Oct 8, 2026 · 59 min · 12 segments
What if the life you're fighting against is actually asking you to let go? At 19, Daryl Dittmer was caught in addiction, fear, dishonesty, and a life that felt increasingly out of control. Nearly…
Daryl DittmerGuest
Tim ShieldsHost
In my new book, I define the dream as the memory of what your soul envisioned before it expressed human.
I mean, when we're young, we come into life, we don't know what the hell's going on.
We're experimenting with this and that and I mean, did it ever occur to you even later in life that maybe you weren't running away from something but towards something?
And the only reason I say that is because I've never been in the future and I've never been in the past.
And, and, and the reason I say that in this, you know, the rabbit hole obviously goes pretty deep, but, but the reason I say that is because my life and it goes to, I think to what you mentioned about the dream, um, My life has been an exercise, and I mean that in the most wonderful way.
It's been an exercise in not knowing where I'm going and being completely cool with that.
I love that because I – very much live that as well especially as a writer and but you know i go through these and this is maybe for me where the safety comes in but it's like the uncertainty just gets so big and so overwhelming sometime so you know how do you how do you deal with being cool with just being like all right this is what's happening this is the way i'm rolling today
In my new book, I define the dream as the memory of what your soul envisioned before it expressed human.
I mean, when we're young, we come into life, we don't know what the hell's going on.
We're experimenting with this and that and I mean, did it ever occur to you even later in life that maybe you weren't running away from something but towards something?
And the only reason I say that is because I've never been in the future and I've never been in the past.
And, and, and the reason I say that in this, you know, the rabbit hole obviously goes pretty deep, but, but the reason I say that is because my life and it goes to, I think to what you mentioned about the dream, um, My life has been an exercise, and I mean that in the most wonderful way.
It's been an exercise in not knowing where I'm going and being completely cool with that.
I love that because I – very much live that as well especially as a writer and but you know i go through these and this is maybe for me where the safety comes in but it's like the uncertainty just gets so big and so overwhelming sometime so you know how do you how do you deal with being cool with just being like all right this is what's happening this is the way i'm rolling today
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