IWeeks 1–2
Map
Find the actual trigger, not the story about it.
- Daily 12-minute orientation sessions
- Craving log with cue, state and context capture
- Autonomic baseline — resting pattern and recovery
Neuroscience-led · Guided practice
Your brain learned this.It can learn otherwise.
A twelve-week guided programme that works where addiction actually lives — in the circuitry that assigns craving, and in the nervous system that keeps it switched on.
limen · the threshold at which a signal becomes perceptible
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01 The circuit
Craving is not weakness. It is a prediction.
Dopamine is not the molecule of pleasure. It is the molecule of anticipation — released most strongly when something turns out better than the brain expected, and barely at all when the reward is already certain.
Repeat that error enough times and the system stops waiting for the reward at all. It begins firing at the cue: the hour, the hand, the walk to the kitchen. By the time there is a thought about it, the prediction has already been made.
The signal arrives before the thought does.
Ventral tegmental area → nucleus accumbens · the mesolimbic pathway
02 Repetition
Every repetition is a road crew.
Neurons that fire together wire together, and the wiring is physical. Myelin thickens along the tracts that carry the most traffic, and a thicker tract is a faster tract. The loop does not get stronger because you are weak. It gets stronger because it is practised.
Meanwhile the prefrontal cortex — the structure that weighs next year against the next ten minutes — is among the first things chronic stress takes offline. The brake fades exactly when the accelerator is being rebuilt.
This is why insight alone almost never holds.
Myelination along a high-traffic tract · top-down control attenuating
03 Underneath
The substance is downstream.
Under a craving there is almost always a state: a threat the body never finished, a memory the room keeps handing back, a feeling that has never been safe to feel all the way through.
The amygdala tags it as an emergency. The hippocampus supplies the context — the place, the hour, the person. And the loop offers the fastest exit available. Treat the exit and you have treated the symptom.
LIMEN works on the state, not the exit.
Amygdala and hippocampus converging on the accumbens
04 The atlas
Six structures do most of the work.
Every craving is assembled by a small, well-mapped set of regions. Select one to see what it contributes — and what the programme asks of it.
Select a region
05 The body
You cannot think your way out of a body that is bracing.
The brain is the top of a much longer system. Roughly four-fifths of the vagus nerve's fibres run upward — from gut and heart toward the brain — which means for most of the day the body is talking and the brain is listening.
Change the signal being sent and you change what the brain has to interpret. A long exhale is the shortest path to that change: it is the one lever over the autonomic system that is under voluntary control.
Vagus nerve · cardiac and enteric branches · sympathetic chain
Try it now
Follow the pacer. Four counts in, six counts out — the exhale is the part that matters. Watch the trace settle.
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Coherence0%
A shortened version of the regulation practice that opens every guided session.
06 The reroute
You do not erase a pathway. You out-practise it.
Nothing in the brain gets deleted. The old tract stays exactly where it is — what changes is which route is cheapest to take.
Each session lays down a little more of the alternative: meet the state, stay with it at a survivable intensity, let it finish. Do that enough times and the alternative becomes the route the system reaches for first, without being asked.
The goal is not resistance. It is a cheaper road.
Prefrontal → accumbens · top-down control re-established
07 The method
Three phases. Twelve weeks.
Sequenced so that nothing is asked of the nervous system before it can hold it.
IIWeeks 3–6
Regulate
Teach the body to come down without the substance.
- Breath and interoception practice, twice daily
- 20-minute guided descents
- Weekly live session with a practitioner
IIIWeeks 7–12
Rewire
Complete what the state was asking for.
- Long-form guided journeys, 35–45 minutes
- Integration writing and cue re-exposure
- Relapse-as-data protocol, not relapse-as-failure
Selected journeys
The guided library.
Forty-one recorded journeys, sequenced across the twelve weeks. A sample of what is inside.
Rewire34 min
The Unfinished Threat
For a body still holding a response it never got to complete.
Regulate22 min
Cue Without Consequence
Sit inside the trigger, at a survivable intensity, and let it pass.
Map12 min
The Long Exhale
The daily reset. The one most people keep after the programme ends.
Rewire41 min
Where It Started
A slow descent toward the earliest version of the state.
Regulate18 min
The Hour Before
For the window when the prediction has been made but nothing has happened yet.
Rewire26 min
Return
Integration after a lapse. Built to be used the same day.
- Designed with
- clinicians and neuroscientists
- Cohort size
- capped at 40
- Programme
- 12 weeks, then lifetime library access
- Practice
- 12–45 minutes daily
08 Enrolment
One cohort at a time.
Cohorts are capped at forty so every participant gets live practitioner time. Enrolment for the next cohort opens 6 October.
Requesting an invitation does not commit you to enrolling.