What We Got Wrong About Addiction | With Asher Gottesman

About this episode

Asher Gottesman shares his journey through childhood trauma and addiction, exploring misconceptions about addiction.

Send us Fan Mail Asher is a spiritual entrepreneur, human connection coach and Rabbi in Southern California. His story began at home as a young child where all seemed well from the outside. As the youngest by nine years, he felt a horrible sense of abandonment. His loneliness was compounded by his father’s prominence as a rabbi and community leader where the pressure to appear as role models was insufferable. This resulted in a childhood eating disorder and drug use by age 14. Asher was 33 w...

People in this episode

Host: Sony Perlman

Guest: Asher Gottesman

Topics covered

• addiction
• mental health
• spirituality
• childhood trauma
• self-improvement

Keywords

• addiction
• childhood eating disorder
• drug use
• spiritual entrepreneur
• human connection coach

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Organizations: Rabbi

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