Frank Brown

the opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

don’t mistake possibility for probability . Worst-case scenarios are possible in this universe, but they’re not what will probably happen.

recovering a sense of self and purpose

What are the biggest benefits or gifts of sobriety?

The greatest benefit, to me, is the ability to handle adversity and joy with the same heart. To know that despair and bliss are feelings and not states of being, and that my feelings won’t make me or break me. The greatest gifts have been my spiritual life and having true relationships

"Tired of parading myself and the things I do and make up and down the internet. Please make this recipe. Listen to this podcast. Read this newsletter. Buy this book. Come to this event. Look at my fluffy cat. This is my hot husband. I went here for dinner. This is who I'm friends with. Here's what I love. I do interesting things with interesting p... See more

Drinking did for me what I couldn’t do for myself: it hid my insides from the outside world. It concealed the parts of me that I deemed unacceptable and unlovable.

I have realised that it is a moral error to compulsively fixate on the world's troubles, to elevate ‘the crack in everything’ and not acknowledge ‘the light getting in.’ Our pleasures and joys are not a negation of humanity's suffering, a betrayal of those we have lost, or the denial of our various griefs. They are the bright, necessary, God-filled... See more