Some seasons of life don't announce themselves as hard. They just quietly wear you thin. You're moving, you're showing up, you're getting through the day, but somewhere along the way you lost touch with yourself. This episode is for anyone carrying that kind of tired. The kind without a clear name. The kind that doesn't lift just because the weekend arrived. Christopher Tuttle draws on the unfinished road, the stretch of Route 66 he has never driven, as a reminder that incompleteness is not the same as failure, and that sometimes the healing is not in what you have finished but in knowing there is still more road ahead.

This episode offers three gentle takeaways for finding your footing again, a Healing Highway Challenge about reclaiming something you have set aside, and a chaplain's word for the soul that meets you exactly where you are, mid-journey and still moving.

This episode includes:

• One original Healing Highway story rooted in Route 66
• Three gentle takeaways for carrying the theme into everyday life
• A Healing Highway Challenge focused on reclaiming what feels unfinished
• A chaplain's word for the soul, nothing preachy
• A quiet pause along Route 66 at Hackberry, Arizona

If your spirit is running low right now, you do not need a grand plan. You just need a little room to unravel. New episodes of Healing Highway release monthly on the first Sunday.

🎙️ Healing Highway is a series from Faith and Good Courage. Stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain.

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In this episode, Christopher shares a deeply personal journey along Route 66 — not in search of adventure, but in search of space. What unfolds is a quiet return to self, shaped by long miles, small towns, diner conversations, and the kind of silence that allows something honest to surface.

Healing Highway isn’t about fixing everything. It’s about stepping far enough away from the noise to remember who you are underneath it.

📖 Read the full Journal story:

https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/04/anywhere-between-chicago-to-la/

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🎙️ Healing Highway is part of the Faith and Good Courage project, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain.

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In this episode, Christopher reflects on pace, presence, and the quiet recalibration that happens when life slows down to a sustainable rhythm. Set along Route 66, this story explores how mental health often improves not through dramatic breakthroughs, but through ordinary moments — a diner booth, a stretch of open road, light hitting rock at just the right time.

Healing Highway isn’t about fixing everything. It’s about traveling differently. This month’s reflection invites listeners to consider the power of 55 miles per hour — a pace steady enough to breathe, notice, and return to yourself.

📖 Read the full Journal story:

https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/03/01/mental-health-at-55mph/

🎙️ Healing Highway is part of the Faith and Good Courage project, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain.

#FaithAndGoodCourage #HealingHighway #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #QuietStrength #GraceOnTheGo #Route66

Healing Highway is a monthly reflection from the Faith and Good Courage project, created for people who need a pause more than a push.

In this February episode, chaplain and storyteller Christopher Tuttle, known as the Route 66 Chaplain, explores the quiet, exhausting kind of anxiety that settles into the body long before the day begins. Not the loud panic that demands attention, but the steady hum that tightens the chest, crowds the mind, and follows us everywhere urgency is rewarded.

Through a roadside story shaped by time on Route 66, this episode offers space to breathe, slow down, and remember that anxiety is not your identity. It is information, a signal asking to be noticed with care rather than fought with force.

This episode includes:

• One original Healing Highway story rooted in Route 66
• Three gentle takeaways for carrying calm into everyday life
• A Healing Highway Challenge focused on intentional slowing
• A chaplain’s word for the soul, nothing preachy
• A quiet pause in Shamrock, Texas, at a place that reminds us we don’t have to hurry to matter

If life has been moving too fast, Your Anxiety Isn’t Welcome Here offers a reminder that healing often begins when we stop long enough to listen.

New episodes of Healing Highway release monthly on the first Sunday.

🎙️ Healing Highway is a series from the Faith and Good Courage. Stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain.

#FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66

This episode explores burnout, stillness, and the quiet kind of grace that shows up when you stop trying so hard to be okay. Not in a church or a big breakthrough moment, but in an ordinary gas station, between pump number three and the candy aisle, where the noise fades and something inside finally exhales.

Healing Highway is about detours, self-discovery, and the ordinary places that hold more mercy than we expect, if we are willing to slow down long enough to notice.

📖 Read the full Journal story:

https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/01/03/gas-stations-and-grace/

🎙️ Healing Highway is a storytelling series from the Faith and Good Courage project, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain.

#FaithAndGoodCourage #HealingHighway #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #QuietStrength #GraceOnTheGo #Route66

Healing Highway is a monthly reflection from the Faith and Good Courage project, created for people who need a pause more than a push.

Hosted by chaplain and storyteller Christopher Tuttle, known as the Route 66 Chaplain, Healing Highway shares quiet, honest stories written on the road and shaped by real life. These are not sermons or self-help talks. They are moments of breath, not marathons, meant to meet you where you are.

Once a month, on the first Sunday, Healing Highway offers:

• One original Healing Highway story
• Practical ways to carry it into everyday life
• A gentle challenge rooted in kindness
• A chaplain’s word for the soul, nothing preachy
• A quiet place along Route 66 worth slowing down for

If life has taken you on a detour, Healing Highway is here to remind you that detours are not failure. They are often where healing begins.

New episodes release monthly on the first Sunday.

🎙️ Healing Highway is a series from the Faith and Good Courage. Stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain.

#FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66