This is probably my favorite podcast guest spot ever. I’ve greatly enjoyed every single podcast, recovery website, or recovery-related Facebook group on which I’ve been featured. However, this one was particularly fun, and tied in …
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My Guest Spot on the SHAIR Podcast
Here it is, my episode of the SHAIR Podcast. This is my whole story of addiction and recovery: the good, the bad, and the ugly. I hope that hearing this helps someone who might presently …
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Teaching ASIST, Saving Lives
Two days/14 hours later, another amazing ASIST workshop is in the books, and 22 more local individuals are ready, willing, and able to perform suicide interventions and save lives. This was the fifth workshop I’ve …
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A Day I’ll Never Forget. People I’ll Always Remember.
Six years ago today, I woke up, did my normal morning routine, and then put on a suit, grabbed a portfolio case full of legal papers, and headed out the door. 20 minutes later, I …
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Just Listen
I just got off a half-hour phone call with a crying mom who contacted our office upon discovering that her 11-year-old daughter has recently been self-injuring. After being given the details of the situation by …
Continue Reading“Their Prices Are Better Anyway”
Tonight I took a late trip to the grocery store after realizing the refrigerator was looking rather bare. One of the worst enemies of my efforts to eat clean and continue to get in better …
Continue ReadingDying In Dreams
“And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had.” –Tears For Fears (“Mad World”) While that may be the …
Continue ReadingLife’s Little Adventures (Part 872,302: The Stalled Car)
The other day as I was driving Chrystal to work, I saw a guy in the middle of traffic, pushing a stalled car, as other vehicles whipped past him and people honked. I immediately pulled …
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