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There's a name for what you're feeling.

Functional burnout. The kind where you're still showing up — still functioning, still getting by — while something essential
quietly goes missing.

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. 

  • Rewilding Your Soul — the awakening. Free in audio inside the Playground.

  • Rebel Well — breaking cycles with your kids. A guide for parents and mentors.

  • Being Invitational — the art of creating space for others to step into their own truth.

  • Reimagining Rebellion — the transformation. Coming July 2026.

  • 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.

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