BREAKING CYCLES
MISSION
This isn’t a story about endurance.
It’s about what people endure, what they overcome, and the cycles that have to end.
2027 · PORTUGAL TO TURKEY
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE + ADDICTION
Miles with
meaning.
THE ROAD AHEAD
Breaking Cycles returns in 2027 with a solo ride from Portugal to Turkey, centered on domestic violence and addiction.
Along the route, the project will create space for survivors to speak, for stories to be heard, and for the conversation to move beyond survival into recovery and rebuilding, toward the question at the heart of it all:
What does it take to break the cycle?
A place worth traveling to. A place worth returning to.
A place worth building.
The journey beyond
the bike.
MOVE
CREATE
With Truth.
Stories, photographs, conversations, and reflections preserve what the journey reveals.
Together, they turn the road into a living archive where truth is shared and voices are heard.
Awareness shifts perspective, inspires action, and creates change.
With Purpose.
The road may be difficult. How we meet it remains ours.
Purpose does not wait. We put it in motion.
The ride becomes a declaration.
Every mile raises awareness, builds support, and turns conviction into action.
EXPLORE
With Courage.
Change begins when we are willing to step beyond the familiar.
We cross countries, cultures, and belief systems with curiosity and respect. We listen beyond our own experience, question what has been inherited, and trace the cycles that shaped us.
We do not inherit the future. We reinvent it.
BECOME
The Journey.
Every journey asks something of us. It challenges those willing to answer, and transforms those willing to evolve.
When we move beyond expectation and begin living with intention, we begin creating a life that is unmistakably our own.
That’s how cycles end
and, new stories begin.
Move. Explore. Create. Become.
Four expressions of the same purpose, shaping how Breaking Cycles moves through the world and what it leaves in motion.
5,400 MILES.
COAST TO COAST.
2018 -THE START OF BREAKING CYCLES
JOURNEY
In 2018, Breaking Cycles began as a 5,400-mile solo bicycle ride across the United States. The project explored trauma, incarceration, resilience, and the people whose lives are too often reduced to a statistic. What began as one ride became the foundation for something larger:
A place worth traveling to. A place worth returning to.
A place worth building.
What began as a ride
became a record of what people survive,
what systems fail to see, and what it takes to interrupt
a cycle before it defines a life.
Awareness isn’t the
finish line.
2027 — THE NEXT CHAPTER
THE MISSION GROWS
Breaking Cycles returns in 2027 with a solo ride from Portugal to Turkey, centered on domestic violence and addiction. Along the route, the project will create space for survivors to speak, for stories to be heard, and for the conversation to move beyond survival into recovery and rebuilding, toward the question at the heart of it all:
A place worth traveling to. A place worth returning to.
A place worth building.
What does it take to
break the cycle?
The journey beyond
the headlines.
THE
VOICE
THE
NETORK
With Access.
Access changes the equation. Breaking Cycles connects organizations, programs, specialists, and credible resources across domestic violence and addiction, bringing trusted information and real options into clearer reach.
Access changes outcomes.
With Candor.
A personal account does not need resolution to matter.
Breaking Cycles publishes first-person essays, reflections, and creative work, shared by name or anonymously, without asking anyone to simplify, sanitize, or turn experience into a lesson.
Let the truth be spoken.
THE OUTREACH
With Intent.
Public attention can change the terms of a conversation. Through partnerships, events, and creative collaborations, Breaking Cycles brings domestic violence and addiction into broader cultural spaces where the subject can be met with greater context, visibility, and urgency.
Attention creates accountability.
THE
COMMUNITY
With Attention.
The most important conversations often begin quietly.
Pay attention, ask what others might avoid, and remember that leaving is rarely a single decision. Patience through the stops, starts, and returns can save a life.
Check in. Speak up. Take action.
The voice within the cause
A platform for expression. Work that changes outcomes. A culture that refuses to look away.
Check in. Speak up. Take action.
A BRIDGE
FORWARD.
A place to pause, find solid ground, and build what comes next.
The Sanctuary is envisioned as a place where people referred through trusted nonprofit and community organizations can have the time and stability to focus on what comes next.
With a place to live, meals, community, and opportunities to learn and contribute, there is room to build confidence, explore a direction, gain experience, and begin creating greater independence.
The Sanctuary is not meant to replace shelters, treatment programs, reentry services, or transitional housing. It is meant to become one of the places they can refer someone next.
A stepping stone toward independence and a stronger foundation for the future.
2018
Collaborators + Sponsors
Every Mile
makes a difference
Let the story travel
farther than the bike.
Support Breaking Cycles, follow the journey, or help carry the story beyond the road.