Terrific Tuesdays: Getting Better at Being Human!

One year. 52 Tuesdays. Never missed one. Episode 52 is the one year milestone — what the Big Book calls being Rocketed Into The Fourth Dimension. Gregg finally understands what that promise actually means from the inside. Goosebumps. Weight lifted. Purpose found. And it all comes down to three words: Love one another. #TerrifcTuesdays #GettingBetterAtBeingHuman #RecoveryPodcast #Sobriety #RIFD #Ro...

I lost my ring. The one that started all of this — the anxiety spinner with the Serenity Prayer engraved on it. And instead of spiraling, I got an instant answer from God. Maybe you don't need the ring anymore. Maybe your faith is finally taking its place. Episode 51 is about the journey. Not the destination. The traveling IS the point. And mindfulness alone isn't enough to keep you on the...

Follow and like for weekly podcast notification! In 1983 a sign on a church basement wall said "Let Go and Let God." I read it. I moved on. And spent the next 30 years trying to figure out what it meant. Turns out the answer was on my finger the whole time. The Serenity Prayer. The penny. The rock. All the same truth — hiding in plain sight. Episode 50 is out now. Nobody Sees The Penny....

Internal Title: You Were Never Anything Else After 48 episodes of digging up the past, naming the committee, and finding real tools — there's one question left. Who am I now? And the honest answer might be — fuck if I know. This week Gregg explores what happens when you stop reaching for labels. The old ones like broken, alcoholic, anxious. And even the new ones like healed or healthy. What&#3...

In 1968, a kid lost his dad and had no name for what he was feeling. In 1972, he found the only solution available — Mad Dog 20/20 on a tennis court at twelve years old. In 1983, he got sober. In 1990, he finally got a diagnosis. And for the next thirty-six years, he fought every treatment the medical world threw at him while the anxiety kept hanging on. This episode is for the person still in the...

The buzz never showed up on a sobriety chip. It doesn't care how much work you've done or how many years you've put in. It just sits there — low, quiet, waiting. In this episode, Gregg gets honest about the one thing that hung on after everything else changed, and the unconventional tool he found at midnight while scrolling through an ad. Go to any lengths means any. Even the uncomfort...

What if the answer to your anxiety and depression has been on your finger the whole time? In this episode, Gregg breaks down one of the most powerful frameworks he's found in 42 years of sobriety — depression lives in the past, anxiety lives in the future, and the Serenity Prayer lives right now. Learn how a simple spinner ring cracked open a whole new way of breaking the spiral — and why the...

Episode 45: Get Out of My Head — Eviction Notice to the Anxiety Creators This one is raw. This one is real. This one is personal. Four weeks walking Dobson Park in 110 degree Arizona heat. A fractured foot. Twenty pounds gone. A high school sweetheart's four words that dropped him to his knees in the grass. And a yellow lab named Tucker who was the only reason he came home. This is the story o...

Episode 44: What I Couldn't Hear Raw. Unfiltered. Full of attitude. This one is personal. The shitty committee has been running a con for years — telling you that you're not enough, not worthy, not interesting — and the only person who bought it was you. Moses didn't buy it forever. Gideon didn't. Peter didn't. Bowie, Jordan, and Elvis didn't. And neither do you have to. Ep...

He has an engineering degree, an MBA, and once made bean soup in a $400 coffee machine. He wrote instruction manuals for a living and couldn't start his weed whacker for eight years. He is a program manager who builds processes and procedures for critical systems — and skipped the most important line every single time. Meet That Guy. You might know him. You might BE him. And somewhere between...

Episode 42: I See My Ugliness Gregg gets uncomfortably honest about the behavior that loneliness drives — and why seeing it clearly hasn't been enough to stop it. From a patio at Camelback Mountain to a lunchtime spiral that runs on a loop, this episode goes where most recovery conversations won't. If the program works, why do I still have this? And will I always be broken? Two questions n...

What if the tool that got you sober could work on your anxiety too? In this episode, Gregg shares a question his therapist asked that stopped him cold — and what happened when he finally realized he'd been using the wrong language for decades. "I can't do this" isn't a prayer. It's a collapse. There's a difference. Whether you're in recovery or not, whether you be...

