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Sex is Better Sober ...and 23 other reasons why Alcohol is Obsolete
From depression and alcohol to spontaneous sobriety
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Bowen Dwelle
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Five Years Sober*
The reciprocal triangle of anger, addiction and depression—and anger as creative energy.
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Bowen Dwelle
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E12 / Finding Connection with Bill Maeda
Listen now (52 mins) | Physicality and identity, depression and isolation, finding connection through invitation, challenge and social media, the value…
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Bowen Dwelle
E02 / The Periodic Table of Love, with Michael “Roddy” McDowell
Listen now (64 mins) | The cloak of inadequacy, becoming ourselves, depression, how we practice relating, how thoughts are not feelings, somatic sensing…
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Bowen Dwelle
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E07 / Essence, Intuition, and Penetrating Divine Illumination with Robert Ellis
Listen now (52 mins) | Your individual essence, paths and quests, adventure, depression, intuition, decisions and choices, the three essence questions…
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I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
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Andy Johns
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Bowen Dwelle
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Psychic Heartburn
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 24 — There is No Escape
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Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
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E06 / Psychosis, Diagnosis and Gnosis with Anthony David Adams
Listen now (47 mins) | Coming around to our fathers, the emergence of self, becoming a man, going from psychosis to diagnosis to gnosis without…
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Anthony David Adams
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Bowen Dwelle
The Thing That Refuses To Be Named
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 29 — A Hard-Won Peace
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Learning to Love, Alone
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 28 — My Mother Was Not a Woman
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My entire book-length memoir, serialized right here on Substack
From “Who am I, and how could I not know?” to finding the voice of self, sanity and soul.
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