The Sober Atheist Podcast is a new effort to discuss and expand upon various aspects of Sobriety that relate to the Atheist. The co-hosts, John Huey and Michael Tingley, are both people in long-term recovery from alcohol and/or drugs. These wide ranging conversations will include both original presentations based on newly articulated approaches to recovery and discussions with other sober atheists to present other diverse perspectives.
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Send us a text This is a live recording of John Huey at a workshop session at the ICSAA Conference in Orlando FL on September 20, 2024. This is a continuation of the theme developed for Episode 5, Atheism as Affirmation in Sobriety.By Sober Atheist
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12. Atheism, Hope and the Promotion of Misery in Conventional Recovery Programs
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss the promotion of feelings of helplessness and hopelessness as entry points in many recovery programs, both Religious and Secular. This was best embodied by a comment overheard at a meeting, “When I went there, I had an overwhelming sense of learned helplessness.”…
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11. Loss of Program Friends – How does the Atheist in Recovery Cope?
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss how to deal with both the death of long-time sober program friends and the emotions associated with dealing with the loss of people we know who don't achieve a lasting recovery and then either expire or disappear.By Sober Atheist
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10. A Conversation About AA with an Old Friend
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley, both former AA members, talk to Dennis Walsh, a longtime friend in recovery and a person still active in AA, about several issues he thinks we have misconstrued regarding that program.By Sober Atheist
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9. Coping With Life Changing Events as an Atheist in Sobriety
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss how atheists in recovery handle various serious life changing issues without recourse to the supernatural.By Sober Atheist
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8. The Hunter Biden Case from the Perspective of a Sober Atheist
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss the Hunter Biden case as it potentially affects the popular depiction of all addicts and alcoholics in recovery and the widely held misconceptions of how a lasting recovery occurs.By Sober Atheist
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7. Good Sense From Our Canadian Friend
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Send us a text We have Larry Knight from Toronto as a guest to discuss his landmark case in Canada regarding access to recovery for secular people as well as other interesting parts of his journey.By Sober Atheist
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6. Coping with Politics in the Context of Sobriety
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss the daily stresses and difficulties presented to recovering people by current political realities.By Sober Atheist
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss the concept of affirmation as an essential element in sobriety for the atheist.By Sober Atheist
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4. Secular Sobriety Past, Present and Future
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley have a conversation with John C. from Paris to discuss both organized and individual secular approaches to sobriety from a historical and contemporary perspective.By Sober Atheist
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3. Intuition and the importance of the individual to the atheist in sobriety
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss the importance of the intuitive sense in recovery. This episode is a continuation of a prior series of podcasts regarding atheism in recovery that appeared on the Beyond Belief Sobriety Podcast. Links to these, as well as the essay that this episode is based on, can be found on our Facebook page.…
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2. How we did it without "god", "faith", "steps" or "spirituality"
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley talk about their early days in recovery and how they achieved and maintained their sobriety.By Sober Atheist
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1. Who are we and what are we doing here?
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Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley co-host the introductory episode of The Sober Atheist Podcast.By Sober Atheist
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