The RADICAL Method: A Guide to Overcoming Porn Addiction
Overcoming porn is not easy. Many fail because they don’t have the right roadmap. The RADICAL Method provides a clear path to recovery and freedom from Porn Addiction.
Porn Addiction 101: Live Disciplined
Disciple equals freedom. One of the greatest tools you can craft in the fight for freedom is to become a more disciplined person. Discipline is about doing what you need to do, even when you don’t feel like it. If you grow in discipline, you increase your chances of success.
Porn Addiction 101: Accountability
Accountability greatly increases your chances of success in recovery. However, we often misunderstand what accountability really looks like. When we expect others to take the initiative, we will often be disappointed by the results. Accountability has to be active, meaning you are taking the initiative.
Porn Addiction 101: Cut Off Access
Those who are successful usually do something to reduce their immediate access to porn. It’s important that we don’t use this as a first line defense, but more as an additional tool to help us succeed. Ultimately, porn is so accessible you will never be able to hide yourself from it completely. You have to get to a place where you can say “I can have it but I don’t want it.
Porn Addiction 101: Identify the Roots
There is often more to a porn addiction than just being addicted to the pleasure. Almost always there are deeper roots to the problem. These are grounded in fundamental human needs that we all have, but at some point, we looked to porn to fulfill them. In reality, porn fulfilling these needs is just an illusion.
Porn Addiction 101: Develop Skills
Porn is far too accessible to simply avoid it. The only way you will experience true freedom is to develop the skills to become empowered over your behaviors. This is not simply willpower, it’s learning to fight smarter, not harder.
Porn Addiction 101: Address the Shame
When we fall, shame feels like an appropriate response. We think we deserve to feel bad. We feel we should be hard on ourselves. However, shame is actually one of the strongest forces keeping you stuck. In order to move towards recovery, you have to deal with shame.
Porn Addiction 101: Redefine Recovery
What do you think is the measure of recovery from porn addiction? We often think it is simply sobriety (going so many days without doing it). In reality, true freedom occurs when we fundamentally change our relationship with porn.