founder, director, producer, author

Unfixed Media is a storytelling platform exploring what it means to be human when the boundaries we rely upon—health, identity, certainty, even selfhood—begin to shift.

Our culture loves a good fixer-upper story. We celebrate solutions, transformations, and tidy resolutions. But many of life's most profound experiences refuse to follow that arc. Illness. Grief. Disability. Aging. Mystery. Loss. The questions that remain unanswered.

Unfixed offers a different model. One that honors the courage required to live well inside uncertainty. To be unfixed is not to be broken. It is to remain in relationship with a life that cannot be fully controlled or resolved. It is to discover meaning not beyond limitation, but within it. Not after uncertainty, but through it.

Through memoir, film, essays, interviews, and community, Unfixed shares stories of people learning to inhabit life's unanswered questions with creativity, curiosity, and grace. Because sometimes life's greatest transformations arrive not through conquering or curing, but through surrender.

Our growing portfolio includes:

Two short films: Unsung and Unbound

Four limited series: Unfixed Mind, Unfixed Docuseries, Life Rebalanced Chronicles, and Long Haul Voices

A short-form vignette series: Why We Matter 

Three podcasts: Unfixed Podcast, ICU, and Unfixed Interviews

A roundtable webcast: MS Confidential

Two memoirs: Liberation of Being by Dylan Shanahan, and Unfixed founder Kimberly Warner’s memoir Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home (Empress Editions, October 2025)

An upcoming feature documentary: Unfixed: What Time Makes of Us which revisits several original participants years later to explore how time reshapes our relationship to illness, self, and meaning.

The videos you see here are a collection from the Unfixed docu-series.