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On Feeling Settled, Wherever You Are
There is a particular kind of tiredness that comes with change — the tiredness of not yet knowing where things are. Which shop sells what you need. Which route home feels familiar. Who to call when something goes wrong. Long before you can name it, the body already knows it isn't quite home yet. Perhaps you're between countries. Perhaps between jobs, or relationships, or versions of yourself. The specifics vary, but the sensation of being unsettled has a certain shape whereve
nicolet Valentin
Jul 104 min read


Navigating Life Transitions: Returning to You
There's a quiet assumption, in a lot of writing about change, that a transition is something to get through on the way to becoming someone new. RootKindLife starts from a different place. A transition — a move, a change of work, a shift in relationship or health — isn't a doorway to a different self. It's more often an invitation to notice the self that was there all along, and to find out how to live a little more comfortably as that person, here, now. Perhaps that distincti
nicolet Valentin
Jul 103 min read


Navigating What's Next with the Compass™ Framework
Most advice aimed at young adults facing a big decision — what to study, which job to take, whether to stay or go — tends to arrive in one of two forms. Either it tells you what you should want. Or it hands you a personality test and sorts you into a type. The Compass™ Framework does neither. It doesn't tell you what to become. It helps you notice what's already true about how you think, what energises you, and what you're willing to trade for the things you want — so that wh
nicolet Valentin
Jul 103 min read
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