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The Self Mastery Podcast: Overcome Pornography

The Self Mastery Podcast: Overcome Pornography

Hosted by: Zach Spafford

Learning to overcome my porn use was the greatest challenge of my life and my marriage. It had rocked my self-confidence, tainted all of the most important experiences of my life, and become the impossible challenge...

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Pain now or Pain Later

Episode #37

Pain now or later.  Almost every time I get a new client the first thing that they learn is that they have been putting off their pain.   Each of us has discomfort that we deal with on a regular basis.   Pain comes in...
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Letting go of Control

Episode #36

Why we use pornography even when we don’t want to. When we try to control our feelings the results begin to overwhelm us.  The paradox of control On a personal level, it refers to the phenomenon by which the harder a...
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Focusing on What Is

Episode #35

What is, not what should be All good stories start at 330 am right. September 15 2001, just a few days after the September 11th terrorist attack, my missionary companion, the other two elders in our apartment and I...
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Fear is holding you back

Episode #34

Making decisions from a place of fear.  What is fear and why do we often make decisions from a place of fear rather than from a place of abundance? Fear of missing out Not having enough Failure Not being...
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Why would my husband lie to me?

Episode #33

Why Would my Husband Lie to me? And other questions Wives ask when their spouse uses pornography. Over the last couple of weeks my wife and I have had a number of conversations with a new client and his wife. They had...
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4 Secrets to having more joy in your life.

Episode #32

-      The sun is setting and the kids are out making the gleeful noises that signal an amazing day is ending. -      It’s about bed time and I am sitting down to record -      Thinking, what is the skill the thing...
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Accountability is Awesome

Episode #31

-      The more accountability we take for our experience here – what happens to us, what we create, what we see as external or internal struggles – the more choices we have o  This is about ownership o  Ownership...
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3 Questions that I ask when someone says, "I'm an addict"

Episode #30

Does it matter whether you are an addict? Does it abdicate your agency? Does that thought serve you? - Does thinking it make you more likely to stop using pornography? Support this podcast
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Emotions are a lot like bears

Episode #29

The urges are taking over my life – or that is kind of what a lot of us are feeling right now. For a lot of us this last 2 weeks have been really challenging. A lot of us are feeling trapped, stuck, and cooped up This...
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Getting Things Done - Bonus episode

Episode #28

Is the corona virus lockdown getting you down, here is something to help you be your most productive self. There's even a free download https://www.zachspafford.com/getitdone (https://www.zachspafford.com/getitdone) ...
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I feel love in spite of the corona virus

Episode #27

Love – As papi to 8 children I have been regularly faced with a significant load in trying to connect with my kids. There is a lot that happens in life, there is a lot of living that 10 people do in one house, so...
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Victim Mentality

Episode #26

Victim-hood and the blame game. -      Not too many people think or express that they are the victim. -      Not weakness, just our brain justifying our behavior -      Indicators of victim...
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