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- 🎙️ Recovery Podcastland: 🎧12/17 - 🖖Spock’s Son Speaks: “You Can Be Right or You Can Be Happy”🎙️✨
🎙️ Recovery Podcastland: 🎧12/17 - 🖖Spock’s Son Speaks: “You Can Be Right or You Can Be Happy”🎙️✨
A Trekkie-deep dive into recovery, reconciliation, and radical honesty. Adam Nimoy opens up about becoming more human — no starship required.
Alysse Bryson
December 17, 2025
FROM THE FOUNDER’S DESK (*covered in tchotchkes)
Set phasers to feelings, Sober Trekkies, because this week’s Recovery Podcastland is warping us straight into the emotional neutral zone with Adam Nimoy — yes, that Nimoy, son of Spock, keeper of legacy, and human on a heroic recovery arc that would make even Captain Picard pause for reflection. 🖖✨ When Adam tells us, “You can be right, or you can be happy,” it hits harder than a Vulcan neck pinch — clean, precise, spiritually efficient. In our latest episode, we journey through the wreckage, the rebuilding, the family constellations, and the tender, deeply human work of reconciliation. Pair that with our review of “The Most Human” (spoiler: it’s raw, honest, and boldly goes where most memoirs don’t), plus a transporter full of sober Star Trek pop-culture goodies, and consider this your invitation to explore strange new emotional worlds… without ever abandoning your non-alcoholic beverage of choice. 🍵✨🛸
Now let’s get to it…
—Alysse Bryson, *AB That’s ME 💋/ Founder / Seattle, WA 🌃05.01.2006
SOBER CURATOR PODCAST
“You Can Be Right or You Can Be Happy”: Adam Nimoy on Recovery, Reconciliation & Becoming More Human
There’s a moment in the conversation when Adam Nimoy says something so simple, so clean, so spiritually efficient that everything else seems to orbit around it:
“You can be right, or you can be happy.”
It lands with that unmistakable click of truth — the kind you don’t just hear, but feel. And in many ways, it’s the heartbeat of Adam’s entire story: the years of tension with his father, the decades of medicating uncomfortable emotions, the slow, stubborn climb toward emotional maturity, and the radical work of reconciliation.
But to understand the wisdom, you have to understand the wreckage — and the rebuilding.
#QUITLIT
"The Most Human" by Adam Nimoy Review: A Raw Memoir of Addiction, Amends, and Healing
What does it mean to be “the most human”? In "The Most Human", Adam Nimoy invites readers into a deeply personal journey — one marked by addiction, emotional distance, regret, and a long path toward reconciliation. This memoir is not a fan's treasure trove of a famous parent, but a raw, honest account of a son learning to navigate his own demons — and, in doing so, trying to heal old generational wounds.
#ADDTOCART
#ADDTOCART: Sober Pop Culture
Sober Trekkies, assemble: 🖖✨A Curated Idea List of Pop Culture Merch for the Sober Trekkies in Your Life. You are one click away from beaming down of pop culture goodies for the logical, the loyal, and the gloriously alcohol-free. 🖖 May your carts be full, your boundaries intact, and your beverages forever non-alcoholic.
See you Friday, friends!
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