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Why Your Brain LIES To You About Self-Control #addictionrecovery #gettingsober #sobercurious

17 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this video Amber Hollingsworth reframes self‑control as a budgeting issue: the brain allocates mental resources in a way that often undermines our goals. She explains that this mis‑allocation leads to habitual excuses and the persistence of bad habits. The core of the presentation is four psychological principles that drive this faulty budgeting, followed by concrete, actionable steps viewers can take immediately to break the cycle and improve self‑control. The content is aimed at people in addiction recovery or anyone seeking to get sober, offering a concise, practical roadmap to re‑engineer the brain’s budgeting system.

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Self-control is actually a budgeting problem that your brain has already budgeted for the wrong way. And that's why you have so much trouble sticking with your goals, all the promises you tell yourself about how you're going to do things different. Our brains just have this way of making excuses or tricking us In some ways, I guess you could call it tricking us into making excuses to continue bad habits. And so today we're going to cover 4 of the psychological principles behind that process and what you can do about it to get out of those bad systems quickly, even today if you want to.