Author Peter J. Cervantes (The Road Back to Me): "Part Of Me Wanted To Just Not Die, Right?"

DENNIS ANYONE? with Dennis Hensley · May 21, 2026 · 1h 2m

In this episode, Dennis connects via Zoom with Peter Cervantes to talk about his book The Road Back to Me: Six Sacred Tools for Queer Healing Through Shadow, Breath, and Truth, in which he shares his journey from severe physical and mental health crises to healing through therapy, meditation, breath work, EMDR, shadow work and more. He also talks about having severe heart palpitations and anxiety attacks and going into intense therapy because he felt that the only other option was death. Other topics include: dealing with intergenerational trauma, feeling the need to hide his artistic side…