My story
From survival to purpose.
I don't teach this from a textbook. I teach it because I had to find my own way out, and I know the way back is real.
Chapter one · The dark
I know what survival mode feels like.
I was a highly sensitive kid who grew up with trauma. By the time I was a young man, I was living on the streets, caught up in gang life and using hard drugs to numb what I couldn't face. I attempted suicide three times. Later I was diagnosed with complex PTSD.
I know what it is to feel like no one understands, and to carry pain that seems impossible to escape.
“Comfortably numb is worse than rock bottom.”
Chapter two · The turn
The first thing that changed was my body.
For years I tried to think my way out. What finally worked was learning to calm my nervous system, building a daily routine I could count on, and getting honest about the people, places and patterns that kept pulling me back.
That became the backbone of everything I teach: ground the body, shift the patterns, then rise.
Chapter three · The rebuild
Seven years later, a different life.
I've now been free from hard drugs for over seven years. I'm symptom-free from the complex PTSD that once ran my life. Not because I was lucky, but because I rebuilt from the inside out, one routine, one boundary and one honest conversation at a time.
Chapter four · The work
Turning what I lived into what I give.
I spent years in peer support roles with youth and adults, walking alongside people through addiction, anxiety, depression and burnout. I served as a Policy Advisor to the BC Government on mental health and addiction, bringing lived experience into the rooms where decisions get made.
Then I founded Mental Health Simplified, with one belief: mental health should be something anyone can understand, and anyone can work on.
“No one should have to find their way out of the dark alone.”
Chapter five · Why I do this
Because you deserve more than coping.
Today I work with individuals, couples and families who are ready to stop surviving and start living. I'll meet you with every tool, every bit of support and all the presence I have. All I ask is that you show up too.
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