Four of us take stock of our personal arcs towards greater emotional sobriety. Happiness, as Herb Kaighan frames it, isn’t a product of the work we do. It’s a byproduct of our relationships with a life of meaning and purpose, as well as our contributions to humanity. Thom advises self-compassion coupled with personal responsibility - so that we’re keeping ourselves accountable but through a language of love instead of hate. Allen underlines the fact that emotional sobriety isn’t something we arrive at passively. We need to foreground it to bring it into being.
With plans to move chapter-by-chapter (with exciting new guests!) through 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety, Allen & Thom unpack what it means to...
Joe C. and the crew discuss their emerging conception of living responsibly with emotional sobriety. Ultimately, this depends greatly on our connection with others...
Thom dives into his real-time experience of witnessing two dear friends (Allen being one of them) at radically different points in their lives. Emotional...