Sometimes it gets hard to hear yourself inside your own life.
When you're responding to responsibilities, relationships, expectations, circumstances, other people's needs—and everything you've already lived—it can become difficult to recognize what you actually think, feel, or want.
And much of the advice we're given starts one step later:
What do you want?
Trust yourself.
Make the decision.
Take action.
But what if you genuinely don't know yet?
The Spiral Current starts there.
Not with another answer about who you should become.
With a way to look more closely at what's already here.
The Spiral Current explores how we meet our lives and how the relationships we have with ourselves, other people, our circumstances, and what we're carrying shape the way we experience them.
Through writing, conversation, practical reflection, and facilitated experiences, the work offers another way to notice what's happening, listen to what it reveals, and participate more consciously in what comes next.
How we meet life shapes how we experience it.
You are not a project to complete.
There is no shortage of advice about how to become better, think differently, find your purpose, know what you want, make the decision, and take action.
Some of that advice can be useful.
But sometimes it begins too far down the road.
The Spiral Current begins with recognition.
What’s actually here?
What are you noticing?
What are you responding to?
What choices are actually available to you from where you are now?
Because you don’t have to become someone else before you’re allowed to participate in your own life.
You can participate from here.
A simple way to meet what's here.
NOTICE • LISTEN • CHOOSE • PARTICIPATE
Notice what is happening.
Listen to what it may be revealing.
Choose from what is actually available to you now.
Participate in that choice—and allow experience to give you new information.
It isn't a formula or a four-step path.
Start where you are.
Enter where something is available.
Ways to Enter The Spiral Current
EXHALE
One hour where nobody needs anything from you.
A facilitated experience for people who spend much of their lives being the person others depend on.
SURPASSING LABELS
The Podcast
Conversations and reflections about how we meet life, the assumptions we inherit, the stories we tell ourselves, and what lived experience can reveal.
SPIRAL REFLECTIONS
Writing for something you might be noticing in your own life.
Essays, Living Notebook entries, Questions to Carry, and evolving explorations from The Spiral Current.
EXHALE
One hour where nobody needs anything from you.
For the person everybody depends on.
The one who remembers.
Organizes.
Anticipates.
Handles.
Helps.
Keeps things moving.
Exhale is a 60-minute facilitated experience that asks nothing of you except to arrive.
Through guided reflection, quiet, and optional conversation, participants have room to notice what's present without needing to fix it, perform, accomplish something, or figure out what they should be doing differently.
BRING THE SPIRAL CURRENT TO YOUR COMMUNITY
Facilitated experiences and conversations for the people your organization serves and supports.
Exhale can be hosted by organizations, community groups, and professional communities looking to offer their people something increasingly difficult to find:
Time in which nothing is being asked of them.
Currently available for communities including caregivers, parents, educators, helping professionals, women's groups, and people navigating seasons of sustained responsibility.
Exhale is currently available as a 60-minute facilitated group experience.
Meet Felicia
I'm a writer and Human Experience Analyst interested in the patterns, relationships, and assumptions that shape how we experience our lives.
Much of my work begins with a deceptively simple question:
What's actually happening here?
I notice connections, question assumptions, follow threads, and put language around parts of human experience that can be difficult to recognize while we're living inside them.
Through The Spiral Current, those explorations become writing, conversations, practical tools, and experiences that help people recognize what they actually think, feel, and want when they can't quite tell anymore.
