The Warrior Medic
The Warrior Medic helps men find, name, and heal the wounds keeping them from becoming who they were made to be — as husbands, fathers, leaders, and men of genuine faith. We start with the wound, not with religion, and walk toward the only One who has ever actually healed it.
Episodes
66 episodes
He Never Told Anyone. Not Once. Not Ever. | The Wound Nobody Talks About
If you were abused as a child and never told anyone — this episode is for you.One in six men has experienced childhood sexual abuse. Almost none of them have ever told anyone. Not because it didn't happen. Because the culture handed them...
Nobody Would Ever Control Him Again | The Warrior Medic
This week on The Warrior Medic — the control wound.The controlling man doesn't look wounded. He looks like a leader. He looks like the man who has his life together. But his wife stopped making suggestions. His children feel managed, not...
Was It Prophetic... or Just Pizza? | The Generational Wound | EP014 | The Warrior Medic
This week on The Warrior Medic — the generational wound.I had a dream. A boy stood in a driveway and watched his father drive away. The father handed him a set of legal documents tied with a red ribbon. Got in the car. And drove away.
I Hated Him at That Moment. | The Abandonment Wound | EP013 | The Warrior Medic
This week on The Warrior Medic — the abandonment wound. I was sixteen years old. Breaking pavement with a pick in our driveway. My father beat me with a leather strap. When he finished — I looked him in the eye and told ...
I Believed Rage Always Won... I Was Wrong.
I believed rage won. My father taught me that — through beatings, through instructions, through driving me back to a schoolyard and making me fight a boy I had no business fighting.And rage DID win. For a long time.It won fights. ...
I Finally Just Stopped | The Warrior Medic
I was in Saudi Arabia. Alone in an apartment. Far from everyone and everything that meant anything to me.And God put me on my knees. Not dramatically. Not with thunder and lightning. Just — on my knees. With nothing.No achievement...
I Was Too Young to Understand, But Old Enough to Hate | The Warrior Medic
I was nine years old. My father and I had just come back from a fishing trip in the Gulf. We were cleaning the boat together. Just the two of us.That's supposed to be one of the good memories.My father got quiet for a moment. Then...
I Had To Shut Her Out | The Warrior Medic
I had to shut her out. Not because I didn't love her. Because something in me believed that if she got too close — she'd see what I really was. And she'd leave.That conclusion wasn't about her. It was a wound installed in a boy long befo...
The Conclusion the Boy Made | The Warrior Medic
There was a moment in a carport. My father said something that attacked everything a boy needs to survive — my masculinity, my pride, my desperate need to be accepted and loved.The boy drew a conclusion: I am not enough.And for th...
I Couldn't Heal What I Didn't Understand | The Warrior Medic
I couldn't heal what I didn't understand. And for decades I didn't even know what I was missing.Every wound follows the same pattern. Something happened to the boy. He drew a conclusion. And that conclusion ran the man's life for forty y...
YOU Can Break The Chain | The Warrior Medic
I want to speak to two men right now.To the son: Stop waiting for an apology that will never come. The forgiveness doesn't require him. It requires you. His knowledge of your forgiveness is irrelevant. Your freedom from carrying it is no...
I Missed The Moments That Never Happened | The Warrior Medic
What breaks my heart — even now — are not the moments that happened. It's the ones that didn't.The tender moments that could have lived in his sons' hearts forever — that don't exist. Not because there wasn't time. Because rage filled th...
I'm Not Sad For Myself. I'm Sad For Him. | The Warrior Medic
When the anger finally released — I expected to feel free. I was wrong.What I felt was sadness. Not for myself. For him.My father survived his own incredibly abusive childhood. But he never healed. He never knew healing was possib...
I Had to Forgive Him Again Today.| The Warrior Medic
Nobody told me forgiveness isn't a one-time event.The first time I forgave my father — I meant it. It was real. Something shifted.And then months later a new memory surfaced. The anger came with it. And I had to forgive again....
He Loved Me Until I Wanted To Forgive | The Warrior Medic
Forgiveness didn't happen at the time of the wound. Not in my teens. Not in my twenties or thirties.I only sought to forgive my father in my mid-forties. After I had found Jesus as my friend.My friend didn't command me to forgive....
I Didn't Just Feel the Anger. I Fed It | The Warrior Medic
Before Jesus found me — when the memories came — I didn't just feel the anger. I fed it. I reveled in it.The anger felt like power. The resentment felt like loyalty to the boy I was. So I held onto it for decades. Without knowing what it...
I Forgave, But That's Not Reconciliation | The Warrior Medic
DESCRIPTION: Most men have been told to forgive. Nobody told them the truth about what forgiveness actually is.Forgiveness is NOT reconciliation. NOT saying what happened was okay. NOT a confrontation. NOT requiring the other ...
He Died Never Knowing I Forgave Him | The Warrior Medic
This week is going to be hard. Not because the teaching is complicated. But because to understand forgiveness — we have to go back to the wound.I feel it myself when I discuss these things. Even now. Even after years of healing. But here...
Let Me Introduce You to My Best Friend.
This week we've been talking about healing. About stopping the running and meeting Jesus — not as a religion, but as a person.Today I want to lay the foundation for everything that follows. Not a membership. Not a program. Not a religion...
Not Religion. Relationship | The Warrior Medic
If you've been burned by religion — by hypocrisy, by people who claimed to follow Jesus But do not reflect His heart — this one is for you.My Arab colleagues in Saudi Arabia asked if I was a Christian. I paused. Then said “No. I am a fol...
I Didn't Know She Was Fighting For Me. | The Warrior Medic
My wife flew across the world to be with me in Saudi Arabia. She brought a book — John Eldredge's Wild at Heart. Mentioned our son had loved it. Put it on the coffee table. And never mentioned it again.She knew me well enough to know tha...
I Finally Stopped Running. Here's What I Found. | The Warrior Medic
I ran for a long time. New job. New city. New start. Every time I thought: this time will be different.It never was. Because the wound doesn't stay behind when you leave. It buys a ticket and sits right next to you.No external cha...
I Examined My Life. It Hurt. | The Warrior Medic
For eight episodes we named the wounds. Today we walk through the door into the healing phase.When I finally looked — really looked — at what was actually inside me, I was crushed. Not by what had been done to me. By what I had become.
Name Your Wound Out Loud — Healing Starts Now | The Warrior Medic
Most wounded men have never said their wound out loud. Not to anyone. Not even to themselves.This weekend — find a private moment. Your truck. The shower. Wherever you're alone. And say it. Out loud. In your own voice.My father to...
I Survived My Childhood. So Why Am I Still Paying For It?
I got through it. I built a life. I was functioning, achieving, showing up.But the wound didn't stay buried. Like any untended wound, it festered. It showed up in my rage. In my distance from my wife. In the way I fathered my children. I...