In 1992 I began what became a two-year process of letting go of street drugs so I could spend more time with my new-found love, climbing. When I give presentations, I inevitably get asked the same question: “Didn’t you just trade in one addiction for another?” And I always give the same answer: Yes, and…
One minute it’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and the next thing you know the vaccinated are variant super-spreaders who are responsible for ushering in end times. One person accuses the other of stockpiling livestock medicine, while that other believes we’re all being secretly fed self-spreading vaccines via Mexican tomatoes. As ludicrous as some of…
Once I understood that nothing outside of me was stronger than what was inside of me, I was able to see every situation as a chance to change. And I realized this one night, on the shores of Moose Lake. One year before I got busted, I dated a carpenter named Doug. Doug had bright…
I’m excited to share with you a segment that CNN did on me for their “Turning Points” series! If you like it, I’d love it if you could share it with your friends 🙂 You can watch my segment here: CNN Turning Points
Healing is hard work; to this day it is the single hardest thing I have ever done. To face the rage, pain, abandonment and betrayal was an impossible task that was only navigated with a tenuous combination of hope, faith and desire. The flip side is that healing is the gift that keeps on giving,…
Have you ever felt like you were navigating life without a compass, as though there were no absolute bearings any more, only vague signposts? Well I spent most of my teens and twenties in that state, without really knowing what the problem was. Then one night in my early thirties I was sitting in my…
The family is a microcosm of the society in which it finds itself. We currently live in a paradigm that I often refer to as Fabian Socialism, a nanny state where the government interferes in just about every aspect of our lives under the guise of protecting us. But what it is really engendering is…
We are destroying the wilderness of the planet at the exact rate, and to the same extent, that we are suppressing the wildness of our own psyches. The human being and the natural environment are inseparable: what we do to one we also do to the other. There are many things that are optional, even…
By the time I was in my late twenties, I had already been going to psychologists for a decade, had consulted numerous New Age healers, and read every self-help book I could get my hands on. I was still young, but desperate to figure out the root of my unhappiness before it threatened to extinguish…
A long time ago, in a universe far away, I was born into intergenerational trauma. I lived in the dysfunction of this for almost two decades, and then it took me two more to bring myself out of what I like to refer to as “the aftermath.” If you’re wondering what this aftermath looked like,…