My Story

The older you get, the more life will hit you with tough challenges, disease, death, loss of jobs, pandemics, wars, etc. Experiencing many of these life events within a brief time span, resulted in one big traumatic event and the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back, which led to the creation of On the Bright Side LLC. It seemed like before I had enough time to process one, I was hit with another. Through fitness, spirituality, mindset tools, supplements, nutrition, and counseling, I began to heal, and in many ways, I am still healing. On the Bright Side LLC provides a platform of sharing what investing more into your emotional and physical health can do for you and your community.  With my history of melanoma, and reflection upon my own mortality and the possibility that my time with my family and friends could be much shorter than the average lifespan, a choice to do everything possible to maximize and enrich the time with them and optimizing my physical and mental health to put me in the best position to handle the next challenge I faced, had to be made. Hopefully, how I navigate my challenges sets a good example for others, and gives them hope that in spite of the hardships they face, there is a silver lining.... a bright side. 

If you are at a point in your life like I was, unhappy and ready for a change, I hope to be able to inspire and encourage you to make that change. In order to make significant changes in your life, you have to understand what shaped your mindset and actions that got you to where you are. You have to dig much deeper than recent events that brought you here and into your childhood and the path shaped by decisions you made, that led you to where you ended up. I've personally discovered that I've learned how to mask, numb, and compartmentalize a lifetime full of "trauma" that I've never fully dealt with. After embarking on that journey into my past, having a conversation with the young man and boy I used to be, forgiving him for the “mistakes” he’s made, I’ve found myself on a much more effective path and a mindset more effective at tackling the challenges that life brings, producing the outcomes I want, and ultimately bringing more personal peace and less conflict. 

It’s important not to dismiss your own traumas, but I have always attempted to balance my negative thoughts and self-pity with the belief that no matter what you are going through, there is always someone who has been through worse and come out on top. Perhaps the most important aspect to that belief for me at least is, it’s always provided me hope that I can persevere.  Regardless of the traumas you face, you can persevere. Within those hardships are valuable lessons that build resiliency and provide us with the tools for success. In the end, you must be accountable for your own actions and your place in life. Whether or not I knew how to deal with the traumas I’ve experienced, where I ended up is 100% a result of how I reacted to them. That’s both humbling and very empowering. I am not perfect, nor am I an expert in the field of mental and physical health and wellness, but I have had success in that area, and I intend to continually increase my knowledge and continue to grow. I am a natural born observer of behavior which has been heightened by my career in the security field and specific behavior-based training in human emotion and the physiological manifestation of that emotion. I have utilized mindset tools, and strategies that helped me to navigate years of challenges; separation anxiety I experienced as a child and in my teens that would negatively impact my relationships, coupled with “failures” in college and the Marine Corps which contributed to a fear of success and of failure and a lack of self-worth in the future, 2 cancer diagnoses one of which had spread to lymph node, obesity, high blood pressure, dealing with the untimely death of loved ones, and more. I plan to periodically share more detail about “my story” as On the Bright Side LLC evolves.

Serving you and the community by sharing my experiences and story, tools used, experts learned from, to sharing their insight into the Health and Wellness field, as well as your stories of triumph and resiliency, I hope we can enable others who face health and wellness challenges to realize they can change the aspects of their life that they are unhappy with, be more at peace, and in a better position to serve others and have a meaningful impact in our community. It’s exciting to start this journey and while it doesn’t come free of reservations, it’s backed by the beliefs that you never fail until you give up, no matter how small your strides are so long as they are in the right direction you are on the path to success. Thank you for taking the time to learn about me. I’m looking forward to partnering with you to make a positive impact in our communities!

Adam McCaa 

On the Bright Side LLC.