112. Do You Trust Yourself to Stay Sober? Should You?

Do you trust yourself to stay sober? I don’t, and this podcast explains why.

I do believe I will find a way to maintain my sobriety from sex addiction. And, I believe you can too.

But I’m nervous living in the world we live in with my personality.

High-achieving men have their hands full. Successful male culture in 2026 does not seem to value integrity. The message is, “Never settle! And, get ahead at all costs.” For this reason, you need to keep your head on a swivel.

It’s okay not to trust yourself. It’s actually in integrity to say such a thing if it’s true.

In this podcast, I’ll explain how to manage this in your own sex addiction recovery.

If you haven’t read my book yet, I discuss this concept in greater detail. You can find it on Amazon or Audible here:https://a.co/d/04GxERiP

FULL TRANSCRIPT

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– Do I trust myself? No. Because the way

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– the tribe is currently set up, at least

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– of the people that I wanna fit in

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– with and influence and lead and change and

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– be a part of, they

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– value money a ton. They value sex and

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– sex appeal a ton. A lot of these

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– men, they’re under this hypnosis of like, like,

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– oh wow, look at that guy. He can

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– get any woman he wants. And guys consider

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– that a good thing. And again, my nervous

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– system, my body, my DNA, I’m aware of

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– that. I’m aware that those guys want me

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– to be wealthy. They want me to be

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– larger than life. So if I wanna impress

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– them, you know, win them over, whatever, I

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– now have to to go obtain this impressive

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– life to gain their respect so that they

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– will now listen to me.

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– You are listening to the sex addiction podcast

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– for high achievers, business professionals, executives, and entrepreneurs.

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– This podcast is designed to apply sobriety and

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– recovery principles specifically to the mindset of the

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– high achiever.

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– I’m your host, Roland Cochran, founder of The

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– Successful Addict, a recovery group for high achieving

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– men struggling with sex and porn addiction. For

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– more information about joining our group or attending

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– our next retreat, visit successfuladdict.com.

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– And now enjoy the rest of the episode.

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– So one of my clients in my recovery

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– groups asked me, Roland, do you trust yourself?

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– And I answered confidently no. I wanna explain

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– what I mean by that. So as a

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– high achieving guy, and again, not all high

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– achieving guys are designed the same. Right? So

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– I’ll just speak for me, but it’s very

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– similar to a lot of the guys in

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– my groups. A lot of high achieving men

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– care very much about what other people think.

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– And it’s not as messed up as as

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– you think. Because in order to make an

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– impact, in order to lead, in order to

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– leave a legacy, in order to change people,

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– help people, you do need to care about

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– what they think. You can’t just care about

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– what you think. You need to care about

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– what they think. Right? And in high achieving

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– men are very attuned to this. I think

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– it’s why they’re very successful. Here’s the problem.

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– I don’t trust myself, not because I don’t

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– trust myself to

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– protect my wife and stay in integrity. I

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– don’t trust the tribe. What I mean by

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– the tribe is society, the way society looks

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– currently in 2026.

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– The definition of a successful life when it

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– comes to, like, successful male culture, our society

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– has defined that as how much money you

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– got, how attractive are you, right, how many

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– people find you basically attractive, And how much

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– nice stuff and elaborate experiences have you experienced

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– in your life? And how how many nice

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– stuff have you bought? Sir, I mean, that’s

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– that’s what our society largely

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– considers success. So think about this. If being

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– influential,

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– being in a place where I can make

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– an impact, being in a place where people

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– will believe me, will listen to me, they’ll

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– put me on stages, they’ll they’ll invite me

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– on their podcast.

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– In order to get into that place so

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– that I can make a difference in this

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– world, which a lot of high achieving men,

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– that’s very important to them. Right? Making a

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– difference, impact before they died. Right? Leaving this

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– legacy of making the world a better place.

