What 3 things people in stable recovery have in common

At the end of his movie Pleasure Unwoven: Is Addiction Really a ‘Disease’, Dr. Kevin McCauley says what people with stable recovery have in common is they:

• stopped doing or using the things that caused dopamine surges;

• learned to cope with cravings;

• learned how to manage stress quickly usually in a social or spiritual context.

End result: “The power of choice is restored…and normal pleasures become pleasurable again.”

Maintaining recovery requires managing addiction on a daily basis.

The brain can heal.

“If you stop trying to make yourself more than you are, out of fear that you are less than you are, whoever you really are will be a lot lighter and happier and easier to live with, too.”
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life