Why Objectification Isn’t About Lust: Porn, Power, Pain, and the Fear of Vulnerability | The Deep Psychology Behind Men's Tendency to Objectify Women
- Jake Kastleman
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For years, men have been told a very simple story about porn addiction and sexual objectification.
We’re told that men objectify women because we’re visual. Because we have high sex drives. Because lust is just wired into the male brain. Boys will be boys.
And on the surface, that explanation feels convincing. But it falls apart the moment you look at your actual lived experience.
If porn addiction and objectification were really just about sexual desire, they wouldn’t feel compulsive. They wouldn’t intensify when you’re lonely, stressed, anxious, or ashamed. And they certainly wouldn’t leave you feeling emptier afterward.
In my own recovery—and after working with hundreds of men—I’ve come to understand something much deeper:
Porn addiction is not about lust.
Objectification is not about desire.
It’s about emotional safety.
This article will challenge the way you’ve been taught to understand porn addiction, objectification, and your own sexual mind. Not to shame you—but to give you real leadership over your inner world.
Objectification Is Not About Lust—It’s About Distance
Most men assume objectification comes from wanting women too much.
In reality, objectification is about keeping women at a distance while unconsciously trying to meet legitimate emotional needs.
When you objectify someone, you don’t have to open yourself up. You don’t have to risk rejection. You don’t have to be seen.
Fantasy creates closeness without vulnerability. Power without risk. Emotional intensity without emotional presence.
For men who grew up learning—consciously or unconsciously—that closeness is dangerous, that needs won’t be met, or that exposure comes at a cost, distance feels safer than connection.
This doesn’t make you selfish. It doesn’t make your sexuality wrong. And it doesn’t mean women are the problem.
It means a part of your nervous system learned to regulate pain, loneliness, and powerlessness through fantasy instead of relationship.
Until you understand this, you’ll keep fighting yourself instead of leading yourself.
Porn Addiction as Emotional Self-Regulation
One of the biggest breakthroughs men experience in recovery is realizing that porn functions as an emotional regulator—not a pleasure tool.
Porn temporarily restores things your nervous system believes you’re missing:
When you feel ignored, fantasy restores importance
When you feel inadequate, fantasy restores desirability
When you feel powerless, fantasy restores dominance
These are not sinful needs. They are human emotional needs.
Porn doesn’t truly meet them—but it simulates meeting them just enough for your nervous system to reinforce the behavior.
From a neuroscience perspective, this makes perfect sense. The brain prioritizes short-term relief over long-term cost when it perceives threat or emotional instability. Dopamine spikes signal temporary safety, not fulfillment.
This is why porn addiction is so closely tied to stress, loneliness, and shame. The behavior isn’t random—it’s strategic.
Broken strategy. Real need.
Why Objectification Increases Under Stress, Loneliness, and Shame
Pay attention to when objectification shows up most strongly in your life.
It’s usually not when life feels steady.
It’s when you feel:
Overwhelmed
Rejected
Unseen
Disconnected
Ashamed
That’s not a coincidence. That’s information.
Porn addiction and objectification are symptoms pointing toward emotional pain that hasn’t been regulated or integrated yet.
When something keeps happening despite your best intentions, it isn’t a character problem. It’s a system problem.
And systems don’t change through punishment. They change through understanding and leadership.
Objectification Is Compensation, Not Strength
Our culture often frames sexually dominant men as powerful, confident, and secure.
In reality, objectification does not come from strength. It comes from compensation.
Fantasy becomes a place where you don’t have to negotiate, attune, or risk failure. And those are precisely the things many men were never taught how to tolerate emotionally.
Power feels good when you’ve been feeling small.
Over time, this pattern does something tragic:
It replaces whole, connected sexuality with narrow, disconnected desire.
And it quietly erodes your capacity for real intimacy.
True masculine strength isn’t domination. It’s presence.
The Parts of You That Drive Porn Addiction Are Not Evil
Inside every man are different parts of the emotional mind—each developed early in life to help you survive.
You likely have:
Comfort-seeking parts that want relief
Thrill-seeking parts that want aliveness
Connection-seeking parts that want to feel chosen
Curious parts that want to understand and see deeply
None of these parts are sexual by nature.