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– It’s what we wanna be known for. It’s

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– probably our our biggest driver, honestly. So think

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– about this though. If the tribe says that,

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– oh, I’m only gonna listen to people

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– who have a net worth of greater than

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– $10,000,000,

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– what’s this young boy and young man gonna

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– do? He’s going to work his face off

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– so that he can obtain that status, so

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– that he can finally do what he has

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– felt called to do. Right? If you need

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– to live in a certain neighborhood, be a

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– member of a certain country club, if you

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– need to look a certain way, talk a

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– certain way, act a certain way, drive a

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– certain car, have certain outfit, if those are

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– things that you need, depending on again, this

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– all kind of depends too on the city

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– that you live in and the country that

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– you live in, etcetera, and the tribe you

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– wanna influence too. So I think, you know,

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– I have I have clients in my in

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– my program who are athletes and they are

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– impressing people in different ways. I have clients

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– in my programs who are scientists and they’re

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– very intellectual. Right? So they’re trying to impress

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– people with their their ability to solve problems

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– and their intellect. I have clients who are

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– artists and their their expression of their art

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– is is how they’re trying to impress people.

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– So again, this applies to some people and

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– doesn’t apply to some people. But in terms

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– of why I don’t trust myself is my

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– the tribe, at least the people who I

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– wanna because the people the men who I

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– want to impact and lead are high achieving

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– successful men. I believe I feel very called

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– to change them because I feel like if

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– they can become in alignment

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– and really use their skillset, I believe that

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– these men are very much positioned to make

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– a massive impact on this earth. I also

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– think that high achieving men have the ability

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– to really ruin

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– this earth. And so I’ve just felt called

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– my whole life to making sure that they’re

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– acting in integrity and alignment so that we

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– can make this place better, not worse. So

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– where am I going with this? Well, if

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– I care about impressing them and they care

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– about how much money I have, they care

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– about how I look, they care about the

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– words I use, how I talk, they care

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– about who my friends are. Right? They’re like,

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– okay, hey, I wanna trust this guy, but

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– like do really successful influential people trust this

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– guy? Because if they do, okay, now I’ll

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– trust him. But I need to make sure

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– that other people of influence trust him. So

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– what’s that mean for me? Now I need

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– to go get these other people to like

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– me and trust me so that the other

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– people can trust me because they see me

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– being friends with, you know, this this person

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– that they respect. Right? So there’s this whole

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– game around status, influence, respect, and I hate

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– it. I think your the amount of money

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– you have in the bank should not be

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– a reflection of your abilities and your ability

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– to help people. But our society in in

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– some social circles consider that valuable. Your ability

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– to use your charisma and charm and people

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– please, that should not matter. A lot of

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– times those those traits actually can get us

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– in a lot of trouble, but people expect

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– you to be this perfect, pleasing, charismatic, positive

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– individual. So now what do you do? You

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– pretend to be, even on days even on

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– days where you’re not, you pretend to be

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– optimistic, happy, positive, calm, collected. So my point

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– is, do I trust myself? No. Because the

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– way the tribe is currently set up, at

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– least of the people that I wanna fit

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– in with and influence and lead and change

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– and be a part of, they

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– value money

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– a ton. They value sex and sex appeal

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– a ton. A lot of these men, they’re

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– under this hypnosis of like, oh, wow. Look

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– at that guy. He can get any woman

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– he wants. And and guys consider that a

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– a good thing. And again, my nervous system,

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– my body, my DNA, I’m aware of that.

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– I’m aware that those guys want me to

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– be wealthy. They want me to have nice

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– stuff that people can’t have. They want my

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– house to look a certain way. They want

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– me to be able to get women. They

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– want me to be attractive and be this

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– and they want me to be larger than

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– life, basically. Right? So I now have to

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– now go if I wanna impress them, you

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– know, win them over, whatever, I now have

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– to

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– go obtain this impressive life

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– to gain their respect so that they will

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– now listen to me. And and here’s the

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– worst part. It’s true. It actually works this

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– way. If I every time that I have

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– tried to like be authentic,

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– there are more doors than clothes that are

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– open. And a lot of guys learn this.

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– This is why people become people pleasers. As

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– we start to realize, our society doesn’t like

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– depressed people.

