Pornography use and recovery / PPU-A19-1
Reclaiming Time for Chosen Activities — Concept brief
Understand the idea behind reclaiming time for chosen activities and consider whether it fits your context.
8 minutes · Handout · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Noah wants to make room for a creative project in the evening.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Behavior change can include building a life with more wanted experiences.
The idea
Behavior change can include building a life with more wanted experiences.
An ordinary example
Noah wants to make room for a creative project in the evening.
What this can look like
Choose a small activity that expresses a valued direction and identify time, access, and support needed.
Check the fit
What are you moving toward, not only away from? You may disagree with the framing, use fiction, or decide that this approach is not useful today.
A useful distinction
A chosen change goal and a clinical diagnosis are different questions. Address functioning, control, consent, values, and distress without assuming that sexual expression itself is pathological.
Prompts for this resource
- What part of this idea makes sense to me?
- What are you moving toward, not only away from?
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.