlike the largely unrealistic scenes portrayed in porn, your relationship isn’t as versatile and neither is your partner. Since it is impossible for your partner to simply change to keep up with your porn induced preferences, you begin to resent the fact that you are with a person that doesn’t live up to your new expectations.

As absurd as it sounds, you literally become angry at your partner and your choice in a partner. It is not uncommon for some men to second guess their relationship, deluded into the belief that they didn’t pick the right partner or could somehow find a partner more appropriate to their altered preference.

Anger is a normal human emotion. There are many situations where it is justified. However, like all human emotions, when expressed or prompted for the wrong reasons, it often hurts others. Before anger hurts others, anger hurts you.

I want you to remember that pornography fuses the parts of our brain which process violence and sexual arousal. Violence is often preceded by anger. Most men never imagine themselves as violent- especially in relationships, however, as I often mention, you become what you eat.

Be mindful of what you let into your brain so that you never have to look at yourself in the mirror one day and wonder how you strayed so far from the man, the brother, the father or the husband whom you once aspired to be.

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10 Reasons why you need a Recovery Coach and Mentor

Why Do You Need A Recovery Coach?

Do you remember when you were a kid and your imagination allowed you to visualize an amazing life?

I remember watching movies with my friends as a kid and pointing out the fast cars that the heroes and villains in the movies were driving and claiming their cars as mine when I grew up. I remember the beautiful actresses that I would marry one day and the physiques of those on-screen action heroes that I would one day possess.

The funny thing was that I really believed everything I said!

Have you ever wondered why none of the wonderful things you imagined as a kid ever happened to you?

Like, as kids it wasn’t as if all our dreams were impossible. In fact, for the majority of people living in a first world or developed country, things like creating wealth, dating or getting married to a certain type of person, driving a specific car, living in a certain type of neighborhood aren’t goals which are out of our reach.

Yet, for many men, as they go into their twenties, thirties, and forties, these things just completely slip off of their grasp. When you add porn, masturbation or sex addiction to the mix, you find yourself stuck in a hole of mediocrity with no way out.

Let’s talk about that.

 

Do you feel sick and tired of the endless monotony of your life?

Are you frustrated and unsatisfied with the direction things are headed, but still believe you could live a more satisfying life if you had a chance?

Is there an area of your life that you struggle with that you can’t seem to shake no matter how hard you try?

Seriously, how many of you ride in your cars, and when a high energy song comes on you begin to daydream about the awesome life you could have had then wondered why the fuck your life is so shitty right now?

You wanted to:

Find a purpose in life and follow it till the very end, but now you are stuck in a 9-5 job which you are not satisfied with, and trying to figure out if your 401k will be enough for you to survive on when you are an old man full of regrets.

You thought you’d have it all figured out by your mid-twenties, but now you are not on track to be where you hoped you’d be and you have NO IDEA if you’re even on the right path.

Maybe you’re one of those highly motivated success minded hustler types.

You read books like the 4 Hour Work Week, or Rich Dad Poor Dad, or Think and Grow Rich, decided to become wealthy, but ended up in debt up to your eyeballs, payment plans till infinity, and becoming wealthy is only a dream because you are always in survival mode…always.

You dreamed of seeing the world with the gorgeous woman of your dreams by your side, but now all you get in life is two weeks vacation and an average girl whom you don’t have the balls to leave because you’re afraid you can’t do better.

You spend more time watching porn than having sex with her.

So what went wrong?

You did the reasonable thing. You followed the right path, but how come your life sucks?

This is not a YOU problem. It’s a MAN’s problem.

Men today are no longer striving for greatness- even though we live in the best time in history to achieve all our dreams.

We’re numbing our minds with porn, video games, TV and whatever else technology has to offer us.

In the meantime, did you know that Men are and 9x more likely than women to be addicted to sex or pornography?

Women initiate 70% of all divorces, leaving us devastated, broke, and at the mercy of a court system which prioritizes women.

Men are 4x more likely to commit suicide

Men are more likely to be sexually abused as children and adults ( thanks to the prison system)

Heres the interesting thing. With all these stats against men, you’d think they would reach out for help- but no.

Men are far less likely to reach out for help and support than women. Women have numerous support communities online which help them overcome addictions, abusive relationships and help them start businesses which is one reason why women start businesses at a much higher rate than men.

Let me make one thing clear:

Having a recovery coach or a mentor does not imply that you are a weakling, or that you are not capable of doing something for yourself. Instead, recovery coaching and mentorship allows you to grow faster by taking advantage of the experience and point of view of a person who is already where you want to be.

A person with training and a background in addiction recovery who will hold you accountable, call you out on your bullshit and give you the straight truth without sugar coating it.

Someone who is not afraid to offend you and cares more about your success than your feelings.

If you think you can make it not just past porn, but on to greater things in your life without a coach, you’re fighting a losing battle.
No one does this on their own.

Show me a man who has successfully recovered from his addiction and I will show you a mentor hiding somewhere within his self-made story.

If you aspire to a great life, you’re going to need help getting there.  More than anytime in history, men need mentors to guide them towards achieving greatness in life, relationships, and business.

