Dr. Anna Lembke, MD, is chief of the Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford Medicine and a leading expert in how to overcome addictions of all kinds.
We discuss dopamine dynamics in the brain and how they impact risk-taking, mental obsession, and compulsive behaviors.
We also discuss the most common addiction of all—people’s addiction to control—how codependency is a common form of that and how prayer and spiritual practices can open up new neural pathways and help end unhealthy thought patterns and behaviors, including codependence.
Anna is the author of the Dopamine Nation and a new book “Radical Surrender” which gets into the seemingly paradoxical fact that when people give up trying to control certain thought patterns or behaviors they actually are able to access new strategies to do so. I’ve read the book and it’s amazing. Lots of science and actionable tools.
This new podcast released today we brought in your understanding of dopamine and addictive and compulsive behaviors, codependency and much more.
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