Terrific Tuesdays: Getting Better at Being Human!

Gregg Collison
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You're not broken. You're just figuring it out in real time. 42+ years sober. Still dealing with anxious attachment, abandonment wounds, and panic that won't quit. This isn't about having it all figured out—it's about surviving your own head while you work on it. If one more person tells you to "think positive" while your nervous system is screaming, come here instead. Real talk. No b******t. No guru promises. Just someone further down the road, sharing what actually works. New episodes every Tuesday. Because you deserve consistency.

  1. 6d ago

    Episode 68: The Week After the Funk-Believing and Accepting Are Two Different Things

    Last week I left you without a tidy ending. This week I owe you the follow-up. It’s not a victory lap, it’s a field report. The funk lifted in less than 24 hours, and I still can’t fully explain why. But I think the tools worked, and I had to look honestly at what I was and wasn’t doing. I also have a theory that somebody is spraying something in the air. In this episode: Believing and accepting are two different things, and why the trip from the temple to the heart takes longer than the one in my headThe night my Harley’s ignition died outside the gym, and how a trailer, a dead battery, and a short light cord led me to a tow truck I’d already paid forWhy a friend’s plain, logical questions did more than my anger ever couldWhat happened when I asked God for a whirlwind like Job and got a kind man with a tow truckTwo interviews, one Albert, and the question underneath “are you sure?”: am I worthy? Worth was never on the agendaWhether waiting in the silence is faithI don’t have it all figured out. I’d rather give you a small true answer than a big fake one. Everything I share is just how I manage my own life. It may work for you, it may not. Take what works and leave the rest. Thanks for showing up. Thanks for wanting to be the authentic you. Age strong, live long. Good week, God bless. Hashtags #TerrificTuesdays #GettingBetterAtBeingHuman #FaithOverFear #Anxiety #MentalHealth #Faith #Waiting #Funk #Anger #Kindness #Albert #IAmNotMyThoughts #PersonalGrowth #DivineIntervention #AgeStrongLiveLong

  2. Oct 20

    Episode 67-What The Hell Are You Waiting For?

    Episode 65 blasted off. Episode 66 came in at about half. And somewhere in that gap, my brain, Albert, started in on me in my own voice: “What the hell am I doing this for?” This one is raw, and it was recorded from the middle of it, not the other side. I did my part. I have the boxes packed and a job tracker full of proof. And I’m still angry, because I want God to show up the way he did for Job. In this episode: Why having the Serenity Prayer on a ring and a poster for decades still doesn’t mean you know the differenceA simple test for what’s yours (today’s action) and what’s his (the outcome and the timing)Why a tracker is the one witness Albert can’t argue withHALT: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired, and why I was in two of the fourWhat it’s like to be in a funk that no amount of talking seems to liftWhy it’s okay to yell at God, and what Job’s story says about thatI don’t have a neat ending tonight, and I’d rather give you a small true answer than a big fake one. Everything I share is just how I manage my own life. It may work for you, it may not. Take what works and leave the rest. Thanks for showing up. Thanks for wanting to be the authentic you. Age strong, live long. Good week, God bless. Hashtags #TerrificTuesdays #GettingBetterAtBeingHuman #HALT #SerenityPrayer #Anxiety #MentalHealth #Faith #FaithOverFear #Job #Waiting #Funk #JobSearch #Albert #IAmNotMyThoughts #AgeStrongLiveLong

  3. Oct 15

    Episode 66-Albert, Check the Screen First (Anxiety)

