Category: Porn Recovery
Science-based strategies for overcoming porn addiction and rewiring your brain.
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Why Good Weeks Lead to Porn Relapses Too
You braced for the bad days. The blowup with your partner. The brutal stretch at work. The lonely Friday night where the apartment felt a little too quiet…
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Why Your Bloodwork Looks Normal But You Feel Broken: The Dopamine Problem Nobody Tests For
Standard bloodwork doesn’t test for dopamine receptor downregulation. Your doctor can’t see what years of overstimulation have done to your brain’s reward system. Here’s what’s actually happening.
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The Anesthesia Problem: Why Porn Is Never Really About the Porn
I was under a 570lb leg press at the gym this morning. Not thinking about the weight. Thinking about a conversation I had with a client yesterday…
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I Went Off the Grid for 3 Days. Here’s What Happened to My Brain.
I went off the grid this weekend. No emails, no content, no screens. Just my girlfriend, my journal, my books, and the real world. And honestly, by day 2, my…
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How to Reverse-Engineer a Life Without Porn (And Why It Works)
The internet is full of advice about how you should live your life. Here’s why the best thing you can do is ignore all of it and reverse-engineer your own…
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Why Your Recovery Only Works When Life Is Easy (And How to Fix It)
I used to be really good at quitting porn. String together weeks, sometimes a couple months. Feel like I’d finally cracked it.
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The Sentence That Means It’s Over: Management vs Resolution in Porn Recovery
There are two sentences that reveal everything about where a man is in recovery. One keeps you stuck in a cycle of willpower and white-knuckling. The other means the fight…
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Why Netflix Got the Masculinity Crisis Wrong (And What They Missed)
Netflix’s Inside the Manosphere missed millions of men silently struggling with porn addiction. The real crisis isn’t angry men online…
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Playboy Published a Feature About Men Quitting Porn. Here’s What That Really Means.
Playboy published a feature this week about men recovering from porn. The magazine that spent 70 years building the fantasy now covering the people…
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Utah Is Now Taxing Porn Like Cigarettes. Here’s Why That Matters.
In 1998, the attorneys general of 46 states sat down across the table from Big Tobacco. Last Thursday, Utah did something that reminded me of that moment…