The storm didn’t pass so much as it reshaped the shoreline. After a year of illness, grief, and constant change, I'm back and I'm opening the Reverse Reset Restore door gently. Choosing a different way to build: slower, kinder, and far more honest. Instead of pushing for weekly output, I'm guiding the next ten episodes with one word for the year and nine subwords—an anchor for anyone tired of chasing progress without presence.
In this episode, our first for 2026, I talk candidly about why the hiatus happened and how it clarified my purpose: connection over visibility, healing over hustle, and craft over constant production. You’ll hear what it means to create within real limits, to let resilience be quiet rather than performative, and to honour the seasons where life unravels plans you thought were certain. Along the way we lean on words that hold steady—Murakami’s reminder that storms change us, and Tolkien’s insistence that beauty persists even beside grief. Expect slower releases every two to three weeks for Reverse Reset Restore allowing space for reflection.
Our Foundation Fridays episodes return this year with a new shape: six books across the year so ideas have time to land. We begin with The Myth Of Normal by Gabor and Daniel Maté, then move through to Be Good To Yourself, Brave New World, The Kindness Method, The Gifts Of Imperfection, and Radical Acceptance. Each book becomes a doorway into self-compassion, responsible change, and freedom from the quiet norms that keep us unwell. Read with us in the Foundation Friday Facebook group and come check out the bi-monthly episodes, still the last Friday of the month, for our discussions and takeaways from each of our 6 books.
If you’ve felt behind, broken, or stuck inside your own storm, this is a soft return and a steady hand. Walk with us as we trade urgency for depth, productivity myths for humane rhythms, and isolation for community.
The final quote for this episode is from the epic story, The Lord of the Rings and the wonderful writing mind of J.R.R. Tolkien. It brings me peace when, in a world, both my own little one and the greater one we all live in, feels far removed from the light.
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
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