The Sober Atheist Podcast

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The Sober Atheist Podcast is a new effort to discuss and expand upon various aspects of Sobriety that relate to the Atheist. The co-hosts, John Huey and Michael Tingley, are both people in long-term recovery from alcohol and/or drugs. These wide ranging conversations will include both original presentations based on newly articulated approaches to recovery and discussions with other sober atheists to present other diverse  perspectives. 

  1. FEB 7

    30. Is There an “Atheist Way of Life” That is Applicable to Recovery?

    Send a text John Huey and Michael Tingley were exposed, when new to recovery, to phrases like “12 Step Way of Life”, “Emotional Sobriety”, “Daily Reflections” and “Fake It Till You Make It.” Rejecting those things they found their way to what might be considered an “Atheist Way of Life” that produced, for them, great benefits in the long term. They discuss this at length in this Episode.

    1h 1m

  2. JAN 6

    29. How to Construct a Recovery for Yourself Without Divine Intervention

    Send a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss how, as committed atheists, they have built upon the lessons learned in long term recovery from alcohol and/or drug addiction. They touch upon moving forward without recourse to self-improvement schemes, such as “emotional sobriety” and any notions brought forward by pop-psychology or some sort of secular accommodation with a “spiritual life.”

    1h 3m

  3. 11/24/2025

    28. Banishing Fear and Anxiety as an Atheist in Recovery – Sometimes It’s Personal

    Send a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss fear and anxiety in the light of some recent serious health problems they have both faced. This topic is addressed from the point of view of two committed atheists and how they deal with these issues in their recovery without fantasy or fallacy to carry them through.

    1 hr

  4. 10/13/2025

    27. Why Atheism Works: A Recovery Journal

    Send a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss the fact that there appears to be much to be discovered on the journey from there to here as an atheist in recovery. We found that we would not have had it any other way.

    1 hr

  5. 09/12/2025

    26. Have Conventional Recovery Programs Outlived Their Usefulness to Atheists in Recovery?

    Send a text John Huey and Michael Tingley revisit this well-worn topic to consider where they now are, as non-believers in recovery, given the progression of their own individual recoveries and their relations (and non-relations) to the formal recovery programs out there. We suspect each listener may have their own unique, personal view of this.

    1 hr

  6. 08/18/2025

    25. How Does Living Our Best Lives as Atheists Enhance Our Sobriety

    Send a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss living their lives in the real world, as opposed to a life based, at least in part, on fantasy, and how the sometimes hard road of what can actually be seen (as opposed to a path where people constantly conjure up what is imagined) leads to a greater appreciation of an abstinence based sober life, where clarity of thought prevails.

    1 hr

  7. 07/08/2025

    24. Love and Hate - Dealing with Strong Emotions as an Atheist in Recovery – Part Two – Hate

    Send a text There is never enough love in the world but these days there seems to be a real excess in the amount of hate out there. What to do? Speaking for themselves only, John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss this within the context of how a non-believer in long term recovery might be dealing with this in these perilous times.

    1 hr

  8. 06/10/2025

    23. A Question of Love and Hate – Dealing with Strong Emotions as an Atheist in Recovery - Part One

    Send a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss love as being a prime mover in recovery and in life. While not without its problems it is a marker for the ability to deal with both adversity and the ultimate satisfactions of a sober life as a non-believer. Did we find love and happiness before our recovery or was it delayed, as it often is, until some time after our recovery began? This, as well as many other aspects of this formidable emotion, are discussed in the light of a recovery free of any search for “gods will’.

    59 min
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The Sober Atheist Podcast is a new effort to discuss and expand upon various aspects of Sobriety that relate to the Atheist. The co-hosts, John Huey and Michael Tingley, are both people in long-term recovery from alcohol and/or drugs. These wide ranging conversations will include both original presentations based on newly articulated approaches to recovery and discussions with other sober atheists to present other diverse  perspectives. 

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  • Creator
    Sober Atheist
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Sober Atheist Podcast
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