Gabor Maté: Five Steps To Stop Scrolling, Bingeing, and Self-Medicating — And Reclaim Your Brain

Gabor Maté: Five Steps To Stop Scrolling, Bingeing, and Self-Medicating — And Reclaim Your Brain

Practical tools to break "automatic habits" and take back your agency.

Gabor Maté is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver's Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of five books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Practical strategies for dealing with both our addictive tendencies and scattered minds
  • The real question to ask yourself when it comes to addiction
  • Maté's relationship with ADHD
  • The relationship between ADHD and addiction
  • Tools for conscious harm reduction
  • The practice of "Compassionate Curiosity"
  • "Re-parenting" practices for your nervous system
  • And more

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