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Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Foster Kamer

Emotional Sobriety and The Internet

“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.”

A.J. Daulerio

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Mar 13, 2026

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Libraries Kept Me Safe When the World Did Not

Mar 10, 2026

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15 min read

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.”

A.J. Daulerio

Mar 8, 2026

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19 min read

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.

A.J. Daulerio

TSB Check-Ins

Mar 6, 2026

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12 min read

The Only Constant

Part II of our March check-ins.

The Small Bow

TSB Check-Ins

Mar 3, 2026

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17 min read

Where We Need to Be . . .

. . . and where we’re needed. TSB readers check in as the long winter closes.

The Small Bow

Mar 1, 2026

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14 min read

The Bully

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

A.J. Daulerio

Feb 27, 2026

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6 min read

Such Heavy Work

A roundup of our most popular February posts.

A.J. Daulerio

Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Kathryn Jezer-Morton

Feb 24, 2026

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9 min read

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.”

A.J. Daulerio, +1

Feb 22, 2026

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11 min read

Down a River of Unbroken Thoughts

Self-seeking for the sick and tired. Poetry is Not a Luxury. Quotes and songs.

Ben Gaffaney

Feb 20, 2026

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12 min read

They Did the Best They Could

TSB readers on facing the death of a parent who caused them so much pain.

Miranda, +1

Interview with an 83-year-old Sober Person: Sydney Lea

Feb 17, 2026

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12 min read

Interview with an 83-year-old Sober Person: Sydney Lea

“I am 83 and if I don’t get drunk or otherwise wasted for the next few months, I will have been clean and sober for 26 years.”

The Small Bow

Feb 15, 2026

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13 min read

How to Shoot the Moon

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

A.J. Daulerio

Feb 12, 2026

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13 min read

Celebrations of Life

Thoughts on the resentment stage of grief.

A.J. Daulerio

Eulogy

Feb 9, 2026

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13 min read

Like a Shadow Among Other Men

Twelve years without Philip Seymour Hoffman

John Saward

Feb 8, 2026

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12 min read

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.

A.J. Daulerio

An Unwilling Participant in Your Own Life

Feb 6, 2026

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13 min read

An Unwilling Participant in Your Own Life

This month, we’re trying to live honestly, no matter how much we miss pretending

The Small Bow

Feb 2, 2026

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24 min read

Being Kevin, Watching "Being Charlie"

"My father’s responsibility was to make sure I was okay, not to make me feel okay, because nothing made me feel okay, especially not the things that I thought would."

Kevin Jack McEnroe

Feb 1, 2026

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13 min read

How to Not Be Patronizing

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

A.J. Daulerio

Jan 31, 2026

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11 min read

On Smoking

"It seems like Smoking Is Back from what I can gather from the youngish celebrities whose names I am no longer capable of retaining."

Luke O'Neil

How To Sleep When the World Won't Let You

Jan 27, 2026

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25 min read

How To Sleep When the World Won't Let You

How to sleep (or not), part two.

The Small Bow

Jan 25, 2026

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15 min read

Outside Issues in the Unquiet City

Emotional sobriety at the end of the world. Thomas Merton. Maggie Smith poem because why not. People to rally behind.

A.J. Daulerio

Jan 23, 2026

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12 min read

How to Sleep When You're Tired

Our readers write in and tell us how they go to bed each night.

The Small Bow

Interview with a 63-year-old Sober Person: Tommy Swerdlow

Jan 20, 2026

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17 min read

Interview with a 63-year-old Sober Person: Tommy Swerdlow

“I used to be a bit of a cocky jerk and judgmental asshole, but there’s nothing like a twenty-year heroin habit to knock some of the snot nose out of you.”

The Small Bow

Jan 18, 2026

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13 min read

What Is It Like to Go to Sleep?

A new prompt for this month. Buddhism Megablast! Pema/Kornfield. More Ram Dass.

A.J. Daulerio

Jan 16, 2026

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6 min read

We Are All Drafts

Maggie Smith is this month’s TSB Poet Laureate.

A.J. Daulerio

Jan 13, 2026

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14 min read

Cassandra at the Abyss

A bookseller recommends a novel about suicide.

Elizabeth Freeman

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Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Foster Kamer

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AA

Al-Anon

Adult Children of Alcoholics

Cocaine

Shame

Sober Holidays

Sober parenting

bipolar disorder

Gratitude

Depression

Death and Sobriety

Grief

acceptance

Rehab

Meditation

Post Archive

Libraries Kept Me Safe When the World Did Not

What It's Like to Live and Amend

The Only Constant

Where We Need to Be . . .

The Bully

Such Heavy Work

Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Kathryn Jezer-Morton

Down a River of Unbroken Thoughts

They Did the Best They Could

Interview with an 83-year-old Sober Person: Sydney Lea

How to Shoot the Moon

Celebrations of Life

Like a Shadow Among Other Men

How to Have Audacity

An Unwilling Participant in Your Own Life

Being Kevin, Watching "Being Charlie"

How to Not Be Patronizing

On Smoking

How To Sleep When the World Won't Let You

Outside Issues in the Unquiet City

How to Sleep When You're Tired

Interview with a 63-year-old Sober Person: Tommy Swerdlow

What Is It Like to Go to Sleep?

We Are All Drafts

Cassandra at the Abyss

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