Emotions

"The best thing (and the worst thing) about quitting was discovering I had feelings again".

Well-known recovery observation.

Whether consciously or unconsciously you may well have been using Cannabis to suppress some uncomfortable feelings and emotions. In this chapter we look in depth at how to recalibrate our relationship with ourselves and our emotional responses.


• Emotional energy and why it fluctuates when we first quit.
• Brain chemistry and how it slowly balances toward our authentic emotional response mechanisms.
• Anger isn’t always a bad emotion but it needs to be used with great care to protect ourselves and those around us.
• Guilt and regret are wasted emotions that can send us spiralling backwards towards a relapse if we let them.
• Tears are often the healthiest and our most honest response to sadness and life overwhelm, can we learn to safely express ourselves in this way?