Elevation Recovery

Matt Finch discusses some of the more common reasons why people going through addiction recovery end up relapsing. He also offers some great advice and pro-recovery habits that can help you enjoy life without substances.

Matt Finch discusses the different supplements that can help lessen anxiety along with the various benefits of each. These supplements include CBD, L-Theanine, and more. He also talks about the different forms of each supplement and offers multiple ways to find them in order to help those dealing with high amounts of anxiety or those struggling from addiction.

Chris Scott and Matt Finch address how they discovered personal desires, life's callings, and "going with the flow of life" during their addiction recovery process. They express how it's not necessary to have every aspect of your life be perfect in order to begin your recovery journey, but it's important to have that determination, yearning and desire to get started.

Matt Finch shares a personal anecdote of a time he met with an outpatient treatment program director. This story helps shed light on the various lessons that can be learned in the addiction recovery industry such as the failures and shortcomings of traditional addiction recovery methods. If the biochemical, psychological, social, environmental, and spiritual domains are addressed, recovery is soon to come.

Chris Scott interviews Chris Engen, Founder of Nutrition 4 Recovery, on biochemical restoration therapies for addiction recovery, how different amino acids affect and benefit the body, and the importance of the relationship between psychosocial, spiritual, and biochemical components. Chris Engen is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition and holds a Nutrition Consultant Certificate as well as an Advanced Certification as a Recovery Nutrition Coach.

Chris Scott and Matt Finch share many of their greatest spiritual, mental, and emotional optimization concepts learned from mentors such Sir David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. (author of Letting Go) Michael A. Singer (author of The Untethered Soul), Tony Robbins (author of Unlimited Power), and others. Addiction can be holistically treated and recovered from... and when individuals address the biochemical, psychological, social, environmental, and spiritual pillars, transforming and lasting breakthroughs can occur.

Matt Finch interviews Chris Engen, Founder of Nutrition 4 Recovery, on biochemical restoration therapies for addiction recovery, including amino acid therapy, nutritional therapies, fixing hypoglycemia, food allergies and sensitivities, gut health, and much more. Chris is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition and holds a Nutrition Consultant Certificate as well as an Advanced Certification as a Recovery Nutrition Coach.

Matt Finch covers a study on addiction and recovery published on Stat News. Here is a quote from the piece: "Around 75% of people seeking recovery from a substance use problem achieve their goal, though it may take them some time to achieve full remission. The average number of attempts before success is five, though the median number is just two, meaning that a small number of outliers who need five-plus attempts, inflate the numbers, making them look worse than they are."

Laura Lee is a Certified Clinical Aromatherapist, a Certified Recovery Nutrition Coach, and is the founder of Infinity Wellness Center. She also holds a B.S. in Biology and is a Certified Kundalini Yoga and Hatha Yoga Instructor as well as a Certified Reiki Practitioner. In this episode, Matt Finch and Laura discuss addiction recovery, the highly sensitive person (HSP) trait, spirituality, alcoholism, amino acid therapy, how to use aromatherapy and essential oils for addiction and mental health, and more.

The Disease Model of addiction states that addiction is an incurable lifelong disease that can be arrested through 12-step work and 'working a strong program' yet it can never be fully recovered from. The Freedom Model states that addiction is not a disease and that the mainstream recovery society programs people with a set of beliefs that have never been proven yet have been largely disproven. Chris Scott interviews Fit Recovery Coach Briana Theroux on these and other related topics.