Sacred Grit: Nervous System Tools and Spiritual Resilience for Men Who Are Done With Addiction, Anger, and Disconnection
Are you tired of battling addiction and wondering if there’s a way to find real strength, purpose, and freedom?
Welcome to Sacred Grit, a podcast equipping men to conquer addiction and overcome inner struggles through physical, mental, and spiritual disciplines, so you can become a man of honor and integrity. If you’re a man struggling with addiction and the isolation, broken relationships and shame it brings to your life—this show is for you
Over the last three years, I’ve watched countless men discover healing and connection through these same practices.
Listen in to learn:
- How to reframe addiction and pride into strength and freedom.
- Spiritual insights to help you find your way back to resilience when facing addiction.
- Practical tools like cold water immersion and breathwork; made simple even if you've never practiced before.
Every Sunday I unpack spiritual healing, and every Wednesday I deliver practical tools for men. Start your journey today with the fan-favorite episode, “What is Sacred Grit,” from July 2, 2025.
Episodes
136 episodes
135: Why How You Start Your Morning Determines the Man You Are All Day — A Nervous System Practice for Men
If you want to be a different man by tonight, it starts the moment your feet hit the floor.Most men wake up and immediately hand control of their nervous system to whatever is loudest — the phone, the news, the anxiety already ...
134: Why Addiction Is a Nervous System Problem Not a Character Problem, And the Spiritual Strength to Heal
You're not a defective man — you're a dysregulated man. And that changes everything.The belief that you're broken isn't truth — it's a story. A story written into you by early experience, religion, or shame. And as long as you ...
133: How Cold Water Rewires Your Nervous System and Gives Men the Strength to Beat Addiction
Ice water is the fastest path to the man you want to be.You can have years of therapy, step work, and theology — and still not be able to live out what you know you should. That's not a willpower problem. That's a body problem....
132: How Addiction Splits Your Identity and the Nervous System Strength to Become Whole
Why who you want to be and who you are don't match — and what you can do about it.If you've ever hidden something from everyone around you, performed one version of yourself in public while falling apart in private, you're not ...
131: One Tool That Gives Men the Spiritual Strength to Handle Work Pressure Without Losing Themselves
You were hired for your skills, but you'll get fired for your reactions.Most men walk into hard days at work and just hope they can hold it together. But hope isn't a strategy — preparation is. In this episod...
130: Why the Man You Are at Work Is a Direct Reflection of Your Nervous System
Your boss isn't the problem — your dysregulated nervous system is.Stress at work isn't a work problem. It's a nervous system problem showing up at work. In this episode, you'll learn:Stress...
129: Husband, Use This Preloaded Decision to Regulate Your Nervous System and Save Your Marriage
The conversation you have when you're calm determines what happens when you're not.Before you ever walk into a hard conversation with your partner, you have to decide who you want to be in that moment. Not hope. Not wish. Decid...
128: Why Your Marriage Struggles Aren't a Communication Problem — They're a Nervous System Problem
You can't connect with your wife from a dysregulated nervous system — no matter how much you love her.Most marriage conflict has nothing to do with what was actually said. It's two dysregulated nervous systems colliding — one f...
127: One Nervous System Practice That Makes Men Better Fathers in Real Time
The moment before you react to your kid is the moment that defines your fatherhood.Your kids know every button to push and they will find every unregulated corner of you — guaranteed. But here's the thing: that's not a problem,...
126: Why Your Kids Don't Need a Perfect Dad — They Need a Regulated One
Dads show up and don't blow up.Your kids are co-regulating with you whether you know it or not. When you walk through the door dysregulated — frustrated, angry, checked out — the whole house feels it and reacts to it. ...
125: Why Pre-Loaded Decisions Give Men the Strength to Control their Mind Before the Battle Starts
The best time to make a decision is before you need to make it.Most men try to make good decisions in the middle of the storm — when they're triggered, dysregulated, and running on fight or flight. When your prefrontal cortex g...
