Born Addict Available NOW 📘 -
Foreword by Dr. Kenneth Blum -
Born Addict Available NOW 📘 - Foreword by Dr. Kenneth Blum -
RECOVERY NUTRITIONIST · EDUCATOR · AUTHOR · SPEAKER
lori l germain
Where Science Meets Recovery™
CRNC, HHP, CCP , Founder, Missing Link Recovery Solutions, 29 years in recovery. A framework built on biology, not willpower alone.
ABOUT LORI
A recovered alcoholic who found the missing piece.
After years of deep commitment to sobriety and spiritual practice, Lori Lynn Germain expected lasting relief. Instead, she experienced ongoing anxiety, emotional instability, and a persistent search for relief — despite doing everything she had been taught.
She had done the work. But something was still missing. This realization led her to explore addiction at a biological level, where she uncovered the Missing Link: addressing the brain and nervous system in a way that allows recovery to stabilize, deepen, and finally take root. Today she helps individuals, families, and treatment professionals do the same.
Born Addict:
Chasing Normal
Born Addict begins where most recovery stories end — after sobriety — and asks the harder question: What if the brain never fully healed?
"Addiction is not a failure of character. It is a dysregulated reward system seeking relief."
For the chronic relapser. For the person who has been through treatment and still can't stay stable. For the one who is sober, yet still doesn't feel free. This book was written for you.
Also available locally at Bellflower Books in Qualicum Beach.
FOREWORD BY
Professor Kenneth Blum, PhD
Neuroscientist, Addiction Geneticist, and Pioneer of Reward Deficiency Syndrome Research. First to discover the gene connected to addiction, mental illness, and other reward deficiency disorders and behaviors.
Born addict officially launches July 17th.
Available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, and eBook. Sign up below to get all the details.
COMMUNITY LAUNCH CELEBRATION
Join us in Qualicum Beach
Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating the launch of Born Addict: Chasing Normal — Into the Abyss of Addiction.
This is an evening of conversation, community, and celebration — honouring a book that is rewriting the story of addiction, one brain at a time.
The Evening Includes:
Author presentation and book signing (signed book special $20 [reg. $24.95])
Mocktails & charcuterie
Books, HALT 2.0 Workbook & merchandise available for purchase
Door prizes and free giveaways including complimentary coaching sessions and nutritional supplement trials!
Event Details:
Thursday, August 13, 2026 | 5 – 9 pm (Doors open at 5 pm)
Eaglecrest Golf Course (444 Country Club Drive, Qualicum Beach, BC)
Tickets: $25 per person
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WATCH ON AMAZON PRIME, 2026
Writer’s Island
Where Born Addict was written. Where the mission came alive.
Lori travelled to the British Virgin Islands with JOA Publishing and 14 fellow authors to write Born Addict, and a documentary crew captured every moment. A recovered alcoholic, armed with 29 years of lived experience and the neuroscience of Dr. Kenneth Blum, writing the book the recovery world has been waiting for, on an island, surrounded by ocean, channelling what Bill Wilson began.
"I believe I was channelling Bill Wilson, trying to fulfil the mission he started. The biology he searched for his whole life. Now the world gets to watch it being written."
— LORI LYNN GERMAIN, WRITER'S ISLAND, BVI
THE FRAMEWORK
Feed the Brain First. Heal the Heart. Free the Spirit.™
I. Feed the Brain First
That's the door. Biochemistry has to open before anything else can walk through it.
II. Heal the Heart
That's the path. The story, the stigma, and the shame we carry get named and tended to.
III. Free the Spirit
That's the soul of the work. Not instead of your biology, but because of it.
For years I did the spiritual work faithfully, the steps, the prayer, the surrender. And still, something wouldn't lift. What I didn't understand then is that a starving brain can't hear a soul's invitation. Biochemistry has to open the door before spirit can walk through it. That's the piece nobody talks about: the shame that keeps us silent, the stigma that keeps us small, and the biology that, once repaired, finally lets us grasp the tools we'd been reaching for all along.
THE SCIENCE OF RECOVERY
Lori L. Germain is co-author of a peer-reviewed case study in the Journal of Addiction Psychiatry, alongside Dr. Kenneth Blum and fourteen physicians and scientists from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Mount Sinai—bringing the science of Reward Deficiency Syndrome to the forefront of addiction recovery.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
A voice for the science recovery has been missing.
Lori brings the biology of addiction to life for any audience — from people in recovery and their families, to treatment professionals, to healthcare conferences. Her message is grounded in neuroscience, delivered from lived experience, and impossible to forget. As the subject of the Amazon Prime documentary Writer’s Island and author of Born Addict with a foreword by Dr. Kenneth Blum, Lori brings a rare combination of credibility, story, and science to every stage she steps onto.
Signature Topics:
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Why 85% of people relapse — and why it has nothing to do with willpower. The blood sugar, dopamine, and nervous system cascade behind every craving.
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What most treatment programs leave out — and how nutrition, amino acids, and nervous system regulation can change the trajectory of recovery.
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The co-founder of AA searched for the biological answers his whole life. Modern neuroscience has found them. This is the next frontier of addiction medicine.
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How families can interrupt cycles of addiction and mental health struggles through understanding the biology — and changing the trajectory for generations to come.
Lori is available for conferences, treatment centres, recovery events, podcasts, corporate wellness, university health programs & keynotes.
THE METHOD
Halt 2.0 Recovery Workbook
The practical companion to Born Addict. An 83-page brain-based recovery workbook that gives individuals, families, and treatment professionals the daily tools to address what most programs leave out — the biology. Free with Born Addict book purchase via QR code.
Workbook Includes
• HALT 2.0 scored questionnaire — identify your biological warning signals
• Blood sugar, dopamine, and nervous system regulation protocols
• Amino acid and nutrition science — practical and accessible
• The DOSE framework — daily Neuro-Wellness practice
• Grounded in Dr. Kenneth Blum’s Reward Deficiency Syndrome research
• In-treatment · After treatment · Alongside the 12 Steps
WORK WITH LORI
Every offering leads to the same place.
A stable brain. A recovered life. A family freed from the cycle.
Current Services:
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Book a 1:1 session to identify what’s really driving the patterns beneath the surface — and create a personalized next-step roadmap for you or the person you love.
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A FREE live Zoom masterclass teaching HALT 2.0 and the biology of relapse. For individuals in recovery and their families. Monthly online.
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6 live Zoom sessions for treatment centre professionals. Science, tools, and implementation framework for the biological dimension of recovery.
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