They become sexualized when they lack healthy outlets and leadership.
This is one of the most important truths in porn addiction recovery:
These parts are not bad. They are good parts stuck in bad roles.
Addiction doesn’t mean these parts should be crushed or eliminated. It means they need integration.
When properly guided:
Thrill-seeking parts become adventurous
Comfort-seeking parts become peacemaking
Connection-seeking parts become nurturing
Curious parts become investigators and innovators
Integration, not suppression, is what creates lasting recovery.
The Shame Loop That Keeps Porn Addiction Alive
Here’s the cycle many men are trapped in:
Objectification happens automatically. You judge yourself harshly. Your nervous system spikes. Parts of you seek relief. Objectification intensifies.
Shame does not kill lust.
Shame fuels the system that creates it.
White-knuckling fails because it treats porn addiction like a moral defect instead of a nervous-system strategy.
Strategies don’t disappear through punishment. They disappear when something better replaces them.
Presence, Not Repression, Is the Path Forward
The real question is not, “How do I stop objectifying?”
The real question is:
What helps my nervous system feel safe enough to stay present?
Recovery isn’t about eliminating attraction. It’s about elevating perception.
When presence increases, fantasy loses its grip.
When emotional regulation improves, compulsive sexual behavior weakens.
Two Practical Tools That Retrain the Sexual Mind
Gratitude for the Body
Most men don’t realize they objectify their own bodies just as harshly as they objectify women.
Gratitude for the body grounds the nervous system, restores safety, and rehumanizes sexuality.
This isn’t sentimental—it’s neurological. Gratitude activates regulation pathways that calm compulsive behavior.
Story Over Skin
Objectification collapses a person into body parts.
Story Over Skin expands perception back into humanity.
By deliberately shifting attention from image to meaning, you activate empathy circuits and interrupt fantasy in real time.
Men who practice this report less scanning, less comparison, less mental noise—and more grounded attraction rooted in connection.
What Changes When a Man No Longer Needs Distance
When objectification loosens its grip, something profound shifts.
Men report:
Less dominance and escape
More emotional availability
Attraction rooted in connection
Greater integrity and steadiness
A man who can stay present no longer needs fantasy to feel alive.
Porn Addiction Is a Signal—Not a Verdict
If objectification has been part of your struggle, it doesn’t mean you’re failing.
It means a part of you learned to survive through distance rather than through connection.
And anything learned can be unlearned.
You don’t need more willpower.
You need a different relationship with your inner world.
Leadership over reaction. Presence over repression. Integration over shame.
That’s the path out of porn addiction—and into a stronger, freer, more grounded masculinity.
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Full Transcription of Episode 132: The Psychology of Objectification: How Porn Trains Men to Avoid Vulnerability
Jake Kastleman (00:01.006)
Welcome to No More Desire, where we build the mindset and lifestyle for lasting recovery from poor. My name is Jake Castleman, and I'm excited to dive in with you. Let's get started, my friend.
Jake Kastleman (00:25.999)
Most men think they objectify women because they're sexually charged, that their desires for sexual gratification are driving them to see women as sets of body parts. That this is just the way that the male mind is. Boys will be boys, right?
Say we have a strong sex drive that we're just wired that way, that nothing more can be expected of us. But this explanation falls short. Because if objectification were just about lust, then why would it feel compulsive, overwhelming, and obsessive? And why would it get worse when you're lonely, stressed, anxious, or feeling disconnected?
Jake Kastleman (01:13.102)
Here's what I've come to understand both in my own recovery and in years of working with men. Objectification isn't really about wanting women. It's about keeping your distance while unconsciously attempting to meet legitimate emotional and relational needs from a safe emotional place.
Sexual obsession and fantasy is an unconscious attempt to create closeness without vulnerability, power without risk, and emotional intensity without emotional presence. But how? Here's the thing. When you objectify someone, you don't have to open yourself up to them. You don't have to risk rejection. You don't have to be truly seen as a person. And when you are someone that grew up
believing that closeness is dangerous, exposure is costly, or that needs inevitably will not be met in familial, friend, or romantic relationships, then distance feels safer than connection. This does not mean that you are bad or selfish. It does not mean that your sexual desire is wrong, and it does not make you a monster. It also doesn't mean that women are the problem.
