After losing 105 pounds in his first nine months of sobriety, Justin Kinney looked like a recovery success story. Behind the transformation, however, were no rest days, too little food and a relationship with exercise that had become increasingly compulsive. He reflects on what it took to redefine fitness, discipline and true recovery.

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.

Senior Sober Curator Contributor Lane Kennedy spent the past year falling in love with Nashville while trying to find her own footing again. Hayden Panettiere’s portrayal of addiction felt almost unnervingly real. Now she understands why.

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.

Packing a concert bag with purpose! Sober Curator Contributor + Swift Steps® Founder Julianne Griffin shares how Narcan & friendship bracelets are her essentials for making a difference. 🎶💜

Sober Not Mature headed to Austin for a weekend of tacos, barbecue, bats and sober community — and came home with the Sans Bar Academy Award for Best Podcast. Bill shares the story behind the unexpected win and what comes next for the now award-winning show.

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…

Evan Cason’s memoir, *Beyond the Street Lamp*, offers a sincere look at the journey from gang life to sobriety. In her review, Patti Clark highlights the book’s heartfelt nature while also noting its structural challenges. Cason’s story is a poignant reminder of the power of vulnerability and honesty in the recovery journey.

Getting sober can mean rebuilding your social life from the ground up. Anne Marie Cribbin explores the rise of “third places” — coffee shops, run clubs, bookstores, gardens and other community spaces — and why belonging, not alcohol, may be what we were searching for all along.

In a thought-provoking piece, Senior Sober Curator Contributor Lane Kennedy takes us on a journey through unspoken questions in sobriety. Can psychedelics like iboga fit into a sober lifestyle? Lane explores Rich Roll’s candid conversations about his experiences and invites us to ponder the complex intersections of recovery and psychedelic medicine. Dive into the full article to explore these intriguing questions.

Hayden Panettiere spent much of her life in public, but some of her most meaningful moments came when she stopped performing and told the truth. Senior Sober Curator Contributor Anne Marie Cribbin reflects on Panettiere’s openness about postpartum depression, addiction and the personal cost of refusing to pretend everything was fine.

In the final installment of this Nashville series, Lane Kennedy looks at Seasons 5 and 6 through the lens of grief, recovery, nervous system collapse, and the long work of rebuilding a life. From Juliette Barnes’ treatment and spiritual searching to Will Lexington’s body dysmorphia, Deacon Claybourne’s physical consequences of alcoholism, and the emotional aftershock of Rayna Jaymes’ death, Lane explores how Nashville becomes less about fame and more about survival, identity, and staying emotionally alive after everything falls apart.

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

Surgery, PRP and stem cell injections are increasingly discussed as options for meniscus tears, but they are not interchangeable. Here’s how the three approaches differ in evidence, invasiveness, recovery time and the types of tears they may be best suited to address.

Brad Pitt’s revelation that he is no longer sober after seven years without alcohol quickly became a debate about relapse, moderation and who gets to define sobriety. Danielle Elliott Smith argues that we may be asking the wrong question entirely.

In recent years, the conversation surrounding sobriety, addiction, and mental health has become more open and essential than ever before.…

Author Austin Rampt joins Bill and Mike on Sober Not Mature for a raw, funny and deeply honest conversation about addiction, multiple overdoses, life in Mexico, recovery and his memoir, *One Last Hit*. His story is proof that even after years of chaos, a completely different life is possible.

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.

Janey Lee Grace watches her younger self come alive on the big screen in WHAM! 10 Days in China and reflects on big hair, pop stardom, touring with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, and the role alcohol was already beginning to play behind the scenes. Decades later, sobriety gives her a very different view of the young woman living inside that extraordinary moment.

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.

**UPDATED POST – Original article was published in May 2026. This post has been updated as of August 10, 2026.…

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.

From joint comfort to faster recovery, here is why more competitive athletes are adding marine collagen to their training routine.

In Drunk Daddy, Trixie Rose tells the story of growing up with an alcoholic father and the emotional survival strategies that followed her into adulthood. Amy Liz Harrison reviews this short, funny and quietly devastating addition to the Bad Memoir series.