Modern life didn’t make you lose yourself — it trained your nervous system to disconnect.

Your sense of identity is built through the Relational Self Network (RSN), the brain system that forms “self” through emotional attunement and co-regulation.

Modern culture floods the brain with stimulation but offers very little relational safety, so the RSN stays active without completing.

That’s when you feel present but not really here. Connection feels draining. Motivation fades. Intimacy shuts down. Not because you’re broken — but because your nervous system adapted.

The opposite of disconnection isn’t insight. It’s regulation. When safety returns, presence returns — and identity stabilizes naturally.
If this feels familiar, nothing is wrong with you. Your nervous system just needs safety again.

Why Modern Life Is Disconnecting You From Yourself 🧠
Learn how to restore relational safety at https://drtrishleigh.com/ — You deserve to feel real again.

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Hi. I am Dr. Trish Leigh, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. I am on a mission to help people heal their brains from porn use.
My podcasts are designed to help you learn that:
🎯Porn Damages Your Brain,
🎯Porn Impairs Your Mental and Physical Health, and
🎯Porn Destroys Your Relationships.

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Attraction doesn’t disappear because something is wrong with you.
It collapses when your nervous system feels evaluated.

Pressure, performance, and self-monitoring activate the Arousal Inhibition Response (AIR). Attraction can still exist, but spontaneity shuts down because the brain no longer feels safe to open.

Modern dating and social media train the nervous system to stay in surveillance mode. Under surveillance, attraction doesn’t open — it inhibits.

The opposite of performance isn’t passivity.
It’s availability.

When the nervous system stands down, space returns.
And attraction follows naturally.

If this feels familiar, nothing is broken.
Your nervous system just needs safety again.

Why Attraction Collapses Under Pressure💞 💥 Learn how to turn AIR off and restore attraction at https://drtrishleigh.com/ — You deserve connection without pressure.

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Hi. I am Dr. Trish Leigh, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. I am on a mission to help people heal their brains from porn use.
My podcasts are designed to help you learn that:
🎯Porn Damages Your Brain,
🎯Porn Impairs Your Mental and Physical Health, and
🎯Porn Destroys Your Relationships.

Subscribe to this channel for 🧠 tips to:
✅Quit Porn for Good
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If you need more help, I can work directly with you.
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Your brain isn’t broken. You’re living inside a neurological environment built by chronic overstimulation.

What feels “normal” today is engineered. Algorithms train your nervous system to expect reward without effort — and over time, your brain’s effort system goes offline.

When stimulation replaces engagement, motivation drops, focus fractures, emotional regulation weakens, and desire shuts down.

That’s not a discipline problem.
It’s a nervous system state.

In this Supernormal conversation, you’ll understand:
• Why overstimulation rewires effort, desire, and regulation
• Why habit change fails when the nervous system is dysregulated
• Why porn use and dopamine loops flatten real-world reward
• How miswiring shows up as low motivation, anxiety, ED, or shutdown

Real change doesn’t start with willpower.
It starts with seeing how your brain adapts.

Why Fantasizing Feels Normal 🤔👉 If you want clarity instead of guessing, brain mapping shows what’s actually happening — and how regulation restores capacity, start with a brain map at https://drtrishleigh.com/

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Hi. I am Dr. Trish Leigh, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. I am on a mission to help people heal their brains from porn use.
My podcasts are designed to help you learn that:
🎯Porn Damages Your Brain,
🎯Porn Impairs Your Mental and Physical Health, and
🎯Porn Destroys Your Relationships.

Subscribe to this channel for 🧠 tips to:
✅Quit Porn for Good
✅Heal Your Brain from Porn
✅Get Motivated in Your Life
✅Repair Your Mental & Physical Health
✅Heal Erectile Dysfunction

If you need more help, I can work directly with you.
Check out the programs below.
https://drtrishleigh.com/

Donate to Porn Brain Prevention, the nonprofit to help teens avoid porn addiction below:
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Let's Connect! Check out my Linktree:
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How the Nervous System Restores Motivation, Drive, and Follow-Through

By the end of January, goals don’t usually disappear — effort does.

You don’t stop caring. Your nervous system just stops permitting effort.

When your autonomic nervous system shifts into protection mode, relief becomes the priority, not growth. That’s why pushing harder only makes you feel more blocked. Effort is not a personality trait or a moral quality. It’s a biological state created by regulation.

