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
143 episodes
142: How Men Find God in the Body and Why Spiritual Growth Requires Nervous System Regulation
You cannot pray your way into a peace your nervous system has never felt.Most men think spiritual growth means more knowledge, more discipline, more effort to be good enough. But the real barrier to experiencing God is not a la...
141: Why Men With Addiction Cannot Recover Alone — And Three Steps to Build the Community That Creates Strength
You cannot white knuckle your way to freedom. But you can build a circle of men who will not let you go back.Isolation is where the old pattern waits. Brotherhood is where freedom lives. And building that circle is not complica...
140: Why Isolation Feeds Addiction and Brotherhood Builds the Nervous System Strength to Stay Free
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is connection.Most men try to beat addiction alone. They white knuckle it in private, hide the struggle from everyone who loves them, and wonder why the same patterns keep coming ba...
139: The One Nervous System Decision That Protects Men From Addiction Relapse Before It Starts
Stability is not healing. It is the most dangerous place an addicted man can stand without a plan.Most men mistake a quiet season for arrival. The old patterns are not gone — they are waiting. And the man without a pre-loaded d...
138: How Sleep, Movement, and Stillness Build the Nervous System Strength Men Need to Overcome Addiction
The most spiritual thing you can do tonight has nothing to do with prayer. It is putting your phone down and going to bed.Most men are trying to build a spiritual life while completely ignoring the body it has to live in. Sleep...
137: Why Willpower Fails Men in Addiction — And How Sacred Grit Builds the Nervous System Strength to Win
The strongest thing I ever did was get into cold water when I wanted to die rather than face myself.Most men think grit means pushing harder — white-knuckling through, grinding it out, willing yourself to be different. But will...
136: Why Addiction Steals Your Identity and How Nervous System Regulation Gives It Back
You're not trying to become someone new — you're trying to remember who you already are.Most men spend their entire lives chasing a better version of themselves, always working toward the man they hope to one day be. But that's...
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...