Anticipation, Addiction & Alignment: How Dopamine Shapes Your Reality—and How to Take Your Power Back

As a SUD (Substance Use Disorder) professional, one of the most profound insights I gained in my training was this:

Dopamine doesn’t just spike when we receive a reward—it spikes in anticipation of it.

That means it’s not the wine, the scroll, the sugar, the like, or the hit that hooks us.

It’s the pursuit.

The anticipation.

The chase…