Author: Alysse Bryson

Chelsea Clinton’s health misinformation podcast takes on alcohol myths with Columbia epidemiologist Dr. Katherine Keyes. Spoiler: the red wine study does not survive, and the data on high-achieving women and drinking will stop you mid-scroll.

Camp Sober Fest took adult summer camp and made it sober: high ropes, archery, campfire meetings, and a mandatory-in-spirit talent show. After wrapping its August session at Sequoia Lake, the crew heads to Trinity, Texas for sober spring break, March 17 to 21, 2027. All-inclusive for $525.

That book in your head isn’t writing itself. Tawny Lara’s fall writing room runs Tuesdays and Thursdays, September 22 through November 19, with guided prompts, focused writing time, and a community of writers who get it.

Simon Dyson threw Ironman medals in a shoebox, drank to fix what could not be fixed, and got sober after a stranger prayed for him at Notre Dame. Then he rode 852 kilometers across the Karoo and came home with a farm to build for his son Billy.

Al Tapper never drank. His college roommate never stopped. Sixty years after Walt Disney fired that roommate from a Disneyland ice cream parlor, the story is a song in Tapper’s new Off-Broadway musical memoir, and Sober Curator readers get 20% off tickets.

Panel scores, fulls and halves only: “Running Point” S2 got a 3.5, “Your Friends & Neighbors” S2 got a 4.5, “Imperfect Women” got a 3.5. Senior Contributor Lane Kennedy tried to file a 4.75 and is now on strike. Which one did we get wrong? Give us your Sobees score and one sentence of evidence.

D’Aydrian Harding is bringing his Stay Sober apparel to Spencer’s, giving sober streetwear a highly visible home in mainstream retail. Shop the colorful hoodie, T-shirt and lounge pants designed to make sobriety look bold, confident and anything but boring.

Aerosmith accidentally invented recovery coaching in the 1980s. Forty years later, coach Stephanie Hazard wrote the first mainstream book about it. Our #QUITLIT review of Making Sobriety Stick, including the Sobees score and the one chapter written for readers with decades of sobriety.

Dopey Nation is turning recovery into a game show. On October 3, DopeyCon takes over NYC’s SVA Theatre with Katz’s pastrami, a stacked sober celebrity lineup including Hank Azaria and Carl Radke, and a shot at being pulled into the show yourself. Costumes strongly encouraged.

Alysse Bryson and Tamar Routly take on the hazards of podcasting sober. No blackout excuse. “Radical honesty” was never supposed to mean unfiltered.

Bianca signed up for Australia’s national electric skateboard championship without knowing what it was, trained for two months on a board limited to 42 km/h, and came last. Nine days later she hit one year sober. She is calling it a comeback story. She is right.

Ronnie Marmo has never had a legal drink. On September 3 he turns 36 years sober, and that same night Bill W. and Dr. Bob opens in Skokie with Ronnie playing Bill. He carried the script around for a decade before he dared to stage it. We talked treasurer resentments, sitting at Bill Wilson’s desk, and why I was wrong about Jamie Lee Curtis.

Rich Roll has spent 1,000+ episodes proving recovery conversations don’t have to be preachy. We pulled the 18 best addiction and recovery episodes from the last two years, from Spider-Man’s sobriety to Episode 1,000. Bookmark accordingly.

Eliza runs the National Recovery Friendly Workplace Institute, which certifies employers as recovery friendly. If you have heard the federal term “recovery-ready workplace,” that’s the same idea with government wording on it. The two are used interchangeably. Here’s how it got here, and I love this origin story. New Hampshire has been one of the hardest-hit states in the country for fatal overdoses. Governor Chris Sununu had run a ski resort before he ran the state, and he’d seen firsthand what the gap looked like from an employer’s side. Resources cluster in cities. Workplaces don’t. There’s a workplace in every…

Sober travel has always had a discovery problem: the trips exist, but finding them means group chats and lucky screenshots. Backstage member Isabel van Zuilen just launched Dry Tripping Travel, a marketplace that puts alcohol-free retreats and group trips in one searchable place.

