Spiritual surrender
Subject in Spirituality
Spiritual surrender has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Huberman Lab. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Anna LembkeStanford psychiatrist and author of Dopamine Nation
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
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
Andrew HubermanAmerican neuroscientist, professor at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast
Huberman suggests that fear of death underlies all addictions and the aversion to acknowledging lack of control.
“to acknowledge that we're not in complete control is also to acknowledge that we're going to die”
Huberman Lab: Overcome Addictions & Obsessions of All Kinds | Dr. Anna Lembke (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 1:20:25
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
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.