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327: 🐺The Wolf You Feed — On Addiction, Recovery & Codependency — and What We Get Wrong About All Three with Eric Zimmer

Pivot with Jenny Blake

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The Importance of Connection in Addiction

I think at some point for everyone who's in recovery from a serious substance addiction, we do have to go a little bit deeper into what is it that's going on inside me. We will always reach towards the coping mechanism because we don't know how to deal with the uncomfortable feeling until that is done. Life just has them. And so my addiction was an attempt to just really keep right on that. Like, I don't like how I feel. So that was my first big insight and it remains important to me today.

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