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Where your nervous system meets your longing for something gentler.
✨ A Soft Start
You didn’t arrive here by accident.
You came because something wasn’t working.
Not just in the world—but in the way you were taught to move through it.
You came because you were tired of having to choose between being strong and being whole.
You came because your systems—external or internal—felt too tight, too fast, too loud.
You came to the borderlands:
That soft edge where the old system ends, and the new one hasn’t quite begun.
And love, this is where we start.
🌾 What This Course Isn’t
This isn’t a course to fix you.
This isn’t a productivity hack.
This isn’t a motivational bootcamp in poetic clothing.
This is a slow unfolding.
A soft re-systeming.
A conversation between your body, your truth, and the life you actually want.
🧠 A Gentle Truth
Most people don’t burn out because they’re lazy.
They burn out because they’ve been too adaptive for too long.
They override what they feel.
They push through what they know.
They systematize to survive.
But what if the system was built to hold you differently?
What if softness could become structure?
💡 Try This
Today, just notice:
Where in your life are you still trying to “manage” something your nervous system is actually rejecting?
Ask yourself:
- Where am I bracing instead of breathing?
- Where am I performing instead of participating?
- Where do I most long for a different rhythm—but don’t yet believe I’m allowed to claim it?
You don’t need to answer it all today.
You just need to notice.
That’s where your real system begins.
💭 Parting Thought
You’re not broken. You’re just at the borderlands.
And this course?
This is the lantern you get to carry across.
➡️ Next: Lesson 2: What Softness Knows That Speed Forgets
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The Systems Cowboy Guide to Living Softly in a Hard World
