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Recovery is possible.

Change is real.

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Welcome to Lymbic

A nonprofit global hub for recovery, connection, and lived experience

A nonprofit global hub for recovery, connection, and lived experience

Recovery isn’t only about what you stop doing — it’s about understanding what you’re living through and discovering what’s possible on the other side. Recovery can be meaningful, creative, connected, and hopeful. It can also be difficult, uncomfortable, and uncertain. Both are true — and Lymbic exists for all of it.

Lymbic is a nonprofit, peer-created platform dedicated to sharing recovery-focused content from people who have lived the experiences of addiction, mental health challenges, and recovery. Through real stories, honest conversations, and shared lessons, we work to inform, educate, inspire, and bring understanding — while reminding people that recovery is possible and change is real.

No one should have to figure this out alone.

A Living, Peer-Driven Space for Recovery

Lymbic is more than a website. It’s a community-centered resource built on lived experience.

Everything you’ll find here is created by people in recovery, for people in recovery — grounded in truth, vulnerability, and hard-earned insight. Whether you are early in recovery, years into it, sober-curious, or supporting someone you love, Lymbic offers stories and perspectives that help reduce stigma, increase understanding, and foster connection.

This is not about perfection or performance.
It’s about honesty, growth, and shared humanity.

What You’ll Find on Lymbic

  • Recovery-focused podcasts amplifying real voices and diverse perspectives

  • Essays and written stories rooted in lived experience

  • Conversations that explore addiction, mental health, recovery, and healing

  • Educational content that increases understanding and reduces stigma

  • Creative works and storytelling that reflect life before, during, and after addiction

  • A growing archive of shared lessons from people who have walked these paths

Every story shared is an invitation: You’re not alone.

 

Why Lymbic Exists

The name Lymbic is inspired by the limbic system — the part of the brain responsible for emotion, memory, behavior, and impulse. Addiction can disrupt this system. Recovery allows for healing, learning, and change.

Through storytelling, education, and shared experience, Lymbic exists to support that healing — socially, emotionally, and intellectually — by offering content that meets people where they are and helps them better understand themselves and others.

We believe recovery is strengthened by:

  • Education and awareness

  • Shared experience and community

  • Honest storytelling

  • Compassion, curiosity, and hope

Recovery Is an Evolution

Recovery is not a single moment or finish line — it’s an ongoing process of growth and understanding.

Your needs will change. Your perspective will expand. Your life can grow beyond addiction — and seeing how others have done that matters.

Lymbic exists to reflect that evolution by sharing real stories, meaningful lessons, and voices that remind us healing is possible, connection matters, and progress looks different for everyone.

 

Welcome to Lymbic

A place to learn
A place to listen
A place to feel understood
A place to remember you are not alone

Inform. Inspire. Educate. Bring understanding and hope.
That is the mission of Lymbic.

The Sober With Chad Dispatch

The Sober with Chad Dispatch is a space for honest conversations about addiction, recovery, and what it means to live a life of real freedom (warts & all). I’m Chad Johnson — a sobriety and recovery coach, podcast host, and 11+ years sober.

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Not All There is where real recovery meets real conversation. Hosted by Chad Johnson, this raw, unfiltered, and unapologetically human podcast dives into the lived experience of addiction, sobriety, and everything in between. Each episode blends humor, honesty, curiosity, and vulnerability with the voices of neuroscientists, clinicians, authors, sober travelers, musicians, policy leaders, and everyday people rebuilding their lives one decision at a time.

This isn’t a lecture or a scripted self-help hour — it’s a conversation. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable. Sometimes it’s hilarious. And almost always, it’s exactly the kind of connection we’re starving for when life gets messy.

Whether you’re in recovery, supporting someone who is, or just trying to understand the complex landscape of addiction and healing, Not All There offers meaningful insight and lived wisdom. Listeners walk away with a better understanding of how addiction affects the brain, the body, and the heart — and how recovery reshapes all three. Many find tools that help them navigate their own day-to-day lives, reduce isolation, and even rediscover hope.

This is valuable content grounded in authenticity. No ego. No perfection. Just real stories and perspectives that remind us we’re not alone — and that recovery isn’t just possible, it’s worth it.

Listen long enough, and you might even laugh, learn, or feel a little lighter.

Sober With Chad — Coaching & Support

Connection changes everything

Sober coaching offers one-on-one support to help navigate the real-life challenges of early sobriety or long-term recovery. Sometimes that looks like accountability. Sometimes it’s planning for high-risk situations. Sometimes it’s simply having someone to process the hard moments with — someone who understands the experience from lived reality, not theory.

Coaching can run alongside therapy, treatment programs, or community support. It can include family involvement, discreet guidance, sober companionship at events, or structured rebuilding around health, relationships, identity, and purpose. The approach shifts based on the person — their history, needs, and the life they’re trying to build.

This isn’t about perfection — it’s about progress. Clients walk away feeling seen, heard, and supported. Many find new tools to navigate their days, renewed confidence, and a deeper sense of possibility.

You don’t have to do this alone — and you weren’t meant to.

Chad Johnson speaks at the first Sober Soiree

Whether someone is early in recovery, decades sober, supporting a loved one, or simply trying to understand addiction more deeply, these gatherings remind us of something easy to forget: we are more alike than we often admit. When we show up without pretense, we see past labels, past assumptions, and into the truth we all carry — the desire to feel understood, to heal, and to belong.

At these events, stories become bridges. Listening becomes connection. And community becomes a reminder that hope is not abstract — it’s shared, lived, and experienced together.

There’s no agenda. No pressure. Just an open invitation to be part of something real. A moment to breathe, to reflect, and maybe even walk away feeling a little lighter — and a little less alone.

Chad Johnson Founder

Mike Peterson Creative Advisor

Kieron Brady Founding Contributor

Ryan Lee Sober Travel Contributor

John Paul “JP” Granillo Artist

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