The Sober Atheist Podcast

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.

Podcasting since 2024 • 28 episodes

The Sober Atheist Podcast

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28. Banishing Fear and Anxiety as an Atheist in Recovery – Sometimes It’s Personal

John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss fear and anxiety in the light of some recent serious health problems they have both faced. This topic is addressed from the point of view of two committed atheists and how they deal with these issues in the...

November 23, 2025 • 1:00:02

27. Why Atheism Works: A Recovery Journal

John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss the fact that there appears to be much to be discovered on the journey from there to here as an atheist in recovery. We found that we would not have had it any other way.

October 13, 2025 • 1:00:00

26. Have Conventional Recovery Programs Outlived Their Usefulness to Atheists in Recovery?

John Huey and Michael Tingley revisit this well-worn topic to consider where they now are, as non-believers in recovery, given the progression of their own individual recoveries and their relations (and non-relations) to the formal recovery pro...

September 11, 2025 • 1:00:09

25. How Does Living Our Best Lives as Atheists Enhance Our Sobriety

John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss living their lives in the real world, as opposed to a life based, at least in part, on fantasy, and how the sometimes hard road of what can actually be seen (as opposed to a path where people constantly con...

August 18, 2025 • 1:00:29

24. Love and Hate - Dealing with Strong Emotions as an Atheist in Recovery – Part Two – Hate

There is never enough love in the world but these days there seems to be a real excess in the amount of hate out there. What to do? Speaking for themselves only, John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss this within the context of how a non-believe...

July 08, 2025 • 59:42

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thanks for the inspiration. Over the last 2 years I've been reflecting and reframing my experience with NA, some of which was influenced by regular listening to your work I wrote a series of articles about my experience, and a recurring theme is the leap to something supernatural, which I find a barrier and often more harmful that good. Certainly for me. Link to the intro and subsequent posts below https://substack.com/@hyperballadbrad/note/p-175470272?r=4ju9ch&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

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