373 - Empathy and Emotional Awareness

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re diving into a topic that is often overlooked but crucial to the healing and recovery process—empathy and emotional awareness. We’ll explore the importance of developing empathy, not just for yourself but within relationships, especially in the context of recovery from addiction and healing from betrayal. Through personal stories, practical advice, and proven tools, we’ll discuss how empathy can be a game-changer in reversing isolation, breaking addiction, and fostering deeper, healthier connections. Whether you're in recovery, supporting a loved one, or simply looking to improve your relationships, this episode offers valuable insights into building empathy and emotional resilience.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, good listeners. Good afternoon. Good evening, good night. Whatever time you might be listening. Welcome to the Pure Desire podcast. We are your biblically based and clinically informed approach to breaking free from compulsive sexual behavior and healing from betrayal.
0:25.8	I'm your host, Nick Stumbo, and you are listening to Episode 373.
0:29.9	Here joining me today is guest co-host Ashley Jameson.
0:31.3	Ashley, welcome back.
0:33.3	Hello, I'm so glad to be here today.
0:35.7	Yeah, glad to have you and so excited.
0:38.2	I truly am excited about this topic. When we've done 373 episodes, if I'm being totally honest, there's some that are like, eh, you know, this is,
0:43.8	I'm glad we're doing it, but it's maybe not on my heart or exciting. I just feel like when this
0:48.4	topic came up, the realization that we really haven't covered it much on any of our other podcasts,
0:55.7	I was excited about it.
1:00.8	And I think today's conversation was really great. Today we talked about empathy and developing emotional awareness. Yeah. I was really surprised when you said you kind of like searched and
1:06.5	didn't see that this was a topic for any of it because it is it's so important to the recovery
1:11.5	process for for the individual but also the couple for for for everybody that we have to develop
1:16.5	empathy and it's and it's a huge part of of reversing what we've gotten into because sticky
1:24.4	situations relationally or socially sometimes can drive us to addiction. So people say,
1:29.3	oh, I use alcohol as a social lubricant or, you know, I felt, I feared relationship. And so I hired
1:36.6	prostitutes because then it's just a transaction without the intimacy and that the social
1:41.5	aspect of things, which is getting worse with people living behind screens,
1:45.6	sometimes drives us to the isolation and the addiction. And now we need to kind of flip that on its
1:51.5	head, break out of addiction and isolation, and really lean into empathy, relationship, intimacy. And that can all be
1:59.1	really scary. So it is a whole day's worth of conversation.
2:02.8	Yeah. Well, I think we scratched the surface today, but I think we offer some really helpful
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