45: Cross Addiction
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we look at cross addiction in its many forms. Including work addiction which we have both suffered from, smartphone addiction, gambling, and substance addiction. We look at what behaviors can be obsessive how addiction triggers a dopamine response and why we have to pay attention to these red flags in recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.2 | that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning |
| 0:19.1 | that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.4 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to the Sober Four podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Veronica Valley. |
| 0:31.7 | And I'm Chip Summers. |
| 0:33.5 | We are back this week to talk about cross addiction. |
| 0:38.3 | We always love hearing your feedback and thoughts on the stuff that we talk about on the show. |
| 0:43.9 | And we also love your suggestions as well. |
| 0:46.5 | So please reach out to us on social media. |
| 0:48.9 | You can reach me on Instagram at Love Soberful or Veronica Valley on Twitter. |
| 0:52.6 | And I think Chip is on both of those is Chip Summers. |
| 0:55.8 | Let us know your feedback. And you can also find us on Facebook under Soberful as well. |
| 1:02.0 | So cross addiction. The reason that we're talking about this today is in the Sober Fall Life |
| 1:07.6 | Program, we have a monthly theme where we talk about really all of the |
| 1:13.9 | different issues related to recovery and getting sober. And we have usually a workshop and we |
| 1:19.2 | usually have some handouts and kind of general discussion and education and training and all that |
| 1:24.4 | kind of stuff. And this has come up for a while about people wanting to know more about cross-addictions. |
| 1:29.1 | I thought it would make a good podcast episode because I do feel this is quite in your wheelhouse chip. |
| 1:34.8 | Absolutely. No, no. I think that's good. |
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