The Corner of 8th & Insanity
Today’s Mantra: I AM giving generously and receiving abundantly. What I give out returns to me multiplied.
5a - Yin Yoga & Breath work
530a - Yoga Nidra & Prayer
630a - Weight Room - Back, Biceps & Delts
Warm Up
3.5mi Walk @ 10%
Weighted Pull ups 4x8
Single Leg AirPlanes
Barbell Dead Lift (5x8)
Barbell Rows (5x6)
Cable Face Pulls (3x15)
Straight Bar Bicep Curls (3x15)
830a - 12p - Trade & Write @ Desk
1p - 7p - Family Time
7p - 8p Walk w/ Tulip ♡
9p - Rest & Recovery
“Your children will become demons or angels based entirely on whether you were willing to become the monster that protects them or the coward that explains why you didn’t. Every father who refused to descend into his own darkness produced sons who drowned in it, every mother who wouldn’t face her own wounds birthed daughters who inherited them. You think you can raise them clean while staying dirty? You think they won’t smell the rot you’re hiding? Your unfaced shadows are their inheritance”
“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience real connection”
…And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
The Corner of 8th & Insanity
We grow up believing that the antidote to anxiety is calm.. silence, stillness, quiet breath, a mind emptied of fear. But that’s a fantasy we inherited from people who didn’t know how to name their inner storms. The real opposite of anxiety has never been calm. Calm is just the byproduct. The real counterforce, the thing that dissolves anxiety at its root, is trust.
Trust is not the absence of fear. Trust is the decision to move anyway. It’s the spine that straightens when the body wants to collapse, the whisper in the chest that says I can withstand this, even when the future is fogged, unpredictable, or unfair. Trust is resilience in motion.
Most people think anxiety disappears when the world stops shaking. But anyone who has done real inner work, anyone who has actually stood in the center of their life with the courage to face the truth, knows this: the storm doesn’t need to disappear for you to feel safe. What changes everything is your relationship to the storm. Trust is not pretending the storm isn’t real. Trust is knowing you’ll still be standing when it passes.
Calm is fragile. One wrong word, one unexpected moment, one shift in the emotional weather, and it evaporates. But trust, trust is durable. Trust does not depend on circumstances. Trust is something you build from the inside out: brick by brick, choice by choice, breath by breath, even when your hands are shaking.
When you’ve lived with anxiety long enough, you discover that silence isn’t what heals you, orientation does. Returning to yourself. Returning to your center. Returning to the part of you that knows: I have survived everything I once thought would break me. I will survive this too.
Trust is remembering who you are when life tries to make you forget.
It is the masculine in its highest form, not hard, not cold, but rooted. Not detached, but steady. Not unfeeling, but unshakably grounded in the truth that even if you are afraid, you still belong here, you still have agency, and you still have something worth protecting.
Trust doesn’t quiet the storm. It quiets your relationship to it.
In a world obsessed with hacks for calm, meditation apps, breath-work routines, stoic quotes slapped on black backgrounds, we forget that calm is a consequence, not the cure. You don’t chase calm. You build trust, and calm follows.
Trust in your breath.
Trust in your ability to navigate conflict.
Trust in your inner compass.
Trust in the part of you that still shows up when everything feels uncertain.
Trust in the fact that you’ve rebuilt yourself before and you will again.
The opposite of anxiety isn’t calm. It’s trust.
And trust is born in the moments when you refuse to collapse even when collapsing would be easier. It grows in the moments you choose to stay present instead of disappearing into old defenses. It strengthens every time you affirm: I am still here. I am still me. And I am still capable.
Trust is not the absence of the storm.
Trust is the quiet knowing that you are becoming the man who can walk straight through it.
LIVE FEARLESS, NOT RECKLESS.
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