Sober Is Dope: Protect Your Sobriety: Why Relapse Happens and How the Brain and Nervous System Heal 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 is currently available through Barnes & Noble and other retailers, while distribution updates continue across various platforms.

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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Happy Labor Day

In this special Labor Day episode presented by Kava Haven, Pop Buchanan reflects on the journey of 2025 and shares an inspiring vision for the months ahead. He discusses the launch of Sober Brain Publishing and his new book Sober Brain Reset, which offers insights on healing the brain after addiction and unlocking the power of neuroplasticity. Pop also closes out his impactful Sober Mixology campaign and introduces his upcoming work Zero Proof Culture, exploring how non alcoholic beverages empower recovery and support a healthier lifestyle. Listeners will gain practical tips for brain health, learn about the growth of the Sober is Dope Foundation, and hear what is ahead as we move into the final stretch of the year and prepare for 2026.

How To Heal The Brain After Addiction Book

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HTHTB:

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Zero Proof Culture

https://soberisdope.mysamcart.com/zero-proof-culture/
Drunk and Depressed
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