In this raw and honest episode, the Tin Man team — Jeff, Todd, and Phil — explore the power of admission: the moment when life’s pain and exhaustion become too heavy to carry, and we finally come to ourselves.

Drawing from the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15, they discuss why our lowest moments often open the door to healing, how shame and fear keep us from being honest, and why confession is a communal act — not a solo one.

✨ What you’ll hear in this episode:

- The transformational process: from brokenness to wholeness

- Why “admission” is more than confession — it’s awakening

- How rock bottom moments become grace

- What it means to find safety, honesty, and healing in community

Addiction isn’t only about substances—it’s about survival. In this powerful conversation, we reveal how our need for connection can twist into compulsions that look acceptable on the outside but exhaust us on the inside. From food to phones to ministry itself, we expose the subtle ways we try to escape loneliness, fear, and shame.

You’ll hear how dopamine, shame, and “chunking” shape addictive cycles—and how genuine connection breaks them. This episode is raw, redemptive, and full of practical hope for anyone caught in performance or perfectionism.

✨ What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Addiction as a response to codependency and exhaustion

- The neuroscience of dopamine and “chunking”

- Why the opposite of addiction is connection—not sobriety

We’re made for attachment—but many of us learned to survive by not attaching. Jeff and Phil explore how early abandonment, toxic shame, and fear train us to confuse intensity for intimacy, and what it looks like to regrow our “Velcro” in real relationships. You’ll hear a son who stands his ground, friends who travel to grieve with—and why the four S’s (seen, soothed, safe, secure) matter so much.

From marriage and parenting to friendship and faith, this conversation names the risk of staying present, the comfort of being known, and the long, grace-filled work of becoming attachable again. Includes a practical journaling exercise to map your primary attachment figures and where you long to reconnect.

✨ What you’ll hear in this episode:

• Why we mistake intensity for intimacy—and how to tell the difference
• The “Velcro” metaphor: sliding off vs. sticking, and learning to stick again
• A live picture of secure attachment in conflict (“I’m staying”)
• The four S’s of secure attachment: seen, soothed, safe, secure
• Friends who practice with-ness in grief
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• A simple exercise to begin re-attaching where it matters most