Rooting & Rising
A Living-Systems Workbook for Moving Through Change
For the seasons when life asks you to change, you deserve a steady place to land. Rooting & Rising is a living-systems healing workbook created to support you through the seasons when life is asking you to change—whether you’re healing from illness, preparing for surgery, moving through burnout, navigating emotional upheaval, or sensing a threshold moment approaching.
This workbook is a companion for the chapters when your biology, identity, and environment are reorganizing all at once. It’s designed to help you strengthen your roots, cross what’s ahead with steadiness, rebuild your capacity, and return to yourself with more clarity and care.
Grounded in nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and ecological resilience, Rooting & Rising offers a gentle, adaptive framework for moving through change at the pace of your biology—not the pace of expectation.
Available in Print — $19.99
Rooting & Rising is designed as a physical object—a tactile, grounding companion you can hold, write in, return to again and again.
Want to get a feel before ordering?
Explore a sample from Rooting & Rising.
(6-page preview PDF, 5-minute read)
This workbook is for anyone moving through:
Surgery preparation or recovery
Chronic illness, pain, or fatigue recovery
Burnout or stress collapse
Emotional upheaval or grief
Identity shifts or life transitions
Career, relationship, or environmental change
Nervous system dysregulation
Seasons of overwhelm, uncertainty, or reorientation
If you’re looking for a sustainable, compassionate way to heal, this workbook is designed to meet you where you are.
What’s Inside
Structured around the same patterns living systems use to adapt and regenerate, inside you’ll find:
8-week preparation phase: Build capacity, map your rhythms, and create conditions for healing.
Threshold week support: Tools for navigating uncertainty, fear, grief, and emotional complexity.
12-week recovery arc: A nervous system–informed approach to rebuilding strength and resilience. Includes pacing plans, symptom tracking, nourishment and movement rhythms, and weekly reflection prompts.
Guided journaling pages: Daily and weekly check-ins to help you track progress without pressure.
Somatic & ecological healing tools: Movement menus, rest strategies, belonging cues, boundaries, communication scripts, and nature-based grounding practices.
Long-term integration & renewal: Support for returning to life with clarity, stability, and self-trust.
Why living systems?
Because biology—and ecology—offer wiser models for healing than hustle culture ever could.
Forests don’t regenerate by pushing harder. Roots don’t strengthen through force; they strengthen through nourishment and intelligent boundaries. All living systems adapt, reorganize, rest, and rise again—in season. So do we.
Rooting & Rising helps you build your healing rhythm the way nature does:
through cycles, not linearity
through pacing, not pressure
through nourishment, not depletion
through belonging, not isolation
through adaptive capacity, not rigid plans
It’s a companion for healing the way ecosystems heal—slowly, relationally, and with room for the whole truth.
The Backstory: A Threshold Season
For the last few years, my body has been holding a complex constellation of symptoms—hormonal imbalances, neurological reverberations, cyclical pain, and the kind of exhaustion that can’t be outrun. If you’ve read The Resilient Living Systems Playbook, you know some of this already. My nervous system has weathered its own wildfires and floods, reorganizing again and again in response to stress, injury, and adaptation.
But this year, my system finally said: Enough. A deeper intervention is needed.
It’s December 2025, and I’m heading toward major pelvic surgery—one of those threshold moments you can’t think your way past, only walk through. As I began preparing, I noticed how quickly my old survival strategies tried to return: the over-planning, the “I’ll be fine,” the internal pressure to perform resilience rather than cultivate it.
I didn’t want to “manage” this season. I wanted to meet it. So I returned to the tools I’ve built for clients over the years—the pacing protocols, the symptom maps, the boundary scripts, the nourishment rhythms, the nervous-system supports. And I began redesigning them through the lens of this immediate reality.
I wasn’t trying to make a workbook. I was trying to give myself a place to land.
A place where healing didn’t depend on force. A place where I could track my rhythms gently. A place where I didn’t need to be productive—just present. A place that understood how living systems heal: slowly, relationally, cyclically.
And slowly, this personal set of pages grew into something bigger—something I realized might support anyone moving through a threshold moment of their own.
I didn’t set out to create something for the world. I set out to create something that could hold me through this moment. But living systems remind us that resilience is relational. What helps one of us often helps the wider ecology, too.
If these pages can offer anyone else a steadier path, a softer landing, or a more compassionate way to meet their transition, then it’s worth sharing.
If you’re moving through a transition—recovery, burnout, grief, or becoming—I hope this offers support.