Most of the time, you don’t realize you’re helping people while you’re doing it. You’re just trying to stay sober, show up, and do the next right thing. It’s only when you look back that you start to see the impact you’ve had.

In this short episode, I talk about the quiet ways we give back without even knowing it — through responsibility, integrity, and the small choices that make life better for the people around us.

If your life feels small or stuck right now, you might be building something meaningful without seeing it yet. Someone else already feels the difference you’re making.

Take care of yourself. Talk soon.

A reminder that the quiet things you do every day might be helping someone more than you realize.

Stop Solving Fiction

We spend half our lives trying to solve problems that don’t actually exist. In this episode, I open up about how my anxiety began—not with reality, but with the "fiction" I created about myself and the world.

I talk about the trap of replaying "harmless" thoughts until they become unsolvable problems, and how we can stop feeding the internal scripts that drain our energy. If you’ve been carrying bitterness, resentment, or a story that isn't true to who you really are, it’s time to let it go. Reality is simpler than the comic-book scripts in our heads.

In this episode:

• ​ The moment anxiety turns reality into fiction.
• ​ Why we beat ourselves up over stories that aren't real.
• ​ How to stop pestering yourself with imaginary problems.
• ​ The simple truth: Change your thoughts, change your life.

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A short moment of calm before the

week begins. Take a breath, let the noise settle, and start

fresh.

🎙 Episode 16 — The Lies We Tell Ourselves

In this episode of Tripping Over Myself, I explore the strange connection between addiction, anxiety, and the way we talk to ourselves.

I look at how the mind can act like its own form of artificial intelligence — answering whatever questions we feed it — and how, inside alcoholism and anxiety, those answers can quietly turn into fiction we start living by.

We talk about:

• ​ How addiction trains the mind to protect itself with lies
• ​ Why anxiety keeps us stuck in worst-case thinking
• ​ The danger of using imagination as escape instead of truth
• ​ And how our own thoughts can become an echo chamber

This episode isn’t about technology.

It’s about the questions we ask ourselves — and the answers we choose to believe.

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Sometimes the mind doesn’t want truth — it wants confirmation. In tonight’s short bonus, I share how the questions we ask ourselves can keep us anxious, stuck, and believing things that were never true. Full episode on Wednesday.

Before alcohol… before gambling… before any of the obvious addictions… there was something deeper driving it all.

The need to be noticed.

In this episode, I talk about how chasing attention, approval, and a sense of belonging led me into a life filled with drinking, gambling, and smoking — three addictions all tied to one belief: that I wasn’t enough as I was.

From owning racehorses to chasing wins that never came, I was building a version of myself I thought people would accept… while slowly losing everything that actually mattered.

This isn’t just a story about addiction.

It’s about identity.

It’s about the quiet ways we try to earn our place in the world.

And what it costs when we believe we have to.

If you’ve ever felt like you had to become someone else just to be seen… this one’s for you.

Before alcohol… there was something else driving me.

The need to be seen.

This Sunday bonus is a short preview of this week’s episode — where that need led me, and what it nearly cost me.