The podcast today talks from a perspective of addiction manifesting in our lives as a pattern of deep, unmet needs. The addiction forms from using substitutes - substances or forms of escape used as imitations for our real, internal needs. Constantly using substitutes never meets the actual need we’re having and usually this turns into a pattern and potential addiction later down the road.

The podcast also talks about how to bring in mindfulness to discover what substitutes we are currently using in our own life and offers a 5-step plan to begin moving away from the substitutes and start meeting the actual needs and desires present within us.