What Anna Lembke has said about Spiritual surrender
2 quotes · 1 episode · Nov 9, 2026
Anna Lembke, Stanford psychiatrist and author of Dopamine Nation, has been quoted on Spiritual surrender 2 times in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on November 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Lembke holds that in severe addiction, people are addicted to control rather than to the substance or behavior itself.
“in the severest cases of addiction, people are not actually addicted to that substance or that behavior. What they're addicted to is control”
Huberman Lab: Overcome Addictions & Obsessions of All Kinds | Dr. Anna Lembke (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 39:37
Lembke recommends that people pray even if unsure they believe in a higher power, requiring only admission of the limits of control.
“I really recommend that people pray, even if they're not sure they believe in a higher power”
Huberman Lab: Overcome Addictions & Obsessions of All Kinds | Dr. Anna Lembke (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:13
Episodes
Overcome Addictions & Obsessions of All Kinds | Dr. Anna LembkeHuberman Lab · Nov 9, 2026 · 2 h 17 min
Andrew Huberman and psychiatrist Anna Lembke discuss dopamine, addiction as an addiction to control, spiritual surrender, codependency, and treatments including GLP-1s and ketamine.
Others on Spiritual surrender
- Andrew Huberman · 1 quote
Anna Lembke on other topics
- Addiction and recovery · 4 quotes
- Codependency and love addiction · 2 quotes
- Social media and adolescent mental health · 2 quotes
- GLP-1 receptor agonists · 1 quote
- Ketamine · 1 quote
- Psychedelic therapy · 1 quote
- Periaqueductal gray · 1 quote
- Psychological trauma · 1 quote