I grew up believing everyone else got a manual on how to be a person. Mine never arrived.
These twenty essays are what I figured out instead—about raising three kids while wrestling anxiety, OCD, and the black dog of depression; about marrying the steadiest woman I’ve ever met and learning what staying actually requires; about trading certainty-soaked faith for a doubt that finally feels honest; about Wednesday nights in a neighbor’s basement where men learn it’s safe to say, “I’m not okay.”
From panic attacks in a Sonic drive-thru to watching my daughter outgrow childhood one Snapchat at a time, this memoir traces an ordinary life shaped by therapy, fatherhood, mental health recovery, and the slow work of rebuilding identity after religious deconstruction. It’s stitched together with Nebraska sunrises, root-beer-barrel candy in a therapist’s office, and the stubborn belief that showing up is a kind of grace.
Funny, aching, and relentlessly kind, What We Carry Forward is for readers who enjoy reflective personal essays, honest stories about parenting and marriage, narratives about leaving evangelical Christianity, and memoirs of healing from anxiety and depression. It’s a book for anyone who has ever felt a little sideways to the world—and found that home was built in the small, imperfect choices to keep walking anyway.
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