Check in with yourself using the Life Wheel: a simple, powerful tool for addicts in recovery and the loved ones healing alongside them.

Discover 14 creative ways to track triggers and manage addiction or trauma recovery. Build awareness, spot patterns, and strengthen your coping tools.

After the response to my blog post and podcast on urge surfing, I realized something: it's one thing to read about the technique… but it's another thing entirely to practice it, especially when your nervous system is doing back springs inside your brain.

So I created a brand-new workbook to guide you through urge surfing, step by step.

Are you someone who tries to find the humor too? If you are, you’re not alone. A lot of us in recovery and healing use humor to help us through some of the toughest challenges and it’s the reason we’re still here. It’s not about making light of serious struggles. It’s about making room to breathe in the middle of them.

We’ve talked before about my love of rollercoasters (the more loops the better!) And that’s how recovery can feel even on the best days. One minute you're feeling grounded and grateful, and the next, you’re wanting the world to stop giving you so many nauseating twists and turns.

Recovery and healing has its ups and downs, but sometimes what looks like “a bad week” or “just feeling off” is actually your brain waving little red flags, trying to get you to pay attention.

Mental health matters just as much as sobriety and healing. Recognizing when you need support can keep you from spiraling deeper or even prevent a setback.

When you think about your recovery and your healing, you might imagine a life-changing therapy breakthrough, a talk with someone from your Healing Hive or Sobriety Circle that makes things magically click or a topic from your support group that evokes radical change in your journey.

But most of the time? Healing is... kinda boring. It's brushing your teeth when you're depressed. It's turning off your phone at 9 p.m. because you know scrolling won’t help…and it could turn into doom scrolling…which could lead to…well, you know. It's drinking water when you'd rather drink a beer or do drugs to numb what you’re thinking or feeling.

So today, we’re celebrating the unsung heroes of mental health. Those tools that don’t go viral, don’t feel magical, but absolutely keep you grounded when life feels overwhelming.

Want to hear something I find disheartening? We still live in a world where many men are told, either directly or indirectly, that they should “man up”, “suck it up”, and “never let ‘em see you cry”. (Unless they’re watching a guy cry movie like Marley and Me or Field of Dreams.)

Mental health doesn’t care what gender you are. Depression, anxiety, trauma, burnout, these things don’t check for masculinity before showing up and crushing you.

So, in honor of World Mental Health Awareness, let’s shine a light on a conversation we should be having all year: men and mental health.