WHAT IS LYMBIC
Most people in recovery content tells you how to get sober.
We make content for what comes after that.
The meetings. The milestones. And then — the long, strange, sometimes lonely work of figuring out who you actually are without the thing that used to define you.
Lymbic is a media platform built on that question. We produce podcasts, short films, live events, and written stories from people who have lived through the wreckage and kept moving. Real voices. Real experience. No scripts, no platitudes, no pretending it's easy.
We are not a treatment program. We are not a helpline. We are what comes after: content that keeps you company, a community that tells the truth, and a creative space that proves recovery is the beginning of something, not the end.
Recovery isn't a destination. It's a creative act.
Not All There Podcast
The Podcast That Doesn't Pretend It's Simple
Not All There is the flagship podcast of Lymbic — and it sounds exactly like what recovery actually feels like: complicated, funny, sometimes raw, always real. Hosted by Chad Johnson, certified recovery coach and eleven-plus years sober, each episode goes somewhere most recovery conversations won't.
Neuroscientists. Clinicians. Comedians. Sober travelers. Musicians. Policy leaders. People rebuilding their lives in ways nobody expected. The conversation doesn't stop when the episode does.
Chad Johnson speaks at the first Sober Soiree
Stories Live. So Do We.
The Sober Soirees are live storytelling events for people who want to be in a room where honesty is the admission ticket. No pretense. No pitch. Just real people, real stories, and the surprising feeling that you belong somewhere.
Upcoming events on Chicago's North Shore and beyond.
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