The Playbook Turns One, and the Year That Tested It
One year ago, I published The Resilient Living Systems Playbook. Then this year tested it more deeply than I ever planned for. This is an honest look at a year of surgery, recovery, and the people who held me through it, and a first look at the book that grew from it, Another Way Through.
When the Map Changes: Adaptation After Brain Injury
Adaptive Design: What Living Systems Teach Us About Recovery After Disruption
What Reciprocity Looks Like in a Living System
The Pace of Meaningful Change
A single conversation can create insight, but lasting change develops through practice, feedback, and time. This piece explores why continuity matters—and how coaching can help understanding become something you can actually live.
Learning to Listen
A reflection on living systems, uncertainty, and learning to listen to the body, relationships, and reality without forcing every question into an answer.
At the Longest Light: A Father's Day Solstice Offering
A summer solstice and Father’s Day reflection on steady love, rooted presence, and what the living world can teach us about fathering, care, resilience, and the conditions that help life keep growing.
The Ecology of Attention
After an AI-generated impersonation account replicated my profile, I found myself confronting a larger question: What does meaningful presence look like in an increasingly synthetic environment?
This story explores social media, recovery, living systems, attention, and the growing challenge of distinguishing signal from noise in a world designed to compete for both. Through the lens of biomimicry and personal experience, it considers what happens when we stop treating ourselves like machines built for constant visibility and begin creating the conditions for more intentional, relational, and sustainable ways of connecting.
The Invisible Work of Healing
When Pushing Harder Stops Working: Rethinking Resilience
How Living Systems Change: One Small Adaptation at a Time
Love, Loss, and the Wisdom Between the Lyrics
Rooting & Rising: A Living-Systems Workbook for Moving Through Change
Learning the Language of Living Systems
Discover 21 patterns of living systems that show how nature heals, adapts, and thrives — and how we can live by those same rhythms of resilience.
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.