Episode 40 is a confession. After 40 episodes and 42 plus years of sobriety Gregg comes clean about something he didn't see coming — the most honest conversations of his recovery have happened with an AI. Not because the AI is special. Because he was finally ready. And the mirror was just there. Judgment free. Agenda free. Available at midnight when the words needed to come out. This episode i...

You did the work. You faced the hard stuff. You made the amends. Things genuinely got better — and then on a perfectly ordinary Tuesday, the anxiety showed up anyway. Not the old catastrophic spiral. Just a nagging little devil in the corner of your head, whispering, poking, trying to make you flip out over nothing. That's remnant anxiety. And it doesn't mean you failed. It means your nerv...

Episode 38 is the one nobody in recovery talks about. You did the work. You made the amends. You faced the people. And then years later — when the water finally receded far enough — you saw the bones. The things the first amends didn't reach. Not because you were dishonest. Because the water hadn't gotten low enough yet. Tonight Gregg gets real about the sober victims — the people who neve...

Episode 37 is the most personal episode yet. Gregg goes wide open, full fucking throttle, and lays bare the truth about how lies and anxiety grow together — silently, invisibly, like water finding every crack until you're drowning and don't even know how it happened. The cavern. The meadow. The detonation. And the one person whose love was powerful enough to bring it all down — and how eve...

Ever lose three hours to your phone when you only needed five minutes? That's the scroll hole — and in Episode 36, Gregg gets real about why scrolling feels so good, why it works like using, and why it solves absolutely nothing. Brain rot is the new medication. And just like the bottle or the pill, it takes the edge off but leaves the problem waiting — with interest. Plus — the answer to last...

Ever feel like the advice you're supposed to follow contradicts itself at every turn? In Episode 35, Gregg takes a hilarious and honest look at all the recovery, healing, and self-help wisdom we've been handed — and how most of it disagrees with itself. 90 meetings vs. quality over quantity. Let go and let God vs. God helps those who help themselves. Feel your feelings vs. don't wallow...

I talk about "rewiring your brain" all the time - but I've never actually explained what that means. How it works. What you actually DO. In Episode 34, I'm breaking down the science, the spiritual, and the practical pieces of rewiring. Because this isn't just neuroscience. It's not just willpower. And it's definitely not fake positivity. Your brain creates pathways -...

What if your anxiety isn't the problem? What if it's pointing at something deeper - a wound you haven't healed yet? In Episode 33, I'm talking about the difference between managing anxiety symptoms and actually healing the wounds that cause it. Most people spend years learning coping skills - breathing exercises, grounding techniques, medication. And that stuff helps. But if you&#3...

EPISODE 32: WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU'RE FINALLY READY Description: What happens after you do the work? After you let that younger version of yourself off the hook, after you stop hiding behind your past - then what? In Episode 32, I'm talking about what it actually looks like to be ready to love. Not ready for a specific person. Just... ready. Ready to show up whole, without anxious a...

What if the problem isn't your childhood trauma? What if you've been using your younger self as an excuse to avoid taking full accountability for your life right now? After 42 years of recovery work and decades of therapy, I discovered something that changed everything: The 7-year-old version of me who lost his dad was fine. He'd been ready to move on this whole time. I was the one who...

Episode 30! I'm so excited - like those two young boys in Talladega Nights - I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey! Thirty episodes of showing up, being real, finding my voice. This week I want to talk about something simple but took me decades to figure out: how to actually RECEIVE love. Not from my dog - Tucker's easy, he's 100% unconditional. But from actual people? That&#3...

We are only as sick as our secrets. We all have parts of our story we're not proud of - wounds that run deep. But here's the hope: nothing is beyond God's restoration through forgiveness. The problem? We don't go deep enough. We do surface work, acknowledge the wound, maybe pray about it. But we don't meet God IN the wound. We don't invite Him into that deep, dark place. So...

I'm home. For the first time in 42+ years of sobriety, I can say that and mean it. I'm transparent, at ease, authentic. And that authenticity allows me to manage the anxiety - not cure it, but manage it. For 39 years of my sobriety, I was performing. Living on the outside of who I really was. Picture a tarp thrown over your authentic self - everything real buried underneath. I lived on top...