Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast

Your brain only allows intimacy when it predicts safety. Through the Arousal Inhibition Response (AIR), it automatically suppresses arousal when uncertainty, pressure, or unpredictability is present.
Constant evaluation, stimulation, and anticipation condition your nervous system to monitor rather than settle. 
Desire may still exist mentally, but the body won’t fully respond when vigilance is active. This isn’t a loss of attraction. It’s protection.
Desire doesn’t return through effort. It returns when the nervous system relearns safety. When the brain can predict stability again, the connection becomes accessible naturally.
If this feels familiar, nothing is wrong with you. Your nervous system adapted exactly as it was designed to.
Why Desire and Intimacy Break Down in a High-Alert World 🧠
Learn how to restore regulation and relational safety at https://drtrishleigh.com/ — Your brain can feel safe enough to connect 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.

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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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.

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

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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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

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/ 
Send 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

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.

Send 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