Amber Hollingsworth talks about addiction recovery and how it tricks you into ignoring progress. Cravings dropped from many times a day to once or twice a week, but the brain still fixates on that one craving and calls it failure.
It's just so hard.
You told me it'd be easier by now, and I say, hold on, hold on.
Let's talk about this. You.
Actually, when.
I first started talking to you, you were, like, triggered and craving, and it was really hard, and you were thinking about it, like, 30 times.
A day, and now you're still having some of that, but it's like once.
Or twice a week, and they'll be like, well, I guess you're right. So it's like. So is it really.
Not getting easier?
It's like your addiction starts to disqualify all the good things that are happening and just makes you, like, laser focus.