Anchor Moments

Episode 3 - Teresa: I'm a Damn Good MomThe step work she put down a hundred times. The words she finally let herself mean.When you first meet Teresa, you get warmth. You get someone who will talk to absolutely anyone, who FaceTimes her sister every single morning, who moves her body every day because she knows what happens when she doesn't. What you don't see is the years she spent just surviving - going to work, keeping the lights on, showing up in all the ways that looked right from the outside while quietly disappearing on the inside. She was a functioning addict for years while raising her girls. Nobody knew. She barely knew. The version of herself she was becoming in private was starting to show up in places she did not want it to, and the fear of rejection she had carried her entire life made it almost impossible to say that to anyone out loud.Near the end of our conversation, she told me she is a damn good mom. She said it like she had finally earned the right to believe it. She has.A gentle heads-up: This episode includes discussion of addiction and recovery, childhood family dynamics, parenting through an identity you are still figuring out, and the kind of guilt that does not leave just because you have changed. Resources are below. Please take care of yourself as you listen.Resources If anything in this episode touched something real for you, please reach out for support.988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - call or text 988 (US)Crisis Text Line - text HOME to 741741 (US)SAMHSA National Helpline (substance use, mental health) - 1-800-662-4357 (US)Narcotics Anonymous meeting finder - na.org (international)SMART Recovery (science-based alternative to 12-step, online meetings worldwide) - smartrecovery.orgPsychology Today therapist finder - psychologytoday.com (US and international listings)If you're outside the US - findahelpline.com connects you to crisis support in more than 200 countries. Befrienders Worldwide offers free emotional support at befrienders.org.If you don't feel ready to call anyone, even telling one safe person you're struggling counts.If this episode stayed with you Please follow, rate, and share. One text to one person is the single biggest thing you can do for a show this size, and it might be exactly what someone in your life needs today. Tag us on socials @anchormomentspod. If you have a story you think belongs here, reach out at [email protected]. I'm Krista Patrick. This is Anchor Moments. You are already part of someone's story. Carry that with kindness.

Episode 2 - Rohmel: Money is Just PaperThe stories of what happened to us, and who we became because of it.When Rohmel was fourteen, his mother died of cancer three months after her diagnosis. A week after that, the family friends who'd taken them in said it was time to go. He and his father - a once-celebrated chef who had simply shut down - ended up on a street with the highest murder rate in the country. Eight months. No car, no shelter, no plan. The only white kid on a block where Crips, Bloods, and the Mexican Mafia all wanted him gone. He had a knife fight his first full day.He's sixty-something now, starting a company named after his autistic stepson, training young entrepreneurs in honor of a friend's little boy who died running a lemonade stand. He says he doesn't feel fear. He also can't fully forgive himself for the divorce that cost him three years of his daughter's childhood. Both of those things are true at the same time.A gentle heads-up: This episode includes discussion of parental loss, childhood homelessness, gang violence and near-death experiences, and a parent's grief over time missed with their child. Faith is also woven throughout - as it was for Rohmel, then and now. Resources are below. Please take care of yourself as you listen.On faith in this episodeRohmel's faith isn't peripheral to his story - it's the lens he uses to look at everything in it. He names God directly and often. If that's not your language, his story still belongs to you. This show holds every guest's experience as their own, not as a prescription for anyone else. What I keep coming back to isn't the theology - it's the fact that a boy who should have died every day for eight months came home carrying both a fearlessness most of us will never know and a regret he still won't release. Both shaped who he is. And - not but - he's still becoming.ResourcesIf anything in this episode touched something real for you, please reach out for support.988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - call or text 988Crisis Text Line - text HOME to 741741Psychology Today therapist finder - psychologytoday.comNational Homeless Shelter Directory - homelessshelterdirectory.orgSAMHSA National Helpline (grief, mental health, substance use) - 1-800-662-4357If you don't feel ready to call anyone, even telling one safe person you're struggling counts.If this episode stayed with youPlease follow, rate, and share. One text to one person is the single biggest thing you can do for a show this size, and it might be exactly what someone in your life needs today. Tag us on socials @anchormomentspod.If you have a story you think belongs here, reach out at [email protected]'m Krista Patrick. This is Anchor Moments.You are already part of someone's story. Carry that with kindness.

Episode 0: Why This Show MUST Exist Before the guests. Before the stories. This one is mine. This mini-episode is dropping on my birthday. I mention in this episode that there was a point where I genuinely did not know how many more I would have. I thought it was appropriate to start here. Full episodes drop every Wednesday starting April 29th. Before anyone sits across from me and tells me the realest thing they have ever said out loud, I owe you the same. In this mini episode, I explain what Anchor Moments actually is - not the cleaned-up version, the real one. I talk about my own anchor moments: the childhood I have spent decades trying to understand, the year my family was technically homeless, and the rock bottom that was not metaphorical. I was struggling with suicidal ideation. I do not say that lightly. I say it because it is true, and I think there are people listening who know exactly what that feels like and need to hear that someone came out the other side. I made a list. Not a bucket list. Things to do with my kids. Financial goals I needed to meet to set them up. I taped it to the wall so I would see it the second I opened my eyes. Some mornings it was the only reason I stayed. Then something strange started to happen. Every item on that list turned out to teach me something I did not expect. What started as a reason to leave became a reason to stay. This show is on that list. I also explain what I mean by an anchor moment - why the anchor is often not the event itself but the response, the silence, the thing that did not happen. I talk about who comes on this show, which is not celebrities or experts or people who survived something so extraordinary that the rest of us can only marvel. It is everyone. The cashier, the refugee, the quiet neighbor, the parent who made choices they still cannot fully explain. Because I genuinely believe - not as a talking point, but as something I have lived - that it is impossible not to love someone once you know their story. If you are new here, start here. A gentle heads-up: This episode includes discussion of childhood sexual abuse, suicidal ideation, and homelessness. I share these things because they are true, and because I think someone listening needs to know they are not alone in them. Resources are below. Please take care of yourself as you listen. Resources If anything in this episode touched something real for you, please reach out for support. 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - call or text 988 (US) Crisis Text Line - text HOME to 741741 (US) Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline - 1-800-422-4453 (US) Psychology Today therapist finder - psychologytoday.com (US and international listings) National Homeless Shelter Directory - homelessshelterdirectory.org (US) SAMHSA National Helpline (mental health, grief, substance use) - 1-800-662-4357 (US) If you're outside the US - findahelpline.com connects you to crisis support in more than 200 countries. Befrienders Worldwide offers free emotional support at befrienders.org. If you don't feel ready to call anyone, even telling one safe person you're struggling counts. If this episode stayed with you Please follow, rate, comment, and share. One text to one person is the single biggest thing you can do for a show this size, and it might be exactly what someone in your life needs today. Tag us on socials @anchormomentspod. If you have a story you think belongs here, reach out at anchormomentspod.com or email [email protected]. I'm Krista Patrick. This is Anchor Moments. You are already part of someone's story. Carry that with kindness.

Every one of us have moments we can't stop being shaped by whether we want to be or not.Anchor Moments is a storytelling podcast about those experiences. Real people. Real stories. The moments that made us who we are, and who we're still becoming because of them.I believe it's impossible not to love someone once you know their story.New episodes drop April 25, 2026. Follow now so you don't miss them.