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Podcast: Alive and Free
Episode: Beating Nostalgia
Description: When you examine addiction up close and personal you realize something: You're addicted to your memories of your first experiences of your addiction — not to the thing itself. This is why it's never been proven that addictive substances or behaviors exist. In other words, your nostalgia seeps into your brain and convinces you to give into your addictions (even if they leave you unsatisfied afterwards). In this episode, I'm revealing why nostalgia is so powerful and how to train your mind to ignore it so you can take addiction completely off of your "menu."...