Welcome to the Pure Desire Podcast, helping you take back your life from unwanted sexual behavior and betrayal trauma.

What's up, listener? I'm your host, Trevor Windsor, and you're listening to Episode 355 of the Pure Desire podcast. You're joining me, as always, my co-host, Nick Stumbo.

Like a good neighbor. Stay far, me, as always, my co-host, Nick Stembo. Like a good neighbor.

Stave Armies there. Yes, we got Trevor to sing on the podcast.

Probably my tone is okay. 355 episodes. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I just don't. Yeah. You're the, I mean,

it's funny. I was a worship pastor. I'm not ashamed of my voice or anything, but you are the one who sings in the intros. Yes, for better, for worse. Some people

love it, some people hate it. Some people just skip it. So to all you folks, you're not hearing

this anyway. Okay, so we had our friends of the ministry, personal friend, Ben Bennett, on today in studio.

And this is one of two episodes we have with him.

And today we talked about the connection between porn and mental health.

Yeah, you know, and like a good neighbor, we could all use a little bit of help from time to time.

I don't know if you've seen the new commercials where they sing the ditty and like someone magically appears to help them. That's right.

That's right. And wouldn't it be great in our struggles? Today we talked a lot about things like

anxiety, worry, depression, shame, rejection, that someone just would magically appear and help

solve our problems.

And yet we all know the truth is these issues don't magically get resolved.

No one can do the work for us.

But there really are some valuable steps we can take.

There are some mindsets that we can approach.

And I think that's what I really loved about Ben's conversation today

is just really kind of bringing this into the spectrum of faith and at practical level. Like,

what are things we can be doing to address our mental health and to know that we're not, you know,

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