Stories, Education & Real Conversations
Explore real conversations, lived experiences, and educational content around recovery, mental health, addiction, and personal growth. These videos, interviews, and stories reflect our approach—grounded in biology, neuroscience, lived experience, and real-world transformation.
The Epic Journal: A Framework for Lasting Change
An inside look at The Epic Journal, a guided curriculum used with Epic Journey clients to build self-awareness, structure, emotional regulation, and long-term recovery through intentional daily practices.
Will’s Story: Recovery, Honesty & Rebuilding Life
Will shares his personal journey through addiction, recovery, and growth. A real conversation about accountability, self-awareness, and what it takes to create lasting change beyond treatment.
Lived Experience: Healing Through Nature
A powerful moment from one of our experiential outings, snorkeling alongside Charlie the sea lion. Recovery isn’t just talked about, it’s lived, experienced, and felt in real-world moments like this.
Functional Medicine & Mental Health Foundations
A conversation with Dr. Cambria Judd on functional medicine, biology, and how understanding the body’s systems can support mental health, recovery, and long-term emotional stability.
Ketamine Therapy, Addiction & Mental Health
Sam Mandel, founder of Ketamine Clinics in Los Angeles, discusses ketamine therapy, its role in treating depression and addiction, and how it fits into a responsible, integrated recovery model.
Kratom, Recovery & The Epic Journey Model
Preston joins Chris Cox to talk openly about kratom recovery, personal experience, and how Epic Journey approaches addiction, mental health, and long-term life transformation.
Shifting Your Energy & Changing Your Life
Preston explores how energy, mindset, and nervous system regulation influence daily behavior, emotional balance, and long-term recovery, and how small shifts create real change.
Epic Journey Wellness: Virtual Care Explained
An overview of Epic Journey Wellness, our fully virtual care model combining recovery coaching, functional medicine insight, mental health support, and long-term life alignment.
Healing Through Experience: Joshua Tree Outing
A real-life outing in Joshua Tree, showing how nature, movement, and shared experiences help clients build confidence, connection, and recovery beyond the therapy room.
Finding Stillness Beneath the Surface
A reflection on slowing the mind and regulating the nervous system through nature, breath, and presence, showing how stillness supports emotional healing and recovery.
Optimize Before Prescriptions
Preston explains why Epic Journey looks at biology, brain health, lifestyle, and nervous system regulation before medication, creating a more personalized and sustainable path to healing.
From Struggle to Purpose: Paco’s Journey
A real conversation about addiction, identity, and rebuilding life, highlighting how support, structure, and purpose help turn struggle into long-term transformation.
Leadership, Sobriety & Personal Growth
A grounded conversation on how recovery strengthens leadership, accountability, and decision-making, and why inner work directly impacts professional and personal growth.
Feeling Stuck Even After Doing the Inner Work?
Why insight alone isn’t enough, and how nervous system regulation, structure, and lifestyle alignment help people move past stagnation and create real change.
The Power of Walking
A simple reminder that movement matters, walking helps regulate the nervous system, quiet the mind, and reconnect the body to rhythm, clarity, and presence.
Downhill Mountain Biking & Recovery
An adventure-based experience using movement, adrenaline, and presence to rebuild confidence, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect to life beyond recovery.
Why Growth Can Feel Lonely
An honest conversation about outgrowing old patterns, why personal growth can feel isolating, and how alignment often requires letting go before finding deeper connection.
Living in Alignment
A reflection on slowing down, listening inward, and making choices that align with values, purpose, and long-term wellbeing rather than external pressure.