    It’s 110 degrees in Phoenix. Every cooling system in the building is running at its limit, and the people in the operations center are watching the screens and waiting for the first red dot. When it finally shows up, everybody starts running. Chickens with their heads cut off. Then somebody checks the screen. Everything is within spec. The “problem” was a loose wire on a sensor, and a whole building’s worth of manpower had been chasing it. That’s anxiety in a nutshell, and in this episode I give Albert, my anxious brain, a job description. He’s the facility manager. His job is to keep the lights on, which means my heart, my breathing, and the basics. That’s enough. We’ll talk about: Why anxiety is a signal, a red dot on the screen, and not a fireA simple four-step procedure for checking the screen before you actKeeping Albert busy with real work, so idle time doesn’t turn into him grabbing the keysHow a regular Tuesday of walking, a phone call, and a motorcycle ride put it all into practiceEverything I share is just how I manage my own anxiety. It may work for you, it may not. Take what works and leave the rest. If you’re confused about who Albert is, go back and start with Episode 65. That’s my evil plan, and it’s working. Thanks for showing up. Thanks for wanting to be the authentic you. Age strong, live long. Good week, God bless. Hashtags #TerrificTuesdays #GettingBetterAtBeingHuman #Anxiety #AnxietyRelief #MentalHealth #Albert #CheckTheScreen #FacilityManager #PersonalGrowth #SelfAwareness #EmotionalRegulation #FaithOverFear #IAmNotMyThoughts #AgeStrongLiveLong #PodcastForGrowth

  4. Oct 7

    Episode 65: Albert, You're Just Along For The Ride

    Gregg shares what happened on October 1st, when Tucker, his service friend and the dog that saved his life, was put to rest. It was the hardest day he's had in a long time, and in a strange way it was also the easiest, because he got to do it his way, in the time he needed. He walks you through it, including two moments with Tucker he'll remember for the rest of his life. Then comes the day after. The grief didn't arrive as one big wave. It came as little ambushes, and each one brought anxiety with it. That's where Albert comes in. If you've never heard of naming your brain, this episode explains why Gregg did it, how it puts a little air between you and the noise, and exactly what he says when Albert starts to spiral: "This is not how we do it anymore, and you're not in charge. You're just along for the ride." Along the way, Gregg looks at a simple promise he's been turning over all week, that we'll come to intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle us. He also offers a practical test for telling a calm inner knowing apart from a loud, spinning brain. If you're carrying a loss of your own, or you're anxious about something you can't control, this one is for you. You don't have to have it figured out. You just have to get through the next hour, and be kind to whoever is talking in your head while you do. HASHTAGS#Anxiety #Grief #PetLoss #LossOfADog #MentalHealthAwareness #NameYourBrain #SelfTalk #FaithOverFear #IntuitionVsAnxiety #GriefAndAnxiety #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #SoberLife #RecoveryCommunity #KeepShowingUp

  5. Sep 29

    Episode 64 H-O-W Honesty, Openmindedness, Willingness

    Sixty-four episodes in, and Gregg checks himself against something real instead of just saying he's fine: the old acronym H-O-W. Honest. Open-minded. Willing. Honest means asking Tucker's vet the question he'd been avoiding — "Is it time, doc?" — and getting the answer he already knew in his gut. Open-minded means sitting with a hard truth even when it's coming from inside your own head, like a Google interview he was sure he nailed, until his gut told him otherwise days before the official word came. Willing means actually moving on what you find — selling furniture that was never really about furniture, and making the hardest call yet: a home euthanasia appointment, now set for October 1st. This one also gets honest about staying stuck — on the house, on the job search — and about a mistake: Episode 62 got recorded on time but never published, until a friend caught it days later. Not a clean episode. Three better questions instead of three easy answers. HASHTAGS#Anxiety #Honesty #Recovery #MentalHealthAwareness #GriefAndLoss #PetLoss #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #SoberLife #RecoveryCommunity #SelfHonesty #KeepShowingUp #HOW #FaithOverFear

