02/24/2026
"Why do I keep doing this?" "I thought I was over this." "I knew better, and I did it anyways..."
Those questions come from a place of confusion and lack of safety, but we often see them as a result of weakness. Of failure and shame.
What if we started to understand our survival brain a little more clearly? How it plays into not only our active addiction, but our long-term recovery. We can 'know' about recovery and what we 'should' be doing, but if we don't find a way to soothe our survival brain, we will always be at its mercy. It takes discipline...it takes finding what works and doing that over and over and OVER so it becomes a new neural pathway for us. And still...we need to understand that sometimes our survival brain is going to be activated and we might lose sight for a bit, but this doesn't mean we have failed. It means we are human, and we will never be done learning how to navigate what was once there to protect us from what we no longer need protection from.
