# wise effort (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover wise effort. Page: Feed: --- ## [Religion, Recovery, and the Problems of Wellness: Q&A with Liz Bucar](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/religion-recovery-and-the-problems) _2026-04-28 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ On her new book, Beyond Wellness ## [How a Little Becomes a Lot, with Eric Zimmer | Flourishing After Addiction #46](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/how-a-little-becomes-a-lot-with-eric) _2026-03-10 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ "When we say we're gonna do something and then we do it, there's an internal feeling of alignment that feels good." ## [What Counts as an Addiction? Social Media, IFS, and Some Other News](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/what-counts-as-an-addiction-social) _2026-03-03 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ Recent interviews, some news, and a request ## [What Addiction Science Got Wrong About Dopamine, with Dr. David Nutt | Flourishing After Addiction #45](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/what-addiction-science-got-wrong) _2025-12-15 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ "It's inconceivable there can be just a single chemical that mediates all the effects of what addicted drugs have. That was so patently daft." ## [Can You Become Addicted to AI?](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/can-you-become-addicted-to-ai) _2025-11-07 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ Watch now | A conversation with neuroscientist Tim Requarth on AI dependency, cognitive shortcuts, and what AI is doing to our brains [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/178164368/b86c3457812e49bffff07239b2cf253d.mp3) ## [Behind The Rise of Psychiatric Diagnosis](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/behind-the-rise-of-psychiatric-diagnosis) _2025-11-02 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ How psychiatric diagnosis got so powerful, and why diagnosis matters. A response to Aftab. ## [How to write a book](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/how-to-write-a-book) _2025-10-17 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ Or, how to get to write a book ## [On Stigma, Burnout, and the Fight to Keep Caring, with Dr. Melody Glenn | Flourishing After Addiction #44](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/on-stigma-burnout-and-the-fight-to) _2025-08-13 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ "The poison is still more accessible than the treatment." ## [Inside the Behavioral Addictions Debate – Conference Notes](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/inside-the-behavioral-addictions) _2025-08-10 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ What behavioral addictions teach us about losing control. Is the whole field on shaky ground? We often think of addiction as something you either have or don't have—but what if that binary is the problem? ## [Wise Effort, with Dr. Diana Hill | Flourishing After Addiction #43](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/wise-effort-with-dr-diana-hill-flourishing) _2025-07-31 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ "Wise effort won't get rid of your problems—it's how you relate to them that matters most." ## [Generate Viral Hot Takes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7FX1s1ePjPNN) _2025-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Get platform-optimized hot takes and rebuttals to spark debate and engagement ## [BONUS EPISODE: a guided meditation for working with cravings, and Jud Brewer on Mindshift Recovery | Flourishing After Addiction #42](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/bonus-episode-a-guided-meditation) _2025-07-16 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ A new brain-based approach to overcoming problematic behaviors and addictions ## [Unwinding Self-Addiction, with Dr. Jud Brewer | Flourishing After Addiction #41](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/unwinding-self-addiction-with-dr) _2025-06-08 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ "I’ve never found a case where I was taking something personally and wasn’t suffering." ## [A Book Deal (and some great interviews)!](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/a-book-deal-and-some-great-interviews) _2025-05-27 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ Self-control and everyday addictions, emotional sobriety, and more ## [What Is It Like to Be an Addict? with Prof. Owen Flanagan | Flourishing After Addiction #40](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/what-is-it-like-to-be-an-addict-with) _2025-04-22 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ "One cannot have a complete theory of addiction without incorporating the addict’s experience. Listen carefully to what addicts say about what it is like to be an addict." ## [Understanding self-control](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/understanding-self-control) _2025-02-27 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ trying not to doomscroll and snack my way to misery. doing the things that wisdom dictates instead. ## [My NY Times Essay: What Sports Betting Reveals About Addiction](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/my-new-york-times-essay-what-sports) _2025-02-08 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ What’s different now isn’t the underlying susceptibility, it’s that technology and concentrated commercial power have made these vulnerabilities impossible to ignore. ## [Self-Control Matters in Addiction](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/self-control-matters-in-addiction) _2025-02-03 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ The biomechanical disease folks are right that there is a there there, that when people with addiction say they feel powerless, we should take them (us) seriously. The choice folks are right that even in severe cases of addiction, we are not choiceless zombies but retain some human agency. ## [How AI Reflects and Reinforces Mental Health Stigma](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/how-ai-reflects-and-reinforces-mental) _2024-12-14 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ Our paper in BMJ Mental Health: AI-generated imagery often amplifies harmful stereotypes about mental disorders. How models like DALL-E 3 and Midjourney shape public perceptions of mental illness ## [What makes the internet addictive?](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/what-makes-the-internet-addictive) _2024-12-04 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ The next hellsites. What makes us stay online. Bluesky. The allure of simplicity and the inexorable pull toward complex design features eroding our self-control. ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vURq6kgwYdkC) _2024-12-04 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Fentanyl Nation: Toxic Politics and America’s Failed War on Drugs, with Ryan Hampton | Flourishing After Addiction #39](https://carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/fentanyl-nation-toxic-politics-and) _2024-10-30 · Carl Erik Fisher · Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher_ "Without question, the biggest barrier I see ahead of us is politics. In such a polarized moment, addiction is a rare subject on which most of us agree."