As you get ready to quit cocaine forever, it's important to fully prepare yourself for all possibilities. Many of my students have stated that in the past, they felt like they weren't prepared. But as they started to progress in their recovery, they realized they weren't prepared at all. So let's talk about how to organize your living space to reduce the likeliness of having a trigger. This isn't to say it's going to be a walk in the park and you'll never be triggered. I'll talk about what to do if you do get triggered a little later on in the course.
But this is to help you so that you'll have a better chance by not having as many triggers as you would had you not prepared. I want you to take a look around in your environment right now. What do you see? What does it feel like? What does it smell like? There's some science behind your environment and how it makes you feel.
You're going to want to take some time to make your space feel different, especially if you're using cocaine in your living space. You Essentially your entire home or room could be a giant trigger. But let's make it different. You can start by cleaning, going through your home or your room or wherever you live and take a couple of hours and clean it from top to bottom. You want to clean your kitchens, your bathrooms, dust vacuum decluttering is also really important. Now look around at your lighting, try to get as much natural light as possible.
The sun coming in your home will give you some natural vitamin D which will help with your physical body as well. The other thing that you'll want to do is go through your home with a fine tooth comb and get rid of anything that can potentially remind you of when you were using, especially paraphernalia you're here because you want to quit cocaine forever. So there's zero points and keeping paraphernalia make it ceremonial, burn it, flush it, whatever it just get rid of it. Then think of things like photos, music or even kitchen spoons. change things up for a while, make it so you don't have to see those things that could potentially trigger you. Okay, so let's take some time.
Go ahead and do that now. And I'll see you in our next lecture when we're going to talk about detox.