We often misunderstand emotions. I have written elsewhere that emotions “have three main functions: To motivate actions, to communicate to others, and to communicate to ourselves. Without our ability to be motivated we wouldn’t go to work, eat, have sex or play! We wouldn’t enjoy anything without emotions.” Many of us like positive feelings, but [...]
The way we think about ourselves as people is incredibly complex. We can certainly harm, confuse or liberate ourselves with the way we are using labels and identifiers. The same is true for a label or identity of “porn addict”. Is this a helpful term? Potentially—for some it fosters a desire to change, yet for [...]
When you have a splinter in your finger it absorbs an inordinate amount of your attention because it aches so much! Whilst struggling to get the splinter out you may forgo a number of other things you need, or loose sight of the more basic aspects of looking after yourself. In a similar way, when [...]
If you have a little boat and you hit a few rough waves, it may be sufficient to simply bail out some water with a bucket. As you sail on, you say to yourself subconsciously, “oh, that was easy, and I’m glad I thought of that”. Then you hit a real storm—swells and waves—and you [...]
One of the hardest things to do in with any addiction, compulsion or temptation is to turn away when you most feel it drawing you in. At this point it becomes an emotional, mental, physical challenge that you can learn to win. I heard it well said, “It is like staring into the face of [...]
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