Week 1: Start Where You Are

Listening Within Before Designing Ahead

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“Design is the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.”— Nigel Cross

“Your parts are not problems. They’re protectors.”— Richard Schwartz, No Bad Parts

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There’s a moment many of us reach.

It might come after a career shift, a breakup, an emptying nest, or a creeping sense that success has started to feel strangely hollow.

In that moment, something stirs—a quiet longing that says: “There’s something else I’m meant to be living.”

This series is for that voice.

Self-Led Life Design isn’t about forcing a transformation. It’s about allowing one. It’s about rediscovering what matters now and designing forward—not from fear or urgency, but from curiosity and compassion.

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What Is Self-Led Life Design?

This journey draws from Internal Family Systems (IFS), transformational coaching, and human-centered design to help you create a vision and direction for your next chapter.

It’s not a productivity program or a rigid goal-setting framework.

It’s a space to:

• Reconnect with the parts of yourself that have been managing, striving, or surviving

• Listen to the gifts and longings that may have gone quiet

• Begin to reimagine what a more Self-led life might look like—on your terms