finding a new story
A deeper way to connect to yourself and create meaningful change.
At the beginning of each year, we are encouraged to make lists, set goals, and imagine who we might become if we could finally follow through. For people who think deeply, achieve easily, and hold themselves to high standards, that invitation can feel both familiar and heavy. You already understand why you do what you do. You can analyze your patterns, name your triggers, and describe your history in detail. And yet, even with all that insight, something in you still resists change.
The truth is that nothing is wrong with you. Your brain and nervous system are doing exactly what they were designed to do. They are following the internal maps that once kept you safe and connected. These maps were built through early experiences, shaped by subtle moments when belonging required you to adapt. They are not broken or bad, but they can quietly direct your choices long after the original story has ended.
Finding a New Story is a two-hour live class that helps you understand those maps from the inside out. Instead of pushing for more insight or discipline, we will explore what happens when you approach your patterns through the lens of safety, curiosity, and internal connection. The focus is not on fixing, but on seeing, and in that seeing, allowing your system to begin rewriting its own story.
Date: January 4, 2026
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
Location: Live on Google Meet
Recording: Available for 90 days
Before you can write a new story, you have to understand the one you have been living.
For many high-functioning people, the traits that others admire, such as competence, composure, and self-sufficiency, began as protection. You learned to hold everything together because it kept you safe. You learned to stay calm because it kept you connected. Over time, those strategies became your identity. They work until they do not.
This class will help you pause long enough to notice the difference between the part of you that manages and the part that is alive underneath. Together we will explore how the brain’s predictive nature and the body’s drive for safety shape your sense of self, how interoceptive awareness reveals what your system needs to feel safe enough to change, and how curiosity can begin to loosen the habits of control.
You will leave with language and tools that help you recognize when a decision is being made by fear, duty, or performance rather than by your authentic Self.
If thinking your way through was enough to create understanding, you would already feel at ease inside your life. But most of us have built identities around the very parts of us that once kept us safe. We learn to call them adulthood, responsibility, drive, ambition, success. What they often are, beneath the surface, are protective parts that learned to earn safety through achievement, composure, or control.
These patterns can be hard to see because they look like growth. They look like being capable, reliable, or put together. But underneath, they are still running on the same nervous system logic that formed in childhood, where being good or useful meant being safe. The result is that we can move through the world looking competent while feeling disconnected from ourselves.
Finding a New Story is a two-hour live class about learning how to recognize those patterns as they move through you. Together, we will look at how protection begins to masquerade as adulthood and how to track the difference between who you had to become and who you actually are. You will learn how to notice what your system does when you slow down, how it signals safety or risk, and how to begin building a relationship with the parts of you that have been trying to help all along.
Date: January 4, 2026
Time: 11:00 a.m. EST
Location: Online via Google Meet - recording available for 90 days
In this workshop you’ll learn to:
Recognize the predictive patterns in your brain that shape behavior and emotion and understand how those pathways formed around safety rather than authenticity.
Identify the protective strategies your nervous system uses to manage connection and control, such as achievement, perfectionism, or emotional suppression.
Use curiosity and interoceptive awareness to regulate your system in real time so that insight begins to translate into new patterns of response.
Create the internal safety that allows your brain to reorganize and build new neural pathways for trust, flexibility, and choice.
Begin living from congruence by aligning what you think, feel, and do instead of relying on protection or performance.
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