It’s Here: The Resilient Living Systems Playbook
Why I Wrote The Resilient Living Systems Playbook
A nature-inspired guide by Lex Amore bridging biomimicry, health, and systems thinking to help readers heal and live in rhythm with the Earth.
Woven Together: Nature, Design, and the Intelligence of Belonging
There’s a quiet revolution blossoming at the intersection of design, science, and soul work: biomimicry. More than just a toolkit, it’s an invitation to remember—we are not outside nature, we are nature. By looking to coral reefs, spider silk, or even pine cones, we find more than clever solutions; we find blueprints for kinship, healing, and belonging. This story explores how moving from cleverness to reverence transforms not only how we innovate, but how we live—woven together with the Earth itself.
Bend, Don’t Break: Lessons in Resilience From the Natural World
Resilience isn’t a muscle you’re born with—it’s a wisdom nature teaches us, season by season, storm by storm. Like forests that sway in the wind or roots that deepen through drought, we too can learn to adapt, recover, and grow stronger after disruption.
This story explores what happens when we quit fighting for “getting over it” and instead lean into the quiet strength of recalibration, patience, and rooted flexibility. Because resilience isn’t about returning to what you were — it’s about evolving into who you’re meant to become.
You’re Made of Starstuff (and Probably Need a Nap)
You carry the cosmos in your veins. The same elements forged in distant stars now course through your cells. But cosmic lineage doesn’t exempt you from earthly care. Your body is an ecosystem, not a machine. In this story, we explore how generous rest, nourishing movement, and soulful connection to nature can reboot your system—because stellar origins still require grounded self-care.
Functional Fuel: What Nature Would Feed Your Mitochondria
We often think of food as fuel, but each bite is really a conversation with your cells. Dive into a story that reframes nourishment — from calorie counting to metabolic medicine — and invites you to eat like a thriving ecosystem. Because when your cells are fed well, your whole body remembers how to heal, move, and radiate vitality.
Healing in Motion: Nature, Resilience, and the Power of Functional Wellness
Movement is more than motion—it’s a dialogue between your body, your breath, and the world outside. In this story, we explore how walking trails, forest canopies, and shifting seasons teach us to move with purpose, presence, and resilience. When we reconnect with nature’s rhythms, our bodies remember how to heal, adapt, and thrive.
The Sport of Life: My Personal Centenarian Decathlon
I’m not training for a podium—I’m training for 95. To move with ease, carry my groceries without dread, even skip on a good day. After years of injury, chronic pain, and low moments, I chose something radical: strength for the long game.
This story invites you to imagine your own “sport of life”—not muscle for show, but function that frees. Let’s train for what really matters: rising, twisting, reaching, hiking, dancing, aging with possibility.
Functional Movement: Training for Life’s Challenges (and Avoiding the Pain in Your Back)
Your body was built to move — so you can live fully, not just flex in the mirror. Imagine lifting groceries in one trip, bending without crunching joints, or reaching overhead without a wobble. This story shows how simple, natural movements redefine strength, protect your spine, and transform “everyday life” into something you enjoy—not just endure.
In Rhythm: Listening for Balance in a World of Health Tech
We live in a time when every beat, breath, and byte is measured. But what if true health was less about data points and more about resonance? In this story, I explore how tuning into your internal rhythms—heart, breath, nervous system—can guide you through the noise of wearables, apps, and wellness buzzwords. It’s not about silencing technology; it’s about letting your body’s wisdom speak louder than your devices.
How Squirrels Inspire Better Design
Spark a little wonder and imagination: squirrels aren’t just darting through trees for fun—they’re secret teachers. Their leaps, pauses, and wildly nimble pivots whisper lessons in agility, adaptation, and cleverness we can weave into design and life.
In this story, we lean in close to their movement, their instinct, their soft audacity. We see how their rotating ankles, spring-loaded legs, and expressive tails become blueprints—not copycats—for more alive, resilient, and artful ways of creating. Their wild wisdom invites us to design not just for function, but for joy, belonging, and the grace of unexpected leaps.
