Don’t get me started on Television! 

Television is something I simply cannot watch. I discovered this very early in lust recovery in Sexaholics Anonymous. Even if my motives were good--and even if the shows I wanted to watch were of good quality--there were just too many sick images (for me) in television commercials.  

My Gaping Brain Lapping Up Lust

Sitting in front of the television in my big soft chair with my brain wide open, I found myself ready to receive whatever illness was pumped into it.  And it was putting me into voyeurism mode. Ack!!!

News Is Stimulation I Don’t Need

And television news is worse!  Good heavens! The news is always overloaded with way too many triggering thoughts and images--and these images get my blood pressure up, and then I feel my disease in full force.  Step Two applies: I needed a Power Greater than myself to restore me to sanity. And the, Step Three: I needed to turn my will and my life over to the God of as I understand Him--and I cannot imagine that God would want me to waste hours watching those images.

Abstinence Today

So today I just don’t watch television.  I haven’t watched it for years now, not since my early recovery.  And NOT watching TV gives me a lot of time to do other things (such as doing service), which are more beneficial to my SA recovery.  

Sexually Sober since 2014