Cravings and anxiety love to show up like uninvited guests with a full luggage set.
In this Backstage with The Sober Curator session, Dan Holcomb of Mindshift Recovery will introduce us to the Mind Shift Method and the power of Awareness Practice as a practical way to work with anxiety, cravings, and deeply grooved habit loops.
Dan is a Senior Facilitator and Founding Contributor at Mindshift Recovery, where he helps bring the method out of theory and into real, everyday experience. His work sits at the intersection of mindfulness and neuroscience, including how the brain forms habits, how reward value drives behavior, and how awareness can help change our relationship with cravings from the inside out.
This one-hour session will offer a grounded, beginner-friendly look at how curiosity, mindfulness, and brain science can support recovery without relying on shame, force, or white-knuckling your way through discomfort.
You’ll learn how awareness can help you notice what is happening in your body and brain, understand the loop you may be stuck in, and begin shifting your response with more compassion and less panic.
This is for anyone who has ever thought:
“Why do I keep doing this when I know it doesn’t help?”
“What do I do when anxiety and cravings team up?”
“How can I interrupt the spiral without making myself the villain?”
No perfection required. No spiritual gymnastics. No shame spiral dress code.
Just bring yourself, your curiosity, and a willingness to look at cravings and anxiety in a new way.
Date: Thursday, June 18
Time: 6–7 p.m. Pacific
Location: Backstage with The Sober Curator
Come for the brain science. Stay for the relief of realizing you are not broken.
This event is free for members of Backstage with The Sober Curator.
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Sober support, minus the stale folding chairs.
