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Step 3

Guaranteed Relief
$ 900 x 3 sliding scale available
  • Your first of three $900 installments gets you
  • everything from the DIY Plan,
  • plus:
  • Care package via snail mail.
  • Thumb drive for recording all our Zoom meetings.
  • 2.5 days of my undivided attention over Zoom,
    or the equivalent spaced out over time.
  • Nine weeks of after-care calls on a bespoke cadence.
  • An app to gain 9 Big Breakthroughs in just 5 mins/day.
  • Minimum 2 points improvement in your overall, chronic, base-level mood on a scale of 1-10, measured 9 weeks later.



  • GUARANTEED RELIEF FROM RECURRING,
    PAINFUL FEELINGS.

It starts with
Step 1.

No faith/hope required.

* I guarantee 100% satisfaction or your money back regarding significant improvement in your life, based on the specific metric we defined together at Step 2.
accepting
new clients

I guarantee 100% satisfaction or your money back, regarding my promise that your life will improve significantly in this particular area after working with me 1:1 and following your plan.

E.g. if you worked on “feeling overwhelmed when my gf explodes” and your usual debilitation had been a 7 out of 10.

I promise this will improve by AT LEAST 3 points on the 1-10 scale.

Applying the example, after 9 weeks of integration, you would experience 
a) significantly less, if not zero explosions anymore (yes, this work causes weird, indirect consequences like this all the time!),
b) no real debilitation anymore (you know in your bones it’s not a measure of your value, so you’re simply capable of responding in the most constructive ways the moment calls for),
or
at the least,
c) you consistently rate the debilitation severity a 1, 2, 3, or at the most, a 4 on a scale of 1-10: three points less than before.

I’d be very surprised if all you got was c, but I work with people of all abilities and severities, and this package only addresses 9% of your entire inner world. There’s more we can do.

I realize this is subjective, and anyone could lie just to get their money back, but probably only if they were deeply unhappy — most likely generally, as a person, rather than with my actual service. A big refund like this, offered by someone who lives as close to the poverty line as I do, might just be an event of such immense generosity that it turns a miserable, ashamed, distrustful person’s life around.

I have yet to be asked for a refund, but it would be ‘par for the course’ for me if I’d failed to refer people out who — for any reason — aren’t a perfect match.

I don’t see the justice in busiensses charging people who have less money, more for a payment plan than those who have the cash on hand, so everyone gets a payment plan:

1st installment due when you opt for Step 3 instead of Step 2’s Zoom + app support.

2nd installment 1 month later.

Last installment another month later. We should be wrapping up the 9 weeks of after-care right around then, unless you chose the slow-and-steady route.

First payment can, if necessary, be diminished by whatever you’d already paid towards Step 2.

I’m happy to lower the other installments as well, to support you in keeping the lights on at your place, too.

If you’re able to buy lunch or coffee away from home on a regular basis, the sliding scale won’t apply. In that case, I suggest we pace our work so you do it in 6 installments, instead (which, because of all the scheduling, actually takes more total time and focus from me than a fast-track.)

To visit the page with details about the DIY Plan, click here.

It’s Step 2, where you get concrete about the metric you set out to improve (which is relevant to the guarantee of Step 3.)

This includes a Taste Test, as well as a separate appointment for seeing how doable this work is on the timeline you want, which, if you do Step 3, we would rejigger into a Plan you do with far more support from me. 

This change in trajectory would change Step 2’s “sessions 3-12” (“ten short visits with me to celebrate or supplement your DIY success at relieving otherwise-permenent emotional pain”) to being built into Step 3.

If you used those ten short visits up, or didn’t purchase Step 3 within four months of the Taste-test, we may have to redo Step 2, or even Step 1, to keep it fresh.

Who doesn’t love receiving gifts in the mail?

I don’t want to ruin the pleasant surprises for you, but I will say that this Medium Flat Rate USPS Priority Box contains a few pounds/kilos of fun!

It also gives you absolutely necessary materials you’d otherwise have to download and print yourself on hum-drum printer paper, in the fancier, more rewarding, more awesomely satisfying version I learned on!

Because afterward, as well as during, you’ll want proof of how (and how very quickly) the long-standing issues finally… simply… dissolved…

Plus, storing it in a physically separate place (not on your harddrive, and not in the Cloud) honors the sanctity of what really took place.

