Your Inner Beacon

My cat brought me breakfast.

1:30am. Budda is panicking on my pillow, trying to climb my face.

Normally he sleeps in the crook of my knees. Last night something was very wrong.

I grabbed my phone. Turned on the flashlight.

He's sniffing at something I can't see.

"Frank. Turn the light on. Something's wrong with Budda."

Frank flips the overhead.

There's a vole in my bed.

Running around. Very much alive.

My cat Glen came home at 1:30am and brought me breakfast in bed.

He thought he was helping.

I lay awake for two hours after Frank caught it.

And I kept thinking about the women who tell me they can't sleep.

The ones whose nervous system never gets the all-clear.

Who lie there at 2am running through tomorrow's conversations.

Scanning for the thing they can't quite see.

Glen wasn't the problem. Glen was doing what Glen learned to do. Bringing gifts to get approval. Staying useful to stay safe.

That's what your patterns do too.

Pleasing everyone. Over-functioning. Scanning the room before you scan yourself.

They were gifts once.

They kept you safe when you were five and someone bigger needed you to read the room.

Now they're running around in your bed at 1:30am.

And you can't catch what you can't see.

That's what the Inner Pattern Assessment does. Turns the light on. Shows you which patterns have been bringing you "gifts" your whole life.

Takes 5-8 minutes. Link in comments.

Glen, for the record, is unrepentant.