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Introduction

Welcome Letter: Why You, Why Now

How to Use This Book (with the App)

Recovery Isn’t Magic — It’s Biology

Rewired: The Neuroscience of Recovery

Chapter 1: The Hijacked Brain

Section 1: The Brain Wasn’t Built for This

The Hijacked Brain: Section 1 Reflection Questions

Section 2: The Self-Medication Loop

The Hijacked Brain: Section 2 Reflection Questions

Section 3: The Prefrontal Cortex and the Problem of Control

The Hijacked Brain: Section 3 Reflection Questions

Section 4: Process Addictions and the Substitution Trap

The Hijacked Brain: Section 4 Reflection Questions

Conclusion Chapter 1: The Hijacked Brain

Chapter 2: Neuroplasticity and the Learning Brain

Section 1: Neuroplasticity: How the Brain Rewires Itself

Neuroplasticity and the Learning Brain: Section 1 Reflection Questions

Section 2: Craving as a Learned Loop

Neuroplasticity and the Learning Brain: Section 2 Reflection Questions

Section 3: Neuroplastic Recovery: Why the Brain Learns by Repetition

Neuroplasticity and the Learning Brain: Section 3 Reflection Questions

Section 4: Wired for Efficiency: Why Change Feels So Unnatural

Neuroplasticity and the Learning Brain: Section 4 Reflection Questions

Conclusion: Chapter 2 — Repetition, Resistance, and the Long Game

Chapter 3: The Reward System Hijack

Section 1: The Neuroscience of Craving — Dopamine, Memory, and Survival

Section 2: Compulsion vs. Choice — Why “Just Stop” Doesn’t Work

The Reward System Hijack: Section 2 Reflection Questions

Section 3: What Craving Is / What Craving Is Not

The Reward System Hijack: Section 3 Reflection Questions

Section 4: How Craving Hijacks Memory, Emotion, and Reason

Section 5: Stress, Triggers, and the Brain on the Edge

Section 6: Why “Just Don’t Use” Isn’t Enough — Training, Not Trying

The Reward System Hijack: Section 6 Reflection Questions

Section 7: Small Hinges Swing Big Doors — The Power of Micro-Recovery

Section 8: Repetition, Reward, and the Long Path to Change

The Reward System Hijack: Section 8 Reflection Questions

Section 9: Reflection + Summary

The Reward System Hijack: Section 9 Reflection Questions

Closing Recovery Reminder Sheet: Rewiring the Loop

Chapter 4: Craving, Memory, and the Emotional Trigger Loop

Section 1: What Gets Repeated Gets Remembered

Section 2: Reward — What Keeps You Coming Back

Section 3: Emotional Time Travel — The Trigger Loop and Craving Memory

Craving, Memory, and the Emotional Trigger Loop: Section 3 Reflection Questions

Closing Reminder Sheet: Craving and Triggers

Chapter 5: Neuroplasticity — How the Brain Rewires Itself

Section 1: Neuroplasticity — How the Brain Rewires Itself

Neuroplasticity — How the Brain Rewires Itself: Section 1 Reflection Questions

Closing Reminder Sheet: Rewiring Is Real

Section 2: Values, Vision, and Why We Stay

Neuroplasticity — How the Brain Rewires Itself: Section 2 Reflection Questions

Neuroplasticity — How the Brain Rewires Itself: Section 2 Mini-Worksheet – My Vision Statement

Section 3: Recovery as Ritual

Neuroplasticity — How the Brain Rewires Itself: Section 3 Reflection Questions

Chapter 6: Regulation, Reflection, and the Prefrontal Cortex

Section 1: The Hijacked Brain and the Lost Pause

Section 2: Brakes, Gas Pedals, and the Two-Lane Brain

Section 3: What Regulation Looks Like in Real Life

Regulation, Reflection, and the Prefrontal Cortex: Section 3 Reflection Questions

Closing Reminder Sheet: The Two-Lane Brain Isn’t Broken — It’s Learning

Chapter 7: PAWS — Why It’s So Misunderstood

Section 1: What Is PAWS (And Why Is It So Misunderstood?)

Section 2: The Brain in Withdrawal and Recovery

Section 3: Triggers, Flashbacks, and the Emotional Storm

Section 4: What Actually Helps — Tools for Stabilizing the Storm

PAWS — Why It’s So Misunderstood: Section 4 Reflection Questions

Closing Reminder Sheet: Ride the Storm, Don’t Fight It

Chapter 8: Moment, Mindfulness, Movement, and Ritual in Recovery

Section 1: Why Mindfulness Matters in Recovery

Section 2: The Body as a Gateway to Healing

Section 3: Ritual, Rhythm, and the Sacred Structure of Recovery

Section 4: Movement, Mindfulness, and the Recovery of Choice

Moment, Mindfulness, Movement, and Ritual in Recovery: Section 4 Reflection Questions

Closing Reminder Sheet: Repetition Is the Recovery

Chapter 9: Connection Is Medicine

Section 1: Why Connection Saves Us

Section 2: The Nervous System Heals in Relationship

Section 3: Attachment, Attunement, and the Rewired Brain

Connection Is Medicine: Section 3 Reflection Questions

Closing Reminder Sheet: Connection Is Medicine

Chapter 10: The Recovered Brain — What the Science Says About Long-Term Change

Section 1: What Long-Term Recovery Really Looks Like — In the Brain

Section 2: Gray Matter, Gratitude, and Growing the Good

Section 3: Ritual, Rhythm, and the Long Game

The Recovered Brain — What the Science Says About Long-Term Change: Section 3 Reflection Questions

Closing Reminder Sheet: The Brain Remembers What You Repeat

Conclusion: The Recovered Self

Section 1: You Were Never Broken — You Were Rewiring

Section 2: What No One Else Gets — This Book, This Path, This Promise

Section 3: Final Reflection — Where I Am Now, and Where I’m Going

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Chapter 1: The Hijacked Brain

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Chapter 1: The Hijacked Brain

The Hijacked Brain

You didn’t choose addiction. Your brain did — or at least, parts of it did. And now it’s time to take it back.

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Section 2: The Self-Medication Loop

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Section 3: The Prefrontal Cortex and the Problem of Control

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Section 4: Process Addictions and the Substitution Trap

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Conclusion Chapter 1: The Hijacked Brain

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