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– If you’re poor and barely getting by, they’re

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– not going to take your advice. It’s just

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– how this kind of our culture is kind

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– of has shaped. We want heroes and we

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– want to listen to heroes. We want to

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– be inspired by heroes. If you go on

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– social media, look at the top influencers. Right?

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– They’re perfect or look perfect. Right? And they’re

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– broadcasting

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– or teaching or showing or modeling the path

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– to perfection, superiority, influence, whatever it is that

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– they’re broadcasting. So where am I going all

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– with this and why does this have what

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– does this have to do with sex addiction?

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– I don’t trust myself because I

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– know that I’m going to I have a

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– strong desire to gain these people’s respect, admiration,

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– appreciation, attention, and to be able to get

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– into a position of influence so that I

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– can create positive change. So all that’s good.

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– All that’s healthy.

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– My tribe’s not healthy. Again, they care about

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– money, sex appeal, charm, perfection,

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– dominance, superiority,

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– having things that other people can’t have, being

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– rich, having tons of material things, being attractive,

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– etcetera.

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– And so if that’s where they are,

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– it’s gonna have an effect on me and

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– I’m gonna have to constantly

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– battle the if they’re like, oh, I’m impressed

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– by guys like that. And I know I

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– can do the thing that they’re impressed by.

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– I have to stop for a second and

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– say, hey, Roland.

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– Okay. Sure. He’s impressed by that. But do

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– you really wanna go do it? And is

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– doing that going to compromise

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– your integrity, compromise your morals, your values? Are

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– you gonna have to lie to your wife

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– about this to go do this thing to

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– impress the boys, to fit in with the

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– guys. Right? And but I know I want

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– them to like me because they’re my people.

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– I wanna I wanna help them. I wanna

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– I I hope this is all making sense.

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– Basically, I thought it was a great question

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– because I do think trusting your self is

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– a bit more complicated than people give it

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– credit. I think as tribal creatures, impressing the

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– tribe, fitting in with the tribe, being what

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– they need to be so that you can

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– help them and earn whatever it is that

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– you need to earn from them so that

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– you can actualize

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– your full potential.

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– Right? All of the intent is all good.

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– The problem is if their measurement system is

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– messed up, I need to make sure that

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– I don’t bend

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– my values and my integrity

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– to their level.

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– That’s what I mean about this. And I

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– and I know historically,

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– there are so many parts of me for

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– you to use IFS language

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– that care very deeply about what they care

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– about. And sometimes well, not sometimes. Has that

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– gotten me into trouble? Absolutely.

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– Absolutely. It’s it’s actually the core of my

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– process addiction. And so do I trust myself?

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– Yes. But if my try if my tribe

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– was healthy, but my tribe isn’t healthy. So

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– now I need to find this way. I

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– need to find this balance of staying in

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– integrity, honoring what I what I care about,

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– and then also not selling out when it

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– comes to getting this opportunity that I really,

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– really, really want. Right? I have to have

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– the bravery and the courage to say, you

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– know what? I’m not gonna do that. And

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– if that’s something they want me to do,

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– then it’s gonna be painful, but I’m gonna

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– have to decline. Right? And so, again, I

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– think this is a question a lot of

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– wives will ask men. Right? Do you trust

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– yourself not to act out? And a lot

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– of guys, they don’t wanna lie. And so

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– they hesitate a little bit because it’s like,

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– I don’t know if I fully trust myself.

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– And that can be scary to say to

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– your to your wife. My wife finds it

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– scary. She’s like, you don’t even she she

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– said that to my therapist. Right? Like, he

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– doesn’t even trust himself,

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– but that’s honesty. That’s integrity. Me saying that

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– is integrity.

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– Me admitting that, I don’t know. I don’t

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– know.

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– That’s integrity.

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– Thanks for listening to this episode. If you

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42. Can Meditation Cure Sex and Porn Addiction?

Does abstinence work? What if we are too zoomed in on the unwanted sexual behavior? The challenge with the word “recovery” is that people assume there is a point where you become “recovered.” But, when... Continue

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