Stop Circling. Start Mapping.
Figuring out who we are as adults registers as next to impossible when the map we're starting with is an ill-fitting Edgar suit. We spend so much time and energy trying to make it through the day that considering what the life we want looks like feels monumental.
We could be doing the work. We could be journaling. Maybe we're in therapy. Maybe we're making small changes.
And.
We also feel like we're walking around in circles. We've hit this spot before, and we've tried all the things we know to do to get someplace different.
We cannot even find the direction for different on the map. We just know we need to change our route.
When we look at our lives holistically (which admittedly feels a little impossible), we illuminate a clearer picture of where we are right now. It helps if we can define our lives based on our actual lived existence rather than a culturally understood definition of what that existence should be.
The parts of our now we find cranky trim away the possibilities so we can hone in on our desired paths forward.
The Life Support Paradigm is a tool for doing this.
The Life Support Paradigm maps out our daily lives, understands how we work within the context of an inhospitable world, and layers all of it over time so we can see ourselves whole.
You may already be in the middle of doing some of that work, which will help you create part of your map.
The question is what to do with the picture once you have it.
I built the Life Support Paradigm to make sense of my own life. I'm offering it here so it can be useful to yours.
That's what the Dive into the Life Support Paradigm is for.
It's a nine-week email series that walks you through the whole model, a piece at a time, asking you to reflect and to look at things you may not have considered before.
Over the nine weeks you’ll receive one email each week. The emails will include an overview of the paradigm, seven emails inviting you to explore how each part of the paradigm works for your life today and how you might like it to work differently in the future, and a final email to assemble your Life Support Map.
By the time you finish, you'll have your bearings: a working picture of where you're at, what's working, what's supporting the life you want to have, and what really isn't, along with a clearer sense of where you want to go from here.
Start wayfinding by joining the series.