Derek Castleman - A Stoic Guidebook for Recovery

That Sober Guy Podcast · Jan 12, 2024 · 45m

Derek Castleman is a writer, educator, scientist, data analyst and philosopher. Destroying his career as a teacher, he would struggle with drug addiction and alcoholism for over fifteen years while at the same time suffering from being bipolar. Derek was finally able to achieve recovery in 2018. From mental hospitals to rehabs, county jail to sober living, 12 Step Programs would be his foundation, but he would eventually discover the path of Stoicism to be the key to his sobriety and sanity. From the rooms of meetings to the online community posting as The Sober Stoic, he began his writing…