Part of your male psyche learned to regulate pain, powerlessness, and loneliness through fantasy instead of relationship, all in an effort to protect you. And until you understand why and how this works, until you stop moralizing the symptom and start healing the system, you will keep fighting yourself instead of leading yourself. Today, I will talk about why objectification isn't about lust and what actually changes when a man no longer needs distance.
to feel safe. Before we dive in, a reminder to follow and rate this podcast so that others looking for help can find it and make sure to hit the notification button so that you can keep finding it. All right, let's get started. What I'm talking about today is a sensitive issue. It's a difficult one because it's one that a lot of us carry shame about. It's also one that a lot of us men justify and I'm calling attention.
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to this because it is something that is very difficult for us to deal with as men. And it is very challenging for us to be able to see through because it feels so innate. But I'm going to ask you to open up your mind and challenge yourself on this. Your sexual drive, your sexual desire is not what it seems. We hold in sexual desire within our bodies, within our minds.
That is just part of who we are, we're sexual beings. But the obsession, the craving, the fixation, the fantasy that we get fixated on, this is not innate to who we are. It is a sexual response to emotional needs that we carry. And I'm going to teach you all about how that works today. And I believe if you listen, you open up your mind and you open up your heart, it's gonna change your life.
Most of us were taught a very simple explanation for objectification. Okay, the tendency to make objects out of women, to focus on body parts, to sexually lust after them. The tendency many men's brains have to turn women into objects of sexual pleasure. We were taught that men objectify because they're sexual. Men objectify because they want sex. They objectify because they're visual.
Right, again, boys will be boys. And sure, there's a grain of truth to this, but that explanation breaks down pretty quickly when you look at it for a little bit longer than a few minutes, because it doesn't explain why objectification intensifies when you're stressed. It doesn't explain why it shows up more when you feel lonely, but when you feel rejected, when I feel lonely or I feel rejected. And it definitely doesn't explain why it often comes when I feel shame.
when I feel self-loathing or when I feel emptiness and why I feel those things after I've engaged in fantasy or objectification. If objectification were just about pleasure, then it would satisfy me, but it doesn't. I wanna pause here for a second. If you're listening to this and feeling a little uncomfortable or strangely relieved, that's important for you to pay attention to. I wanna call mindfulness to that.
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Because when something keeps happening despite our best intentions, it usually isn't a character problem. When you keep objectifying women, when you keep engaging in fantasy, but you don't want to, it's a system problem. An incoherence in the emotional mind, in the nervous system, our unconscious working against us for very good reasons that we do not yet fully understand. And that's what I'm going to try to help you understand in today's episode. Until we understand the system underneath the objectification,
we'll keep fighting the symptom of the objectification instead of healing the cause that's underneath, which is easy for us to judge on both ends of the spectrum, men and women. Real intimacy requires something many of us were never taught how to tolerate, many of us men. It requires emotional exposure, uncertainty, letting someone actually affect you. And especially today with social media, video games,
TV, all these ways that we block out, and AI now, actually, all these ways we block ourselves from the risk of connection, the vulnerability of true intimacy. Porn and objectification offer something very different from uncertainty, vulnerability, and risk. They offer proximity without risk, closeness without vulnerability, emotional intensity without any responsibility on my part.
That is a big part of why they are so enticing, not just because they're pleasurable. That has little to do with it when it comes down to it. When a woman becomes an image instead of a person, she can't disappoint you. She can't reject you. She can't need anything from you. And if you have a history of being rejected by women, or you've never quite felt like you can connect with them the way you want to, then in the case of porn, she can't need anything from you.
And this can sound pretty enticing to deal with. This can sound like a pretty enticing deal to the unconscious emotional mind, which often views things like a child saying, whatever helps me stay safe, whatever helps me feel good or whatever meets my immediate needs, I want that. So fantasy becomes a place where desire feels safe because it's distant. And for many men, distance feels safer than presence.
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which requires risk, uncertainty, and vulnerability, emotional presence within a relationship. This is what I faced in my life. I felt distant from women. I did not know how to connect to them. Women scared me. As a kid, as a youth, and in my twenties, I didn't know how to connect. I didn't have the emotional maturity or the understanding to connect. And I still carry some of those insecurities now.
