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Sex is Better Sober ...and 23 other reasons why Alcohol is Obsolete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 • Bowen Dwelle
Five Years Sober*
The reciprocal triangle of anger, addiction and depression—and anger as creative energy.
Feb 5, 2023 • Bowen Dwelle
E12 / Finding Connection with Bill Maeda
Physicality and identity, depression and isolation, finding connection through invitation, challenge and social media, the value of violent expression…
Dec 15, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
51:42
E02 / The Periodic Table of Love, with Michael “Roddy” McDowell
The cloak of inadequacy, becoming ourselves, depression, how we practice relating, how thoughts are not feelings, somatic sensing and expression, and…
Jul 25, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
1:03:48
E07 / Essence, Intuition, and Penetrating Divine Illumination with Robert Ellis
Your individual essence, paths and quests, adventure, depression, intuition, decisions and choices, the three essence questions, cancer, not having to…
Oct 3, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
51:47
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
Jun 10, 2023 • Andy Johns and Bowen Dwelle
Psychic Heartburn
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 24 — There is No Escape
Jul 12, 2023
Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
Sep 18, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
E06 / Psychosis, Diagnosis and Gnosis with Anthony David Adams
Coming around to our fathers, the emergence of self, becoming a man, going from psychosis to diagnosis to gnosis without 'white-knuckling' it…
Sep 23, 2022 • Anthony David Adams and Bowen Dwelle
46:47
The Thing That Refuses To Be Named
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 29 — A Hard-Won Peace
Aug 23, 2023
Learning to Love, Alone
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 28 — My Mother Was Not a Woman
Aug 17, 2023
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.
Dec 1, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
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