Pornography use and recovery / PPU-A10-4
Sleep and Daily Function Review — Session activity
Facilitate a structured practice of sleep and daily function review with preparation, reflection, and an agreed closing.
30 minutes · Session guide · Mental health professionals
Fictional example: Noah wants to understand whether device use is crowding out rest.
Use within your training and assessment of readiness. Practical effects can be tracked without diagnosing from a single habit.
0–5 min | Agree on purpose and fit
Explain the educational scope. Ask what would be useful, check readiness and access needs, and establish choices to observe, adapt, or pass. Use an ordinary example; do not solicit trauma narratives.
5–10 min | Orient with an example
Practical effects can be tracked without diagnosing from a single habit. Fictional example: Noah wants to understand whether device use is crowding out rest. Ask what is observed and what remains uncertain.
10–20 min | Practice and compare
Record a brief, non-explicit example of bedtime choices, next-day functioning, and an optional routine adjustment. Offer quiet individual work, a supported conversation, or an observing role. Compare two possible responses without evaluating people as right or wrong.
20–25 min | Reflect on meaning
What changed in functioning, and what else might explain it? Ask what fit, what did not fit, and how culture, power, disability access, or external conditions affect the options.
25–30 min | Integrate and close
Invite one optional next step or support request. Orient to the current setting, allow an unfinished question to remain unfinished, and agree how to revisit it. End early or adapt if activation increases.
Adaptations
For a group, use fiction and no compulsory round-robin disclosure. For remote use, allow off-camera reflection and private notes. For brief use, keep one example and one question while retaining opening and closing choices.
Prompts for this resource
- What outcome would make this practice useful?
- What changed in functioning, and what else might explain it?
- What adaptation or follow-up is needed?
Conceptual background
AASECT Position on Sex Addiction — American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.