streak or no streak to quit porn i'm dr trish lee cognitive neuroscientist and sex addiction
recovery coach in this video let's talk about is it a good idea to count your streaks or is it a
better idea perhaps to keep track in a different way let's break it down okay so yesterday was the
super bowl and i'm sorry i don't care what anybody says eminem crushed it in the halftime show i know
on a live i did it live a little while ago and i told you that i love eminem and i got a little bit
of hate for it but he is still crushing it and i looked it up he's worth 230 million dollars
he's doing fine okay anyways i digress moving on to the point about the super bowl is as i was
watching the super bowl i thought to myself that in a positive way to keep track of your streaks
can be different than counting days so many people struggle with counting days but other people
it feels good so let's break it down is it a good idea day by day if it works for you it's
a good idea there's habit trackers so you can get a habit tracker on your phone there's apps
there's journals and there are planners that have habit tracking in it and it can be really really
powerful to write down one two 3 367 368 it can be a beautiful thing to keep track of days if
it works for you but now if that's not working for you and you vibe it early on come up with
another way that feels validating so back to the super bowl i was thinking i've been uh cleansing
again because i was sick and now i'm trying to get better so i haven't eaten i haven't drank
salads have become my best friend along with water and i thought to myself wow
this is pretty cool because this is a really clean super bowl for me no delicious food no
you know cocktails just a clean super bowl and i was celebrating the fact that i was having
a clean super bowl you can do the same thing you can celebrate that you've had a clean super bowl a
clean valentine's day a clean saint patty's day a clean earth day that we'll be celebrating together
a clean summer a clean holiday season so you can kind of chalk up your wins on different
anniversaries or different milestones that feel good to you without counting the days honestly
i had to think back the day that i started the cleanse i didn't remember but i was thinking to
myself you know how long has it been and i was just glad to be going over another milestone
with my cleanse intact so i encourage you to do that if that feels good to you by marking
different days that you've got over and that you are over new thresholds keep track that way
this is the point you don't have to keep streaks to keep you motivated you don't have to celebrate
you know milestone adversaries if that doesn't feel good but do something that is salient
and that is valuable to you salient means it's meaningful to you and that
can be different for everybody the last time we did a cleanse last year with all my friends
this time i'm doing it by myself because i was sick but last year all my friends did it and i
might have told you this story one time before my bestie chanel would send out a morning text every
day with the day number that it was motivating all of us and that felt great to her and it actually
didn't feel that great to me because i'm like damn it's only day three i'm starving you know but it
was really motivating to her and to everybody else everybody else would text out on the thread and
it was really motivating and i would always give like a and at the end of the night she would do a
day three down check and everybody was to put a check mark there and i'm like oh there's my
check because it didn't feel that great to me but you know i played along but this time i'm doing it
myself and i'm doing what feels good to me super bowl check valentine's day check saturday night
check you know being able to get through these important times so do what feels good to you but
the whole point is do it porn damages your brain it's sucking your full potential from you and
it's making it so that you can't show up as the best version of yourself in your life so do what
feels good and get moving forward okay i hope that helps if you're looking for help on your journey
please reach out to me dr trish lee.com and as always control your brain or it'll control you