Get Over Yourself! The Milt n Mia Show's podcast

"That donut keeps calling me!": Addiction, Self-Control and Choosing who You want to Be

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Synopsis

After Milt introduces the show, he mentions their 2 relationship booklets, The Get Over Yourself! Handbook on Cheating and Betrayal and The Get Over Yourself! Handbook on Creating Happiness in a Relationship, before talking about this week's guest expert, addiction expert, nutritionist and yoga teacher, Christina Santini, who'll be addressing addiction and food as a medicine. He then speaks about this week's theme, Addiction or Yielding to Temptation. Milt, “The old timers saw the problem as one of self-restraint, instead of being a victim, which I don't buy into at all. Still, addictive, compulsive behavior is everywhere, most notably with food.” He then mentions how the old timers saw it as a case of yielding to one of 9 different temptations which could lead you away from your center, before reading the American Society of Additive Medicine's definition of addiction, “Addiction is a primary chronic disease...” He then asks Mia for her view, “disease or self-control issue?&rdq