Embark on your transformative journey from addiction to sobriety with the Sober is Dope Revolution, your ultimate Sober Empowerment HUB! Join POP Buchanan, author of the Sober is Dope Book and an 11-year sober and recovered alcoholic, as he shares a holistic recovery approach incorporating therapy, rehab, AA, prayer, and meditation. With over 350 game-changing episodes featuring world-class guests, be prepared to be inspired by practical spiritual tools. Follow in POP's footsteps to quit booze and smoking, reverse pre-diabetes, and reclaim your life.
Sober Confidential: Growing Quietly with Personal Care, Boundaries, Gratitude, and Creative Living
Host [Host Name] shares a candid conversation about personal care, boundaries, gratitude, and creative living, revealing how quiet growth transforms self-perception and life's meaning.
15 Jan 2026
Protect Your Sobriety: Why Relapse Happens and How the Brain and Nervous System Heal
Sober Is Dope: Protect Your Sobriety: Why Relapse Happens and How the Brain and Nervous System Heal (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sober-is-dope-pop-buchanan/1149020219?ean=9798295487088)explores what actually causes relapse and why it often begins long before cravings appear.
This episode covers Chapter 1, Working Thesis on Relapse and Addiction, which explains how relapse develops quietly through stress, emotional overload, isolation, and nervous system dysregulation, long before substance use returns. Protecting sobriety is not solely about willpower. It is about restoring safety and stability within the brain and nervous system.
In this episode, Pop Buchanan reads from the book and reflects on how recovery unfolds at the level of the nervous system, daily regulation, and lived experience. The goal is not perfection. The goal is protection. Protection of your sobriety, your peace, and your capacity to stay regulated during real life.
This conversation is for anyone in recovery, newly sober, long-term sober, or questioning their relationship with addiction. Sobriety is not just about stopping substances. It is about learning how to stay safe inside your own body.
The paperback edition of Sober Is Dope: Protect Your Sobriety (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sober-is-dope-pop-buchanan/1149020219?ean=9798295487088) is currently available through Barnes & Noble and other retailers, while distribution updates continue across various platforms.
8 Oct 2025
The Awakening: The Lybarger's Story of Forgiveness, Hermetic Practice, and Spiritual Sobriety
In this deeply emotional and inspiring episode of Sober Is Dope, Pop Buchanan welcomes Lee Lybarger and his son Richard “Rick” Lybarger, known professionally as Wisdom Won, for a powerful father-and-son dialogue on recovery, forgiveness, and spiritual rebirth.
Lee, now more than ten years sober, reflects on his Navy background, his career in finance, and the long struggle with addiction that estranged him from his family for decades. With humility and remorse, he describes how he rebuilt his life through calisthenics, disciplined breathwork, and Hermetic meditation, discovering that true healing lies in consistent spiritual practice, not just abstinence.
Rick, a certified breathwork coach and spiritual teacher with Wisdom Won Coaching & Energy Healing, shares how he transformed his pain into compassion. Through forgiveness and empathy, he helped reconnect the family and guide his father toward peace. Together, they embody how sobriety can evolve into spirituality, and how love can close even the widest gaps of time and pain.
This conversation is about second chances, inner discipline, and the alchemy of forgiveness. It shows that healing is possible at any age and that redemption can ripple through generations.
Contacts
Website(s): https://WisdomWon.com
https://Empowered-Man.com
Instagram: @wisdomwon
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Sober Confidential: Growing Quietly with Personal Care, Boundaries, Gratitude, and Creative Living
Published 29 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I would like music running around, people staying up, partying, writing, yelling, fighting. It was always movement. But deep down, I really like in retrospect, I felt unfulfilled because I was fighting against something like sometime there is a beauty in stillness. There's a beauty in serenity and just chilling or at least pacing. I think that's what I was bypassing. I was bypassing pacing. And what I guess what I'm describing now with recovery is we have to become masters of pacing ourselves throughout our life at a natural rhythm, right? In a natural flow, in a natural way, where it's harmonious to you and your personal construct because your life is going to be different from mine. […]
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