"Brian has called me into mature manhood by challenging me to explore my uncomfortable feelings and fears, then lean into them in order to grow up into a man who is present, visible, and solid in my relationships and life. I am in the process of becoming that man."

“I grew up in the church believing that I was unlovable. People loved my masks: Polite Paul, Safe Paul, Self Righteous Paul, but deep inside I never felt like enough. I thought that if God or others saw me for who I really was, they would leave. I struggled through broken relationships, addiction, and self-loathing, trying with everything in me to be “enough”. It never worked. It never worked because I was already enough. Not through anything I could ever do, but through grace. That realization allowed me to come out from behind my masks to love and be loved.”