  6. Sep 27

    Episode 62: I forgot to publish; Showing Up Without Knowing

    Three hours before this episode was due, Gregg had nothing. Not writer's block — anxiety, the spinning kind. Instead of smoothing it over, he decided to just say it out loud and see what happened. What follows is a real-time breakdown of a tool that actually worked: instead of asking "what's going wrong," Gregg asked himself "what's NOT going wrong" — and found real, concrete wins waiting underneath the spiral. A sold table. A sold mower. A sold bedroom set. And right behind them, the itty bitty s****y committee trying to stage a comeback, working overtime to turn progress into loss. Plus: why anxiety showing up isn't a personal attack, what it means to treat it like weather instead of a verdict, and why the job was never to stop it from showing up — just to decide what happens next. This episode also touches on something Gregg wants to be upfront about: recovery isn't only about addiction. 42-plus years sober, and still, anxiety is its own long, separate fight — one serious enough that there's an entire magazine on newsstands devoted to nothing else. HASHTAGS #Anxiety #MentalHealthAwareness #Recovery #Sobriety #ShowingUp #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #SoberLife #RecoveryCommunity #KeepShowingUp #AnxietyDisorder #NextRightThing #FaithOverFear

  7. Sep 22

    Episode 63: Why Won't Anybody Give Us a Straight Answer

    Gregg's sister Keverne has stage four cancer and was on hospice. She fell, broke her femur, and the same hospital that knew her status admitted her and performed surgery — despite possible bleeding and lesions on her brain. Since then: shifting information, hospice status pulled, and no clear explanation for any of it. This episode may already be out of date by the time you hear it — and that instability isn't a footnote, it's the whole point. A friend going through something eerily similar with her father confirms it: this isn't one family's bad luck. It's systemic. Families everywhere are trying to make sense of decisions being made about people they love, without real answers — and that not-knowing creates a completely reasonable anxiety, not an overreaction. Gregg doesn't have a magic list of questions that'll crack the system open. What he does have: Albert, faith over fear, embrace uncertainty, and into action — each one applied directly to the specific hell of waiting for answers that may never come. And a reminder that this isn't only a hospital-room problem. Insurance denials, HR runarounds, family stonewalling — anywhere the whole story isn't being told, the same tools apply. HASHTAGS #Anxiety #MentalHealthAwareness #Caregiving #Hospice #MedicalSystem #Recovery #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #FaithOverFear #EmbraceUncertainty #KeepShowingUp #FamilyCaregiver

  8. Sep 9

    Episode 61: Do the Next Right Thing; Into Action, ready, or Not

    Last week Greggpressure washed a table on his birthday. This week, he tells you what happenedafter — because willingness doesn't stay a one-time event. The lawnmower's upfor sale. A motorcycle that sat untouched for 16 years is finally listed too.Then there's tonight: hours lost fighting Apple, Amazon, and iHeartRadio justto get this show onto more platforms — wrong accounts, dead credit cards,broken links, the whole mess. Instead of quitting, Gregg stops to ask a harderquestion: what am I actually angry about, and who am I really mad at?A trip to the store turns into a real-time test of "I am not mythoughts." And then, right in the middle of writing this episode — Greggagrees to sponsor a newcomer. The highest version yet of a theme that's beenbuilding for weeks: every tool, every hard conversation, every uncomfortableaction is really just training for one thing — learning how to get out of yourown head.Into action means going through the uncomfortable and uncertain, not around it.This episode makes the case for why that's not just a nice idea — it's theactual tool for managing anxiety.---# HASHTAGS#Anxiety #Willingness #IntoAction #Recovery #Sobriety #EmbraceUncertainty#MentalHealthAwareness #GetBetterAtBeingHuman #TerrificTuesdays #SoberLife#RecoveryCommunity #KeepShowingUp #Sponsorship #NextRightThing

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You're not broken. You're just figuring it out in real time. 42+ years sober. Still dealing with anxious attachment, abandonment wounds, and panic that won't quit. This isn't about having it all figured out—it's about surviving your own head while you work on it. If one more person tells you to "think positive" while your nervous system is screaming, come here instead. Real talk. No b******t. No guru promises. Just someone further down the road, sharing what actually works. New episodes every Tuesday. Because you deserve consistency.

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