Shame
+1
Our June check-ins are secretly divorced, selectively disciplined, and not-quite invisible.
Gratitude
Learning how to be a different person. New pod with Dave Manheim of Dopey. James Stockdale's stoicism. Thomas Merton. Natalie Shapero. A request for questions for an upcoming podcast!
acceptance
A roundup of our most popular May posts.
Loneliness
Bring your check-ins for June.
Anger
There is no upside to sending emails in an emotional state. Pema. A new pod about cancellation.
Alcohol
+2
Once more into the dumpster library of last worst nights, dear TSB friends
Rehab
“Being an addict and alcoholic is a full time job and I really was employee of the month, every month.”
Life on life's terms in a Laurel Canyon traffic jam. Spring poems for heady times. Ego shit and Epictetus. An LA meeting announcement.
“People seem to still be fixated on what tools are Best. I’m really trying to move beyond that part of my life, but honestly, I have failed.”
TSB Features
Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle.
Ben Gaffaney avoids the obvious joke.
"When I was little, you were my mom, until your boyfriend gave you heroin."
TSB readers on the dogs who changed them.
. . . don’t pick it up, and other actionable advice from Ben Gaffaney.
New pod episode with Jeremy Luke about dogs and recovery.
Eulogy
Harry Dean Stanton didn't need to act like a character.
Ben Gaffaney has un petit existential crisis.
Small Bow readers tell us their last worst nights (and days)
“I crawled back to rehab almost exactly 25 years after my first time there.”
Tell me about Your Last Worst Night. Plus: Nick Flynn. Pema. Stoics.
New pod episodes with Elizabeth Gilbert and Chris Witaske
Our Spring Member Drive is here and we need your help.
Ben Gaffaney is trying to ditch a defense mechanism.
“The things that I would do in years past — how would I describe it? I didn’t value myself or see myself the way I do now.”