124: How Being Disciplined Every Day Builds the Nervous System Strength Men Need
You don't need more motivation. You need a nervous system that's been trained to show up.Most men hear the word discipline and think punishment — restriction, suffering, grinding through. But discipline isn't what limits you. I...
123: How Men Get Out of Anxiety in the Moment (Using One Nervous System Tool That Actually Works)
Your anxiety isn't a character flaw — it's your nervous system stuck on the gas. And today, you're getting the tool to interrupt it.Most men try to think their way out of anxiety — but your body has to come down before your min...
122: How Anxiety Is a Stuck Throttle in Your Nervous System (And How to Build the Strength to Take Control Again)
Your anxiety isn't a character flaw — it's your nervous system stuck on the gas.So many men are living as prisoners to anxiety without knowing why. It's not a moral failure or a personality type — it's a nervous system that nev...
121: How to Overcome Depression by Using a Nervous System Tool Most Men Never Think to Use
You don’t think your way out of depression—you move your way out.When you’re stuck in depression, your mind tells you to stay still, stayWhen you simplify the process and focus on one thing—movement—you take your power back...
120: How Depression Shuts Down Your Nervous System (Why Men Feel Stuck and How to Get Up Anyway)
If you feel stuck, unmotivated, or shut down—it’s not laziness, it’s your nervous system.Most men believe depression means something is wrong with them—that they’re weak, lazy, or failing. But what’s actually happening is your ...
Sponsor Highlight: Brad Strawbridge Capital City Roofing
From homeless in a Walmart parking lot to building a thriving company that gives back—this is what real recovery looks like.In this special sponsor highlight, Jason sits down with Brad Strawbridge, founder of Capital City Roofing, to unp...
119: How to Control Your Anger in the Moment by Training for Nervous System Triggers
Anger doesn’t ruin your relationships—the way you respond to it does.Most men don’t lose control because they’re bad people—they lose control because they don’t interrupt the response fast enough. When you le...
118: You Don’t Have a Temper — Your Nervous System Is Offline (Why Men Lose Control and How to Take It Back)
You don’t have a temper problem—your nervous system is just going offline.Most men believe their anger is a personality flaw, something they just have to live with or suppress. But anger is actually your nervous system in fight...
117: How to Start Training Your Nervous System Today for Mental Health Resilience (And Get My Free Breathwork Tool)
You don’t need more information to change—you need a way to reset your nervous system in real time.Most men try to think their way out of stress, anxiety, or addiction, but when your nervous system is triggered, your thinking b...
116: How Nervous System Strength Impacts Your Ability to Control Your Mental Health
If the man you want to be isn’t showing up in your life, it’s not a character problem—it’s a nervous system problem.Most men believe they lack discipline, integrity, or strength when their actions don’t match their intentions. ...
115: How to Break the Addiction Loop (Train Your Nervous System for Real Change)
Addiction doesn’t happen all at once—it happens in a loop, and if you don’t interrupt it early, it will run to completion.Most men wait too long to act. By the time they try to stop, the urge has already taken over.
114: Why You’re Not Addicted — Your Nervous System Is Dysregulated
What you call addiction isn’t just a lack of discipline—it’s your nervous system trained to seek relief.Most men think their problem is weakness or lack of willpower. But addiction is often your body doing exactly what it’s bee...
113: Integrating Nervous System Regulation to Prevent Relapse in Addiction Recovery
The pause is powerful—but what you do inside it determines whether you relapse or recover.Most men learn how to create a pause through nervous system regulation, but they don’t know what to do next. When you ...
112: Why Willpower Fails in Addiction — And How Nervous System Training Fixes It
White knuckling addiction doesn’t break the cycle—it actually makes it stronger.Most men believe the answer to addiction is to just “try harder” and push through the urge. But when you rely on willpower alone, you’re fighting a...