I kept quiet for most of my life. This is me, learning to speak.

This is about telling the truth.

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I’m a former Division 1 athlete. A husband. A father. A man who spent two years strung out on opioids due to injury and ignorance…and spent another 10 years trying to recover from the shame and guilt that came along with it. I’m recovering from silence, from the kind of trauma you don’t fully understand until decades later.

For most of my life, I looked like the guy who had it all together.
Good kid. Good grades. Good athlete.
But under that gold was a truth I kept buried for years—
abuse, addiction, shame, and the belief that I’d never be whole.

Kept Quiet Project is the place I wish I had when I was breaking in silence.
If that’s where you are… you’re not alone.