Recovering Round up, October/November 2025
+ a give away
MONTHLY COMMUNITY CALL THIS SATURDAY! Saturday, December 13th at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm UK I’m hosting our regular monthly community call (second Saturday of each month, same time). This is the third call and they are really fun and you should come! I lead with a breath exercise; give a little talk; then you have the chance to share or ask questions. (If you were in Hip Sobriety School, this will be a little like the Q&A format.) This call is open to paid subscribers only; registration link is below the paywall.
Hey team! I’m deep in writing mode and short on words, plus there are so many words on the internet these days I find it to be a type of kindness when someone doesn’t fill up the space for the sake of filling up the space.
On our Saturday call this weekend, I’ll be giving a short talk about what I’m working with this month, which is finding meaning and a life force again after a long period of nihilism and dissociation and growth as a spiral. The link to register is below the paywall at the bottom, or in the header of emails sent to paid subscribers.
Recovering Round-up, October + November 2025
Watching: Famous Last Words: Jane Goodall; Come See Me In the Good Light; One Battle After Another. I recommend the shit out of all of these.
Watching: I also made a list of 100 different films made between 1979 and 1999 because I’m craving 1987 very badly; I’ve seen about 20. Some hits: Last Night on Earth; Basic Instinct; The Truman Show; Kramer vs. Kramer; Dangerous Liaisons; Waterworld; War of the Roses.
Related: This best of 2025 film guide is so good and damn there were great films this year, which is another way of remembering that awful, awful things force some of the best art, and that art saves lives
Related: “The war that we’re engaged in is evil versus creativity, and the antidote to evil is to create.” I got an ARC of the book True and False Magic by Phil Stutz because
co-wrote it, and while I tore through the first fifty pages or so, I ended up putting it down and throwing it in my DNF pile. BUT ALSO: I had this weird feeling that I needed to read it, and I did! And it is so stupidly good. Kind of like the War of Art but on steroids.Reading: How To Be a Rich Old Lady (my blurb: You needed this book yesterday. (YOU DID!)); When the Ache Remains (my blurb: As a human who has tried and failed to outrun her pain and grief and self, Lisa invites a wholly different perspective: that we can, and should, instead of running, fully inhabit and expand into the places we are told we’re only meant to linger—and that it is in this practice of staying where we find our aliveness.); The Comfort Crisis; True and False Magic (see below); 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction
I’m giving away a copy of the book 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction by Jan Winhall—paid subscribers can respond to this email by changing the subject line of the email to “Jan Winhall” to enter. I select at random within the first 24 hours and email the winner
A wildly long and great best of 2025 books
My wildly long and great best of 2025 books
The honest to gosh best anti-cap gift guide I’ve ever read
Something lovely!
“We have had to become experts in men to survive them”
Related: This excellent fucking piece about not covering for men’s shitty behavior anymore. Also,
is so on fire. If you don’t read her, please please do.The elites want social collapse and the end of the world, and we don’t have to go along with it
Related: The mother of all addictions
Today and Everyday It’s a Good Day to be Indigenous
Related: a great holiday gift
I love
’s newsletter; it almost always gets me to examine my biases and ideologies and this one on the mis-diagnosis of autism was no exception (the comments are great). Curious of your thoughts if you’ve read it.💊🍺💉🍸🌲🍄🛍️📲🧑🏻💻 (but mostly just 🌲🌲) gross; bad news for hemp-derived THC products; your newest drug dealer; Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome up 650%; more on pot-induced scromiting; using cannabis reduces drinking; the hell that is CUD (Cannabis Use Disorder) + people still think it’s not a real addiction; folks with CUD not seeking treatment; the shitty impact of living near a dispensary; pot cafes in New Orleans; cannabis superior to opioids for back pain; despite legalization more than 200k people were arrested last year for cannabis; can you become addicted to ChatGPT; drinking + strokes; is moderate drinking okay?; US alcohol use falls to record low; dog’s have addictions!
Yes, I was using Aquaphor as a moisturizer
I feel partly responsible for this
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I don’t know how to feel about this
Finally: peak hygge
