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  • Ryan Roberts – The Life Shift Podcast

    Ryan Roberts – The Life Shift Podcast

    A raw conversation about grief, addiction, and finding your way back to yourself, drawn from lived experience and the memoir Fragmented. Listen now.


Recent Posts

  • Reaching for the Light

    Reaching for the Light

    I’ve been thinking about balance, thinking about storms. Not much can grow in darkness, but maybe the darkness is sometimes…

  • The Silence That Remains

    The Silence That Remains

    01/06/06 It’s silent right now, and I realize that’s what I needed. No TV, no radio, no It’s silent right…

  • The Thoughts of The Mourning

    The Thoughts of The Mourning

    I think I missed my window for suicide after the death of my spouse. Does that make me crazy? I…

  • A Little Jealous of Belief

    A Little Jealous of Belief

    The big questions go unanswered because the big questions go unspoken. This is the pervasive thought that’s occupied my mind…

  • The Existential Diatribe

    The Existential Diatribe

    I’m tired, I’m tired of being tired of self-induced problems in a made-up world. I’m tired of not saying anything…

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-Ryan

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