November has always felt like a turning point — the in-between season where the rush of summer fades, the cold creeps in, and life gets quieter. For me, that quiet has a way of bringing everything to the surface: the aches, the thoughts, the things I’ve ignored for too long. November is typically Mens Mental …
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This summer has been a strange one. Not bad, not great — just… different. Instead of long road trips and nights in the woods, I’ve been navigating a slower pace, thanks to some feet issues that knocked me off my stride. Some days the pain was unbearable, the kind that makes you want to throw …
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I’ve been feeling a bit disappointed lately. It’s not always easy to admit, especially when so much of what I share here is about finding joy in movement, in resilience, in adventure. But I’d made some big plans for this summer—hikes I wanted to check off, trails I’ve been dreaming about, and video projects I …
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There’s a weight to the end of June that I can’t shake. It creeps in slowly—mood shifts, irritability, emotional fog. I don’t always recognize it right away, but it always leads me back to one day: June 28, 1990. That was the day everything changed. I remember every moment of it, even now, 35 years …
Read more “PTSD Doesn’t Work on a Calendar—But Neither Does Healing”