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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Rejection is a Mirror for Where You Still Abandon Yourself
The Sting Isn’t the Whole Story We’ve all been there at some point in our lives. Maybe it was the phone call that never came. Perhaps you were waiting on an opportunity that fell through. Maybe you had your sights set on a new job that would have been perfect for you – but they…
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Why Physical Comfort Matters More Than You Think
There’s always something to do. There’s always somewhere to be, something that needs your attention. With busy schedules, work, school, house repairs, and other life responsibilities, there’s always the temptation to just “push through” the mental stress and keep going. You’re expected to keep going, meet your responsibilities, tend to your relationships, and improve yourself…
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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…
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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: 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: 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: 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.…