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26 results for “healing”
- ArticleReflection
The Startle Never Left. What Changed Is What I Do Next.
PTSD told honestly. The flinch never went away. What changed is how long it owns me after. On recovery time, healing in public, and why the water still works.
- ArticleReflection
I Chose to Heal in Public. Here Is Why.
The easiest move after everything would be to disappear. Go quiet. Heal in private. Come back in a few years looking finished, like none of it left a mark. I am not doing that. I am healing where people can see it, on purpose. Here is why.
- ArticleFaith & Today
Jesus Touched the Outcast: What Compassion Requires During a Measles Surge
Mark 1 shows Jesus restoring an excluded man’s dignity. Here is how that lesson can guide truthful, compassionate action during the 2026 U.S. measles surge.
- PhotoReflection
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When trials come, choose joy. That is easy to put on a picture. It is harder to live when the trial is your life. James 1:2-4 says: “Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing o
- ArticleReflection
I Thought Quiet Meant I Lost. It Took Me Years To Learn Different.
For a long time, quiet felt like losing. If I was not swinging, I thought I was surrendering. That is what years of noise will do to a man. You get so used to the fight that silence starts to feel like defeat. The lawyers. The headlines. Th
- ArticleReflection
Calm Is Not the Same Thing as Numb
Numb looks exactly like calm from across the room. Here is how I tell the difference now, and what actually moved it: work with an end to it, water, and one honest conversation.
- ArticleReflection
The Loudest Thing In My House Right Now Is Quiet
Peace did not arrive like a parade. It arrived like a Tuesday. On learning to sit still, the water at first light, and the son on the way.
- ArticleReflection
A calmer direction
I've been through a lot in the last few years. January 6th. Prison. Pardon. Business damage. Family damage. A lot of pressure, a lot of anger, a lot of distrust. I'm taking this season to heal. To get my head right. To rebuild the things th
- ArticleReflection
The Verse People Quote At Me
Genesis 50:20 gets quoted as a way to end hard conversations. Joseph named what his brothers did as evil. The verse holds both halves. Ryan Nichols on faith that does not rush people.
- ArticleReflection
I Still Count the Exits
Hypervigilance did not end when the place did. Why I quit trying to kill the instinct that maps every room, and the one sentence that gives the alarm an off ramp.
- ArticleReflection
Five Days In, and the Only Job Is the Next Small Thing
Five days after my son was born, the hard part is not the noise. It is the sameness. On adrenaline, ordinary days, and holding on for the normal day.
- ArticleReflection
The Thing I Missed Most Was a Regular Monday
Locked up, I did not daydream about vindication. I daydreamed about an ordinary Monday. Getting one back is harder to hold than anybody warns you.
- ArticleReflection
Nothing Out On That Water Knows My Name
For years, sitting still was not rest. It was a cell. Fishing was the bridge from braced to steady, and why I am learning stillness before my son gets here.
- ArticleRyan Outdoors
Ryan Nichols and the Outdoor Rule of Leaving One Place Better
A warm Ryan Nichols outdoors article about rebuilding through stewardship, a safe 30-minute shoreline practice and one visible act of care.
- ArticleTexas News
New World Screwworm Is in Texas: What Livestock Owners, Hunters and Pet Travelers Need to Do Now
New World screwworm is confirmed in Texas. Learn the warning signs, reporting numbers, live maps and Mexico's August 3 pet-travel document rule.
- ArticleMotivation
How to Keep Moving Forward When Life Knocks You Down: A 7-Day Reset
Life knocked you down and you need a way forward. Use the Carry, Cut, Create decision tool and this honest seven-day reset to rebuild momentum.
- ArticleMotivation
You Do Not Need a Perfect Day: Start With the Next 15 Minutes
Feeling stuck or overwhelmed? Use this practical 15-minute reset to choose one controllable action, rebuild momentum, and move forward with faith today.
- ArticleReflection
I Am Not Writing Fighting Shadows to Get Even
People assume the book is my revenge. It is not. Fighting Shadows is not a knife. It is a record. There is a difference, and the difference is the whole reason I am writing it. **Revenge forgets. A record remembers.** Revenge is loud and th
- ArticleReflection
Before I Teach Him to Be Still, I Have to Learn It Myself
There is a chair in my house that is waiting on a son. He is not here yet. But I already know the first thing I want to give him. Not a truck. Not a rifle. Not a name people will recognize. I want to give him stillness. And I cannot give a
- ArticleReflection
Genesis 50:20 Is Not a Bumper Sticker. It's a Job.
For a long time that verse made me angry. "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good." People would say it to me like it was supposed to fix something. Like it was a pill. Like if I just believed it hard enough, the years would g
- ArticleReflection
Nobody Claps for the Middle
Everybody loves a comeback. Nobody wants to sit in the middle of one with you. The fall gets attention. The finish gets a headline. The middle gets nothing. The middle is the long gray stretch where nothing looks like winning and nobody is
- ArticleReflection
I Go To The Water When The Noise Gets Loud
Some mornings the quiet is louder than any cell I ever sat in. So I go to the water. I load the truck before the sun is up. Rod. Tackle. A thermos of coffee that is already too strong. I drive out to where the pines lean over the bank and t
- ArticleReflection
I Still Flinch at the Sound of Keys. I Stopped Apologizing for It.
A set of keys hit a table next to me last week. My whole body went somewhere else before my mind could catch up. Not a memory exactly. More like the body remembering before the brain gets a vote. For a long time I was ashamed of that. A Mar
- VideoCommunity
Confess Your Sins, One To Another..
> *"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed."* — James 5:16 > *"For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad."* — Luke 8:1
- VideoBehind the scenes
Learning to Leave the Cell Without Leaving the House
Yesterday I recorded part of my daily routine — working out at home, moving my body, doing push-ups, upside-down push-ups, and talking to God. The clip is up above. Watch it first. The rest of this is the part I couldn't say while I was ups
- PhotoJ6
Judge Hogan, on the record: "I accept your argument that his due process rights were violated."
A senior federal judge looked at how I was being held before any trial, called it "terrible," and said — out loud, on the record — that my due process rights had been violated. Then I went back to my cell and stayed there. That is not my ch