We put the Davincified Seattle Mini Paint by Numbers Set to the test at a sober paint and sip night on a backyard patio in the PNW. Six mini canvases, 24 paints, brushes, zero hangovers. Here’s what we loved, what it costs, and the one sticker snafu you’ll want to avoid.

Three memoirs came out this year from three people who could not be more different, and every one of them was writing about the same thing. We pulled the Sober Curator readers into a room and made them score it.

Hayden Panettiere died at 36. Brad Pitt says he’s drinking again. Two stories, one week, and a conversation the recovery community keeps getting wrong

Sober owned apparel brand Boring Boys just dropped a two-piece collab with The Bridge to Recovery, and $5 from every shirt sold goes to the nonprofit’s Life Saver Fund. Ice cream high fives, better days ahead, and proof that boring is the new cool.

In recent years, the conversation surrounding sobriety, addiction, and mental health has become more open and essential than ever before. The popular podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard is one platform with many sober celebrity interviews. Known for his candid and empathic interviewing style, Shepard dives deep into the personal lives of his guests, many of whom are public figures who have bravely shared their journeys with sobriety and mental health challenges publicly. If you are part of the sober community, a fan of Armchair Expert, or a mental health advocate, this curated list of episodes is for you. We’ve gathered some…

Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear just dropped on Hulu, and nobody is calling it what it is: a sobriety documentary wearing a drum kit. AB stayed up way too late watching it so you can too.

Sabyn Mayfield went three days without speaking and came home with the song of my summer. The Season 1 favorite is back to break down “WORTHY,” his new single with Callie, the black-and-white video that needed zero notes on the first cut, and why the best art gets made when you stop keeping score.

I bought a tiny record player and two different brands of tiny albums, and discovered after filming the entire unboxing that one set doesn’t fit. My full review of the mini vinyl craze, plus the sober milestone gift idea hiding inside those blind balls.

**UPDATED POST – Original article was published in May 2026. This post has been updated as of August 10, 2026. Esquire published Ryan D’Agostino’s Brad Pitt cover profile, “A Monday with Brad Pitt,” on Aug. 10, 2026. During the interview, Pitt offered D’Agostino wine. When D’Agostino asked whether it was just for guests, Pitt disclosed that he had resumed drinking after seven years sober. A Quick Note From The Sober Curator Before anyone treats Brad Pitt getting off the wagon like it’s the latest TikTok trend: his decision does not need to become yours. Pitt told Esquire that after seven…

Nobody makes mixtapes anymore. So for our sixth anniversary, we made you one. Seven mini zines, printed on paper, nestled into a real cassette tape case, mailed to your door every month for six months. Volume 001 ships August 20.

There’s a raccoon named Jimothy in this episode. There’s also a 10X business scale-up, the reason sober people make dangerous entrepreneurs, and the AI conversation everyone’s tiptoeing around. Episode 7 is the sober business owners episode. If you’ve done the hardest thing already, press play.

I went to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day in 3D with my son and cried in my glasses. Then I remembered the guy in the suit is sober, founded a non-alcoholic beer brand, and just dropped limited-edition Spidey cans sold at movie theaters. Your friendly neighborhood NA beer has arrived.

Hasbro just launched Blooms by Play-Doh, the first Play-Doh line made for adults. We tested two kits, and this hands-on flower crafting experience might be the perfect sober anniversary gift. Honest review inside.

Skylar sent us two gourmand fragrances from the collection curated by Leah Kateb, the Love Island USA star turned Chief Creative Officer. We expected to love the cake one. We were wrong, and the twist involves being single forever.

Sober travel is the upgrade, not the consolation prize. Episode 6 has the airport hacks, the costume trips, and your invite to Cover Story, our first-ever retreat in Scottsdale.