Peer-led healing.
Pull-up, you’re one of us.

In this episode of After the Anchor, Justin Kang opens up about complex PTSD (CPTSD), childhood trauma, addiction recovery, identity, and men’s mental health.

Justin shares how growing up as the “good kid” taught him to suppress his emotions, monitor everyone around him, and hide the parts of himself he believed were unacceptable. He discusses generational trauma, family roles, body image, disordered eating, alcohol, marijuana, sobriety, and the pressure men face to appear strong.

Justin also reflects on receiving mental health diagnoses, experiencing suicidal ideation, and eventually realizing that many of the behaviors he wanted to fix were survival responses. Through therapy, vulnerability, and meaningful connection, he began separating who he truly was from the person trauma taught him to become.

This is an honest conversation about trauma recovery, addiction, masculinity, self-worth, and the journey toward understanding that you may never have been broken.