#50 - Alex Olshonsky | You're Probably Addicted to Thinking

About this episode

Alex Olshonsky discusses his journey from addiction to recovery and the insights he gained through somatic psychology.

Alex Olshonsky is a coach, somatic therapist, and writer. After a polysubstance addiction nearly killed him during his Silicon Valley years at Twitter, Salesforce, and Slack, he found freedom in somatic psychology and contemplative practice. He now coaches founders and people in recovery, co-founded the psychedelic-assisted addiction nonprofit Natura Care , and writes the Substack Deep Fix . In this highly practical episode, we talk about his life a “professional drug addict” and his beautiful article You’re probably addicted to thinking. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com

People in this episode

Host: Daniel Kazandjian

Guest: Alex Olshonsky

Topics covered

• addiction
• somatic therapy
• contemplative practice
• coaching
• mental health
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• addiction
• somatic therapy
• coaching
• mental health
• entrepreneurship
• contemplative practice
• Natura Care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Twitter, Salesforce, Slack, Natura Care

Books & works: You’re probably addicted to thinking

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