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Category: Our Take on the science of addiction

  • Join Us in Discussing The Biology of Desire by Marc Lewis

    Join Us in Discussing The Biology of Desire by Marc Lewis

    When I read Marc Lewis’s book The Biology of Desire in 2015, I recognized my own story of recovery from addiction. in his words. “The facility for viewing one’s life as a narrative may be what’s missing in addiction… Addicts experience something breathtaking when they can stretch their vision of themselves from the immediate present…

  • Make This the Week That Your Sobriety Takes Off

    Make This the Week That Your Sobriety Takes Off

    When I was in my late 40s, I found myself desperate to stop drinking but not sure how to do it. I’d seemed to others to be a contented “party girl” for decades, but things were changing for me in middle age. My drinking had escalated to a depressing nightly ritual that I justified as…

  • WHY I DRANK ALCOHOL EVEN THOUGH IT CAUSED ME SO MUCH PAIN

    WHY I DRANK ALCOHOL EVEN THOUGH IT CAUSED ME SO MUCH PAIN

    I used to believe my drinking was abnormal.Now I believe what I was going through was more ‘normal’ than I ever imagined. Secretly hundreds of thousands of people are scratching their heads in shame and fear as to why they drink too much alcohol.Hiding the ‘secret.’ I now know that many many people struggle to…

  • How to Override your Lizard Brain

    How to Override your Lizard Brain

    Have you heard about your Lizard Brain? The part of your brain designed to keep you safe? That ancient brain that evolved when we lived in an older world with predators that wanted to eat us? That part of your brain still kicks in now in the 21st century. We may not be running from…