I want you to notice something. Think about when objectification is strongest for you. It's usually not when life feels steady. It's when you feel overwhelmed, when you feel unseen, when you feel disconnected. And that's not a coincidence. That's a clue. That's your mind, your unconscious mind pointing you towards something. It's signaling you through the objectification. Objectification and fantasy actually points you down to the core root of the problem. If you pay attention and you know how to use it as a trailhead for your growth.
triggers our trailheads. Here's where this gets counterintuitive. Most men assume that objectification is about excess desire, right? I have too much sexual desire. I have too much sexual drive going on. But what I see over and over again is this. Objectification spikes when a man feels powerless in his real life. And this is some semblance of a way to bring feelings of importance.
When you feel ignored, fantasy restores importance. When you feel inadequate, fantasy restores desirability. When you feel out of control, fantasy restores dominance. We all need a sense of power in our lives. Reasonably, we all need to feel adequate. We all need to feel important. This is part of being human. These are our emotional needs. And does porn actually meet these emotional needs? No, but it does.
give a broken solution, which seems to meet those needs for a time, at least to some extent, only for us to emerge feeling more empty, more powerless. But it meets the need to some degree. It just makes it worse later. It's all about that immediate emotion that the mind and the nervous system are trying to take care of for our survival's sake. That's how it feels, at least.
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Objectification and obsession over body parts isn't about hatred of women and it isn't about using them. It's about self-regulation through imagined power. Again, objectification and obsession over body parts isn't about hatred of women. It isn't about using them. It's about self-regulation through imagined power. Now, unfortunately, does it create this hatred of women? Does it create turning them into objects, using them? Yes.
Tragically, it does. A fantasy becomes a place where you don't have to negotiate. You don't have to attune. You don't have to risk failure. And those are some of the things that men fear the most. Power feels good when you've been feeling small in your life. And a lot of men feel small today. Sadly, these things lead to an internal disregard for women as human beings. And it's hard for me to say that, but it's true. When we engage in objectifying, fantasizing,
and obsessing over sex, it replaces the deep, legitimate relationship that you and I could have with our spouses in dating relationships, with our girlfriends, instead of the broken, narrow relationship.
that comes out of too much sexual focus. It's too extreme. It's out of balance. It's not whole. We want whole connected sexuality, whole connected relationships. That requires a well-rounded perspective, something that integrates emotional vulnerability. It integrates sexual desire. It integrates romance. All together as one. It integrates spiritual connectivity to higher power, to each other. We need to attune to one another.
Otherwise we end up feeling empty and that brings us back to porn to try to fill that emptiness that we carry.
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And that emptiness then spreads to women that we're with. Hey guys, quick note before we continue. For the month of February, 2026, I'm running a monthly challenge inside the online community called Reclaim Sexual Joy. If you struggle with porn addiction, you know how easily sexuality can turn into something charged with shame, fear, self-judgment, or compulsive craving. You either fight your desires or you feel controlled by them.
But there's a third way. In the free online community, the No More Desire Brotherhood, we're focusing on two simple daily practices that help retrain the emotional mind. Daily gratitude for the body and a powerful tool we use called Story Over Skin, which helps reduce objectification and calm sexual fixation by reconnecting you to humanity and meaning.
Inside the community, you'll find a free PDF in the monthly challenges space with short 2-3 minute meditations that you can use each day plus clear instructions for using Story Over Skin in real everyday life. These are exclusive resources you can only gain access to by being a member of the online community. These practices are simple, they're grounded, and they're designed to help you experience sexuality as something good again, not something to fear.
or something to fight. And for those of you who want to this work deeper, the PDF also includes a 10 % discount code for my full online course, Reclaim Sexual Joy. This 10 % discount is for the month of February only. If you want to join us for the February challenge to reclaim sexual joy, sign up or log into the community and click into the monthly challenges space. Everything you need is there. You'll find a link
to join the February challenge for free in the description below this episode. All right, back to the show. Here's the hard truth. Objectification doesn't come from strength, right? We often think, all these guys out there who get all these women, they're really popular, they're suave, they're charismatic. Doesn't come from that. It comes from insecurity within. It comes from a hard shell, a hard exterior.
