Overcome Pornography for Good with Sara Brewer | What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed

Episode 204: What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed

December 16, 20242 min read

Do you ever feel like you're drowning in a sea of tasks and responsibilities? That heavy, dark cloud of overwhelm that seems to cover everything and drown out all the noise? If you're trying to quit porn, overwhelm can feel like an insurmountable obstacle, keeping you stuck in shame spirals and preventing you from taking action.

Today, I dive deep into the topic of overwhelm and how it can impact your journey to stop using pornography. By the end of this episode, you'll have a clear roadmap for navigating overwhelm and staying on track with your goals.

Tune in this week to discover exactly where your overwhelm is coming from, and what you can do about it. You’ll learn some powerful tools and strategies for managing overwhelm, including understanding our triggers, breaking things down into tiny baby steps, and focusing on just 1% growth at a time.

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What You'll Learn from this Episode:

  • How perfectionism, overthinking, and feeling out of control triggers overwhelm around quitting porn.

  • Why reframing comparison and jealousy as positives can show you what you really want.

  • The power of extending your timeframe and breaking big goals into tiny baby steps.

  • The principle of 1% growth and how it can lead to massive results over time through compounding.

  • How to see exactly where your overwhelm is coming from and decide how you want to approach it.

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Sara Brewer is a certified life and trauma-informed coach. She has helped over a thousand people quit porn through her coaching programs and tens of thousands through her highly-rated podcast, Overcome Pornography for Good.

Sara shares her story in her free webinars, but the simple version is that she saw shame's role in compulsive pornography use, and after developing a process focused on addressing shame as the root, her clients saw amazing success. This is why The Center for Overcoming Pornography exists.

Sara Brewer

Sara Brewer is a certified life and trauma-informed coach. She has helped over a thousand people quit porn through her coaching programs and tens of thousands through her highly-rated podcast, Overcome Pornography for Good. Sara shares her story in her free webinars, but the simple version is that she saw shame's role in compulsive pornography use, and after developing a process focused on addressing shame as the root, her clients saw amazing success. This is why The Center for Overcoming Pornography exists.

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