Day 16

Don't Get BLASSTED

If you want to find freedom from a porn addiction, you must figure out what it is you are medicating. The dopamine high from porn can easily become a way to numb pain or to escape the pressures of life.

Most people understand they have physical triggers that move them to sexually act out, but many of them don’t realize they also have emotional triggers. When someone doesn’t know their emotional triggers they get BLASSTED by them.

Today’s Challenge:  

1. Watch this video.   
2. Answer the reflection questions.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.  - 1 Corinthians 10:13

Reflection Questions:  

1. God promises that in any temptation He will provide the ‘way of escape’. After watching the video, how do you think the ‘way of escape’ from a porn/sex addiction includes understanding your emotional triggers?  
2. Which of the BLASSTED emotions are the most common emotional triggers for you?  
3. How does sexual behavior medicate the BLASSTED emotions?  
4. Why is growing in self-awareness important?