Capture the shift from reactivity to relationship.
When this might help:
You’re mid-recovery and this spiral feels different
You’re building a record of how your returns are changing
The practice:
“What’s different about how I’m meeting this spiral?”
“What do I know now that I didn’t before?”
“What’s getting softer, even if it’s still hard?”
Gentle fallback: One line: “What’s getting softer?”
Keep it with you: print this tool as a card (PDF).
Audio guide: arriving with the book's launch.
Come back to this whenever you need it. Returning is the practice.