Amber Hollingsworth (Recovery Concepts #16) urges viewers to learn about the brain’s role in addiction. She argues that understanding brain science reduces shame and increases self-forgiveness, enables smarter, more strategic recovery choices, and improves motivation to follow recommended recovery behaviors. She also points viewers to online resources (including her own science videos) for further learning.
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If you haven't done so already, you definitely need to learn about the brain part of this whole addiction thing. It's going to help you, number one, understand why you have done what you've done, felt what you felt, had the difficulties that you had. And understanding that will help you have a little bit more forgiveness and tolerance for yourself. And you definitely need that. Shame doesn't do anything but fuel addiction. So anything we can do to make that a little better, we want to do it. The other reason why you need to understand all this brain science y stuff is because if you know what you're dealing with and how it works, you can be super smarter and more strategic about how to deal with it. And lastly, if you're like me, if you understand what's really going on or why you need to do certain things the way you need to do them, you're just so much more likely to actually do the suggested things. You know, if someone tells me I need to do something, but I really don't quite understand exactly why I need to do that, then I might do it, or I might not, or I might do some of it, but not other parts, because I don't really get that. But if you understand exactly what you're doing and why you're doing it, you're going to do it better. So there's lots of places, there's a lot of ways you can get this information. You can go online, go on YouTube, you can find all of my super nerdy science videos about the brain disease. But if you haven't done it already, educate yourself about what's going on in that brain.
