Evolve or Stay Stuck: Why Interdisciplinary Thinking to Treatment and Recovery Will Revolutionize Addiction (Ep. 39)

If you could only listen to one podcast episode on addiction and recovery… You’d want it to be this one. Matt and Chris discuss addiction and treatment in a way that will change the way you think, and in doing so greatly enhance your chances of quitting for good and living up to your potential in life.

This is the first episode that Chris and Matt recorded in-person together, while Chris was visiting San Diego and staying in a beach hotel with a room with a Pacific ocean view.

Here are some shots Matt took while this episode was being recorded:

Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:

• The need for advancing an evolved interdisciplinary framework for viewing addiction and treatment
• The definition of interdisciplinary thinking
• Range vs Depth regarding addiction professionals and individuals trying to quit or in those in recovery
• Generalists and Specialists: Differences and why both are needed to advance the field of addiction
• Expanding your awareness and knowledge of addiction
• An existential view on addiction
• Theories of addiction
• Biochemical theories of addiction
• Psychosocial theories of addiction
• Spiritual theories of addiction
• The Miracle Morning
• Qigong
• Breath Empowerment
• Yoga
• Holotrophic Breathwork
• Brain-Spotting
• Childhood trauma
• Biochemical optimization
• Continual lifelong improvement
• Openmindedness
• Solving your own personal recovery puzzle after finding your unique missing links
• Chronic pain epidemic and alternative theories on causes
• TMS and the Mind-Body Syndrome
• Dr. John Sarno’s work with pain and mind-body syndromes
• Steven Ray Ozanich the “TMS Whisperer”

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
• Dr. Gabor Mate
• Dr. John Sarno’s Healing Back Pain
• The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse by Steven Ray Ozanish
• Dr. David Schechter TMS/Pain Specialist

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