    Built Through It 

I’ve spent most of my life in places where men are taught to be tough.

I was a Marine, a cop, and a mental health advocate. I ran a nonprofit that helped hundreds of veterans and first responders get the help they needed.

But while I was helping others fight their battles, I was fighting my own.

I was a working alcoholic. I struggled with my mental health, made mistakes, hurt people I love, and spent years pretending I was okay.

Today, I’m sober. I’m a husband, father of three girls, a man of faith, and a poet who writes about the struggles most of us don’t know how to say out loud.

I don’t have life figured out, and I’m not here to pretend I do.

But I’ve lived enough of it to have something to say.

Fatherhood. Faith. Mental health. Sobriety. Love. Failure. Purpose. The good and the ugly.

This is my story—and maybe parts of it will sound like yours.

We’re Built Through It.