Howard Malitz returns to the pod to chat with Patrick and Thom about the deeper levels of recovery he discovered in the course of trying to find peace at work and in marriage. Allen joins the episode in the closing stretch to give us an update on his arduous physical recovery from a recent surgery. Throughout, we touch on how Emotional Sobriety offers us connection more than any other singular quality, to the people we care about and the conflicts pressing us. Walking this path as a daily practice, we can cultivate our best qualities.
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...
How we react to the disappointments we face in our relationships, in ourselves, and our politics is at the heart of emotional sobriety, because...
Peg joins us to talk about her more secular conception of a Higher Power, informed by her background in philosophy and the life and...