Elevation Recovery

Learn how to create a proactive morning routine for addiction recovery by using The Miracle Morning Program developed by Hal Elrod.

In this episode, Matt Finch provides you with an informative overview of how to use the Life S.A.V.E.R.S for addiction recovery.

The Life S.A.V.E.R.S framework is simple and highly effective. It's also holistic and addresses the mind, body, and spirit.

The Miracle Morning system involves the strategic utilization of six proven strategies for personal and professional development.

The SAVERS represent:

• Silence
• Affirmations
• Visualization
• Exercise
• Reading
• Scribing (Writing)

Learn more below:

• Miracle Morning Official Website

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Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) often comes with alcohol-induced blackouts. In this mini-episode, you'll hear how on Independence Day of 2005, Matt Finch was blacked out by noon on a crowded beach in his hometown.

The last thing that Matt remembers from that day is arriving at the Fourth of July beach party drunk and walking straight toward his friend holding a bottle of Jack Daniels Whiskey.

What happened after that?

NOTHING good.

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Charlie Sheen is sober and says using "Shame Shivers" is what helps him stay in recovery. Learn more about this relapse prevention technique inside.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to use a powerful Relapse Prevention Technique (RPT) for early recovery. If it's strong enough to help Sheen stay addiction-free, it's probably strong enough for you! This technique is based on human behavior, neuroscience, and psychology.

Here is what you're going to learn:

• Addiction is a health disorder, not an "Identity"
• Charlie Sheen is a self-described "People-Pleaser"
• Why rehab didn't work when Sheen did it to please others
• A brief frame of "Early Recovery" and its pitfalls
  • How "Co-Occurring Disorders" can make Early Recovery more challenging
  • How "Stress" is often the biggest trigger to slip or relapse in early recovery
  • Why "Recovery Capital" is so important
  • Categories of Recovery Capital (Shame Shivers falls under "Psychological")
• The "Shame Shivers" Relapse Prevention Technique
  • Why this strategy works so well at preventing alcohol or drug use
  • How it works
  • Pain avoidance drives behavior (how the "Pain-Pleasure Principle" works)
• How shame can be a trigger or a safety switch
• How addiction can be like driving a car without brakes (or with damaged brakes)

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In this episode, Matt Finch provides an in-depth "Menu" of recovery resources that can help you navigate the options with greater skill and ease.

Here is what you're going to learn:

• Topic: How To Quit Drinking Alcohol In 2024 (3 Proven Pathways To Recovery)
• The 3 Classes of Recovery Pathways
• Clinical Pathways
• Non-Clinical Pathways
• Self-Management Pathways ("Natural Recovery")
• Examples of Natural Recovery
• Is there a best Pathway to Recovery?

Resources used to study the topic and create this episode (highly recommend):

• RecoveryAnswers.org
• FacesAndVoicesOfRecovery.org

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In this timely re-upload (slightly abridged and optimized), Chris Scott and Matt Finch discuss strategies and tactics for not drinking alcohol/poisoning yourself during the holidays. 

Advertisements, friends, and family... it can be difficult to not succumb to peer pressure or even slip into solitary drinking during the holidays and especially over Christmas and New Year's parties or lonely nights.

With these strategies such as sleep, nutrient repair, and so on, alcohol recovery can be maintained!

Note: Although this episode was originally recorded for the last holiday season, the strategies and tactics remain just as useful if not more so today.

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Recovery Capital is the breadth and depth of internal and external resources that can be drawn upon to initiate and sustain recovery from severe drug and alcohol problems. In this episode, Matt Finch provides Recovery Capital articles, information, education, assessments, and other resources that, combined, will help you to have a good understanding of this game changer known as Recovery Capital (RC). 

Here is what you're going to learn:

• Topic: The Science of Recovery Capital: Where Do We Go From
• The 3 Types of Recovery Pathways
  • (Clinical Pathways, Non-Clinical Pathways, Self-Directed Pathways)
• The Self-Management Pathways of Recovery ( “Natural Recovery” )
• What is Recovery Capital?
• Is the Recovery Capital approach having success? For example, are there any research study outcomes we can learn from?
• Where is Recovery Capital already being used?
• The Recovery Capital Scale, The Recovery Capital Index, the Assessment of Recovery Capital (ARC), MIRC, and other RC Assessments
• Recovery Capital MEGA-Importance During Early Recovery

Articles Read in This Episode:

• https://www.fletchergroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLETCHER-GROUP-NOVEMBER-2020-NEWSLETTER.pdf
• https://www.sigmundsoftware.com/what-is-recovery-capital

Recovery Capital Resources Used for This Episode:

• https://www.naadac.org/assets/2416/whitewlcloudw2008_recovery_capital_a_primer.pdf
• https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/resources/multidimensional-inventory-recovery-capital.html
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2211734/
• https://icsa.uiowa.edu/sites/icsa.uiowa.edu/files/2020-05/ARC_instrument.pdf

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This episode is actually a chapter from Matt's in-progress book and it exposes the severe and numerous problems with substance use disorder treatment in the U.S.

You'll learn why Matt Finch calls the present day the dark ages of addiction treatment such as mainstream treatment options neglecting brain repair, using cookie-cutter treatment plans and a one-size-fits-all treatment, the one-path recovery doctrine, stigmatization of medication-assisted treatment patients, the war on drugs, underqualified and over-stressed/worked substance abuse counselors, dogmatic addiction professionals, incompetent physicians, greedy addiction professionals, corruption, and much, much more. 

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In this episode, the audio for the guest has portions where it's low volume or inaudible due to wind and being outdoors. Yet, most of the episode audio is audible and the in-depth notes on Nico's story can help to fill in more information if needed.

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This episode won't make much sense unless you listen to episode 324 first! To begin, Nova (Mamoon's wife) talks about her addiction in Detroit and longing for something more customized for her needs than AA meetings.

From there, Nova'a timeline eventually connects with Mamoon when they were both employees of Wilderness Therapy in Utah. You'll love hearing their shared story so much, especially how they transcended the many challenges from leaving a secure life to go after their dreams.

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In this episode, you'll hear a few real-life examples of people quitting drinking and using drugs using the power of their subconscious minds.

Dr. Joseph Murphy's prescriptions for harnessing the subconscious potential and transmuting it into kinetic active energy seem to really work when applied to the tee.

Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:

• How your subconscious removes mental blocks
• How to break or build a habit
• How he broke a bad habit (alcoholism)
• The power of his mental picture
• Focused attention
• He said a jinx was following him
• How much do you want what you want?
• Why he could not be healed
• The explanation and the cure
• Refusing to admit it
• Building in the idea of freedom
• Fifty-one percent healed
• The law of substitution
• The cause of alcoholism
• Three magic steps
• Keep on keeping on
• Review your thought power

=>Recommended Resource: The Power of Your Subsconcious Mind - by Joseph Murphy

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