Detoxing Dopamine: Why Your Soul Is Addicted to Cheap Joy
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Today's Sponsors: Backgate Prayers (promo code DTNECKLACE) & Cozy Earth (promo code DADTIREDBOGO)
Why does real life feel boring sometimes?
Why does your phone feel more exciting than prayer, your marriage, or even God?
In this episode, we talk about dopamine—the brain’s reward system—and how our world has hijacked it with cheap, artificial pleasures. From scrolling and porn to sugar and streaming, we’ve trained our souls to crave fireworks instead of candles.
Jerrad shares stories, Scripture, and practical wisdom to help men understand what’s happening in their brains and hearts—and how to slowly retrain their desires toward the kind of joy God actually designed.
If you’ve felt tired, numb, or disconnected from God and your family, this episode will help you name what’s happening and take your first step toward healing.
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| 0:00.0 | Valentine's Day is in a couple weeks, and if you're like me, you will wait till the last minute, |
| 0:03.9 | and then you will go to the grocery store and get something super lame and way overpriced, |
| 0:08.6 | like some wilted flowers or some stale chocolates. Don't do that. Don't make that mistake that I've |
| 0:14.4 | made many times over the course of my marriage instead. You should get your wife a set of these |
| 0:19.0 | backgate prayer cards. If you're watching on YouTube or Spotify, you can see them behind me. |
| 0:23.5 | These are such a meaningful and powerful gift. |
| 0:26.8 | You can upload a picture of you and your wife or you and your family, |
| 0:30.3 | and they will create custom biblically based prayer cards. |
| 0:33.8 | It's a whole set. |
| 0:34.8 | So you can put them in your house, your living room, on your desk, |
| 0:37.7 | in the bathroom, wherever, and you can pick these up, and you can read these prayers over your |
| 0:42.0 | marriage, over your family. They are such an amazing gift. Hundreds of our dad tired guys have |
| 0:47.0 | got these for their wives over the years, and they've always been a hit. And this year, |
| 0:50.6 | they actually partnered with a ministry called V Bella. Again, if you're watching on Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:56.3 | But they have this necklace here that they have partnered with the ministry, |
| 1:00.0 | V-Bella, to support people in Haiti, give them jobs, provide scholarships, |
| 1:04.9 | medical care, schooling, all kinds of stuff like that. |
| 1:07.5 | It is a beautiful necklace. |
| 1:08.5 | My wife wears this every day. |
| 1:09.7 | You can get this necklace and a set of these custom prayer cards bundled together at an exclusive discount. |
| 1:16.3 | If you use the promo code, DT necklace, DT necklace will get you an exclusive discount. |
| 1:22.5 | Use the link in our show notes to get that. Don't be lame. Get your wife something that she will love something that's meaningful |
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