Tag: science-of-addiction

  • 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…

  • Staying Sober Survival Skills

    Staying Sober Survival Skills

    In the sobriety and recovery circles I’ve been hanging around for the past couple years, so many people talk about their struggle and setbacks with alcohol as a personal failure. “I can’t get this. How can anyone be so stupid? I feel so ashamed. There’s something wrong with me.” And that vicious cycle of desperately…

  • Beat the Binge Drinking Routine

    Beat the Binge Drinking Routine

    When I was 25 I had acupuncture to quit smoking. After the treatment, they taped a tiny mustard seed to my ear and told me to press on it if I had a craving. They also gave me a little bottle of peppermint oil to sniff if I felt foggy-brained. The peppermint oil was amazing…

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