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#172 - Spiritual Nakedness
Spiritual nakedness is a vital step on the path to greater spiritual awareness and growth as an individual.
#171 - The Importance of Mental Freedom
Mental freedom is the highest form of self-love and a testament of our strong relationship with ourselves.
#169 - How to Focus Your Goals
Setting goals that are beyond what we believe are our capacity can be exhilarating and frightening at the same time. When we set our goals, we experience a burst of motivation and energy as we begin to take our vision. But, as time passes and we encounter obstacles, our vision starts to fade, leading us to question ourselves and allowing negative emotions to arise.
#167 - Run Towards Difficult Conversations to Find Freedom
Confrontations are often difficult. It takes a lot of strength to have a deep, emotional, and sometimes even intense conversation with someone whom we may have previously had an argument with, or someone we’re not comfortable expressing our thoughts and feelings to.
#166 - Using Hypnotherapy to Quit Porn with Isie Akpan, C. Ht
In this episode, Isie Akpan walks us through the power and potential of hypnotherapy and how it can seriously help people get over their addiction, particularly porn.
#165 - 5 Stages to Focus & Fulfillment
It takes a deep self-introspection and an understanding of how our intrinsic motivations work to align them to our goals that will grant us the sense of fulfillment.
#164 - Building the Integrity Muscle
Integrity can cut both ways. On one end, it’s something we are expected to aspire for and live by. But on the other hand, it can be daunting to be known as someone who lives with high integrity.
#163 - Leverage Accountability to Achieve Anything You Want
Accountability doesn’t just mean taking responsibility or taking action and facing situations. It also means having a commitment, especially to yourself. It might be a ‘big word,’ but what it pertains to is taking small steps, small leaps toward your desired outcome.
#162 - Grace: The Secret Missing Ingredient to Fulfillment
Acceptance seems like too much of a challenge for people stuck in their unwanted behaviors, but in reality, this allows people to be more fulfilled in life. As the secret missing ingredient, grace assists people in understanding what more valuable things they need to focus on to bring more fulfillment into their lives.
#161 - The Importance of Honesty
In a sense, our freedom to speak must be based on how we respond to things around us. When we respond, we observe how we address ourselves in the conversation. The awareness that we should consider, the response we should give to others, as well as whether or not we are being truthful in our response. This does not only convey how we engage with other people but also how we engage with ourselves.
#160 - Having Courage & Trust
It takes a huge step for all of us to be 100% honest with ourselves and with other people. The courage to believe in who we are bets on what the world considers acceptable and unacceptable.
#159 - Northstar: Creating a Clear Vision
There is a deep sense of longing for most people, and it sometimes leads some to devour negative things or actions. The North Star Goal emphasizes its aim to help people build and understand their sense of identity.
#158 - Stages of Change
There is a saying that the only constant in this world is changing. But some people think that change is a big risk to take. There are five stages of change that can help people become more fulfilled in life.
#157 - Stress Management Will Save Your Life
Life is designed to have stress. It’s a staple and it’s one of the many things that makes us humans. But how we respond is what either makes us or breaks us.
#156 - The Internal Nature of Sexuality | Chad Johnson
We are now in a time where earthly desires are welcomed, masked and embraced with the idea of normalcy. And so oftentimes, we find ourselves rationalizing and saying: It’s normal. It’s what everybody does. It’s all around us.
#153 - The Addiction Cycle Explained
In this episode, Andrew and Benjy mapped out the stages of the addiction cycle and drilled down to its root cause. As important as knowing the reason why addiction happens is to understand that there is a pattern to it. Knowing your addiction pattern and what triggers it are helpful in breaking that destructive cycle.
#150 - Why Curiosity Is Essential To Love
In this episode, Andrew and Benjy talk about the significance of curiosity in eliciting emotions of love, and how curiosity can be a great way to develop meaningful and healthy connections with ourselves, the people in our lives, and, ultimately, with God.
#146 - Feeding the Beast
In this episode, Andrew and Benjy talk about what this beast is that we all have inside of us, how to deal with it when it comes out, and how to weaken it so that we're not feeding it and letting it run our lives.
#145 - Urges: Healthy vs Unhealthy
In this episode, Andrew and Benjy talk about what it is to have urges, why having unhealthy urges is not inherently a negative trait, as well as the significance of identifying healthy urges in our lives. They also discuss how urges, whether they are healthy or unhealthy, are the key to understanding and loving ourselves.
#140 - Intolerant vs Allergic to Porn
In this episode, Andrew and Benjy talk about the difference between being intolerant of porn and being allergic to it, the reasons why less porn leads to more porn, as well as how our small decisions can have a big impact on our lives. They also discuss the High Noon programs that can help us with our struggles, such as porn addiction to porn.