This episode explains the Effort Gate: the neurological gateway between intention and action, why it closes under overload, and how to reopen it using a simple, neuroscience-based reset — without willpower, pressure, or burnout.

Nothing is broken in you. Your system just needs the right signal to feel safe enough to move forward again.

If this feels familiar, let me help you reset the system and get effort back online.
Explore brain mapping and nervous system regulation at https://drtrishleigh.com/ — you deserve a brain that works with you, not against you.

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Hi. I am Dr. Trish Leigh, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. I am on a mission to help people heal their brains from porn use.
My podcasts are designed to help you learn that:
🎯Porn Damages Your Brain,
🎯Porn Impairs Your Mental and Physical Health, and
🎯Porn Destroys Your Relationships.

Subscribe to this channel for 🧠 tips to:
✅Quit Porn for Good
✅Heal Your Brain from Porn
✅Get Motivated in Your Life
✅Repair Your Mental & Physical Health
✅Heal Erectile Dysfunction

If you need more help, I can work directly with you.
Check out the programs below.
https://drtrishleigh.com/

Donate to Porn Brain Prevention, the nonprofit to help teens avoid porn addiction below:
https://pornbrainprevention.org/

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If effort feels heavier than it used to, the problem isn’t your motivation.

A screen-driven world is suppressing your brain’s agency system.

When reward is instant, and stimulation is constant, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) stops initiating effort.

You don’t feel lazy. You feel stuck.
Not because you lack discipline, but because your brain has been trained to wait for urgency instead of choosing action.

This is a regulation issue, not a mindset flaw.
And when you restore effort before reward, agency comes back online.

Why Effort Feels Hard Now: The Neuroscience of Agency, Screens, and Follow-Through 😓 👉 You don’t need to try harder. You need to correct the circuitry. Learn how brain mapping and neurofeedback help restore agency at https://drtrishleigh.com/

You deserve a brain that can initiate, follow through, and act with clarity.

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Hi. I am Dr. Trish Leigh, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. I am on a mission to help people heal their brains from porn use.
My podcasts are designed to help you learn that:
🎯Porn Damages Your Brain,
🎯Porn Impairs Your Mental and Physical Health, and
🎯Porn Destroys Your Relationships.

Subscribe to this channel for 🧠 tips to:
✅Quit Porn for Good
✅Heal Your Brain from Porn
✅Get Motivated in Your Life
✅Repair Your Mental & Physical Health
✅Heal Erectile Dysfunction

If you need more help, I can work directly with you.
Check out the programs below.
https://drtrishleigh.com/

Donate to Porn Brain Prevention, the nonprofit to help teens avoid porn addiction below:
https://pornbrainprevention.org/

Let's Connect! Check out my Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/Drtrishleigh

#quitporn #pornaddiction #drtrishleigh #pornaddictionrecovery #pornbrainrewire #controlyourbrain #braintraining #trishleigh #nofap #pornkillslove #mindoverporn #monkmode #drleigh #pornaddict #pornaddictionsideeffects #addictedtoporn #cantstopmasturbating #recovery #recoveryjourney #addictionrecovery #recoverycoach #drtrishleigh #monkmode #addiction #pornbrainprevention #pornbrainprograms #releasetoquitporn #howtoquitporn

Dopamine Discipline Explained: The Neuroscience of Delayed Reward

If you struggle with focus, consistency, or self-discipline, I want you to hear this.
This is not a motivation problem. It is dopamine overstimulation.

When your brain is trained on instant reward, it stops working for your future. Planning weakens. Effort feels harder. Long-term goals lose their pull because dopamine is spent on relief rather than on pursuit.

In Dopamine Discipline Explained: The Neuroscience of Delayed Reward, I walk you through how dopamine is meant to work, why overstimulation collapses self-discipline, and how to retrain your nervous system to delay reward and build real follow-through.

This is not a dopamine detox or a hype talk.
This is a neuroscience-based discipline for people who want lasting change.

If you are ready to stop the hijack and start the reset, explore brain mapping and neurofeedback with me at drtrishleigh.com.

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Support the show

Hi. I am Dr. Trish Leigh, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. I am on a mission to help people heal their brains from porn use.
My podcasts are designed to help you learn that:
🎯Porn Damages Your Brain,
🎯Porn Impairs Your Mental and Physical Health, and
🎯Porn Destroys Your Relationships.

