C3S Podcast & Reads: April 23rd, 2024
Emotional & Physical Fitness Podcast, Alcohol Withdrawal
Welcome to another week of the Chapter 3 Newsletter.
As detailed in Friday’s post, I am sending out newsletters on Tuesday and Friday. Tuesday’s post will be showcasing the latest releases from the podcast as well as highlighting some articles I found about living in active recovery. Friday will be a longer form post about a topic for the week that is on my mind.
I’m just going to keep doing this until it is time to go home from the run.
Podcast Releases
Find the podcast on your streaming platform of choice: YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify.
The last couple weeks saw the beginning of a short Pillars of Recovery series. I released the Emotional and Physical Fitness Pillar podcasts over the past couple of weeks. Thinking of life in with the framework of these pillars has altered my recovery journey for the better.
The Emotional Fitness pillar of recovery gives an overview of the concept as well as some tactical advice for how to improve your emotional fitness. What continues to amaze me is how applicable these pillars are to every day well-being beyond improving the addicts situation.
The Physical Fitness podcast goes into more detail about my experience with the depressive effects of alcohol. It is not your typical physical fitness, workout focused podcast. I hit on a topic about how alcohol and long term use and abuse really destroys your body’s physical systems that wind up controlling mood, emotional regulation and other key aspects of your intellectual abilities.
Interesting (Enough) Articles
April being Alcohol Awareness Month, I will make this section specific to Alcohol content.
Why You Are Emotional After Quitting Drinking
This article blends nicely with the podcast for this week and discuss impacts to the body’s natural ability to create neurochemicals as well as hormones when drinking. As I said in the podcast, I could feel that my nervous system was totally fried.
How Long Does Alcohol Withdrawal Last?
Once I understood the physical systems that alcohol was inhibiting, it made sense to me why I experience withdrawal symptoms like I did during my detox period. This article does a deep dive into the risks and timeline of alcohol withdrawal. It wasn’t until rehab that I understood how lucky I was with my symptoms and to never have experienced a seizure.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)
Another learning that I had in rehab was PAWS. We sat through a class on the topic, but I also saw it daily with some of my former rehab patients. Stutters, shuffles, poor memory or recall and significantly altered sleep patterns (IMO, not helped by a lack of movement or physical activity).
That’s it! All the best,
Kyle Zibrowski