This Might Be Therapy

There’s supposed to be a point where you finally feel like you’ve got your shit together, right? You work. You provide. You get married. Raise kids. Build a career. Chase promotions. Pay bills. Screw things up, fix them, and keep moving. Then one day you look around and realize you did everything you were supposed to do—and somehow you’re still asking, “Now what?” At 45, losing my job forced me to...

The last episode asked a simple question: What the hell are we working so hard for? This is where that conversation goes next. What started as a conversation about work, money, and the pressure to keep pushing turns into something deeper—what we’re actually trying to build, what “enough” looks like, and whether the life we’ve been told to chase is even the life we want. No perfect answers. Just th...

Why do so many of us feel guilty when we stop? Why does a free Saturday turn into another list of things to accomplish? Why do we keep saying we’re doing it all for our families while sometimes giving work the best parts of us and bringing home whatever is left? In this episode, I’m talking about the grind, what it really means to provide, how much is actually enough, and the uncomfortable questio...

What happens when the job disappears—and you realize how much of your identity disappeared with it? At 45, I’m standing at another crossroads. For most of my adult life, work meant more than a paycheck. It meant providing. Responsibility. Purpose. Being needed. Then one phone call took away the title, the schedule, the routine—and left me with a question I wasn’t prepared to answer: Who the hell a...

Life doesn’t always wait until you’re ready before it changes everything. It’s been a few weeks since the last episode of This Might Be Therapy , and a lot has happened. I went to the cabin expecting to come home and get back to normal. Instead, I came home to a life that looked very different. I lost my job. My marriage has been tested. I’m challenging decisions surrounding my termination, buildi...

Have you ever stopped to wonder if you’re the villain in someone else’s story? In this episode of This Might Be Therapy, Chris explores one of the most uncomfortable questions we can ask ourselves: What part of this belongs to me? Instead of asking who’s right or who’s wrong, this conversation challenges us to examine our own blind spots, the stories we tell ourselves, and the ways our ego protect...

Some phone calls divide your life into two chapters: before you answered… and after. This week, Chris reflects on the loss of a close friend, another friend’s unexpected cancer diagnosis, and his own ongoing health struggles. Instead of offering easy answers, he explores what it means to keep showing up when life feels uncertain, why the battles we can’t see are often the hardest, and why tomorrow...

After reaching 1,000 plays and downloads, I thought this episode would simply be a thank you. Instead, it became something much bigger. In this conversation, I finally answer a question I’ve been struggling with since I hit record on Episode 1: What is This Might Be Therapy really about? It’s not just about addiction. It’s not just about mental health. It’s not just about fatherhood, marriage, wor...

We all have someone we compare ourselves to. For me, it’s my mother’s husband. He’s built businesses, created wealth, retired comfortably, and now travels the country in an RV most people only dream about. Then there’s me. A husband. A father. A retail manager. A veteran. A guy who’s made more mistakes than he’d like to admit. For a long time, I believed I had somehow taken the wrong path. But wha...

Somewhere between Episode 1 and Episode 50… I realized something. I thought I was recording a podcast about my life. I wasn’t. I was recording a podcast about yours. This episode is for every father who’s ever wondered if he’s doing enough. The dad who leaves for work before the kids wake up. The dad who comes home exhausted. The dad who quietly carries the weight of providing while hoping his chi...

I thought this episode was about missing my son’s first day at International Music Camp. It wasn’t. It became a conversation about fatherhood, time, marriage, work, health, and what happens when you’re so focused on surviving today that tomorrow arrives without warning. As Father’s Day and my 15th wedding anniversary approach, I’m forced to confront a difficult realization: life keeps moving wheth...

A Broadway show. A trip to Washington, D.C. A pair of $130 Nikes. A little dot moving across a map 1,402 miles from home. This episode isn’t really about New York. It’s about fatherhood. Chris shares the story of watching his son Briley experience the trip of a lifetime and reflects on the sacrifices, prayers, and faith that made it possible. From a difficult birth that left Briley unable to cry,...

