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Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder

Understanding Addiction and how spirituality can play a vital role in recovery with Dr. Olivera Bogunovic

Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder

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

4.6993 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kimberly Snyder interviews Dr. Olivera Bogunovic, a psychiatrist specializing in addiction treatment. They discuss the stigma surrounding addiction, the dangers of both prescription and recreational drugs, and the importance of individualized treatment plans. Dr. Bogunovic emphasizes the need for awareness regarding the potential for addiction with medications like benzodiazepines and opiates, and the role of therapy and spirituality in recovery. The conversation highlights the impact of hormonal changes on mental health and the importance of a holistic approach to treatment.

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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.

0:31.9

I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna,

0:39.2

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.

0:51.3

Let's get started.

1:01.2

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to our Monday interview show. I am very excited for our extra special guest today, Dr. Olivera Bogunovich. I hope I'm saying her name

1:09.9

correctly. She was recently seen in the documentary film as prescribed.

1:15.1

She is the medical director of McLean Hospital's Alcohol, Drug, and Addiction, Outpatient Program,

1:21.4

an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Today we're going to be talking about

1:27.4

awareness for certain medications which have become so

1:30.8

widespread and there isn't a lot of information about the potentially harmful effects.

1:36.1

We're going to get into all of that in today's show.

1:38.6

And I want to say that I wanted to bring this topic forward as well because as we've

1:43.2

started to talk more about heart coherence

1:46.0

with the new book, The Hidden Power, The Five Hearts, I have been receiving a lot of messages

1:50.5

around addiction and wanting to feel more free in our lives and just, you know, having awareness,

1:58.7

having tools is such an important part of the process.

2:01.5

So I wanted to bring in Dr. Olivera today to talk about a particular type of addiction

2:06.7

and what she sees in her work. So, doctor, thank you so much for taking time to be with us here today.

2:14.5

You're welcome, and I'm glad to talk about this important topic. Yes. Sometimes things,

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