Category: 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…

  • How to Stop Drinking – Make This the Week That Your Sobriety Takes Off

    How to Stop Drinking – Make This the Week That Your Sobriety Takes Off

    When I was in my late 40’s, 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…

  • 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…

  • How Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis Help You Stay Alcohol-Free

    How Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis Help You Stay Alcohol-Free

    When you give up alcohol you have to go through a process of change. I don’t mean the change of you’ve decided to try stopping drinking alcohol. On its own, it can be argued that that statement is meaningless and possibly/probably bound to fail. Maybe you’ve made a decision to give up alcohol and you…

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