If you’ve been sober a while, you survived detox. You white-knuckled the first months. Nobody warned you about what comes next.

The danger does not end when the chaos does. It goes quiet. Staying clean years in, when life looks fine and your guard is down, is the real fight.

Marine sergeant and Iraq veteran Adan Castañeda beat heroin, meth, cocaine, and a schizoaffective diagnosis. He’s 10 years sober. In this conversation he gives the daily system that keeps long-term sobriety from quietly unraveling, including the first-30-days protocol (flush the stash, change the number, change the room) and the four rules his Marine team leader used to stay alive after the Corps.

This is for high-achieving professionals who already got through the hard part and can feel the boredom, the dopamine crash, and the “I’m fine” lie coming back.

What you’ll get:

• Why relapse often hits after the crisis, not during it
  
• How to point military-grade discipline at recovery, not just the career
  
• First 30 days vs year-five maintenance
  
• One daily non-negotiable to run this week (Execute)
  
• One restore move: repair a relationship or help someone earlier in the fight
  

Guest: Adan Castañeda · theRecoveryProtocol.org

Free tools I use with clients: https://sobermethod.com/5tools
Book: Digital S.O.B.E.R. Method · https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H93ZTVS9
Site: https://sobermethod.com

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