Quitting Wasn’t the End of Anything, It Was the Beginning of Everything

When I quit drinking, I thought I’d crossed the finish line. Instead, I found myself standing at the starting line of a completely different race—one I didn’t know how to run.

In this first episode of Soul Recovery: What Comes After the Quit, I share what it was really like to walk out of a psychiatric center and face life without my old coping mechanisms. From shaky ground and self-doubt, to unexpected lifelines like Peace Is Every Step and Reinventing Yourself, to my eventual realization that spirituality wasn’t going to magically bypass my pain—I open up about the messy, uncomfortable truth of what early recovery really feels like.

I’ll also talk about how training as a trauma recovery coach led me to my own soul recovery, why I wrote Rewilding Your Soul: A Rebel’s Guide to Being Human in a World Gone Wild, and why that journey never really ends.

If you’ve quit something that once held you together and expected instant freedom—only to find emptiness, confusion, or grief—you’re not broken. You’re just at the beginning.