Here’s why a recovery coach is so useful and necessary to you today.

1) Serious Accountability

Anyone can tell a therapist they will do something, then not do it. It’s an entirely different story with a strong, masculine mentor and recovery coach.

It’s about being a man. You develop a bond based on mutual respect with a mentor.

Men keep their word- especially to other men whom they respect. The greatest shame you will feel is when you have let another man down.

Many men have formed a habit of casually not keeping their word. They have no idea what masculine accountability is. Being around strong men who demand accountability is a requirement to grow as a man.

When you have a masculine mentor keeping you accountable, you’re not a weak person. You are a smart man for investing in yourself with a man who will help you become your greatest self.

Weakness is shying away from help because you think it makes you look silly or like a pussy. True strength is asking for help where it is needed.

2) You need a person who doesn’t just listen but challenges you to step up

A good recovery coach will call you on your bullshit before your story even begins.

A counselor, therapist or psychiatrist will do three things:

a) Listen to you, which is great
b) Give you a prescription for a drug
c) Work with you in a group with other men and encourage you to share your feelings.

These are all fine, BUT a lot of men have therapists even though deep down they KNOW they aren’t accomplishing anything. All they have is an allotted time to unload their guilt to someone who will listen, then go right back to the behavior that’s destroying their life.

Come on!

You know you can bullshit your therapist and the reality is that you actually like doing that because it takes away responsibility from you and you feel like you are doing something.

With a recovery coach, with a mentor, you have to step up.

With a counselor, therapist or psychologist, you can keep acting like a little child and manipulating them and they’ll let you get away with it.

A recover Recovery Coach/Mentor will tell you:

“I see your challenge. Instead of dwelling on the past, let’s move forward and grow with this challenge. I’ve been where you are and I feel your pain. I overcame that very issue without sitting on a therapists couch for years, taking medication, or spending a fortune.”

A recovery coach listens to you- but deeply, beyond your words. He only speaks the truth and is only concerned with actions that get you specific results. Results that lead to growth.

During the process, you will discover that overcoming all the challenges you faced in the past are the very things that make you a strong, complete man.

A recovery coach will not allow you to run or hide from your challenges. He will guide you towards battling them face to face and in the process, you will grow in strength and resilience.

It certainly won’t be easy. But it will be worth it.

3) Discussing dating, relationships, and women with your friends and family is always a failing move

If you are aiming to overcome your porn addiction and create great relationships with women – relationships bursting with deep intimacy and connection, your friend who has been in a relationship and is now engaged to marry his high school sweetheart is not your best go to.

Your friend who has been a “natural” with women from day 1 has no idea what he is doing- he just does it and women love it. Your female friends can only tell you to just be yourself and the right woman will show up. But you know that your relationships with women are nowhere close to where you wish it to be.

Some of the best men’s recovery coaches have a background in dating, pickup and some sort of formalized dating training. Over time, that approached usually evolves into a healthier method of working with men.

A good mentor will start from the inside. He will teach you that being accepted by women, being attracted to the women you deserve begins with loving yourself. It begins with developing healthy self-esteem.

After that, you’ll know for the first time, the exact sort of woman that you desire. He’ll coach you into finding out where this woman hangs out, what she enjoys, and the specific aspects of your personality and lifestyle that she finds attractive. Many men can picture their ideal woman, but they are simply searching for her in the wrong places.

4) Didn’t have strong masculine role models while growing up

Perhaps you grew up without a father or, more likely you grew up with a father who wasn?t emotionally present for you. Maybe your father was a great man and did his very best, giving all he knew how to give.

Maybe your struggle with dealing with conflicts and you always try to avoid them, because you don’t want any problems. Maybe you have no idea what to do with attractive women.

Maybe you’re a submissive nice guy who always finds himself seeking men and women’s approval.

Maybe you’re the driven alpha male- always hustling, always struggling to validate yourself through hard work, financial and career achievement, nice cars, brand name item, and sexy women to mask your deep-seated pain.

Maybe you’ve even been described as feminine. There is nothing wrong with that. The masculine must eventually balance it out.

A masculine mentor will take your masculinity to the next level or several levels. He has demonstrated (not tell you) the healthy way to be authentic, respected and have all your physical, emotional and spiritual needs met without compromising your values.

5) Women subdue your masculinity

Everywhere today, women are wondering: “Where are all the real men??”

The real men are out there they just don’t know how to bring forth their masculinity.

To you, Women have become mere objects to be conquered sexually. Every time you are in the presence of an attractive woman, you are sexualizing her, wondering what she looks like naked or what it would be like to have sex with her.

The more attractive she is, the higher on a pedestal you place her. Women know this, and as result, they emasculate you and treat you like a kid.

You have only yourself to blame for this behavior as a result.

A recovery coach will not only show you how to maintain your masculinity with women, but how to magnify it so that there is no doubt in her mind that she is in the presence of a real man.

6) You are stumbling through the wilderness with no purpose

When was the last time you ask yourself:

Who the fuck am I??

