Elevation Recovery

Matt Finch interviews Chris Engen, founder of Nutrition 4 Recovery. They discuss Chris's personal journey of alcohol addiction, the importance of amino acid therapy, nutrition, and other helpful strategies for addiction recovery.

Matt Finch interviews John Finch, the co-founder of and teacher at Self-Heal School of Herbal Studies and Healing. They discuss nutrition, micronutrients and macronutrients, the typical American diet, and seasonal depression.

Matt Finch interviews Zach Reeder, a Fit Recovery Coach. They discuss their personal experiences with neurodivergence and addiction, and how they can impact each other. They talk about how different substances and symptoms can mix to affect the body differently, and how to push through the addiction.

Matt Finch discusses his experience at a seminar titled "Breakthrough to Success" by Jack Canfield. Matt provides his key takeaways from this seminar to either overcome an addiction for early recovery and beyond or for life optimization.

Chris Scott interviews Briana Theroux, a Fit Recovery coach and nutritional coach. They discuss the difference between determinism and free will, and that the belief we can change is a powerful entity in recovery. They also talk about the importance of nutrient repair when balancing determinism and free will.

Chris Scott interviews Coach Tana, a Fit Recovery coach. They discuss the feelings of looking back on addiction versus the early stages of recovery. This includes the initial mental states, physical states, deficiencies, well-being, and so on compared to the current state of being.

Matt Finch discusses how alcohol and drugs are used as resources for confidence, euphoria, and socialization. The alcohol and drug use can easily accelerate and can be abused quickly. When the consequences begin to heavily outweigh the benefits, the substances become exhausted resources.

Matt Finch discusses the concept of patient endurance and how to boost it for addiction recovery. Patient endurance is the act of enduring trying circumstances with an even temper. He describes how you can use it, foster it, cultivate it, nurture it, increase it, and create patient endurance into more than just a habit.

Chris Scott interviews Mark Scheeren, the co-author of The Freedom Model for Addictions. They go over Mark's personal story of addiction, the making of the book, and alternative ways to gain back your power from addiction. 

Chris Scott and Matt Finch discuss the definition of alcohol, its contents, and the meaning of a "buzz," the feeling you get after consuming alcohol. They talk about what these feelings entail, the aftermath once the feelings fade, and how this can keep people coming back for more including the placebo effect and positive association.