Derek Castleman: The Sober Stoic
Recovery and Philosophy
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My daughter has Stargardt’s Disease. Now there might be a chance that you are exactly like me and have no clue what the hell that could mean. Until she had been diagnosed with it, I had never even heard of it before. And it might make sense if you, like me, have not. It is…
Welcome back everyone!!! It has been quite a bit of time since I wrote a blog for this site. In the two years since I had last written one, I have been spending my time writing two recovery and philosophy books (A Stoic Guidebook for Recovery which is now published and The Twelve Steps and…
The art of living is the main focus of stoicism as it tries to answer the ultimate question of how does someone try to live a good life? It is a question that everyone should try to answer but is crucial for us in recovery. Wrong living led us down our journey to addiction so…
In recovery we are often times told to write gratitude lists to remind ourselves of what we are grateful for in life. The Stoics had their own way of building gratitude in a deeply and profound way through the use of an exercise known as negative visualization. In this article I will discuss what is…
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Derek Castleman: The Sober Stoic