What do I truly want for my life??

You work for someone else whom you don’t like and who dictates your hours and even your finances.

You keep your opinions to yourself even when your boundaries are crossed.

You drink, watch porn, smoke weed, browse facebook and watch sports to numb the pain of having no idea who the fuck you are.

You buy houses, cars, clothes, and electronics to make you feel good. Two weeks later, that new device isn’t making you as happy as it did initially- it’s just another object.

You are a fucking MAN.

Men need a mission. Men need something to conquer, something greater than them.

A recovery coach reignites the fire that died within you. He guides you towards your unique mission – One that you are willing to give your heart and soul to.

7) Emotional Freedom

Men are conditioned to keep their emotions bottled up. Crying is for little bitches. Showing emotion is seen as weakness.

The reality is that true strength in a man comes from vulnerability. Keeping your emotions deep inside you only cause pain and eventually leads to you releasing them in unhealthy ways.

Men process emotions differently from women. A mentor does not fear emotions- neither his nor yours and he will teach you how to handle emotions in a masculine way.

8) Going through life without close male friends.

Close male friends are not your boys that you grab drinks with, but real men who are supportive of you.

Men are afraid to approach other men and tell them they have a fear or problem because they are afraid that they will be told to shut up and Man up.

I GUARANTEE you that ANY man who cannot connect with other men is a sad, sometimes depressed and most definitely lonely man.

As a human being, you have a need for connection- without it, you are incomplete and you will wither. Men are literally killing themselves because they have no outlet. No one talks about it because society does not care to broadcast the statistics of men who take their lives.

That’s why you are sitting alone in your room with your escalating porn addiction, your loneliness, your shame, guilt and lack of self-confidence. That’s why the male suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault rates are at an all-time high and you will never hear of it.

No One Is Coming and men die because of that.

Where are other men you can share your truth with? Do you have men who will listen and not judge you?

Your close male friends are often the only people you can count on. Yes, even after your family, spouse and even children have deserted you, you close masculine male friends will be the only ones standing by your side in brotherhood.

This is such a powerful fact, yet many men neglect this all-important part of their life.

9) You believe that strength means being a lone wolf

What makes you a man is NOT your ability to figure life out on your own, but instead seeking the help and companionship of others on your journey. So many men stay hooked on porn because of the feel that they can figure it out on their own.

You can’t!!

Our egos will cause us to spend time, money and incredible amounts of energy trying to make it on our own because we are afraid of looking weak in the eyes of other men.

Issues that could be solved in moments by seeking the help of someone more experienced go on for years unsolved as you scour the internet, credit card in hand, searching of the magic pill that will solve your problem.

There is nothing in the world that another masculine, experienced man somewhere doesn’t already know.

This is why in ancient times, there were Masters and Disciples. There were craftsmen and apprentices. When men were men, they knew that they had to learn from one who had gone before them. These days, Google is most men?s recovery coach and mentor.

When you seek help from a mentor, you are not weak. Your mentor will not judge you or make fun of you. Instead, you gain another man who is serving out HIS purpose, which is- getting you back in touch with your true masculinity – your true power.

10) You are no longer going all out

All we have is this one life and all we do is look at what others are doing and try to keep up.

At one point, maybe you did go all in. Now you’re comfortable. You’re playing small. Maybe you’re waiting for the benefits of not masturbating to kick in…maybe you’re waiting to quit porn.

When you are going all out and playing the game of life for real, life PLAYS BACK.

Life charges up the masculinity in you. You find yourself getting respect from other men, becoming less tolerant of your addictions, you get more attraction from women and most importantly, you respect yourself.

Finally:

You may not know it, but there are recovery coaches- mentors out there who live to support other men.

Porn Addiction Counseling lead men to their authentic selves and empower them to experience freedom, love, and fulfillment in their relationships businesses and in their lives

Recovery Coaches keep you in integrity. They make you a man who loves women vulnerably, and shamelessly. They help you regain and maintain that fighting spirit that is every mans genetic right. They unleash the true masculine man within you.

You have two options.

This can be just another blog post to you. You can lie to yourself and tell yourself that this is just more motivational, rah-rah feel-good bullshit. Or you can take the difficult path. You can put your ego aside and ask for the support you need to become the Man you know you really are.

Yes, it’s scary.

It’s scary to go all out, to decide to make something of our lives. It’s not a journey you have to take alone, though. There are men out in the world who will help you achieve your greatness.

Are you ready to become the greatest man you are capable of becoming?

It isn’t too late to late gain control of your out of control sexual behavior and bad habits to become the hero, the movie star of your own life.

Personally, There is nothing you have experienced when it comes to porn addiction that I haven’t, so don’t feel any shame or hesitation about finding out if you need a mentor.

To get on a free confidential recovery coaching call with me, visit www.elevatedrecovery.org/apply

Do NOT put in an application if you are not 100% ready to change your life.

I’m J.K, your brother in this struggle and I wish you the best in your recovery from your porn addiction. If you found this helpful share it a few other men, and don’t forget to subscribe. I release two every week.

Have an awesome day.

 

 

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