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
168 episodes
167: Why Gratitude Is the Most Overlooked Nervous System Tool Men Have to Beat Addiction
Today — gratitude is your superpower. Use it daily.Most men in recovery are focused on everything they have lost, everything that is broken, and everything that is still wrong. That focus becomes the filter through which they s...
166: How Men With Addiction Find Hope When Everything Feels Out of Control
Today — hope does not come from someone or something else. Hope comes from your attitude.Most men wait for their circumstances to change before they allow themselves to feel hope. But hope built on circumstances will collapse t...
165: How Men With Addiction Use Daily Nervous System Practice to Rehearse the Man They Are Becoming Instead of Repeating the Man They Were
Today — every time you do the practice you are not fixing the old man. You are rehearsing the new one.Most men approach the practices as damage control. Trying to fix what is broken. Stop what is destructive. That framing keeps...
164: Why Your Inside World and Outside World Do Not Match and How Nervous System Regulation and Spiritual Strength Close the Gap
Today — the split between who you are on the inside and who shows up on the outside is not a character problem. It is a nervous system problem. And there is a way to close it.Most men are living a split life without knowing it....
163: How Men Use Physical Training and Nervous System Regulation to Build the Strength and Resilience to Overcome Addiction
Today — I am not training for a race or a mountain. I am training to be the man I actually am. That is a completely different motivation.Training for who you are is more sustainable than training for what you want to achieve. T...
162: Why Men With Addiction Who Neglect Their Body Cannot Access the Spiritual Resilience They Are Looking For
Today — why your body holds the clearest signal about who you are. The body does not lie. When you are regulated, moving, and physically disciplined your nervous system tells you the truth about who you are. Physical disci...
161: How Men in Addiction Recovery Build the Nervous System Strength to Stay Present in Relationships Without Running
Today — I used to leave every relationship before it could leave me. Learning to stay is the most courageous thing I have ever done.The pattern of running from relationships is not a character flaw — it is an attachment wound r...
160: Why the Regulated Man in Recovery Experiences Relationships Differently and How Nervous System Strength Makes Real Intimacy Possible
Today — how nervous system regulation can fix your relationship. A dysregulated man cannot be truly present in a relationship no matter how much he loves the other person. Real intimacy is not chemistry — it is two regulat...
159: The One Nervous System Practice That Keeps Men With Addiction Present Instead of Running to the Next Thing
Today — my brain has always been three steps ahead of my life. The practice is the only thing that brings me back.Running to the next thing is not ambition — it is dysregulation wearing ambition's clothes. The practice is not j...
158: Why Presence Is the Hardest Practice for Men in Recovery and How Nervous System Regulation Makes It Possible
Today — I have climbed mountains, run marathons, and built a ministry. The hardest thing I have ever done is stay present with the life in front of me.Most men think the work of recovery ends when the behavior stops. It does no...
157: Why a Daily Practice Built on Self Worth Gives Men the Nervous System Strength and Spiritual Resilience to Beat Addiction
Today — the daily practice is not about becoming a better man. It is about becoming a man who believes he already is one.A daily practice built on self worth is more sustainable than one built on self improvement. Movement, sti...
156: How Knowing Your Worth Builds the Nervous System Resilience and Spiritual Strength Men Need to Beat Addiction
Today — resilience is not something you build by being tough. It is something that grows naturally in a man who knows he is worth getting back up.Resilience is not brute strength — it is the natural result of a man who believes...
155: Why Self Love Is a Pre-Loaded Decision That Gives Men the Nervous System Strength to Overcome Addiction
Today — the most powerful addiction interrupt available to a man is the decision that he is worth a different choice.Self love is not a feeling you fall into. It is a pre-loaded decision you make before the urge arrives. Every ...
154: Why Addiction Is a Self Worth Problem Not a Behavior Problem and How Spiritual Resilience Changes That
I was never addicted to sex or approval or achievement. I was addicted to the feeling of being worth something. That is what the addiction was always trying to give me.Addiction is not a behavior problem — it is a worth problem...
153: How Nervous System Regulation Creates the Self Worth and Spiritual Resilience Men Need to Overcome Addiction
The practices are not just about stopping the addiction. They are about building a man who believes he is worth stopping it for.A regulated nervous system is a nervous system that can receive truth — including the truth that yo...
152: How a Dysregulated Nervous System Blocks Self Worth in Men and Keeps the Addiction Cycle Running
You can know you are worth it in your head and still not feel it in your body. Here is why.The nervous system is the barrier between what a man believes about himself and what he actually feels. Dysregulation does not just affe...
151: The One Practice that Builds Self Worth and Resilience in Addicted Men
You cannot think your way into believing you are worth it. You have to practice your way there.Self worth is not a feeling you wait for. It is a decision you make and then act on every single day. The morning practice is not ju...
150: Why Addicted Men Who Look for Worth Outside Themselves Never Find It and What to Do Instead
I spent forty years looking for proof that I was worth something. The proof was never out there. It was always already in here.Most men are looking for their worth in performance, approval, achievement, and other people's...
149: Why the Strongest Men in Recovery Have Already Surrendered and What That Means for Your Addiction
Today — surrender is not weakness. Surrender is the strongest decision a man can make.Surrender is not giving up. It is giving over control to something more reliable than a dysregulated nervous system. The man who surrenders h...
148: Why Being Born Again Once Was Never Enough and What Men Need Every Morning Instead
Today — I was born again once in a church aisle at eight years old. I am born again every single morning now.A one time spiritual event cannot sustain a man through a lifetime of dysregulation and temptation. Being born again i...
147: Why Knowing More About God Has Never Helped Men Beat Addiction and What Actually Does
Today — I used to think knowing more about God would save me. It never did. Feeling God did.Information about God that never reaches the body will never change behavior that lives in the body. The nervous system is the doorway ...
146: Why Men Think They Are Fine and Still Cannot Stop the Behavior
Today — life can look completely fine on the outside while a man is dying on the inside. I know because I lived it.Stability is not healing. It is the most dangerous place an addicted man can stand without a spiritual practice ...
145: Why Men Who Try Harder in Their Faith Keep Relapsing and What to Do Instead
I spent my whole life trying to be good enough for God. Then I learned presence was the only thing he ever asked for.Trying harder in your faith without regulating your nervous system is just white knuckling with a Bible in you...
144: Why the God Men Were Taught Keeps Them Stuck in Addiction and Shame
The God I preached about for thirteen years could not save me. The God I found in silence did.Most men were handed a version of God that demands performance and punishes failure. That God does not break the addiction cycle, but...
143: Why Cold Water Is a Spiritual Practice and How Men Access God Through the Nervous System
Today — the most honest prayer I ever prayed happened in water cold enough to stop my thoughts completely.Cold water is not just a nervous system tool. It is one of the most direct spiritual practices available to men who have ...