I Lost Myself to Addiction and Pain Then Rebuilt a Life with Meaning
About this episode
Jason Lyle shares his journey of overcoming addiction and rebuilding a meaningful life through self-love and healing practices.
A former pastor who once built a church for men finds himself unraveling under the weight of addiction, infidelity, and a faith that no longer holds, and what follows is not a collapse but a return to something truer as Jason Lyle walks through the wilderness of grief, shame, and near self-destruction to rebuild a life rooted in honesty, curiosity, and self-love. In the quiet of the mountains and the discipline of daily practices like breathwork, meditation, and cold exposure, he begins to understand that healing is not about fixing what is broken but about shedding what was never real, reconnecting the mind and body through nervous system regulation, and learning how to create space between impulse and action. What emerges is a different kind of strength, one that invites men to face their pain without armor, to regulate rather than react, and to discover that the path forward is not about becoming someone new but about returning to who they have always been beneath the noise, the habits, and the hurt. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE: How Jason’s life unraveled through addiction, infidelity, and a crisis of faith, and what it took to rebuild from the ground up…
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