Escaping Porn Addiction | Eli Nash | TEDxFortWayne

significant. About six months ago the opportunity arose where our company every year has a storytelling night, seven or eight employees get up, share their stories, share their message and it really creates a strong family atmosphere, a family culture creates trust there and Six months ago I raised my hand and said I would like to share my story. I would like to share so the facilitator asked me what is your message what is your topic he said my message is the importance of asking for help when we are in trouble and my topic is

porn

addiction

you should have seen his face do you think you are?

I'm going to talk about

porn

addiction

from that stage I said yes, absolutely that's my story, it's a Tele, you're the CEO of this company, people look up to you, people respect you, you're not talking about porn addiction. pornography, we went back and forth and, finally, the night. He came and I didn't talk about porn addiction the next morning and for the next few days I felt like maybe it was a little embarrassing and I told myself I'm going to share this from a much bigger stage. from the biggest stage. I know that I will share it from the TEDx stage not only for the audience there or the audience here, but also that my story is on the Internet, that magical mailbox that kicked my butt for so many years instead of being a vehicle of shame like it was.

It was for me when I will be a vehicle of healing. for myself and for others because it really is that when we share our difficulties it moves us through the shame and towards healing for both ourselves and others not long ago I received a text message that said from our conversation I have been clean for three months I have been clean for three months. I didn't see any pornography. I don't remember the last time I was clean for a week. I thanked him for sharing this with me because it feels great when my story is not only accepted by someone but also finds it useful, it helps them.

He followed up with another text and said: I will never forget who made me start and I pinch myself when I hear these things because the person who made it start was someone who for so many years was so ashamed of this very ashamed part of himself. of porn addiction, but one day I became so desperate that I asked for help and was introduced to a community of people who shared their stories with me so freely and willingly and in the process taught me such an important message, probably the most important message . All in all, my story is not just something not to be ashamed of, it could be something to be proud of, so I ask you to consider doing the same, talk about porn addiction, consider doing the same , there is no one here who has not experienced shame.

There is no one who has not overcome the struggle and there is no one who does not have a powerful story to share because I can tell you this from my own experience. There's no better feeling than flipping the top and then turning the shame inside out, smashing it on your head and wearing it. It's like a way to help others, my name is Ellie Nash, I'm addicted to pornography and I want to thank you because I haven't found a better way than to share my story in front of a room that accepts an audience to hit or to give me the best chance to achieve my number one goal of never watching porn again.

Thank you so much.