The Weekly REBOOT

We all know one, but do you know what they are dealing with? This month on The Weekly Reboot, Bryan Flanery opens an honest conversation about men's mental health and the legacy they leave behind. The things they carry on the inside shape how they show up for the people who need them most -- at home, at work, and in our communities. Silence may feel like strength, but it has a cost.

This message is part one of our series "Legacy". Come back next week for part two.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]

You can create the environment. You can show up. You can listen. You can pray. You can care. But you cannot force someone else to heal. That is one of the most important things every leader needs to carry with them.

In this final episode of our series "Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me," Bryan Flanery closes with a powerful truth: good leadership means loving people deeply without assuming responsibility for outcomes that belong between them and God. Boundaries are not a sign that you care less, they are what allow you to keep caring longer.

This message is part four of our series "Things I Wish Someone Would've Told Me". Come back next week for a new series.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]

You don't have to be completely healed, perfectly trained, or exactly like someone else to be used by God. That's the heart of this week's Weekly Reboot message from Bryan Flanery, and it's a reminder that so many of us need to hear.

This message is part one of our series "Things I Wish Someone Would've Told Me". Come back next week for part two.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]

Healing does not always look the way you expect. Bryan walked through the reality that healing is not a destination with a finish line, but a lifelong journey that requires surrender, humility, and grace. Drawing from community responses and personal experience, the message challenges us to release our need for control, embrace the non-linear nature of healing, and allow God to restore us at His own pace and in His own order.

This message is part two of our series "Things I Wish Someone Would've Told Me". Come back next week for part three.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]

What if the things that knocked you down were actually preparing you for where you are going? This week on the Weekly Reboot, Bryan Flanery unpacks the things nobody told us about failure, friendship, and asking for help.

Failure is not your identity. It is a chapter, not the end of the book. And as iron sharpens iron, the people around you either sharpen you or they do not. Not everyone called to walk with you in this season is meant to walk with you in the next.

This message is part one of our series "Things I Wish Someone Would've Told Me". Come back next week for part two.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]

What if the hardest thing you ever did was simply stay? In this week's episode of the Weekly Reboot, Bryan Flanery and Evan Owens close out their series on suicide prevention with a conversation that reframes the entire conversation around hope, community, and the power of holding on.

Pain has a way of shrinking your vision. When you bring it too close, it blocks out everything else. But when you extend your arm and look around, you realize help was never on the way. Help was already in the room.

If you are struggling right now, please reach out. In the United States, you can call or text 988 to connect with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. And if you are someone who loves a person in pain, stay with us this month. You do not have to be an expert. You just have to be willing to ask the question and stay for the answer.

This message is part five of our series "A Conversation Around Suicide". Come back next week for a new series.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]

Hope is contagious. That is the truth at the heart of this week's Weekly Reboot conversation with Kara, as we wrap up our conversation on suicide and suicide prevention by talking about something just as vital as crisis response: building resiliency before crisis ever arrives.

The most powerful thing you can do for someone is meet them where they are, listen without judgment, and carry hope for them when they cannot carry it themselves. As Brian shared, life does not stop coming at you just because you have done the work. But when you are equipped, mind, body, and soul, you are ready when it does.

If you are struggling right now, please reach out. In the United States, you can call or text 988 to connect with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. And if you are someone who loves a person in pain, stay with us this month. You do not have to be an expert. You just have to be willing to ask the question and stay for the answer.

This message is part four of our series "A Conversation Around Suicide". Come back next week for part five.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]

The crisis may be over, but the journey is just beginning. In this week's episode of the Weekly Reboot, Bryan and Kara tackle what comes after the breaking point — and what it really looks like to walk alongside someone toward healing.

Spoiler: your role is not to fix everything. It is to be a guide. To check in. To create a space where people feel safe enough to tell the truth about how they are actually doing.

Whether you lead a church, a REBOOT group, a unit, or just a family — this conversation is for you. Because all it takes is one caring person to make a difference. Are you willing to be that person?

If you are struggling right now, please reach out. In the United States, you can call or text 988 to connect with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. And if you are someone who loves a person in pain, stay with us this month. You do not have to be an expert. You just have to be willing to ask the question and stay for the answer.

This message is part three of our series "A Conversation Around Suicide". Come back next week for part four.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]

"Are you thinking about killing yourself?" It is a hard question. But it is the right one. And the person on the other side of it may finally feel, for the first time, that they are not alone.

On this week's Weekly Reboot, Brian sits down with Kara Merriam from Centerstone to break down the myths, the warning signs, and the simple but powerful steps that could save a life: Ask. Stay. Connect.

Talking about suicide does not plant the idea. It opens a door. And on the other side of that door is someone who has been waiting for someone to care enough to ask.

If you are struggling right now, please reach out. In the United States, you can call or text 988 to connect with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. And if you are someone who loves a person in pain, stay with us this month. You do not have to be an expert. You just have to be willing to ask the question and stay for the answer.

This message is part two of our series "A Conversation Around Suicide". Come back next week for part three.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]

Silence has never saved anybody. This month on The Weekly Reboot, we are having the conversations that most people are too afraid to start -- and we are not apologizing for it.

Brian Flannery opens up about his own experience with suicidal hopelessness, the lies pain tells us, and the chapters of life he almost never got to live. His story is proof that tomorrow is not already written. We were not created to carry this alone -- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 reminds us that those who walk together are stronger than those who walk in isolation.

If you are struggling right now, please reach out. In the United States, you can call or text 988 to connect with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. And if you are someone who loves a person in pain, stay with us this month. You do not have to be an expert. You just have to be willing to ask the question and stay for the answer.

This message is part one of our series "A Conversation Around Suicide". Come back next week for part two.

Check out our past series and get additional content by using our MyREBOOT platform at my.rebootrecovery.com

REBOOT OFFER: REBOOT Recovery offers a huge online library of content called MyREBOOT! MyREBOOT gives you access to worksheets that follow along with our podcast series' as well as courses to help you heal from trauma and embrace a brighter future. As a thank you for listening to our podcast, we want to give you the REBOOT Recovery: Crisis Edition course for FREE. Visit crisis.rebootrecovery.com to claim your gift today.

CONNECT WITH US: To learn more about how you can find hope after trauma, please visit our website at www.rebootrecovery.com, our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]