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 • 26 episodes
The Sober Atheist Podcast
Latest Episodes
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...
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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...
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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...
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23. A Question of Love and Hate – Dealing with Strong Emotions as an Atheist in Recovery - Part One
John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss love as being a prime mover in recovery and in life. While not without its problems it is a marker for the ability to deal with both adversity and the ultimate satisfactions of a sober life as a non-believe...
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22. Atheism and Recovery – A Fact-Based Reliance on the Visible World
John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss an approach to recovery from alcohol and/or drugs based on what is seen, not what is wished for. The reaction of others to this firmly held position in both the conventional recovery programs and the so-cal...
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