Buddhist Strategies For Reducing Everyday Addictions (To Your Phone, Food, Booze, And More) | Sister Dang Nghiem

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, everybody. How are we doing? Today we're going to talk about some Buddhist strategies for reducing your everyday addictions to your phone, food, alcohol, and more.

As always on this show and within a Buddhist context, when we talk about addiction, it doesn't just mean full-blown addictions, although of course it does include those, but it also means, as I referenced before, our everyday cravings. One technical definition of addiction is continued use despite adverse consequences. How many things in your life fit that description? In this episode, we've got a Buddhist nun and medical doctor who is going to use her combined training to help us turn down the volume on our everyday addictions. Sister Dong Yem, who also goes by Sister D,

is a nun in the plum village tradition founded by the late great Zen master Tiknat Han. Sister Dee, and I'm grateful for this, has now become a something of a frequent flyer on our show. I'll drop a link in the show notes to her first appearance where she talked about her extraordinary personal story. She was born in Vietnam during the war to a Vietnamese mother and an American soldier. She lost her mother at the age of twelve.

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