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"Half measures will avail you nothing. A half-hearted attempt at recovering from alcohol problems, even a sustained one, is unlikely to lead to success. Especially in early alcohol recovery, it often takes not just a full measure, a full-hearted, full-powered, fully-convicted, full-fledged attempt at recovering, but a sustained full-measure approach."
— Matt Finch
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EDIT: It's live now! Learn about The Alcohol-Endorphin Addiction Connection below:
Watch: bit.ly/3YP0G0j
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"The significant cause we see today is this inflammation, which drives drinking." - Dr. Umhau
Watch the presentation here: bit.ly/4csRqC0.
Dr. John Umhau recently delivered a remarkable alcohol treatment presentation for the Alliance For Addiction Solutions, a non-profit organization.
As a professional member, I have exclusive access to these monthly trainings, each featuring new presenters. Dr. Umhau's findings were truly eye-opening!
Dr. John Umhau's groundbreaking research on The Inflammation-Alcoholism Connection reveals a sinister five-stage cycle where alcohol consumption leads to inflammation, causing unpleasant symptoms that are relieved by more alcohol consumption. This creates an addictive and destructive cycle that can be challenging to break free from.
Dr. Umhau also highlights how inflammation and atrophy disrupt brain connections, leading to:
1) Impaired "willpower" due to a degraded brain.
2) Strong, irresistible alcohol cravings.
3) Lack of insight and denial of the problem.
4) Personality changes, including impulsiveness and emotional instability.
5) Increased occurrence of mental illness.
Note: Brain atrophy is reversible!
Explore Dr. Umhau's latest strategies for overcoming the inflammatory cycle of alcohol consumption, conquering alcohol use disorder, and restoring mind, body, and spirit health.
Watch: bit.ly/4csRqC0
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The 3 Steps To Rewire An Addicted Brain from Anna Lembke, M.D., author of Dopamine Nation: Finding. Balance in the Age of Indulgence:
Watch: bit.ly/4dzYKwy.
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind." -Anna Lembke.
We live in an era of unparalleled access to stimulating activities like food, alcohol and other drugs, news, gaming, texting, Instagram, and YouTube. The increasing quantity, variety, and potency are astonishing.
In her NY Times bestselling book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke, MD, explores the new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain…and what to do about it.
Here are Lembke's 3 Simple (yet tricky) Steps To REWIRE an Addicted Brain:
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Dr. Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic.
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Early alcohol recovery can be quite challenging, but it is important to remember that overcoming these challenges is possible. Here are my top three reasons why early alcohol recovery can be difficult:
1. CHRONIC BRAIN CHEMISTRY DYSFUNCTION
When you drink alcohol regularly over time, your brain may become dependent on alcohol to increase levels of GABA, dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins. When you stop drinking, the initial phase of recovery can lead to imbalances of neurotransmitters.
Quitting alcohol can often result in an excess of glutamate during the early phase of recovery. There's a paradox in which heavy alcohol consumption leads to a need for alcohol to feel normal, and then, upon quitting, there's typically a combination of GABA deficiency and glutamate excess.
When your brain is wired to be overly excited and lacks mental and physical sedation, it can lead to imbalances. GABA helps with physical sedation, and having a good balance of GABA and glutamate can lead to a more relaxed and balanced brain. This can help you cope with life's challenges and get through the day. Brain chemistry dysfunction is a significant issue and can impact our well-being.
2. NEURAL PATHWAYS OF ADDICTION OF REMAIN
You can also experience endocrine, immune, digestive, absorption, and diet dysfunction. Numerous factors contribute to this. Moving on to the second point, neural pathways of addiction persist. You may have heard the quote: "When neurons fire together, they wire together."
How did Serena Williams become so skilled at tennis? Consider the intense training, the psychological and mental aspects of tennis, competition, strategies, tactics, and the various playing styles she had to master. Her expertise was developed through the repeated firing of neurons, leading to unconscious super competence, where she no longer had to consciously think about her movements. This allowed her body and brain to go through the motions built up by the repeated firing of neurons.
The same thing happens with alcohol addiction. The more we do certain things, the more we think certain thoughts, believe certain beliefs, perform specific actions, abstain from other actions, and get into specific patterns, habits, and habit loops. This causes our neurons to wire together as they repeatedly fire together.
Over time, your brain develops strong neural pathways that support binge drinking, daily drinking, or continued alcohol use despite harmful consequences and the desire to quit. These pathways can quickly lead to relapse during the early stages of alcohol recovery because they have been reinforced through repeated behaviors of craving alcohol, drinking, and experiencing the effects and consequences of alcohol.
Optimizing and rebalancing neurotransmitters, brain chemistry, and overall physical and mental health is generally quicker. However, it takes longer for addictive pathways in the brain to fade away. These pathways, which I often call superhighways, can linger for at least a few months, if not longer, depending on the individual. It's not a linear process where abstaining from alcohol every day consistently diminishes these neural pathways. Instead, it's a non-linear and slow-moving process.
The process of recovering from alcohol addiction can be likened to a marathon or a triathlon rather than a sprint. For some individuals, it may take many years for the addictive pathways to significantly diminish or disappear entirely. Factors such as the duration of the addiction and overall lifestyle can influence the timeline, with some individuals taking up to a decade for the pathways of addiction to completely fade away. However, some individuals may experience a quicker healing process.
As the addiction fades away, the more effort you put into your recovery, the more you start to establish new neural pathways associated with recovery, relapse prevention, and finding enjoyment and purpose without alcohol. Neurons that fire together wire together, but in this case, they form connections that support recovery rather than addiction. This helps sustain recovery and weaken the neural pathways associated with addictive behavior and alcohol drinking.