In this raw and unfiltered episode of This Might Be Therapy, Chris pulls back the curtain on the pressure of trying to survive modern life while carrying the weight of leadership, fatherhood, mental exhaustion, and personal rebuilding at the same time. From managing the chaos of Fresh operations at Sam’s Club to navigating ADHD overload, burnout, strained workplace dynamics, and the emotional isol...

After months off the mic, Chris Tigges returns with one of his most vulnerable episodes yet. In “The Things I Never Planned to Lose,” he opens up about the hardest chapter of his life so far — losing his home, fighting to keep his business alive, and trying to hold it all together while rediscovering what love and faith really mean. This isn’t a highlight reel. It’s a testimony. A story about marr...

In this follow-up to one of the most personal episodes I’ve ever recorded, I open up about the battles I’m fighting right now — the ones nobody sees. From navigating the VA claims process to living with the physical toll of past exposures, from silent family tensions to the invisible work of holding a household together… this is the side of strength that doesn’t look like power. It’s the quiet, un...

After a long pause, I’m back—and not with a “everything’s perfect now” story. This is the truth about where I’ve been, what I’ve been fighting for, and why reconciliation with my wife and kids means more than just a fresh start. In this episode, I talk about the work behind the curtain—the concessions, sacrifices, and mindset shifts that have kept my family together—and I connect it to a bigger st...

Before I was Tigges, I was Delclef. In this special episode, I trace the legacy of Francis Delclef—my Belgian-born great-grandfather who crossed an ocean, fought for a country that wasn’t yet his, and planted the roots of a name that still echoes through me today. This isn’t just a history lesson. It’s a declaration of origin. A reclaiming of bloodline. A spoken memorial for the immigrant soldier...

In this raw and expanded follow-up to “The Things I Do That No One Sees,” Vigil returns with deeper reflections, heavier truths, and unspoken weight. This episode cuts into the silence that surrounds fatherhood, sacrifice, and the emotional toll of being a man who never stops showing up—even when no one notices. Through vivid storytelling, scripture, and soul-deep honesty, Vigil speaks to the fath...

What do you do when the love of your life becomes the biggest silence in your house? In this raw confession, I sit with the truth of 19 years spent loving one woman — through good, bad, ugly, and everything no one else sees behind the pictures we post for show. This is for every man or woman who’s ever carried a marriage on their back, fought for loyalty while drowning in family poison, and asked,...

Some names are just paper. Some names are blood. And some names you stand guard over so your children never have to wonder where they come from. In this short episode, I open the door to my own roots — from an adopted name to a birth surname whispered out of Belgium, from Welsh hills to my kids’ future. This is for anyone who ever asked, “Who am I, really?” — and found the answer buried deep in th...

I carried May in silence. My wife’s birthday. My mother’s birthday. Mother’s Day. And the anniversary of the day the military discarded me—May 10th. Every year, I bleed through that month while everyone else just expects me to smile through it. But now it’s June. And this time, I’m claiming what’s mine. Father’s Day. Seven years of Chris and Sons. Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. And the first...

What happens when the person you built a life with walks away—and doesn’t even look back? This episode isn’t about bitterness. It’s about the invisible grief of being emotionally replaced while you’re still standing right there. It’s about the quiet rooms, the unanswered questions, and the silence that used to be filled with love. But more than that—it’s about what comes next. Because in this stor...

After years of court losses, false accusations, and financial ruin, I took back my power—and I did it without a lawyer. In this episode, I break down exactly how I navigated the child support system, gained more custody of my children, and rewrote the terms of my fatherhood. No sugarcoating. No legal team. Just grit, strategy, and faith. 💡 Learn the hidden rules behind parenting plans. 📑 Hear ho...

Some truths can’t be sugar-coated. This episode is one of them. In A Special Place in Hell, Vigil delivers his most raw and unfiltered episode to date—calling out the dark reality that many fathers silently endure: when mothers turn children into weapons, and the court system hands them the ammunition. From personal testimony to real-world cases across the U.S., this episode exposes how child supp...

What if the argument wasn’t really about a pillow? In this raw and deeply personal episode, Vigil unpacks a moment that seems small on the surface—but reveals a much deeper truth about emotional control, parenting power struggles, and how everyday objects become weapons in toxic dynamics. After a thoughtful gesture is twisted into conflict, a father finds himself punished not with words—but throug...