Goshen Prepping is a family-run project rooted in real-life, hard experience, and a deep belief that preparation is meant to support a good life—not replace it.
We are the Goshen family, a large homeschooling family living in rural Central Michigan near the town of Clare. Our days are shaped by family, learning, hard work, and the outdoors. We homestead, camp, backpack, train, teach, and build—often far from convenience, but never far from purpose.
I’m Eric Wormsley. I’m a physician by training, a world-champion martial artist, a lifelong teacher, filmmaker, and the owner of Dragon Martial Arts. I’ve spent years in emergency medicine, public service, and leadership roles, and I’ve seen firsthand what happens when systems fail—and when people are prepared to think, adapt, and act under pressure. After sustaining a brain injury during the Gulf War, my life took a different direction, one that ultimately sharpened my focus on resilience, clarity, and living deliberately rather than reactively.
Today, my wife Ashley and I raise our nine children outside the mainstream conveyor belt. We homeschool. We train together. We work with our hands and our minds. We value discipline, competence, creativity, and personal responsibility. Those values shape everything Goshen Prepping produces.
Goshen Prepping is not about panic, doom, or hoarding canned food in fear of the future. It’s about practical preparedness with a level head. It’s about understanding risk without being ruled by it. It’s about building skills, fitness, awareness, and self-reliance so that uncertainty doesn’t steal your peace.
Preparedness, at its core, is freedom.
Through videos, writing, filmmaking, and teaching, Goshen Prepping blends real-world experience with clear thinking and long-term perspective. Whether we’re talking about emergency readiness, physical training, mindset, self-defense, or everyday resilience, the goal is always the same: to help good people live well today while being ready for tomorrow.
We prepare so we can live our lives fully—without fear, without hysteria, and without surrendering responsibility for ourselves or our families.
Welcome to Goshen Prepping.