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where we are using women rather than being vulnerable with them. So it doesn't come from strength, it comes from compensation. And until we name what it's compensating for, the pain that we carry, it will keep showing up. And many men who grew up in very difficult home situations, difficult neighborhoods, difficult circumstances, move towards this objectification and treating women poorly because they feel they have to, because that's how they were treated.
This isn't the case for all of us, but it is for some of us. This is very complex issue and we go towards this fantasy and objectification for many different reasons. This is where I want to slow things down a bit, my friends. Inside each of us are different parts, aspects of the emotional mind that develop strategies for emotional survival early on in our lives. We all have comfort-seeking parts of us that want relief, thrill-seeking parts of us that want novelty.
and aliveness, connection seeking parts of us that wanna feel chosen. It's hard for us to admit that as guys. We also have curious parts of us that wanna see behind things. Do you see the symbolic nature of that? I wanna see into someone, I wanna understand. I wanna feel close with someone and I wanna know all of them.
of filling emotional needs through sexual means. None of these parts of us, none of these inclinations are evil. None of them are inherently perverted or sexually oriented for that matter. Instead, they're parts of us that are good. They're powerful, they're beautiful, but they get twisted and they become protective. They want to get my needs met no matter what. They wanna help me out.
But it's from a place of fear. It's from a place of shame. It's from a place of disconnection and isolation. The problem isn't that these parts of me exist. I don't want to crush them. I don't want to get rid of them. I don't want to get rid of the addictive quote unquote parts of me. I may hate those parts. I need to learn to love them because as paradoxical as it sounds, they are good at their core. They're trying to fulfill good needs, but they become twisted. Good parts, bad roles. The problem is that when I'm addicted, these parts aren't properly integrated.
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into my system. They become broken, they become twisted. They need guidance, they need integration. That's one of main things I work on with the men that I'm with. How do I relate to my emotions? How do I gain relationships to these shadow parts of me and integrate them as good parts of me? That can happen. I see men do it, I've helped them do it, and I have done it in my own life. Does that mean that I'm perfect, that these shadow parts never come in in destructive ways? No.
more and more and more, they could be integrated for good in my life. And actually, that those thrill-seeking parts become adventurous parts. Those comfort-seeking parts become peacemaking parts. Those connection-seeking parts become nurturing parts. And those curious parts become investigators, innovators. They become joyous about learning rather than being used for sexual addiction.
causing me joy instead of causing me pain. They can. When I don't understand emotions or know how to adequately ground and regulate them, these parts of me, they take over in order to force grounding and regulation. I don't know how to integrate these parts. They get twisted up because they wanna be included. I don't know how to calm my nervous system in times of stress. Well, the comfort seeking part of me will do it for me.
And porn has been the go-to since I was an early adolescent. So it uses that. Or my life doesn't contain adequate joy, excitement, thrill. The thrill-seeking part of me will seek to rectify that using porn. I feel lonely, unseen, or unlovable. Parts of my unconscious emotional mind will step in to try to protect these broken feelings at all costs. And they do that using porn to keep that as a shield.
They do this not to hurt me, but to help me survive. And in so doing, they cause greater feelings of loneliness, unimportance and unloved ability. Objectification becomes a reflex, not a decision. It becomes automatic. I don't see this happening because I'm not attuned to the deeper emotions. My mind and nervous system have worked very, very hard to keep me from getting to those deeper emotions. That's why it requires peeling back layers. Anyone can do that.
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If you're starting to recognize yourself in this, I wanna say something clearly. None of these parts are your enemies. They're doing the job they learn to do, likely early on in your life. Real change doesn't happen when we silence these parts. It happens when we lead them, we integrate them. This is why shame is so destructive in recovery. Shame doesn't bring out self leadership. It shuts it down. Shame doesn't motivate me to change. It demotivates me.
unless I know how to use it and I actually know how to integrate it. We often run from shame thinking it's gonna hurt us. There's a lot of messages out there that say shame should not be felt. It's only destructive. I disagree. We have to know how to relate to it and respond to it, integrate it. But that takes a very careful process and it's very intense. We need to learn how to do it. And for me, I do that using the rail method. There are multiple ways to do it.
