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.
Let's return to fundamental questions of what Emotional Sobriety is, and why we consider it the “next frontier." How do we build support systems,...
Conversing with our inner child: What Thom believes it is, and what it isn’t. Patrick relates his firsthand experience doing this work in his...
Our discussion of Chapter 2 in Allen's book continues, with an emphasis on the importance of practicing self-awareness especially in terms of establishing, maintaining,...