This would be the “weekend intensive” version: in my opinion, the best way to spend a 3-day weekend, so future 3-day weekends are more like your dreams.

More on the many timelines available, below.

This is spelled out in far more detail, below.

No need to make a choice now; I’ll take your preferences into account when I make my recommendations in the transition from Step 2 to Step 3, offering you very clearly spelled-out options tailored to your needs, intensity, schedule, and starting point.

The Big Breakthroughs happen in our session time, live, on Zoom, and determine what the app will prompt you to do. This ain’t no cookie-cutter support you’d be getting!

The app tailors supportive prompting to help you reflect on your deep insights and integrate what you learned (from yourself) more thoroughly into everyday life.

You can schedule it to send you text reminders at specific intervals, jog your memory with quick, helpful images, or present you with prompts that make even the most journal-averse person’s pen start to flow, because… the work you and I did together shapes the prompts and exercises it provides you in the weeks that follow.

It’s never boring; any one self-made homework assignment only lasts ONE WEEK.

No app installation required!

Have no fear! It’s an in-browser app, and it’s more private, responsive, versatile, and light-weight than just any old “client portal.” It even has dark mode!

It requires Chrome. You can try it today for free if you’re curious.

This work has real effects on your experience of reality. It’s not like being drunk for a few weeks… it’s more like noticing you’re no longer making default assumptions and decisions in a drunken-like fashion… Like what a lot of people report after psychedelic awakenings.

To help yourself enjoy this weirdness, you will have given yourself nine 5-minute homework assignments during the second half of our sessions. 

It’s not that nothing will stick if you don’t do these self-assignments. It’s more that, if you do do them, you’ll feel less weird and more confident that, later in life, you won’t have to revisit the work we did. It’ll feel more thoroughly real and solid in everyday reality.

If you do the 3-day intensive, you’ll be reeling from the invisible-but-tremendous shift in your insides. Each of the nine assignments enjoy one week of being assigned five-out-of-seven days of the week.

If you go for something more leisurely than the 3-day intensive (which is pretty luxurious, if you ask me!), a slower trajectory might already have these week-long focus periods built in, in between sessions, which is how my teacher used to do it.

Either way, I offer short support calls that can range in form, depending on your preference:

  • 10 minute body-doubling:
    We both mute, you do you, we celebrate and goon our merry ways.
    Could be near-daily.
  • 40-minute advice-free group accountability calls on lunch breaks:
    Drop in for any portion of it & share whether you’re sticking with your intention. Have an insight. Feel better.
    Could be weekly/near-daily.
  • Individual Zoom meetings
    We adjust/remember the purpose of any one exercise you gave yourself.
    Could be once or twice weekly.

Quality Control Calls

I also plan to check in on you at 4 and 9 weeks after completion to do quality control on my own work, get feedback, (and hopefully a testimonial video or something, if you’re willing.)

The last QC call is when we consider the money-back guarantee fulfilled.

Guaranteed Relief

I guarantee 100% satisfaction or your money back, regarding my promise that your life will improve significantly in this particular area.

E.g. if you worked on “feeling overwhelmed when my gf explodes” and your usual debilitation had been a 7 out of 10.

I promise this will improve by AT LEAST 3 points on the 1-10 scale.

Applying the example, you would experience 
a) significantly less explosions (yes, this work causes weird, indirect consequences like this all the time!),
b) no real debilitation anymore (you know in your bones it’s not a measure of your value, so you’re simply capable of responding in the most constructive ways the moment calls for),
or
at the least,
c) you consistently rate the debilitation severity a 1, 2, 3, or at the most, a 4 on a scale of 1-10: three points less than before.

I’d be very surprised if all you got was c, but I work with people of all abilities and severities, and this package only addresses 9% of your entire inner world. There’s more we can do.

I realize this is subjective, and anyone could lie, but probably only if they were deeply unhappy — most likely generally, as a person.

And a big refund like this, offered by someone who lives as close to the poverty line as I do, might just be an event of such immense generosity that it turns a miserable, ashamed, distrustful person’s life around. I have yet to be asked for a refund, but it’s par for the course for me if I fail to refer people away who — for any reason — aren’t a great match.

3 installments

I don’t see the justice in busiensses charging people who have less money, more for a payment plan than those who have the cash on hand, so everyone gets a payment plan:

1st installment due when you opt for Step 3 instead of Step 2’s Zoom + app support.

2nd installment 1 month later.

