Addiction is a major problem in America and Anna Lembke can help. In this latest "Waking Up in Daily Life" interview with Dr. Anna Lembke, she answers the question; how do we find balance in the age of indulgence? As the director of addiction medicine at Stanford University, I can't think of anyone more qualified to teach us how to overcome addictions, how to transcend addiction, and who shares some amazing resources for addiction in her fantastic book Dopamine Nation-includes 4 effective ways to manage addictions:
1. Dopamine fasting (managing our "hits" of external exhilaration)
2. Leaning into pain (getting comfortable with discomfort)
3. Radical honesty (being truthful in word and deed, for real!)
4. Prosocial shame (being vulnerable and sharing openly in safe spaces with other people who are on the journey of recovery with you).
Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD - How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), which was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018). Dr. Lembke recently appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021), an instant New York Times Bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.
Dr. Lembke's website- www.annalembke.com
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