Chapter 6: Regulation, Reflection, and the Prefrontal Cortex
Regulation, Reflection, and the Prefrontal Cortex
You can’t drive with your foot on the gas and your eyes closed. But that’s what addiction does to the brain. It disables the brakes, buries the speedometer, and hands the wheel to survival mode.
Recovery begins when you start taking the controls back.
Not by force. Not by shame.
But by rebuilding the part of the brain that knows how to slow down, think clearly, and choose the long game — even when everything in you is screaming to react.
That part of the brain is the prefrontal cortex.
It’s where regulation lives.
Where reflection happens.
Where the future starts to matter again.
This chapter is about getting it back online —
and what it takes to trust it again.
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