Flourishing After Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher
Addiction psychiatrist and bioethicist Carl Erik Fisher explores addiction and recovery from science to spirituality, from philosophy to politics, and everything in between. He interviews leading experts in areas such as psychology, neurobiology, history, sociology, and more--as well as policy makers, advocates, and people with lived experience.
A core commitment of the show is we need more than medicine to truly understand addiction and recovery. The challenges and mysteries of this field run up against some of the central challenges of human life, like: what makes a life worth living, what are the limits of self control, and how can people and societies change for the better? These are enormous questions, and they need to be approached with humility, but there are also promising ways forward offered by refreshingly unexpected sources.
There are many paths to recovery, and there is tremendous hope for changing the narrative, injecting more nuance into these discussions, and making flourishing in recovery possible for all.
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Flourishing After Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher
How a Little Becomes a Lot, with Eric Zimmer
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Today I’m sharing my conversation with my friend Eric Zimmer: author, teacher, person in recovery, and the creator of The One You Feed, an award-winning podcast with more than 50 million downloads and over 800 conversations exploring what it means to live a meaningful life.
Eric, I should add, is one of the most requested guests for this show—I’m sure this is in large part because of his curious, rigorous, and thoughtful approach to addiction recovery and personal change. We first met shortly after I launched The Urge and became fast friends, so I was happy to have this chance to talk to him ahead of the launch of his new book, How a Little Becomes a Lot, coming out March 31. (I recorded this conversation with Eric a little while ago and held onto it so we could release it around the launch of his new book.)
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