Future Plans for Use

This kind of patience and restraint, and trust that distressing thoughts and emotions are temporary, is key to engaging in the dopamine fast and abstaining from our drug of choice long enough to reset reward pathways.

Whereas by abstaining from pleasurable substances and/or behaviors for a period of time, we reset our reward pathways and recapture our capacity for joy.

If we can wait long enough, that feeling passes and neutrality is restored.

that pleasure and pain are processed in the same parts of the brain.

abundance itself is a stressor,