Hi, I’m Gary
Founder and creator of The Rebel’s Playground, the Soul Recovery Reset, and a certified Trauma Recovery Coach through the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaches. I’ve authored three books on identity, homecoming, and the quiet work of rebuilding a life from the inside out. Every part of my work centers on a simple, often uncomfortable truth: most people aren’t broken — they’re disinherited from themselves.
My own story is not one of instant clarity. I spent years lost inside the performance of being fine, drifting through survival, sobriety, and self-improvement without ever touching the parts of me that had gone quiet. Sobriety gave me a second chance, but it didn’t give me a home. That came later — after more than a decade of searching, stripping away the noise, and confronting the patterns that had shaped me.
The work I teach today began in those years. It’s not a theory. It’s not a brand exercise. It’s the lived experience of reclaiming what I abandoned to earn love, belong, and survive. Everything I create now — from the Soul Recovery Reset to the Rebel’s Playground mythos — is built for people like me: the ones who know there’s more to them than the roles they’ve performed, the wounds they’ve carried, and the silence they’ve lived inside.
The Rebel’s Playground is the world I’m building for the disinherited — a place where identity is reclaimed through depth, myth, rebellion, and truth-telling. It’s part sanctuary, part classroom, part creative frontier. It’s a homecoming space for people who are done with surface-level answers and ready for the kind of rebellion that restores the self rather than destroys it.
Soul Recovery Reset is the entry point to that world — a trauma-informed, identity-centered journey back to the parts of you that went quiet, exiled, or abandoned to keep the peace or hold someone else’s love. This isn’t a motivational program. It’s a return. It is the slow, steady work of remembering who you were before you learned to disappear.
My approach blends trauma recovery principles, somatic awareness, mythic storytelling, and a conversational style of leadership that invites people to explore their internal world without shame. I don’t ask people to become better versions of themselves — I help them become truer versions of themselves.
When I’m not writing, designing new programs, or guiding people through reclamation work, I’m building a life with my partner in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania — a small farmhouse, a handful of animals, and the beginnings of a retreat space that mirrors the values of the Playground: honesty, depth, community, and the quiet courage to return to yourself.
If you’ve ever felt like you lost yourself somewhere along the way…
If you’ve ever felt too deep for the world you’re living in…
If you’re ready to rebel against disinheritance and come home to the truth of who you are…
You’re already standing at the gate of the Playground.
I built this world for you.
