Welcome to the RETURN Method. Here, you’ll find some steps that I’ve put together to help you find a way back to yourself. No matter what you may be going through, you always have the choice – choose your peace, choose a healthy relationship with yourself. The below steps helped me make a little bit more sense of my healing journey, and my hope is that it can help you too.
This page is a quick reference for each step in the RETURN Method, so you can navigate to what you need on your own time.
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Return to Yourself – Introducing the RETURN Method
The Exhaustion of “Fixing” It’s so common to feel like something is “wrong” with you. The idea that we aren’t good enough has been marketed to us our whole lives. Other people project their insecurities onto you and make you question yourself. Someone who doesn’t know how to handle their own emotions makes you think…
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The RETURN Method: Recognize What Feels Off
The Subtle Signal Most People Miss If you aren’t in tune with your body, you might miss the subtle cues it gives you. Your body tells you when it needs something; its always communicating with you. When we don’t understand ourselves well enough to recognize the signals within us, it can lead to challenges in…
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The RETURN Method: Explore the Facts with Curiosity
Once you’ve recognized that something felt off and spent some time with yourself to see how you feel and how you would like to respond, it’s time to take a look at the facts. In the second step of the RETURN Method, we aren’t fixing or reacting to new information – we are exploring it.…
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The RETURN Method: Truth – Being Honest With Yourself
The Moment After Curiosity So here we are. We have recognized that something feels off and explored the facts with curiosity. Now it’s time to be honest with ourselves. Here, we’ve reached the Truth step of the RETURN Method. Being honest with ourselves about our own truth and our own responsibility is a natural next…
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The RETURN Method: Understand Your Needs, Patterns, and Boundaries
The Power of Understanding Yourself Many people try to “fix” themselves before they even really take the time to get to know themselves. How can you fix something you don’t fully understand?It’s common to: …without first asking ourselves: When you don’t understand the underlying problem, you tend to treat only symptoms. The result is often…
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The RETURN Method: Reclaim the Narrative of Your Own Story
The Story You’ve Been Told vs. the Story You Choose Everyone tells themselves a story about their own lives. We all carry around a story of who we are and how we got that way. A lot of those stories were written when we were little, oftentimes during moments that felt bad and made us…
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The RETURN Method: Navigate Life Authentically
Authenticity Requires Consistency After Recognizing what feels off, Exploring the facts with curiosity, telling yourself the Truth, Understanding your patterns and needs, and Reclaiming the narrative of your own story – this is what comes next: you move forward differently. You make decisions from alignment instead of fear. That’s what it means to Navigate your…