Pornography and Lust
Eve Nigro
Pornography hijacks the brain’s reward system and damages intimacy, trust, and faith. In this session, therapist Eve Nigro (MA, ACMHC) integrates neuroscience, psychology, and Catholic spirituality to explain how pornography reshapes dopamine pathways and emotional bonding. Learn why thought suppression increases temptation and how acknowledgment and redirection foster real change. Participants will practice simple CBT-based strategies—urge-surfing, if-then planning, and cognitive reframing—alongside the Church’s four spiritual steps to purity. Designed for clergy, counselors, and families, this talk offers hope-filled, practical tools to combat addiction, heal marriages, and form hearts capable of authentic love.