I find myself creating new milestones as I start to move forward and today being my Anniversary with my Ex-wife is as good as any to pick a new one. I have closed the last chapter that tied me to the past and look forward to all my new relationships, both personal and professional.The one event that my protector says was my downfall is now gone. It has been over four years since my divorce and to say the road into the abyss has been difficult is an understatement. The slate has finally been s... Read Full Story

For the very first time since the beginning of PhoenixRising, I finally feel the name taking on my life. When I first started this three months ago, I had the pile of ashes to rise from part down completely, but the rising part was completely in question as to which direction it was going to take. After Black Sunday, I wasn’t even sure if I was going to make it. In three short weeks I feel the shape of my new life starting to take form. Career wise I have taken a position with a company... Read Full Story

It has been two full weeks since Black Sunday and if anything has become more clear to me, it is putting the past behind me and learning to not worry about tomorrow but accept today for what it is-a gift and a chance to start new and live the life I have always wanted. When I started this blog along with the website I wanted to keep religion out of what I was doing, but after Black Sunday it has become evident to me that not only could I not avoid God’s help and guidance in righting the... Read Full Story

When rebuilding your life so many factors come into play that at times knowing which step to take first can be a daunting task to say the least. The OCD component of my personality doesn’t help the situation. It is so easy to stall in any attempt to move forward by letting the past get in the way. I for the first time in my life decided to go to church Sunday and ask God for help and guidance in making the correct steps that would lead me away from the ledge of despair I have been runni... Read Full Story

Reset and Recovery-What do you do when the past and prospects of the future are so overwhelmingly stacked against you that the will to continue comes into doubt. Lets recap where I am and try to make sense of what has happened. After surviving a very traumatic and stressful experience in New York that left me suffering from PTSD, depression and anxiety, I came to Phoenix to start my life over with my family. Not wanting to deal with the hurt and pain of the past I put it into a corner recess... Read Full Story

As a father of three kids, it absolutely breaks my heart and goes against everything I believe as a human being to have to come to the realization that my kids are no longer mine and that I am nothing more than an excuse for their mother to blame her own faults on. I have let her run all over me just like I let my brother and father do in New York. Today, I say no more, I am done! I am sending Joe Guilt packing. This is my life and I have every right to live a happy existence as the next. I l... Read Full Story

This new entry addresses an old issue that I feel I need to re-address. In past blogs I have made some not-so-nice, well lets be honest, down right mean comments about my ex-girlfriend that I need to apologize for. The more I have written in my blog the more I have uncovered the root and basis for many of the physical and mental ailments that effect me today. As I look back now, It was completely unfair for me to put the burden of fixing me squarely on her shoulders. Although, you could not p... Read Full Story

Just a quick note on our show with Mel Robbins, we were rescheduled for this coming Tuesday. We also landed our first TV interview on the Gregory Mantell TV show and it looks like we are going to tape on September 9th. Yesterday my kids left to spend the month in New York and as I mentioned before, they are spending half the month with my brother which does nothing more than tear at my soul. It is completely Ironic that my brother and Ex now have a cozy relationship. At the height of the phys... Read Full Story

Hearing back from Mel after Tuesdays show was a real boost at the right time. Whenever you start a new venture, you run through periods of doubt, especially at the beginning when you are trying to get it off the ground.  Although the website has been up and running for less than a month, we’ve had more positive responses than in my entire lifetime of printing. That fact does not stop the voice of doubt and depression from still trying to take control. Some of the outside factors that co... Read Full Story

I know I was going to write more about my New York experience and my brother but would rather speak first about my interview Yesterday with Mel Robbins on Make It Happen. To say it did not go exactly the way I planned would be an understatement. I went on hoping to promote the website but instead spent most of the segment talking about my past and what happened. When people do not know you personally and they hear your story and all your ailments they figure you to be more a cripple than som... Read Full Story