Avani Dilger’s career and calling in working with addiction, trauma, connection, and the existential questions that we all seek to explore began early in her life with the deaths of two friends. I would say that nearly everyone I know has been touched by addiction, so the questions we ask in the episode are vital to all of us: What is it that people seek through addiction? Why is this such an epidemic? We often label addiction as being about substances – drugs, alcohol – but what else are we addicted to? And, most importantly, what are other ways that people can tap into the longing for what they seek?

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