Subscribe to this channel for 🧠 tips to:
✅Quit Porn for Good
✅Heal Your Brain from Porn
✅Get Motivated in Your Life
✅Repair Your Mental & Physical Health
✅Heal Erectile Dysfunction

If you need more help, I can work directly with you.
Check out the programs below.
https://drtrishleigh.com/

Donate to Porn Brain Prevention, the nonprofit to help teens avoid porn addiction below:
https://pornbrainprevention.org/

Let's Connect! Check out my Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/Drtrishleigh

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Why Your New Year’s Goals Fail — and How to Become Supernormal Instead

You set big goals for the new year. But if your brain is hijacked by screens, algorithms, and constant overstimulation, willpower alone will not get you there.

Excess dopamine from the screen miswires your brain, drains motivation, and keeps your nervous system stuck in survival mode. That is why focus fades, follow-through collapses, and every year starts to feel the same.

If you want this year to be different, the first step is understanding how your brain is actually functioning.

A Brain Map shows whether your brain is strained, drained, or ready to rewire. Visit drtrishleigh.com to schedule an appointment with me and start your reset.

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Hi. I am Dr. Trish Leigh, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. I am on a mission to help people heal their brains from porn use.
My podcasts are designed to help you learn that:
🎯Porn Damages Your Brain,
🎯Porn Impairs Your Mental and Physical Health, and
🎯Porn Destroys Your Relationships.

Subscribe to this channel for 🧠 tips to:
✅Quit Porn for Good
✅Heal Your Brain from Porn
✅Get Motivated in Your Life
✅Repair Your Mental & Physical Health
✅Heal Erectile Dysfunction

If you need more help, I can work directly with you.
Check out the programs below.
https://drtrishleigh.com/

Donate to Porn Brain Prevention, the nonprofit to help teens avoid porn addiction below:
https://pornbrainprevention.org/

Let's Connect! Check out my Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/Drtrishleigh

#quitporn #pornaddiction #drtrishleigh #pornaddictionrecovery #pornbrainrewire #controlyourbrain #braintraining #trishleigh #nofap #pornkillslove #mindoverporn #monkmode #drleigh #pornaddict #pornaddictionsideeffects #addictedtoporn #cantstopmasturbating #recovery #recoveryjourney #addictionrecovery #recoverycoach #drtrishleigh #monkmode #addiction #pornbrainprevention #pornbrainprograms #releasetoquitporn #howtoquitporn

The New Year Reset: Decluttering Your Space, Your Mind, and Your Goals

If your mind feels cluttered and stuck as the new year begins, this is not a motivation problem. 🎯

It is a nervous system problem.

When your environment stays cluttered, your brain stays overloaded. Visual noise, mental load, and unfinished decisions keep your nervous system stuck in a low-level state of threat.

When you simplify your space, your brain can finally regulate. Order reduces cognitive load. Open space restores focus. This is how real resets happen.

If your brain feels strained, drained, or overwhelmed, know that you are not alone. I am here with you, and a Brain Map can show you what your nervous system needs. Explore brain mapping and neurofeedback with me at drtrishleigh.com.

Send us a text

Support the show

Hi. I am Dr. Trish Leigh, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. I am on a mission to help people heal their brains from porn use.
My podcasts are designed to help you learn that:
🎯Porn Damages Your Brain,
🎯Porn Impairs Your Mental and Physical Health, and
🎯Porn Destroys Your Relationships.

Subscribe to this channel for 🧠 tips to:
✅Quit Porn for Good
✅Heal Your Brain from Porn
✅Get Motivated in Your Life
✅Repair Your Mental & Physical Health
✅Heal Erectile Dysfunction

If you need more help, I can work directly with you.
Check out the programs below.
https://drtrishleigh.com/

Donate to Porn Brain Prevention, the nonprofit to help teens avoid porn addiction below:
https://pornbrainprevention.org/

Let's Connect! Check out my Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/Drtrishleigh

#quitporn #pornaddiction #drtrishleigh #pornaddictionrecovery #pornbrainrewire #controlyourbrain #braintraining #trishleigh #nofap #pornkillslove #mindoverporn #monkmode #drleigh #pornaddict #pornaddictionsideeffects #addictedtoporn #cantstopmasturbating #recovery #recoveryjourney #addictionrecovery #recoverycoach #drtrishleigh #monkmode #addiction #pornbrainprevention #pornbrainprograms #releasetoquitporn #howtoquitporn