The Work
The Echo System
The coaching methodology I built for moving from surviving to being alive.
Not a productivity tool. Not a self-improvement plan.
A personal architecture, built collaboratively, that lets you live inside your actual life again.
Built around one distinction: adaptation versus rebellion.
Right now: a small founding cohort. Five people. Not customers — collaborators.
The Rebel's Playground
A community for people ready to name functional burnout honestly — and find out what's possible on the other side.
Not a self-improvement platform. Not a content library.
A world built around one question: What does it mean to reclaim your humanity in a world gone wild?
Inside: Start with The Self-Compassion Lab, Meet our Guiding Rebels & Join the community.
Books & Audio Series
Three published books. A fourth coming in July.
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Rewilding Your Soul — the awakening. Free in audio inside the Playground.
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Rebel Well — breaking cycles with your kids. A guide for parents and mentors.
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Being Invitational — the art of creating space for others to step into their own truth.
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Reimagining Rebellion — the transformation. Coming July 2026.
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Several Audios on The Rebel's Playground
"We've been crushed by the world, then sold detours around the pain — and we don't even know it." - Gary Lougher
I spent years looking for my way back to myself in all the right places — self-help, spiritual practice, optimization culture. They gave me the language of healing without the actual healing. Insight without movement. Comfort without freedom.
It wasn't until I went through trauma recovery coaching that everything broke open. Not because I learned something new. Because I finally saw what had been running the show.
I know two worlds intimately — alcohol abuse and functional burnout. And the two-way relationship between them that almost nobody talks about.
At 57, I am more alive than I have ever been.