Ep 83: Seeking Comfort w Nick Nail

Nick Nail is a musician, painter, gentle soul, and friend of ours in Birmingham. Here Nick explores his lifelong quest for comfort and belonging after experiencing a painful split in his consciousness in the wake of early childhood sexual abuse. At times Nick has found relief in long distance running and creating music and art and at other times in codependent relationships and regular heroin use. Nick has a tremendous capacity for compassionate observation. He talks with radical transparency about the gifts and limitations of addiction, choosing homelessness, bearing the stigma of being a “bad person,” discovering the permission to enjoy life, and learning to be of service to the world. Nick recently detoxed from heroin at our house and this conversation was recorded a few days after he was finally walking, talking, and eating again. “Who’s to say that anybody is wrong for doing something that they’re lead to do? All the things that we go through are just something to help us do better tomorrow, you know?” More podcasts where podcasts are found, MauraJames.com and IG: @maurajames.

[“Your Jewel” - Michael Nau]