Terrific Tuesdays: Getting Better at Being Human!

You're not broken. You're just figuring it out in real time.42+ years sober. Still dealing with anxious attachment, abandonment wounds, and panic that won't quit. This isn't about having it all figured out—it's about surviving your own head while you work on it.If one more person tells you to "think positive" while your nervous system is screaming, come here instead. Real talk. No bullshit. No guru promises. Just someone further down the road, sharing what actually works.New episodes every Tuesday. Because you deserve consistency.

Terrific Tuesdays: Getting Better at Being Human! is a health podcast hosted by Gregg Collison, with 66 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Gregg Collison hosts Terrific Tuesdays: Getting Better at Being Human!, a health show with 66 episodes published.

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  Terrific Tuesdays: Getting Better at Being Human!

  Episode 64 H-O-W Honesty, Openmindedness, Willingness

  Sep 29, 202613 min

  Sixty-four episodes in, and Gregg checks himself against something real instead of just saying he's fine: the old acronym H-O-W. Honest. Open-minded. Willing. Honest means asking Tucker's vet the question he'd been avoiding — "Is it time, doc?" — and getting the answer he already knew in his gut. Open-minded means sitting with a hard truth even when it's coming from inside your own head, like a Google interview he was sure he nailed, until his gut told him otherwise days before the official word came. Willing means actually moving on what you find — selling furniture that was never really about furniture, and making the hardest call yet: a home euthanasia appointment, now set for October 1st. This one also gets honest about staying stuck — on the house, on the job search — and about a mistake: Episode 62 got recorded on time but never published, until a friend caught it days later. Not a clean episode. Three better questions instead of three easy answers. HASHTAGS #Anxiety #Honesty #Recovery #MentalHealthAwareness #GriefAndLoss #PetLoss #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #SoberLife #RecoveryCommunity #SelfHonesty #KeepShowingUp #HOW #FaithOverFear

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  Episode 62: I forgot to publish; Showing Up Without Knowing

  Sep 26, 20269 min

  Three hours before this episode was due, Gregg had nothing. Not writer's block — anxiety, the spinning kind. Instead of smoothing it over, he decided to just say it out loud and see what happened. What follows is a real-time breakdown of a tool that actually worked: instead of asking "what's going wrong," Gregg asked himself "what's NOT going wrong" — and found real, concrete wins waiting underneath the spiral. A sold table. A sold mower. A sold bedroom set. And right behind them, the itty bitty shitty committee trying to stage a comeback, working overtime to turn progress into loss. Plus: why anxiety showing up isn't a personal attack, what it means to treat it like weather instead of a verdict, and why the job was never to stop it from showing up — just to decide what happens next. This episode also touches on something Gregg wants to be upfront about: recovery isn't only about addiction. 42-plus years sober, and still, anxiety is its own long, separate fight — one serious enough that there's an entire magazine on newsstands devoted to nothing else. HASHTAGS #Anxiety #MentalHealthAwareness #Recovery #Sobriety #ShowingUp #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #SoberLife #RecoveryCommunity #KeepShowingUp #AnxietyDisorder #NextRightThing #FaithOverFear

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  Episode 63: Why Won't Anybody Give Us a Straight Answer

  Sep 22, 202614 min

  Gregg's sister Keverne has stage four cancer and was on hospice. She fell, broke her femur, and the same hospital that knew her status admitted her and performed surgery — despite possible bleeding and lesions on her brain. Since then: shifting information, hospice status pulled, and no clear explanation for any of it. This episode may already be out of date by the time you hear it — and that instability isn't a footnote, it's the whole point. A friend going through something eerily similar with her father confirms it: this isn't one family's bad luck. It's systemic. Families everywhere are trying to make sense of decisions being made about people they love, without real answers — and that not-knowing creates a completely reasonable anxiety, not an overreaction. Gregg doesn't have a magic list of questions that'll crack the system open. What he does have: Albert, faith over fear, embrace uncertainty, and into action — each one applied directly to the specific hell of waiting for answers that may never come. And a reminder that this isn't only a hospital-room problem. Insurance denials, HR runarounds, family stonewalling — anywhere the whole story isn't being told, the same tools apply. HASHTAGS #Anxiety #MentalHealthAwareness #Caregiving #Hospice #MedicalSystem #Recovery #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #FaithOverFear #EmbraceUncertainty #KeepShowingUp #FamilyCaregiver

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  Episode 61: Do the Next Right Thing; Into Action, ready, or Not

  Sep 8, 202613 min

  Last week Greggpressure washed a table on his birthday. This week, he tells you what happenedafter — because willingness doesn't stay a one-time event. The lawnmower's upfor sale. A motorcycle that sat untouched for 16 years is finally listed too. Then there's tonight: hours lost fighting Apple, Amazon, and iHeartRadio justto get this show onto more platforms — wrong accounts, dead credit cards,broken links, the whole mess. Instead of quitting, Gregg stops to ask a harderquestion: what am I actually angry about, and who am I really mad at? A trip to the store turns into a real-time test of "I am not mythoughts." And then, right in the middle of writing this episode — Greggagrees to sponsor a newcomer. The highest version yet of a theme that's beenbuilding for weeks: every tool, every hard conversation, every uncomfortableaction is really just training for one thing — learning how to get out of yourown head. Into action means going through the uncomfortable and uncertain, not around it.This episode makes the case for why that's not just a nice idea — it's theactual tool for managing anxiety. --- # HASHTAGS #Anxiety #Willingness #IntoAction #Recovery #Sobriety #EmbraceUncertainty#MentalHealthAwareness #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #SoberLife#RecoveryCommunity #KeepShowingUp #Sponsorship #NextRightThing

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  Episode #60

  Episode_60-Embrace_Uncertainty-The_Table_That_Had_To_Go

  Sep 2, 202611 minS2

  It's Gregg's birthday — and he spent part of it with a pressure washer. For four months he's talked about downsizing, moving, getting out of a house that costs more than it should for a guy living alone and out of work. He knew the reasons. He hadn't moved an inch. Then there's the patio — a teakwood table and seven matching chairs, barely used, kept around for "memories" that are really just an excuse not to feel what letting go would mean. And in the garage, a motorcycle that's sat untouched for 26 years since the crash that put it there — never getting fixed, never getting let go of either. Today, Gregg finally did something about one of them. Power washed the table. Got it ready for teak oil. Listed it for sale. This episode is about willingness — not as a feeling you wait to arrive, but as something you do anyway, uncertain the whole time whether it's the right call. Plus: a plainspoken, unapologetic look at exactly what anxiety costs a life, and why it's worth fighting even when it keeps coming back. HASHTAGS #Anxiety #Willingness #Recovery #Sobriety #Downsizing #EmbraceUncertainty #MentalHealthAwareness #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #SoberLife #RecoveryCommunity #KeepShowingUp #FaithOverFear #Birthday

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