Now here's the loop that many men are stuck in. Objectification happens automatically. You judge yourself harshly. Your nervous system spikes because of this judgment. Parts of you, your emotional mind, as I call it, seek relief. And then objectification intensifies in response. Shame does not kill lust. It fuels the system that creates it.
Again, I want to go through that loop again. Objectification happens because our mind's been trained into it. And as boys, as teenagers, we're very prone to it very easily before we learn how to master our dogs, our sexual dogs that are there, right? Instead of keeping leashes on them, we actually learn how to lead them, to let them flow in our lives lovingly.
So that objectification happens, you judge yourself harshly, your nervous system spikes, your parts seek relief, and then objectification intensifies and that restarts. This is why white knuckling never works long-term. It treats objectification like a moral failure instead of a nervous system strategy. And strategies don't disappear through punishment. They disappear when some...
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when a better strategy replaces it. So the real question isn't, how do I stop objectifying? The better question is, what helps my nervous system feel safe enough to stay present in both joy and pain? Presence, not repression, is what is actually needed. Changing the internal meaning that you give to what you see. So you can change the emotional response that you have.
That's what's needed. You have to practice shifting the way that your mind sees women and the human body as a whole. And you have to practice emotionally regulating. So a few different approaches to do this. This isn't about eliminating attraction. It's about elevating perception. Can I regulate my emotions? Can I get down deep to the core? And can I change the way that I see women? If you want specific practices to do this, sign up for the February challenge that we're doing right now in the free
community, No More Desired Brotherhood, everyone is welcome. When you join the February challenge, again, February 2026, if you're listening to this in the future, I apologize, it's already ended, but you can join the community and you can go back and actually get this free PDF that contains specific daily practices that shift your perception away from objectification to obsession. It's free. You'll find a link for this to sign up for that February challenge in the show notes.
When a man no longer needs relational distance to feel safe, something shifts. He doesn't need to dominate. He doesn't need to escape. He doesn't need to consume. Presence in relationships becomes possible. Emotional presence becomes possible. When objectification loses its grip, men often report less scanning, less comparison, less mental noise, more steadiness, more attraction, rooted in connection, more integrity.
A man who can stay present instead of objectifying doesn't need fantasy to feel alive. A man who can stay present to his emotions and understand himself doesn't need to use fantasy and objectification to feel alive.
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It is a symptom.
If objectification has been a struggle for you, it doesn't mean that you're failing at recovery, my friend. And it doesn't make you a bad person again. It means a part of you learned to survive through distance instead of connection. And that can be unlearned. It can be replaced. So again, inside of the No More Desire Brotherhood, the theme this month is Reclaim Sexual Joy. We are not fighting desire. We're not shaming sexuality. And we're not white-knuckling behavior. We're actually
practicing two simple things to shift our perspective, to step out of fantasy, step out of objectification and become a master over our own mind. That's one of the biggest things. We do this for women so that we can treat them with more respect and love and we can build better relationships. But we do it for ourselves because objectification, fantasy, feeling pulled along like I'm on a leash by my sexual desires is not joy.
It's not happiness. It makes you feel like a slave to your own mind. Wouldn't you rather be a master to your own mind? To do that, we're practicing two simple things. Gratitude for the body. Sounds paradoxical, but just like we objectify women's bodies, we objectify our own bodies. So building gratitude for the body, powerful, far more powerful than it sounds. Simple, but I have specific practices for it, meditations and approaches to do it that are free.
And then a tool called Story Over Skin, which helps retrain the brain to see the humanity and those around me instead of fantasy in real time, something I can use anytime. This has been a profound miraculous practice for multiple clients that taught it for years. Again, this is free for you to learn. So please hit the link in the show notes or go to nomordesire.com and hit join the community. You'll be able to sign up. You'll get access in the monthly challenges space.
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to all this within the free PDF. So for those who want to go deeper, also there is an optional 10 % discount for the full Reclaimed Sexual Joy course that is available in that PDF within the community. As a member of the community, you get access to this exclusive discount. And that's only available through the end of February.
So if this episode resonated with you, my friend, that's probably not an accident. You don't need more willpower. You need to build a different relationship with your inner world. You can find the link to join the community in the February challenge in the description below and whether you join us or not. Stay curious, stay present and keep choosing leadership over reaction. God bless and much love, my friend. Thanks for listening to No More Desire.
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