3. HABITS ARE DIFFICULT TO KICK
Number three: Habits are difficult to kick. The habit loop and the neural pathways of addiction are associated with a specific unconscious part of our brain called the basal ganglia. Two excellent books on habits explain how these habit loops work in the brain and provide guidance on breaking bad habits and creating and maintaining positive ones.
There is a lot of research on this. One book is The Power of Habit, and the more recent book is Atomic Habits. I highly recommend both of those books. In the power of habit, I first learned about this habit loop and how a system comes up where some queue leads to a craving. So, some environmental or other type of cue leads to a craving, which leads to many people engaging in the habit loop and then getting the reward from engaging in that behavior.
When someone who hasn't had alcohol in two months goes to a restaurant with friends who drink, the environment can trigger their old habits and cravings. The familiar setting and their friends' drinking can make it challenging to stay sober. These environmental cues can reactivate the brain pathways associated with drinking that were starting to fade away during the sobriety period.
Now, they have awakened. There's this cue, observing people drinking and enjoying the benefits of alcohol, connecting, having a good time, letting loose, feeling relaxed, euphoric, and stimulating conversation. The smell of alcohol can trigger memories in your brain, both conscious and unconscious, and this serves as a cue. This can lead to craving and thinking about a reward. The craving prompts thoughts of the reward.
Even if someone wants to remain abstinent from alcohol, the cues and cravings, along with the promise of immediate reward, can often be more substantial than their ability to resist, navigate through high-risk situations, and ultimately experience the benefits of staying sober.
These strong cues often lead to intense cravings and trigger a person's habit loop, which is an unconscious process. Many of us, including myself, have heard about or experienced people who have abstained from drinking for days, weeks, or even months, only to find themselves, seemingly out of nowhere, on autopilot heading to the store to purchase alcohol or going to a bar to get an alcoholic beverage, and they feel unable to stop themselves.
The processes involved in addiction are often unconscious, and many unseen forces act as potential barriers to progress. These forces can combine and work together to make overcoming addiction extremely challenging.
The more you learn about this, the less cunning, baffling, and powerful alcohol becomes, and the more empowered you become.
— Matt Finch
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This is an edited transcript from our episode called 10 REASONS EARLY ALCOHOL RECOVERY IS CHALLENGING.
Listen to and/or read the transcript of the full episode here:
fitrecovery.com/10-reasons-early-alcohol-recovery-…
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All human behavior (including alcohol consumption and alcoholism) is driven by the pursuit of fulfilling one or more of the Six Human Needs. These needs can be met in positive, negative, or neutral ways.
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There are four Basic Needs of the Body/Personality and two Spiritual Needs of the Soul. The four Basic Needs are Certainty, Uncertainty/Variety, Significance, and Love/Connection. The two Spiritual Needs are Growth and Contribution.
Everyone experiences these needs, but we all find different ways of satisfying them.
We also value the Six Human Needs differently.
The needs you value the most become your "Driving Force" in life.
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Alcohol consumption can meet Certainty/Safety/Comfort, Variety/Novelty/Entertainment, Significance/Importance, and Love/Connection at a high level.
This can make alcohol much more complex to quit!
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Why Most Alcoholics Are HIGHLY Sensitive (explained in seven minutes)
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A lot of people battling alcoholism have stated they use alcohol to soothe their "hypersensitivity" and chemically induce feelings of comfort, certainty, safety, security, and stability.
A cocktail, beer, shot, glass of wine, etc, is often used to calm down an over-sensitive or hyperactive nervous system. If these states are standard 24/7 in a person, alcohol addiction can be more of a possibility.
Learn: bit.ly/4d55cvU.
In this episode, you’ll learn about several interrelated topics, including the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), the Empath, the Highly Sensitive Empath, and why these human biological innate traits can increase addiction vulnerability (especially to alcohol and other sedative and/or painkilling drugs).
Discover: bit.ly/4d55cvU.
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Why Do Alcoholics 'Struggle' to 'Moderate' Drinking Behavior?
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Many alcoholics continue to drink despite the negative consequences.
Why do they continue to try to "Drink like a gentleman" (or woman)...
despite failing to control alcohol consumption so many times?
Watch our brand new EPIC 6-minute video below right now to find out:
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Check out 'Matt Finch's Powerful Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Story' to gain inspiration and valuable strategies for your own life. Watch Here: bit.ly/3Wy15ma.
Matt successfully overcame severe, long-term addiction over 12 years ago, and he shares his journey in detail.
WARNING: It's important to note that this content is explicit and may be unsettling for some listeners due to the raw nature of Matt's experiences during his addiction.
Please proceed with caution.
Watch the Video Here: bit.ly/3Wy15ma.
In his story, Matt discusses topics such as childhood trauma, anxiety, alcohol abuse and dependence, drug abuse and dependence, chronic relapse, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, as well as alcohol and drug withdrawal syndrome.
His insights may help you navigate your own challenges with empathy and understanding.
Watch Now: bit.ly/3Wy15ma.
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Chris Scott started Fit Recovery in 2014 to help others benefit from his experience in beating alcohol addiction. Fit Recovery has helped thousands of people quit drinking, conquer alcohol withdrawal, and transcend the drinking lifestyle without feeling deprived.
Fit Recovery fills in the missing gaps that aren't often covered extensively in traditional recovery programs, giving valuable guidance on supplementation, diet, exercise, and lifestyle.