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