Chris Scott and Matt Finch discuss strategies and concepts for beating addiction that go way against popular mainstream recovery rules. The way you view yourself, addiction, recovery, and the world can either help you achieve your recovery goals or they can act as an obstacle. Beliefs, identity, language, self-talk, and your unique model of the world are valuable resources when optimized.

Chris Scott and Matt Finch discuss concepts like internal locus of control vs external locus of control, victim mindset vs extreme ownership mindset, nihilism vs life of meaning and purpose, faith, philosophy, psychology, character development, spiritual expansion, and much more.

In episode 180 of The Elevation Recovery Podcast (which is the Season 10 Premiere), Chris Scott and Matt Finch discuss the strategic utilization of targeted neuro-nutrients for addiction and mental health recovery, including magnesium, NAC, DPA, CBD, and much more.

Chris Scott and Matt Finch discuss alcohol substitutions for alcohol recovery such as CBD drinks, kombucha, non-alcoholic wine infused with CBD, and many other beverages or elixirs that are healthy mood-boosters. They share stories of alcohol substitutions they've used and why, the reasoning behind alcohol replacement drinks, and much more.

Matt Finch and Coach Tana share many of the benefits of silence and solitude practices, how it has changed their lives, why they still do it on a regular basis, why it's especially important for introverts and/or highly sensitive persons, and how to carve out a daily silence practice and do something that fits your style.

Matt Finch discusses the topic of taking 100% responsibility for your life, including the successes and failures. He does this by reading a portion of The Success Principles: How To Get From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be, by Jack Canfield, co-creator of Chicken Soup For The Soul.

Matt Finch and Briana Theroux discuss the concept of recovery capital, how some alternative addiction treatment programs use the Recovery Capital Scale or Recovery Capital Index, while the mainstream and corporate residential rehabs typically don't use this or measure these domains to this specificity, and why Recovery Capital measuring/optimizing is so important.

Matt Finch discusses the power of creative outlets for addiction and mental health recovery, why highly-creative people are often more prone to substance use disorders and/or mental health disorders, and how to leverage creative expression to optimize recovery, mood, health, and fulfillment.

In this episode, Chris Scott and Matt Finch discuss the brand new research outcomes on the first study of safety and tolerability of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for alcohol use disorder. The study was done by Imperial College London and was published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology on February 18th, 2021. While the study had very positive outcomes, more research and studies are still needed.

Chris Scott and Matt Finch discuss a new study from February 2021 investigating 613 inpatient rehab facilities. The findings of this study are ugly and it exposes some of the systemic issues in the broken addiction treatment model the U.S. is currently still using, despite things getting progressively worse and not better.