Ancient Health Podcast 481: Healing Trauma through Grace & Connection: The Story Behind Onsite | Miles Adcox
Mar 3, 2026
Miles Adcox, chairman of Onsite and host of Human School, is a leader in trauma-informed residential treatment. He shares his small-town roots and the pivot from personal struggle to building transformational healing programs. Conversation covers immersive treatment, designing compassionate care environments, choosing risk for vision, and centering empathy, love, and grace in recovery.
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Small Town Roots Shaped Miles' Empathy
- Miles Adcox grew up in small-town Hohenwald, Tennessee, and early travel with his parents broadened his empathy and worldview.
- That mix of small-town rootedness plus mission trips shaped his attraction to people-focused work and later trauma care.
Residential Treatment Turned Into A Calling
- Miles hit severe depression in his early twenties, resisted help, then accepted a 30-day residential treatment that became life-changing.
- Two weeks into treatment he wrote a 60-page treatment plan and a 60-page business plan to someday create similar programs.
Treat Recovery As Daily Practice
- Recovery is an ongoing daily practice, not a one-time fix; expect setbacks and learn to manage relapse as part of change.
- Miles recommends cultivating tools and a relationship with relapse so its 'volume' can be controlled.