5 Nature-Inspired Movements to Keep You Moving with Ease
This isn’t about bulging biceps or mirror flexing. It’s about patience, presence, and returning to rooted power in a body that ages, lives, works, and dances. In this story, we explore how consistent action, mindful resistance, and embodied strength become tools for life’s demands—lifting, carrying, twisting, standing, and simply being more alive.
Functional Movement + Fitness Training is Here
Healing isn’t just about easing pain—it’s about coming home to your body. At Heal with Amore, I’m excited to bring forward a new way to train: functional movement + fitness that’s built for your life, not just the gym.
Whether you’re rebuilding after injury, longing for ease in daily tasks, or seeking a more grounded connection to your movement, this offering is tailored to meet you exactly where you are. Expect alignment for your joints, strength that supports your real life, and movement practices rooted in intention—not burnout.
Solving a Functional Problem in the Brain
Your pain, your emotions, your identity—they all emerge from the same organ: the brain. What if healing wasn’t about masking symptoms, but learning a new language of neural signals? In this story, we journey through the hidden terrain where emotional trauma, lifestyle habits, and physical suffering converge—and explore how biomimicry offers a map to re-pattern, re-sense, and regenerate.
When traditional medicine says “there’s nothing wrong,” the real work begins. Read to uncover how nature’s wisdom helps us unlearn suffering and sculpt a brain that thrives.
Healing and Regeneration: A Nature-Inspired Approach
Biomimicry invites us to look beyond quick fixes and into the deeper intelligence of life itself. By studying how ecosystems heal and adapt, we can reimagine approaches to pain, illness, and mental health that are regenerative rather than reactive. This story explores how life’s principles—local attunement, efficient energy use, and life-friendly chemistry—become guides for sustainable habits, resilient bodies, and renewed connection to community and planet. Healing, in this sense, is not just about getting by, but about evolving to truly thrive.
Who’s on Your Healing Squad?
Healing seldom happens in isolation. Your path to wholeness often needs a chorus, not just a solo. It’s time to assemble your team of guides—doctors, coaches, healers, friends—each playing a unique role in your growth. You are the Captain.
This is more than support: it’s a living, adaptive ecosystem. The people in your circle help translate complexity, bear witness to your journey, and amplify your inner wisdom. When healing becomes communal, your resilience doesn’t just recover—it evolves.
Your Pain is Real
Your pain—whether physical, emotional, or somewhere in between—is not a lie. You are not broken. This story peers into how the same neural circuits that respond to injury also process fear, trauma, and heartbreak. The brain, ever vigilant, can learn to treat everyday moments as threats long after danger has passed.
We follow a thread from ancestral programming to modern suffering: how emotional wounds become etched into flesh, how old hurts echo in new patterns, and how distinguishing structural issues from neural ones can shift the path toward healing. Here, you’ll find language for your invisible pain—and a roadmap for unlearning fear, one neuron at a time.
An Invitation to Heal
Humans are wired to chase pleasure and sidestep pain—so when a pill promises relief, we often take it without asking if there’s a deeper path. Yet pain is part of life’s language, and suffering arises when we cling to resistance or let hardship write our identity.
In An Invitation to Heal, I meld science and spirit to offer another way: a whole-self approach that listens, discerns, and nurtures. It’s not about denying pain, but befriending it. It’s not about bandages, but about returning home to wholeness.
A Nature-Inspired Approach to Healing Using Biomimicry
Explore biomimicry and its opportunity to influence healing. Biomimicry is a design framework that studies how biological organisms, processes, and systems functioning on Earth today have adapted strategies to solve problems related to those we experience in our human designs. It’s a methodological and philosophical approach, a way of perceiving the world around us and our collective interconnectedness.
Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury: My Recovery Story
The brain is the storyteller of self—it sculpts personality, filters experience, and governs feeling. When its capacity to process is shaken, we lose more than function: we lose a portal to presence, and we crave compassionate care. In this personal telling, I trace my own passage through traumatic brain injury—a rupture that forced me back to first principles: nature, relationship, and slow repair. This is a healing story that continues, rooted in the wild wisdom of life itself.