There comes a moment when the ground beneath you starts to tremble.

Not violently, but slowly, a deep, quiet shaking that tells you something old is falling away.

In this episode, Ryan explores what happens when the faith, identity, and certainty you once clung to begin to crack. Drawing inspiration from Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward, he reflects on the seasons when our beliefs collapse, our masks come off, and our old scripts stop working.

What if that breaking isn’t the end of your story — but the beginning of a truer one?

What if the unraveling itself is sacred?

“Maybe what’s trembling under your feet isn’t the end of something. Maybe it’s the start of something holy.”

We spend so much of life chasing “someday” — the job, the body, the bank account, the spiritual breakthrough, believing that arrival will finally make us whole.

But what if you were never broken to begin with?

In this episode, Ryan unpacks The Myth of Arrival, the illusion that peace and purpose live somewhere beyond where you are right now. Drawing from Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward, he explores what it means to let go of striving, embrace becoming, and remember that the first word ever spoken about you was “very good.”

You don’t need to arrive. You’re already home.

🎙️ The Ordinary Mystic — Episode 2: The Myth of Arrival (Why You’re Not Broken)

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There are moments when the ground beneath us begins to tremble—not always with the violence of an earthquake, but with the slow, insistent shifting of something deep and undeniable.

This episode is the beginning of that story.

In today’s episode, I take you back to the moment when everything I thought I believed began to unravel. Not with a bang, but with a question. Not with certainty, but with silence. This is the story of the day everything came undone—and the strange beauty that emerged when the old answers stopped working.

If you’ve ever felt like your inner world no longer matches the story you’re living… if you’ve ever been afraid to admit that your faith, your identity, or your worldview is cracking open—this one’s for you.

You’re not crazy. You’re not alone. And you’re not lost.

You’re waking up.

There comes a moment when the old stories stop working.
When faith unravels, certainty slips away, and all the formulas we were given leave us hollow.
This podcast was born in that ache.

The Ordinary Mystic is for those standing in the threshold—between what was and what might be.
Between belief and mystery.
Between burnout and becoming.

In this trailer, I share why I’m starting this, who it’s for, and what I hope it might offer to the weary, the wondering, and the ones still whispering yes.