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Five Things I’ve Learned this Year
Today, it’s just me. I thought I’d round out the year by trying something different, and offering five big things I’ve learned this year.
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Owning Our Wanting, Wants vs. Needs Tran…Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
What Actually Motivates Change? (Carrie Wilkens, PhD): ADDICTION
“Nobody wants to be somebody with a serious substance use problem. Nobody wants to be addicted to a substance. I mean, it doesn't feel good. Dependency doesn't feel good. And we end up in there anywa…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
How Story Can Heal (Akiva Goldsman)
“I think what's interesting about healing, psychological healing, is there's always a narrative that helps. So sometimes when you go to therapy, and you tell a story, and in the story, you locate you…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
On Reducing Harm & Saving Lives (Maia Szalavitz): ADDICTION
“I think it's really important for, you know, people to realize that you can totally be an absolutely excellent parent of a traumatized child and the trauma had nothing to do with you and you couldn'…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
The Malleability of the Brain (David Eagleman)
“As you grow older, your brain is able to keep rewiring all the time. And so we have this impression that the flexibility of the brain decreases as you get older. But in fact, it's just because your …
Published on 2 years ago
Breaking the Addiction Binary (Carl Erik Fisher, M.D.): ADDICTION
“I want to say that it's not just some idea about suffering, it's also a function of social and economic systems that are deliberately weaponizing an individualized view of suffering as a technique, …
Published on 2 years ago
The Gordian Knot of Mental Illness (Rachel Aviv)
“I think what one of the things that's interesting to me is like when we think about what causes distress and a life that goes awry, there's so much attention to different causes, but the way that th…
Published on 2 years ago
Reimagining Recovery (Holly Whitaker): ADDICTION
“For years, I was asking myself whether or not I was an alcoholic versus really asking myself whether or not alcohol was actually providing any benefit to me. And for me, it was just like, This reali…
Published on 2 years ago
Grappling with Part X (Phil Stutz)
“If there is this part of you that you think is inferior, the weak spot, something you're ashamed of, etc., it's one of these things where if you believe it's true, there's a part of the human soul, …
Published on 2 years ago
Coming Soon: Special Series on Addiction
Starting next Monday, I’m doing another special series—this set is about addiction. You’ll hear from four distinct voices in the space, covering harm reduction, new paths to recovery, codependency, a…
Published on 2 years ago