Glossary

Inner signals are the first rough forms your mind and body use to tell you that something is happening. Sometimes those signals arrive clearly. You know you are angry, uneasy, relieved, hurt or overwhelmed. But often they do not arrive in a clean, named form. They show up as tension, fog, body noise, urgency, heaviness…

Traction is what it feels like when effort actually starts to grip. People often talk about motivation as if it explains everything. If you care enough, you should be able to start. If you really want something, you should be able to keep going. But real life is usually messier than that. A person can…

Pressure is what happens when the stakes start changing what you can reach in yourself. People often talk about pressure as if it simply reveals who someone really is. Sometimes it does expose something. But often it does something more specific than that: it makes it harder to access the parts of yourself that usually…