The Brady Bunch Effect—Rebooting My Mind, One Rerun at a Time

Blog Post for Eric Protein Moseley’s “Recipe for Recovery” Series Title: The Brady Bunch Effect—Rebooting My Mind, One Rerun at a Time By Eric Protein Moseley Some people need silence to think. I need nostalgia . Recovery isn't always about finding some profound new truth. Sometimes it's about going back— way back. Back to a time before the chaos, before the streets, before the addiction. For me, that place lives in the comforting, slightly corny, and always predictable world of The Brady Bunch . That’s right. When I’m fighting the temptation, when my mind starts wandering into dangerous territory, I don’t go looking for something new. I hit rewind on my life—and I land right in front of a small television, watching Mike and Carol Brady sort out whether Greg should be allowed to keep a goat in the backyard or if Marcia is ever going to get over that broken nose. Why? Because The Brady Bunch reminds me of a world where things had structure, where people talked it out, whe...