Meet Brad Wetzler
Meet Brad Wetzler
I’m Brad Wetzler—writer, trauma–informed memoir coach, and seeker. I help people turn life’s hardest moments into powerful, healing stories.
For years, I chased stories across the world—Palestine, India, the Amazon, Greenland—writing for The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Wired, Newsweek, Outside, and more. On the surface, I had the dream career. But no matter how far I traveled, I couldn’t outrun myself.
I spent decades running—from PTSD, depression, and childhood trauma, numbed by overmedication. I searched for answers—hiking the Jesus Trail, meditating in Himalayan caves, standing in the smoke of Varanasi’s ghats. A 100-year-old yogi once slapped me on the head and sent me into a mystical experience. It was wild—but it didn’t save me.
Healing wasn’t an epiphany. It was slow, messy, uncomfortable—therapy, yoga, writing, breath. And a dog who taught me more about love than most humans ever had.
I wrote about my journey in Into the Soul of the World. Now, through my writing, Enlightened-ish Substack and podcast, and my new course Writing the Soul, I help others tell their stories. I also offer free weekly yoga and meditation. Because sometimes, movement and breath open us up when words fail.
If any of this resonates, come along. None of us have to do this alone.
