Rick Gregory is a certified Spiritual Life Coach, former pastor, recovery mentor, writer, and host of The Awakened Collective podcast. After years within traditional religious structures, Rick began a gradual process of questioning, deconstructing, and rediscovering that LOVE is far more expansive, compassionate, and inclusive than the limits he had once been taught. Drawing from wisdom found across spiritual traditions, contemplative practice, and recovery principles, Rick writes for those who sense there is something more — something quieter, deeper, and life-giving than striving, judgment, or separation. Finding Our Way Back to What We Are is a yearlong daily journey of reflection, awareness, and remembering. Rick wrote this book out of years spent sitting with people in recovery, on a spiritual journey or needing companionship navigating religious deconstruction. He noticed how many daily-reflection books quietly replaced shame with more shame, just dressed in different words — and felt called to write one rooted instead in remembering that love is what we came from and therefore love is what we are.