Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life with Dr. Kevin Skinner

  Pornography, Anxiety, and Depression: Understanding the Emotional Cost—and the Path to Healing Episode Summary In this Reclaim episode, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores the powerful connection between pornography use and mental health, especially anxiety and depression. Many people wonder, “Is pornography causing my anxiety and depression—or am I turning to pornography because I already feel anxious o...

In this powerful final episode of season one the Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life* series, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores what true intimacy looks like once pornography is removed from your life. He challenges the counterfeit connection that pornography offers and invites listeners to rediscover authentic intimacy—one that is grounded in emotional safety, presence, and vulner...

Reclaiming Core Values and Identity Summary: In this episode of the Reclaim Podcast: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores the essential process of rediscovering who you truly are beneath the layers of shame, secrecy, and behavior patterns. He introduces three key pillars of inner transformation—core values, identity, and differentiation—as the foundation fo...

 Reclaiming Relationships: Moving Beyond Shame and Rebuilding Trust In this episode of the Reclaim Podcast: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores one of the most critical parts of recovery — repairing relationships damaged by pornography use. Drawing on 31 years of clinical experience, Dr. Skinner unpacks how secrecy, betrayal, and shame fracture intimacy an...

When the Trigger Hits: How to Respond Instead of React Episode Summary In this episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores one of the most common challenges in recovery—triggers. Whether external (images, places, sounds, people) or internal (stress, boredom, loneliness, anger), triggers are inevitable. But as Dr. Skinner explains, the trigger i...

Guarding Your Mind: Digital Boundaries for Real Freedom ✨ Summary In this episode of the Reclaim Podcast: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time: navigating a digital world overflowing with sexualized content. From social media feeds to billboards, temptations are everywhere, and without clear boundaries recov...

The Power of Honesty: Accountability and Disclosure in Recovery In this episode of the Reclaim Podcast: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores how honesty, accountability, and disclosure accelerate the recovery process. Pornography thrives in secrecy and isolation, but when the truth is brought into the light, shame loses its grip and healing becomes possible...

Buffalo Up: Emotional Strength for Lasting Recovery In this episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner introduces a powerful metaphor from the plains—the difference between cows and buffalo in facing a storm. Cows run away, only to suffer longer. Buffalo turn toward the storm, facing it head-on, and pass through more quickly. Much like the buffalo, rec...

In this powerful episode, Dr. Kevin Skinner explores how habitual pornography use becomes neurologically reinforced and what it takes to interrupt that cycle. By breaking down the habit loop—cue, behavior, and reward—Dr. Skinner explains why willpower alone isn’t enough and how neuroplasticity makes real change possible. Through strategies like the 10-minute rule, the five-why exercise, and habit...

🎙️ Episode Title: When the Craving Hits: Why You Need a Plan 🧠 Episode Summary: In this episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner dives into one of the most critical elements of long-term recovery—understanding and managing cravings and urges. He explains the nuanced difference between cravings (a mental and physical longing) and urges (a strong phys...

🎙️ Episode #3 Mapping Your Sexual Stress: Using the Six-Factor Inventory to Jump-Start Recovery   📑 Episode Summary In this deep-dive episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr Kevin Skinner walks you through the Sexual Stress Inventory, a six-category framework that pinpoints where—and why—unwanted sexual behaviors keep showing up. You’ll learn how to: Consistently...

🎙️ Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Reclaim Your Life Episode 2: What Successful People Do To Reclaim Their Lives 🔍 Episode Summary In this episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner introduces the Recovery Capital Model—a research-based framework built on what successful people do to heal from addiction. Drawing from global studies on substance...

🎙️ Episode #1 “What Does It Mean to Reclaim Your Life?” 📝 Episode Summary In this foundational episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr. Kevin Skinner opens the door to a journey of emotional, relational, and spiritual healing. Drawing from 30 years of clinical experience and the insights that inspired his book Treating Pornography Addiction, Dr. Skinner explains...