• Ep68 - Why a Searching and Fearless Inventory is Important
    Jul 1 2025

    Dylan reflects on the importance of performing a searching and fearless moral inventory, irrespective of 12-step recovery.

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    29 mins
  • Ep67 - Spirituality and Living with Character Defects
    Jun 17 2025

    Dylan explores how to navigate the spirituality of steps 6 and 7 of 12 step recovery from an agnostic/atheistic standpoint, and what this means in practice.

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    36 mins
  • Ep66 - ACT and the first three steps
    Feb 26 2025

    Dylan reflects on his organic use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles when finding his way through his own recovery and how he has begun to utilize this process in his work with others seeking recovery from addictions. This episode is a discussion of how ACT informs his approach to the first three steps of the 12 step program.

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    48 mins
  • Ep 65 - Control and Surrender
    Jan 7 2025

    Dylan contemplates what it means to recognize we don't have control over our response to alcohol and how the concept of surrendering to this idea leads to recovery - and how mindful awareness of what this means can lead to a deeper experience of surrendering to a lack of control at a fundamental level.

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    43 mins
  • Ep 64 - Emotional Sobriety
    Aug 27 2024

    Dylan discusses what the concept of emotional sobriety means to him as well as what it means to be in recovery and to feel comfortable within his own skin.

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    33 mins
  • Ep 63 - Present Moment Awareness
    Jul 8 2024

    Dylan reflects upon the significance of being in the moment, consciously present of the here-and-now, and how this informs spirituality and the ability to enact change in life

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    30 mins
  • Ep 62 - A Conversation with Michelle B
    Jun 25 2024

    Dylan sits down to talk with Michelle B about getting sober in the late 1990s, being a single mother in early sobriety, relapsing after two decades of long-term-sobriety and what it took to come back and find recovery again.

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Ep 61 - Acceptance and Self-Compassion
    Jun 3 2024

    In this episode of Fun in Sobriety, Dylan contemplates the idea of acceptance and self-compassion, both in early sobriety and what these ideas mean to him today

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    29 mins