Dylan discusses sobriety, recovery, sober living and the ever elusive hope for having  ‘fun in sobriety’ – sometime babbling on all by himself more often with a guest or two.

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Dylan reflects on the importance of performing a searching and fearless moral inventory, irrespective of 12-step recovery.

Ep68 - Why a Searching and Fearless Inventory is Important

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Dylan explores how to navigate the spirituality of steps 6 and 7 of 12 step recovery from an agnostic/atheistic standpoint, and what this means in practice.

Ep67 - Spirituality and Living with Character Defects

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Dylan reflects on his organic use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles when finding his way through his own recovery and how he has begun to utilize this process in his work with others seeking recovery from addictions. This episode is a discussion of how ACT informs his approach to the first three steps of the 12 step program.

Ep66 - ACT and the first three steps

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Dylan contemplates what it means to recognize we don&#39;t have control over our response to alcohol and how the concept of surrendering to this idea leads to recovery - and how mindful awareness of what this means can lead to a deeper experience of surrendering to a lack of control at a fundamental level.

Ep 65 -  Control and Surrender

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Dylan discusses what the concept of emotional sobriety means to him as well as what it means to be in recovery and to feel comfortable within his own skin.

Ep 64 - Emotional Sobriety

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Dylan reflects upon the significance of being in the moment, consciously present of the here-and-now, and how this informs spirituality and the ability to enact change in life

Ep 63 - Present Moment Awareness

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Dylan sits down to talk with Michelle B about getting sober in the late 1990s, being a single mother in early sobriety, relapsing after two decades of long-term-sobriety and what it took to come back and find recovery again.

Ep 62 - A Conversation with Michelle B

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In this episode of Fun in Sobriety, Dylan contemplates the idea of acceptance and self-compassion, both in early sobriety and what these ideas mean to him today

Ep 61 - Acceptance and Self-Compassion

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In this episode, Dylan ruminates over what it means to let go of character defects and how this manifests in the form of detachment from negative self-talk

Ep 60 - Character Defects and Detachment

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Dylan sits down with an old friend, Mike C to chat about his life experiences, his relationship with alcohol and his decision to give up alcohol as well as thoughts on living a secular and atheistic life, free will and the nature of consciousness.Link to Mike’s audio and video production company <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Northwest-Live" rel="nofollow">Northwest Live!</a>

Ep 59 - Dylan chats with Mike C

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Today Dylan contemplates the idea of transcending the self and the connection to humility and the leveling of pride that comes with the awareness that we are not our worst deeds - that our worst experiences do not define who we are as a person but rather they are experiences we have had; and how this manifests in viewing ourselves in context rather than in being attached to these experiences as self-definition.

Ep 58 - Humility, Pride and Self as Context

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Dylan sits down with friend and colleague Amanda Collins soon after her 10yr sobriety day to chat about sobriety, counseling and what it means to live a spiritual life.

Ep 57 - Dylan and Collins!

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Dylan discusses the need for humility when approaching the concept of being an alcoholic and what this means from a pragmatic perspective in finding recovery.

Ep 56 - Humility and Recovery

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If you find yourself in a 12-step program, it is easy to get distracted by the personalities and personal histories shared by others, especially if you focus on all the things that are different about them and their experiences from your own. In this episode, Dylan shares some thoughts on how and why it is important to focus on the similarities between his own and others&#39; experiences, not allowing the myriad of differences to get in the way - especially when it comes to spirituality and humility.

Ep 55 - Look for the Similarities

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The concept of turning your will and life over to the care of &#34;God&#34; or a Higher Power is confusing and difficult, especially when the god-concept holds very little tangible meaning in your life. Dylan describes his own attempts to square his own agnostic/atheistic approach to successfully embracing the 3rd step.

Ep 54 - 3rd Step Struggles

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Dylan contemplates the idea of &#34;first thought wrong&#34; in recovery and when to relax and begin to trust himself again.

Ep 53 - First thought wrong

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Some random ruminations on spirituality and what it means to be spiritual and an atheist in recovery

Ep 52 - Ruminations on Spirituality

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Dylan and Eric L chat on Eric&#39;s 6month sobriety birthday - a discussion about the challenges of early sobriety and getting sober, especially in the middle of a pandemic.
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Ep 51 - Dylan chats with Eric L

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<h1>Episode Notes</h1>
Dylan contemplates what it means to move forward in sobriety, facing and embracing the worst aspects of our lives, our histories, in hopes of finding recovery.
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Another Solo Episode of Fun in Sobriety

Ep 50 - More Than

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Dylan reflects upon the holiday season and feeling nostalgia and joy despite the general 2020 atmosphere of life.
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A very special holiday episode of the Fun in Sobriety Podcast

Ep 49 - Xmas Eve 2020

Dylan discusses sobriety, recovery, sober living and the ever elusive hope for having  ‘fun in sobriety’

Dylan discusses sobriety, recovery, sober living and the ever elusive hope for having ‘fun in sobriety’ – sometime babbling on all by himself more often with a guest or two.