Unhooked: Breaking Porn Addiction Podcast
Jeremy Lipkowitz
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Unhooked is a podcast dedicated to helping people break free from porn addiction and other compulsive behaviors related to the internet, sex, and intimacy. Rooted in Buddhist wisdom, neuroscience, coaching, and mindfulness, the show explores practical strategies for lasting recovery and personal transformation. Each episode features leading experts, scientists, coaches, and individuals in recovery, sharing their insights, experiences, and expertise to guide listeners on their path to healing and freedom.
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Sobriety Isn’t Recovery: Mindfulness, Choice, and Rewiring the Brain 13.09.2026 23dk🔵 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ Interested in the Unhooked App? Join the waitlist here: https://unhookedapp.co/ Jeremy Lipkowitz reshared his appearance on The Therapy Brothers podcast, where Brendan and Tyler Patrick interview him about how meditation and mindfulness can support recovery. Jeremy explains why mindfulness does not have to conflict with religious faith, and why it is better understood as a practical way to train attenti... -
How to Rebuild Trust After Betrayal and Porn Addiction | Brannon & Tyler Patrick (The Therapy Brothers) 07.09.2026 1sa 4dk🔵 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ Interested in the Unhooked App? Join the waitlist here: https://unhookedapp.co/ Jeremy Lipkowitz hosts Brannon and Tyler Patrick on Unhooked to discuss why sobriety and recovery are not the same thing. The brothers are licensed clinicians with about forty years of combined experience treating porn addiction and betrayal trauma, and they host The Therapy Brothers podcast. They explain why a heavy emphasis ... -
Why Most Men Are Still Boys: The Boy-to-Man Framework | Alessandro Frosali 31.08.2026 1sa 8dk🔹 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ Jeremy Lipkowitz hosts Alessandro on Unhooked to discuss his mission of helping men become husbands, fathers, and human beings they admire, inspired by what he lacked in role models and his marriage. Alessandro explains Dr. Arne Rubenstein’s boy-to-man framework, contrasting boy traits like self-centered power, emotional reactivity, blame, and wanting a “mother” with mature ideals such as service to the team, ... -
Mindfulness and Recovery: Insights from Jeremy Lipkowitz on Pornography Addiction on the Darren Magee Show 24.08.2026 59dk🔹 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ In this episode, Jeremy Lipkowitz—former genetics researcher, ordained Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, executive coach, and founder of Unhooked Academy—shares his personal journey from early exposure to pornography through daily use in college and into recovery. He discusses how porn’s accessibility, affordability, and anonymity fuel addiction, while underlying drivers often include boredom, loneliness, disc... -
How Porn Rewires Your Brain (And What Buddhism Has to Say About Healing It) | Jeremy Lipkowitz Interviewed on An Evolving Man Podcast with Piers Cross 17.08.2026 1sa 3dk🔹 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ Jeremy Lipkowitz joins Piers Cross on An Evolving Man to discuss how porn addiction is driven and worsened by craving, shame, and avoidance of unpleasant emotions like boredom, loneliness, anxiety, and lack of purpose. Jeremy shares his own history of early porn exposure, how Buddhism and Matthieu Ricard’s book Happiness helped him understand neuroplasticity (“neurons that fire together, wire together”) and crav... -
Porn, Shame, and the Hungry Ghost: Jeremy Lipkowitz on Addiction, Integrity, and Mindfulness | My Conversation with Jonah Primo on The Overexamined Life Podcast 10.08.2026 1sa 28dk🔹 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ This rebroadcast from Jonah Primo’s The Overexamined Life features Jeremy Lipkowitz (former Buddhist monk, meditation teacher, executive coach, and host of the Unhooked podcast) discussing pornography as a lens for addiction, shame, and compulsive behavior. They cover how widespread porn use is among men and increasingly women, early exposure in childhood, and how porn’s normalization alongside taboo can fuel ... -
From Homeless & Rock Bottom to 1,000 Days in a Monastery: How Piers Cross Found His Way Out 03.08.2026 47dk🔹 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ Piers Cross on Trauma, Addiction, and Self-Compassion Most men walk around with stones in their shoes their whole lives. They don't know the stones are there. They just know something hurts, and they've learned to keep walking anyway. That's one of the most powerful things Piers Cross said in this conversation. And it captures something I see all the time in the men I work with — unprocessed trauma quietly runn... -
Why "If I Just Had X, I'd Be Happy" Never Works (ft. Lawrence Dunling, Enter the Lionheart Podcast) 27.07.2026 1sa 25dk🔹 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ This week's episode is a conversation I had on the Enter the Lionheart podcast with host Lawrence Dunling. Lawrence was kind enough to let us reshare it here on Unhooked. We get into my own unusual path: leaving a PhD program at Duke, training as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar, and eventually building my coaching practice in Thailand. From there we dig into the trap almost all of us fall into, the belief that the... -
Buddhist Wisdom: The 5 Daily Reflections That Can Change Your Life (Rebroadcast) 20.07.2026 13dk🔹 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ This week, I'm bringing back one of my favorite episodes because its message is just as relevant today as when I first recorded it. In this episode, I share the Five Wise Daily Reflections from Buddhist teachings and explore how they can help you overcome addiction, let go of attachment, take ownership of your actions, and live with greater purpose. These simple reflections have profoundly shaped the way I ap... -
Are You a Slave to Lust? | A Bunny Hugs Podcast interview with Todd Rennebohm & Jeremy Lipkowitz 13.07.2026 57dk🔹 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ This episode is a rebroadcast of a conversation I had with Todd Rennebohm on the Bunny Hugs podcast. Todd runs a mental health show that isn't afraid to go into the territory most podcasts avoid, and this conversation went deep. We covered my personal story from the beginning. How it started innocent enough, looking at lingerie catalogs as a kid, and slowly escalated over years into a daily habit that was quie... -
