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Your Narrative, In Motion

Expect thoughtful, no-fluff insights on untangling your inner narrative, plus real examples, useful prompts, and grounded reflections to help you gain clarity, build traction, and move forward with less noise and more meaning.

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You don’t have to hold it all together alone.

Let’s talk about tension. The kind that builds in your jaw, your shoulders, your schedule, without asking. You might not even call it tension. Maybe it shows up as over-preparing, staying quiet to keep the peace, answering one more email just to feel caught up. Maybe it looks like “calm” on the outside but feels like hyper-vigilance inside. Tension often forms for good reasons. It kept you alert. It helped you stay composed. It got things done. But it wasn’t meant to be a permanent feature of...

Untangling Your Loneliness - A Mini Journaling Course

Welcome to a new week! This one’s a big milestone for me. I’m beginning to build offerings beyond one-on-one coaching, starting with a new series of Mini Journaling Courses. Each week, I’ll release a new mini-course designed to help you untangle a common challenge, boost life satisfaction, strengthen soft skills, or explore one of the Threads of Agency—the parts of life where you do have influence. This week’s course:Untangling Your Loneliness – a gentle, reflective guide to working through...

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Your Narrative, In Motion Notes on Growth, Story, and Change from Untangled Narrative Issue #1 When Your Narrative Gets Out of Sync When things feel unclear, we often blame ourselves for not having answers. But frequently, what’s happening is that our inner narrative, how we make sense of who we are and what we’re facing, is out of sync with our current reality. Sometimes, how we explain things to ourselves makes sense at one point. It helps us move forward, avoid pain, or feel in control....