Dr. Anna Lembke

to allow ourselves to explore a new idea and not interrupt ourselves in the middle of that thought that we get to a place where we have a new idea, right?

Or an inspiration or something that we want to move toward or even know what we want to move toward.

You know, what is it that I really do like to do?

Like, what actually gives me deep joy?

And we can't know those things if we're constantly distracting ourselves and never allowing ourselves to be bored.

I think the most important thing is just to recognize how resilient we actually are and how we really are wired for pain and lean into it.

Not in a way, again, that's harmful.

Like we're not talking about over-exercising, right?

Like people can get addicted to exercise.

But just recognizing that we can do these hard things and in the process reset our reward pathways and that slowly over time things will get better.

I mean, we're all in this together.

You know, I think everybody is struggling with this in some shape or form.

It's the world that we live in now.

But I have a lot of optimism that through talking about it, kind of owning it and collectively problem solving, we can get to a better place.

Thanks, Mel.

I'm really happy to be here.

Drugs in all their forms are the great human replacement. Addiction is a disease of loneliness. even if we have a lot of great people in our lives, if we get addicted, we will isolate, and we will use our drug to replace that human connection.

Drugs in all their forms are the great human replacement. Addiction is a disease of loneliness. even if we have a lot of great people in our lives, if we get addicted, we will isolate, and we will use our drug to replace that human connection.

Drugs in all their forms are the great human replacement. Addiction is a disease of loneliness. even if we have a lot of great people in our lives, if we get addicted, we will isolate, and we will use our drug to replace that human connection.

And I say that because we sometimes talk about loneliness as the cause of addiction, but more often than not, what I see is that the addiction causes the loneliness. Oh, I like that.