Getting to the Root of Food and Other Addictions with Dr. Jason Giles

Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder

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Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Education, Talk Radio, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Summary:

In this enlightening conversation, Dr. Jason Giles shares his personal journey from addiction to recovery, emphasizing the importance of connection, spirituality, and understanding the complexities of addiction. He discusses how his experiences as a patient have shaped his approach to addiction medicine, highlighting the need for empathy and individualized care. The discussion also touches on modern solutions for addiction, the role of community support, and the deeper emotional and spiritual aspects of recovery.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background

02:10 Journey into Addiction Medicine

09:20 Personal Experience with Addiction

13:01 Combining Science and Heart in Treatment

16:46 Recognizing Addiction: Signs and Symptoms

22:55 Addiction in Professionals: A Common Struggle

26:08 Breaking the Silence on Addiction

28:43 Understanding Food Addiction and GLP-1

31:56 The Complexity of Weight Loss and Hormonal Signals

34:19 The Role of Spirituality in Recovery

43:09 The Journey of Self-Discovery and Healing

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness.
0:07.8	When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible
0:22.8	results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives.
0:32.0	I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna,
0:39.3	creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker.
0:45.0	I am passionate about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey.
0:51.4	Let's get started.
1:01.3	Hello and welcome back to our Monday interview show. I hope you're having a lovely week so far. And today I'm really excited to share a very interesting
1:08.1	conversation that I had with Dr. Jason Giles with you. He is a triple
1:14.2	board certified physician in addiction medicine, anesthesiology, and pain medicine,
1:19.9	who has transformed addiction treatment by combining 25 years of personal recovery with two
1:26.3	decades of clinical expertise. I wanted to cover addiction because
1:30.8	it's something that affects so many of us and so many people that we know to different degrees.
1:37.0	And Dr. Giles comes at this topic from a place of heart connection, compassion, science, and combines it all together.
1:48.8	I also want to mention that we cover a interesting topic today that many people aren't
1:54.1	yet talking about, which is the GLP1 and addiction connection.
1:58.6	So we're going to get into our conversation here in just a moment.
2:01.9	In the meantime, I wanted to remind you to please head over to my saluna.com for the show notes
2:09.0	for today's show, as well as articles, we'll link to recipes, other shows I think you would enjoy.
2:15.6	And if you haven't yet signed up for our newsletter
2:18.6	over there on our website, please do so you can stay even more connected to the community to
2:25.0	free recipes and offerings than deals that we have all the time. All right, all that being said,
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