Best of 2024: Anna Lembke | Breaking Free from Digital Addiction: Insights on Dopamine

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Join Dr. Anna Lembke, a leading expert in addiction medicine, as she delves into the challenges of digital addiction in our hyper-connected world. In this episode, Dr. Lembke explains the neuroscience behind why we get hooked on digital platforms and offers practical advice for managing our digital habits. Discover the concept of "dopamine detox" and how taking breaks from digital stimuli can reset our brain's reward system, leading to improved mental health and well-being.Join Dr. Anna Lembke, a leading expert in addiction medicine, as she delves into the challenges of digital addiction in our hyper-connected world. In this episode, Dr. Lembke explains the neuroscience behind why we get hooked on digital platforms and offers practical advice for managing our digital habits. Discover the concept of "dopamine detox" and how taking breaks from digital stimuli can reset our brain's reward system, leading to improved mental health and well-being.

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0:00.0	As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting
0:04.6	some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical
0:09.4	strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve
0:14.4	personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get
0:18.5	recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.
0:24.7	What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash life purpose.
0:34.1	The Admiral is out for her morning walk with Alfie.
0:37.1	Good morning, William. Where's your fairy friend today?
0:39.8	Curled up at home, I'm afraid. He's not feeling himself.
0:43.3	Yes, Alfie, it is a worry.
0:45.3	You don't say, a 24-hour vet line.
0:50.5	Wow.
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0:56.7	And if you cover more than one pet on our multi-pet policy, you get a 15% discount.
1:01.5	Admiral, always looking out for you.
1:06.7	My kids are in their 20s.
1:08.7	At least two of them are.
1:10.2	They've got partners of their own. They're off in the world. And I'm getting very interesting feedback from them along the lines of, mom, other families don't talk about anything. And them being shocked and also very grateful for the extent to which we had transparent and open communication. They learned to give words to their
1:28.7	feelings. They learned to negotiate to stand up for themselves, to push back, to empathize, to
1:34.3	apologize. So what for me seemed like a surprisingly minimal deep communication, especially in their
1:40.2	teenage years, now they're coming back actually very grateful for the push for intimacy
1:45.2	and the way that language was used. Now they're like, wow, I can't believe that their people
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