This episode features Lori Kroll, the founder of Love and Lean, an initiative created to honor her son Zak’s life and legacy. What began as grief has turned into purpose—impacting lives, building awareness, and creating a lasting ripple effect of hope and meaning.

Love and Lean exists to ensure Zak’s story continues to make a difference—transforming loss into legacy and pain into purpose.

This conversation explores the intersection of grief, legacy, faith, and how one life—though gone too soon—can continue shaping others in powerful ways.

LOVE yourself and know that your pain is real, but so is hope.

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LEAN on others (faith, family, friends, teachers, neighbors, co-workers, coaches, counselors, healthcare professionals and community) for help, because the more you lean, the stronger you grow in mental fitness.

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In this powerful conversation, we sit down with the leader of the Walk for Warriors and his efforts to focus on suicide prevention and mental health through Operation Injured Soldiers to talk about the unseen battles many Veterans continue to fight long after their military service ends.

We explore the realities of Veteran mental health — including isolation, identity shifts after transition to civilian life, trauma, and the heartbreaking reality of suicide risk. But this episode isn’t just about statistics. It’s about people. It’s about stories. And it’s about hope.

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In this episode of Chaplaincy on the Go, Josh sits down with Dr. Benjamin Long to explore the powerful connection between mental health, sleep, and a Jesus-centered spirituality. Together, they unpack how chronic sleep deprivation impacts the brain, amplifies anxiety, and disrupts emotional regulation.

We talk about why exhaustion shrinks emotional margin, how the nervous system influences spiritual clarity, and why you candeeply love Jesus and still need better sleep and struggle with sleeplessness.

But this conversation isn’t just neuroscience — it’s deeply spiritual.

Scripture reminds us that God is not distant from our sleepless nights:

“In peace I will lie down and sleep, for youalone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.” — Psalms4:8

If you’ve ever felt anxious, spiritually distant, mentally foggy, or emotionally reactive — this episode will help you understand why rest is not weakness. It is alignment.

You’ll walk away with:

• A clearer understanding of how sleep affects mental and spiritual health
• Compassion for your body and limits
• Practical rhythms for improving sleep
• A renewed vision of rest as spiritual formation

Because sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do… is go to bed.

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