Andrew Huberman podcasts via /r/gratitude

I’m grateful for Andrew Huberman and his podcasts. Ive learned so much about how the brain works from listening to him. When I decided to get sober I searched for different ways to approach actually doing it. Rehab? Change my surroundings? Remove all the triggers from my life? Church? All kinds of avenues I could go down, but I decided that if I could understand, on a mechanistic level, why I craved any mind altering substance then I could learn how to beat my addiction. So I started listening to him and learned all about catecholamines and circadian rhythms and I took that information and started changing my habits. Sunlight in my eyes in the morning, cold showers before my morning workout, no caffeine, etc. I built a solid routine and it worked. It was tough but I was able to quit everything. All the things I was hooked on were still around me. I knew I couldn’t just erase the temptation from my life because the person I lived with was still using and I couldn’t make him quit. I felt this empowerment from knowing I could walk by the bag of dope and not feel even the slightest urge to pick it up and snort a line. I knew I could get the same dopamine rush from a cold shower or a hard workout and I wouldn’t feel like shit after. I could breathe in the smell of the cigarettes being smoked and not feel like it was something that I was missing out on because I understood how the lack of oxygen circulating through my body that the cigarettes caused effected my pain in my feet. So my brain was able to put the puzzle pieces together and just understanding the whys of my addictions helped me realize the how’s of my recovery. I could still get the same effects I was looking for through drugs just by another means that was way better for me. I don’t know if that is the right way to do it but it’s been effective for over two years now. I can still be around the things I used to crave but I have no desire to use them again. I’m so grateful I did it this way because having to avoid being around everything that would trigger me would have been a whole new kind of prison. And by me not using anymore it caused my husband to just decide to quit everything too. I didn’t even have to ask him to do it. It took about a year of seeing me overcome it all and he just decided one day that he didn’t need it anymore either. I’m grateful for people like Andrew Huberman that go out of their way to help people learn about things like this. They’re so incredibly fascinating to me.