Please welcome our special guest - Dr. Daniel Hochman, MD! This will be the first of two interviews with Daniel! 

Daniel is a psychiatrist from Austin, TX where he mainly focuses on treating addiction cases. Daniel is a progressive thinker with a passion for understanding how the human mind works and helping people explore their true selves. Learn more about Daniel here --->

Podcast content: 

• Addiction programs, accessibility, and statistics


• What is addiction


• Daniel's background


• How the human brain is wired


• Finding balance of structure and abstract and why they are important 


• Finding your self through intentional experimentation (16:08 )


• Why we hammer the inner child out of us (33:30 )


• The importance of order/abstract, masculine/feminine, yin/yang 


• How to integrate different parts of the psyche to thrive in our modern culture (40:02 )


• The importance of widening our sense of self personally as well as the collective impact (45:22 )


• The importance of self acceptance and self love (53:02 )


• How to stop harmful self talk 


• Medication and psychiatry (59:22 )


• Holistic health principles and mental health (1:02:00 )


• Creating intentional experiences for an altered state 

Connect with Daniel:

https://www.selfrecovery.org/

https://www.instagram.com/selfrecoveryhealth/

Watch the video version of the podcast:

 https://youtu.be/SQPAtCQZ2_0