The New Normal

With Mother’s Day this past weekend, I wanted to have my mom back on — but not really to talk about me this time. This episode is just an honest conversation about motherhood. Wanting a baby. Finding out you’re...

For this episode, I sat down with my dad and walked through everything from his side. We’ve talked about parts of this over time, but it’s usually been pieces here and there—so this time we went through it from the...

For this episode, I sat down with my wife, Rachel, and just had a real conversation. We talk all the time—but we realized we haven’t actually just sat and talked like this in a while. So we started from the...

For this episode, I’m just doing a real-life check-in. Nothing heavy. Nothing big to unpack. Just where I’m at right now. I’m a couple weeks into a new job, back into a routine, and honestly… things just feel smooth...

Up until now, you’ve heard this story from my perspective. But I wasn’t the only one going through it. In this episode, I sit down with my mom to talk about what it was like for her to experience everything from the...

There are parts of going through something like this that people don’t really see. In this episode, I talk about the side of recovery that doesn’t always get talked about — the internal weight that can come with it. I...

After going through something life-changing, you’d think the fear would eventually go away. But for me, it didn’t. In this episode, I talk about the moment I realized I might not be as “out of the woods” as I thought —...

After the hospital, after rehab, and after therapy ends, a new question appears: now what? In this episode, I talk about the moment my recovery structure ended and I realized I was now responsible for figuring out what...

Sometimes it takes a life-changing moment to realize what really matters. In this episode, I talk about the perspective that came from lying in a hospital bed after my stroke. I didn’t think about money, possessions, or...

After a life-altering event, people talk a lot about “getting back to normal.” But what if there is no going back? In this episode, I talk about what life really looks like after the comeback moment. After returning to...

Life really can change in a moment. And when it does, it can feel like everything you knew — and even who you were — got left behind. In this episode, I’m not just sharing more of my story. I’m talking directly to you —...

In this episode of The New Normal , I share what it really looked like to step back into life after everything changed. Coming back didn’t happen all at once — it happened in layers. From my first shift back in Central...

In this episode, I share what happened medically — along with what I experienced in real time and what I understand now looking back. This isn’t just my perspective, and it isn’t just the medical version. It’s both. I...

Seven years after everything changed, life didn’t go back to normal — it became something new. In this episode, I talk honestly about what life looks like now: what I lost, what I gained, and what never went back to the...

Leaving The Shepherd Center wasn’t the end of recovery — it was the beginning of learning how to live without structure. This episode follows the return home: stepping away from a place built to hold you together and...