Reflections from March 20, 2022—Day 9 of my journey. Three months. It had been three months since we lost our son, Maxwell Seraphim. And around this time in my journey, something inside me began to shift. I still don’t believe my son passed for a reason—some things in life are simply too painful to be […]
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Reflections from March 19, 2022—Day 8 of my journey. Looking back now, three years removed from that first week of my journey, I find myself in awe of the strength and resilience that began to take shape during those early days. After losing our son, Maxwell Seraphim, the grief felt insurmountable. It was all-consuming. There
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Reflections from March 18, 2022—Day 7 of my journey. Many journeys begin not with a question, but with a why. For some, the why is clear from the beginning—a deep, driving force that sparks the very first step forward. It’s not something we always have to search for mid-journey. Sometimes, the why finds us before
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Reflections from March 17, 2022—Day 6 of my journey. By this point, the routine had started to settle in. I was beginning to feel… comfortable. And that’s when the danger set in. When we feel comfortable, it’s easy to think, “Maybe today can be an off day.” “I’ve earned a break.” “I’ll get back to
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Reflections from March 16, 2022—Day 5 of my journey. Just five days in, and already I found myself questioning the grind. That internal voice—the one we all hear—started whispering: “Maybe just take today off… maybe you can get back to it tomorrow.” And that’s how it starts. One skipped day becomes two. Two become a
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Reflections from March 15, 2022—Day 4 of my journey. Each morning we wake up is a gift, yet in the midst of life’s chaos, we often forget to acknowledge it. When we go through the darkest, most trying times, gratitude can feel like an impossible thing to hold onto. But it is in these very
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Reflections from March 14, 2022—Day 3 of my journey. One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn in life is that it’s okay to be okay. When you go through something as devastating as losing a child, the bad days can feel never-ending. They pile on top of each other, one after another, until
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Reflections from March 13, 2022—Day 2 of my journey. There are moments in life that redefine everything. Moments so painful, so unthinkable, that they split your life into before and after. These moments strip away who you were, leaving you standing at a crossroads, unsure where to go or how to move forward. Losing our
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Reflections from March 12, 2022—the first day of the rest of my life. This was the day I took my first step toward transformation, a journey that would take me to places I never thought possible. On this day, I made a vow: to strive to be 1% better every single day. Many people start
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March 9, 2022—just 79 days after my wife and I endured the unimaginable loss of our son, Maxwell Seraphim, when he was stillborn on December 20, 2021. Seventy-nine days that were the hardest of my life, yet, at the same time, the most transformative.
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