New Interview on Working with Addiction and Pain for the Mind & Life Podcast

I’m excited to share my recent interview with my good colleague Wendy Hasenkamp on the Mind & Life podcast!

We cover some fascinating topics including:

  • how my clinical psychotherapy practice informed my scientific research;
  • the power of mindfulness meditation to heal and restore well-being;
  • self-transcendence and non-dual states of consciousness;
  • how addiction changes reward processing and attention in the brain;
  • Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE), and its application to treating addiction and chronic pain;
  • how reappraisal can help in difficult situations;
  • the role of savoring and reconnecting with natural rewards;
  • deconstructing pain;
  • the effects of mindfulness meditation on brain function;
  • and exciting results from a large clinical trial showing how effective MORE is, and how it might work.

Click here to listen now: https://podcast.mindandlife.org/eric-garland/ or you can subscribe to the show on Spotify or other preferred players. I hope you enjoy it!