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Episode 27: Atheism in Recovery

HOME Podcast

Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In the early episodes of HOME, Holly and Laura made a snarky joke about spirituality in recovery (not their coolest moment). Catherine Gray, today's guest and an atheist, rightly called them on it. A series of beautiful and enlightening conversations ensued, culminating in this episode's discussion with Catherine. They talk about what it means to be an atheist in an AA-centric recovery world, how believers and non-believers share the path and learn from each other, and Holly and Laura get to ask some basic, burning questions like: "How do you not believe in a bigger...SOMETHING? Catherine walks through her path to sobriety, her mixed experience with AA, and generally woos us all with her lovely way.

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0:00.0

There is hope for us yet.

0:05.0

We are young, we are away.

0:08.0

I am Holly Whitaker.

0:12.0

And I am Laura McCowen. And this is Home Podcast.

0:17.0

So we're actually recording this intro right after we did the interview. This is an interview with, if any of you

0:26.1

are familiar, kind of with what happened. Laura and I, in our first steps episode said that essentially that no one that we knew that we

0:38.8

thought people could get sober without God.

0:45.0

And one of our listeners who was a reader of both of our blogs and listened to our podcast

0:51.6

and she wrote me an email that essentially you know called us on on this

0:56.8

deeply exclusive and horrific

1:10.8

Slip on our parts and so so yeah so we interviewed her her name was Alice in a blog post that she wrote on my website and then she came out She since decided to come out her name is Catherine Gray. She's since decided to come out. Her name is Catherine Gray. She's from Bruges and

1:15.9

she's a writer and she's working on her book and she's

1:20.7

Oh, so lovely. Yeah, she's somebody that Laura I know are friends with and so yeah so this is an

1:28.9

interview that we had with her just exploring some of the same things we did in the blog post but also just

1:35.4

having the conversation here where it actually started many months ago on the

1:40.4

closet of me on the floor of my sister's closet if you recall.

1:45.0

I remember the moment that we did it.

1:47.0

I actually remember the exact moment that we had that first conversation.

1:51.0

Oh, I do too. I do too. Yeah and she was she's this is a great conversation I

1:56.8

I really enjoyed it. She's lovely and articulate and brilliant.

2:05.0

and so yeah this was this was a which was an important one and a conversation that

2:11.8

needed to be had so I'm glad it's out there.

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