FIRES™ARTICLES
Stories, insights, and discoveries to help you understand yourself and your nervous system.
Explore the FIRES article journey—one experience, one clue, one discovery at a time.
Your FIRES Journey
A welcoming path toward greater awareness, curiosity, understanding, and acceptance.
Start with the Roadmap, then explore each article at your own pace.
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When Trying Harder Starts to Backfire
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve lost my keys, misplaced my phone, or walked into a room and completely forgotten why I went there.
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How Your Nervous System Talks to You
Over the years, I began noticing something that, at first, didn’t seem very important.
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HELPS™ — The Detective Gathers the Wider Clues
At family gatherings and social events, I often found myself getting up to do the dishes.
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The Environment You’re In Is Shaping How You Function
Most people have experienced functioning well in one place and struggling in another.
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Why the Same Person Can Have a Great Day… and a Terrible One
Have you ever had one of those days when everything simply seemed easier? Not perfect. Just easier.
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Interest Can Change Access
One of the questions I’ve heard for years sounds simple at first.
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Restoration Changes Everything
One of the things that gradually surprised me over the years was realizing that most people already knew far more about themselves than they thought they did.
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Seeing the Whole System
Have you ever noticed that changing one thing sometimes seems to change everything else?
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Small Changes Can Change Everything
For years, I watched people make small changes that seemed almost too simple to matter.
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The Conversations That Shape Us
One of the things I’ve noticed while writing these articles, working on the book, and developing the FIRES app is how naturally my attention is drawn to what still needs improvement.
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RESET™: Teaching the Nervous System a New Pathway
Have you ever driven somewhere and suddenly realized you don’t remember much of the trip?
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The Survival Brain: Protection Before Perfection
There have been plenty of times when I’ve heard something come out of my mouth and almost immediately wished I could pull it back.
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When Your Nervous System Is Carrying Too Much
In the last article, I wrote about those moments when my reaction seems to get there before my curiosity.
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Becoming Your Own Researcher
Looking back, I realized my nervous system had been communicating with me all along.
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Growth Isn’t Linear
Why Mistakes, Setbacks, and Wrong Turns Are Part of Learning
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