A.J. Daulerio

AJD Is founder and editor of The Small Bow.

How to Stay Sober

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!

Gratitude

You Are the Life of This Terrible Party

Bring your check-ins for June.

Loneliness

Don't Feed Your Troll

There is no upside to sending emails in an emotional state. Pema. A new pod about cancellation.

Anger

How to Make Things Worse

Life on life's terms in a Laurel Canyon traffic jam. Spring poems for heady times. Ego shit and Epictetus. An LA meeting announcement.

Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Brian Lam

“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.”

Did You Rescue Your Dog Or Did Your Dog Rescue You?

New pod episode with Jeremy Luke about dogs and recovery.

Dark Nights of the Piss-Soaked Soul and Other Rotten Memories

Tell me about Your Last Worst Night. Plus: Nick Flynn. Pema. Stoics.

How to Play in the Darkness

New pod episodes with Elizabeth Gilbert and Chris Witaske

How to Grow

Our Spring Member Drive is here and we need your help.

Head Games: Jaylon Johnson

“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.”

One Publix After Another

A family vacation in Singer Island, Fla. ends in a new personal reckoning.

How to Suffocate Your Feelings

Our latest podcast with actor Jerry O’Connell

All the Things

What we talk about when we talk about the Small Bow Podcast

Farewell, 51

Birthday realizations.

Box Full of Darkness

Old personal resentments are lurking. Merton. The Four Agreements. Podcast preview.

Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Foster Kamer

“We shouldn’t turn away from the horrors of the world, but we don’t have to mainline them, either, and I question the motivations and judgment of anyone who believes that’s at all a controversial statement.”

Emotional Sobriety and The Internet

Libraries Kept Me Safe When the World Did Not

“Where do you find a place where books and culture are prioritized, but you have no money and smell like Alabama roadkill? The public library.”

What It's Like to Live and Amend

How to forgive and then forge a friendship. New podcast launch. Poetry is Not a Luxury. Demons and Pema to the rescue.

The Bully

Or "How to Be a Better Parent." Gratitude. One Minute Wisdom. Billy Collins. New Podcast Alert! Check-In Reminder.

Such Heavy Work

A roundup of our most popular February posts.

Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Kathryn Jezer-Morton

“The content I’m looking at doesn’t make me feel bad, it’s the fact of looking, the fact of being defenseless against it.”

How to Shoot the Moon

A truly phenomenal recovery week. Pema. Seneca. Emotional Sobriety -- all the damn things.

Celebrations of Life

Thoughts on the resentment stage of grief.

How to Have Audacity

Tales from an all-day photoshoot in North Hollywood. The best poetry compilation in awhile. New tune that's just the best. Hopes. Fears. And the rest.

How to Not Be Patronizing

God for the tone deaf. Thich Nhat Hanh. More emotional sobriety lessons to last a lifetime.