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Five Years Sober*
The reciprocal triangle of anger, addiction and depression—and anger as creative energy.
Feb 5, 2023
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Bowen Dwelle
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Five Years Sober*
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Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
Sep 18, 2022
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Bowen Dwelle
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E17 / Addiction and Obsession with Charlie Engle
Listen now (75 mins) | Running, long distance, integration, getting bored, body management, the natural elasticity of our conscious experience…
Mar 6, 2023
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E17 / Addiction and Obsession with Charlie Engle
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Eighteen essays about addiction, masculinity, creativity, and intuition
As well as anxiety, fitness, sobriety, self-discipline, purpose, love, adventure, pain yoga, intuition, the collective unconscious, psychedelics…
Mar 25, 2023
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Eighteen essays about addiction, masculinity, creativity, and intuition
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E08 / Sex is Better Sober with Kenyon Phillips
Listen now (48 mins) | Human animals, addiction, marriage, surprise fatherhood, manhood, masculinity, money, the illusion of security, and getting our…
Oct 17, 2022
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E08 / Sex is Better Sober with Kenyon Phillips
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Highlights from two dozen Brothers and Teachers
Twenty-four good people on truth, creativity, identity, writing, performing, meditation, addiction, abstinence, transcendental moments, the infinite…
Sep 2, 2023
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E18 / Unhooked and Connected with Dr. Adi Jaffe
Listen now (56 mins) | Getting to the underlying causes of addictive behavior, the abstinence myth—and the myth of normal, gaining perspective on…
Mar 20, 2023
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E18 / Unhooked and Connected with Dr. Adi Jaffe
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Against Recovery
Recovery still carries a lot of cultural weight, but to me it's a ghost river, pouring dust.
Apr 27, 2024
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Bowen Dwelle
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Sex is Better Sober ...and 23 other reasons why Alcohol is Obsolete
From depression and alcohol to spontaneous sobriety
Apr 18, 2023
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Sex is Better Sober ...and 23 other reasons why Alcohol is Obsolete
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What I'm Reading — Feb 2023
Rick Rubin, Sam Stagg, Liv Stratman, Adi Jaffe, David Carr, Scott Britton, Dan Savage, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Richard V Reeves, Mary Karr, Harry Crews…
Feb 28, 2023
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What I'm Reading — Feb 2023
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"We get good at what we do."
Bowen Dwelle in conversation with Donna McArthur of The Bright Life
Dec 20, 2023
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"We get good at what we do."
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Learning to ride
An antidote to pseudo-spiritual "recovery"
Dec 13, 2023
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