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You’ve probably heard it said here before that breaking a habit of unwanted sexual behaviors goes beyond “Behavior Management.”
Setting up filters or throwing away devices might eliminate the cues to your addiction, but it still leaves you exposed. There’s deeper work to be done.
Ultimately, to change your behavior you need to understand the why’s to your behavior. The actions you choose are connected to your emotions, to your thoughts and to your beliefs.
You are wonderfully complex. In this episode, we’ll be looking at the design of a Tree to illustrate how you work and why you need to go deeper. (Be sure to look to the Homework section for ways to make the Tree model work for you.)
Highlights:
FRUIT (Our Behavior)
The fruit of the tree, the leaves of the tree represent the behavior, the outward sign.
BRANCHES (Our Emotions)
When we experience some type of emotional pain or discomfort in our bodies, that serves as a trigger to move us towards these other behaviors to either medicate the pain or to get away from it.
TRUNK (Our Thoughts)
Your thoughts are more expansive than just a sentence, it holds with it some sort of image that connects to an idea.
ROOTS (Our Story)
This is where our Core beliefs lie. For example: What we learned about family based on our experience, about ourselves as kids, what God is like, about the world around us, what men are like, what women are like.
SOIL (Our Influences)
Things that influence our beliefs: Family of Origin, Abuses we’ve experienced, great disappointments, losses, etc.
The things we choose to think can be soil around our beliefs. What we choose to do can also serve as soil that nourishes the soil of what we believe.
Homework:
We are praying you choose to do the harder work of uncovering. You hold a powerful opportunity to change the trajectory of your life. If, along the way you find yourself needing extra help, consider reaching out to us and we will set you up with a Spiritual Coach to come alongside you in your important work.
Branch Questions:
When you struggle with an unwanted behavior, begin by asking yourself, “What was I feeling before I started moving in that direction?”
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