What Porn Addiction Really Does to Your Brain | Jeremy Lipkowitz Interviewed by Breanne Wilson on Adventures in Adversity Podcast 06.07.2026 1sa 7dk🔹 Want to break free? Get my FREE 14-day slip reset here: https://unhookedacademy.com/reset This week, I'm resharing a conversation I had with Breanne Wilson on the Adventures in Adversity podcast because I think this message is more important than ever. We talk about my journey from porn addiction to recovery, how addiction rewires the brain, why shame keeps so many people trapped, and what it really takes to build a life of integrity, purpose, and freedom. We also explore mindfulness, n... -
How I Escaped Porn Addiction | Jeremy Lipkowitz Interviewed by Tim Tedder on The Affair Recovery Room Podcast 29.06.2026 32dk🔹 Want to break free? Get my FREE 14-day slip reset here: https://unhookedacademy.com/reset Why do so many people struggle to quit porneven when they genuinely want to stop? In this interview with Tim Tedder on The Affair Recovery Room Podcast, I share my personal journey from years of porn addiction to finding lasting recovery, and the lessons I learned along the way. We talk about how porn rewires the brain, why novelty keeps people trapped in the cycle, how shame silently fuels add... -
You MUST fix this if you want freedom from porn 22.06.2026 9dk🔹 Want to break free? Be on the Unhooked Academy waitlist: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ What if the biggest obstacle to your recovery isn't porn but the relationship you have with yourself? In this episode, I explore a powerful idea that was sparked by a short piece from Joshua Fields Millburn: we often tolerate behavior from ourselves that we'd never accept from anyone else. Whether it's doom scrolling, self-criticism, procrastination, or acting out, these habits quietly steal our time... -
Why Focusing Too Much on Recovery Is Keeping You Stuck 15.06.2026 17dk🔹 Want to break free? Be on the Unhooked Academy waitlist: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ Have you been working harder and harder at recovery, only to feel like you're getting nowhere? In this episode, I share five reasons why focusing too much on recovery can actually keep you stuck. We explore the neuroscience behind why white-knuckling, obsessing over streaks, and making recovery your entire identity often backfires and what to do instead. True freedom doesn't come from fighting urges... -
Why You Keep Doing Things That Hurt You, with Dr. Daniel Hochman, Creator of Self Recovery Program 08.06.2026 1sa 7dk🔹 Want to break free? Be on the Unhooked Academy: https://form.typeform.com/to/I4WMlmdl What if addiction isn't actually about dopamine, genetics, or a lack of willpower? In this episode, I sit down with psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Hochman to explore a radically different way of understanding addiction and recovery. We discuss why people continue doing things they know are hurting them, why the traditional medical model often misses the bigger picture, and how addiction may be better und... -
Why Successful Men Fail at Home, with Coach Mitchell Osmond, Host of The Dad Nation Podcast 01.06.2026 1sa 3dk🔹 Want to break free? Be on the Unhooked Academy: https://form.typeform.com/to/I4WMlmdl Have you built success in your career but still feel disconnected at home? In this episode, I sit down with Mitchell Osmond, Host of The Dad Nation Podcast, to talk about one of the biggest challenges facing modern men: succeeding professionally while struggling in their relationships, emotional health, and family life. We explore why so many high-performing men feel competent at work but lost at ... -
The quote that changed EVERYTHING for me: Where Buddhist wisdom meets modern neuroscience (Rebroadcast) 25.05.2026 9dk🔹 Want to break free? Be on the Unhooked Academy: https://form.typeform.com/to/I4WMlmdl This is a rebroadcast of one of the episodes that had a huge impact on me personally, something I wanted to bring back for newer listeners. In this episode, I share a simple quote that completely changed the way I think about recovery, happiness, and the habits we build in our minds. It became one of the foundations for breaking free from porn addiction and creating a more meaningful life. We talk about h... -
How to Stay Committed When Your Motivation Runs Out: Burn the Boats! (Rebroadcast) 18.05.2026 18dk🔹 Want to break free? Be on the Unhooked Academy: https://form.typeform.com/to/I4WMlmdl This is a rebroadcast of one of the most impactful episodes from the archive, something I wanted to bring back for newer listeners. In this episode, I talk about a powerful recovery strategy called “burning the boats”, what to do when motivation disappears, when you know what you should be doing, but you still keep falling back into old habits. We explore why relying on motivation alone often fail... -
The Billion-Dollar Potato Chip Analogy: Why Porn Is So Hard to Quit 11.05.2026 8dk🔹 Want to break free? Be on the Unhooked Academy waitlist: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ Why is porn so hard to quit even when you know it’s hurting you? In this episode, I share a powerful analogy from a live coaching call inside Unhooked Academy that completely changes how you think about porn addiction. We talk about why porn, social media, and thirst traps are like “billion-dollar potato chips” engineered to hijack your brain and keep you craving more. Understanding this helped a lot ... -
Use This When You Feel an Urge (Guided Meditation) 04.05.2026 10dk🔹 Want to break free? Get my FREE 14-day slip reset here: https://unhookedacademy.com/reset What should you do in the exact moment an urge hits? In this episode, I guide you through a simple meditation you can use whenever you feel a craving or the urge to relapse. Instead of fighting it or giving in, I’ll show you how to sit with the urge, observe it, and let it pass. This is a practical tool you can come back to anytime you need support in the moment. What would change if you stopped ...
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