Last installment another month later. We should be wrapping up the 9 weeks of after-care right around then, unless you chose the slow-and-steady route.

 

Sliding scale available.

First payment can, if necessary, be diminished by whatever you’d already paid towards Step 2, or even more discounted depending on your ability to house and feed everyone you’re responsible for.

Care package via snail mail

Who doesn’t love receiving snail mail?

I don’t want to ruin the surprise, but this Medium Flat Rate USPS Priority Box contains a few kilos of fun (and the fancier, more rewarding version of absolutely necessary materials you’d otherwise have to download and print yourself.)

Two-and-a-half days of my undivided attention over Zoom…

This would be the “weekend intensive” version: the best way to spend a 3-day weekend, so future 3-day weekends are more like your dreams. 

…or the equivalent spaced out over time

I will spell this out more, below. No need to make a choice now; I’ll take your preferences into accoutn when I make my recommendations in the transition from Step 2 to Step 3, offering you very clearly spelled-out options tailored to your needs, intensity, schedule, and starting point.

Thumb drive for recording all our Zoom meetings

Because afterward, as well as during, you’ll want proof of how (and how very quickly) the long-standing issues finally… simply… dissolved…

Plus, storing it in a physically separate place (not on your harddrive, and not in the Cloud) honors the sanctity of what really took place.

An app for integrating your 9 Big Breakthroughs in just 5 minutes/day

The Big Breakthroughs happen in our session time, live, on Zoom, and determine what the app will prompt you to do. This ain’t no cookie-cutter app here!

It’s a great support for reflecting on your deep insights and integrating what you learned from yourself into everyday life.

You can schedule it to send you text reminders at specific intervals, jog your memory with quick, helpful images, or present you with prompts that make even the most journal-averse person’s pen start to flow, because… the work you and I did together shapes the prompts and exercises it provides you in the weeks that follow. 

Have no fear! No app installation required! It’s an in-browser app, which is more private, dynamic, and light-weight than just any old “client portal.”

It requires Chrome. You can try it now for free if you’re curious.

I guarantee significant improvement in your life satisfaction based on a specific metric we define together in advance.

— description forthcoming

You reserve 3 days and 3 nights for this, and I spend about a 9-5 work-day of time with you, three days in a row.

In what amounts to an all-day session with breaks every half hour or so, we chip away at the 20 units of work that take about 30 minutes each: 10 on day one, 10 on day two. 

Day 3 is five more spaced-out appointments, e.g.
Xam   Open certain gifts + play
noon  Homework assignment
2pm   Homework support call
4pm   Insight culmination + rest
6pm   Closing celebration

This is another “weekend intensive” except it’s for those who can’t get a 3-day weekend away from all responsibilities.

This method takes 4 days (plus a 9-week Integration Plan) instead of 3. That’s because it’s very important that you take a full day away from all other responsibilities anytime you spent the previous day doing this reality-warping work.

In every other regard, it’s the exact same as the 3-day intensive: instead of working with me (for example) Saturday, Sunday and Monday, consecutively, you’d do the same thing on Saturday, but the next day would be a good chunk of the homework that otherwise piled up for day 3. I’d see you for 5 appointments that first Sunday. It’ll be nice.

The next time you dedicate a weekend to this (it can be the following week, or anytime in the following month), we’d do the same schedule again.

Followed by the Integration Plan.

This might well be the best way to do it. It depends on many factors, which I would inquire about/sense into in Steps 1 and 2 before making my recommendation and laying out your options.

This is a great option if you have a lot of responsibilities, but you want to make progress fast.

Whether you prefer

  • one 80-minute session a week, or maybe
  • multiple 20- or
  • 40-minute ones,

this gets you to the end result in the same timeframe as the weekend intensive versions.

It just requires a little more trust, since the beginning is slow going. We can front-load the schedule to compensate, or keep a steady pace.

For your safety, please take 150% as much time away from responsibilities to anyone else, including traffic or texting. Evening sessions are pretty convenient.

Remember: in addition to sessions, the bult-in Integration Plan requires 5 minutes/day most days, and additional support is available for that.

If you are more of a “slow-and-steady wins the race” type, this is the schedule for you.

This track can be easy on your wallet, because you can spread out your payments over 6 months.

You can do a 40-minute SESSION every other week (plus an hour of down-time by yourself after) and on the off weeks, you can touch base with me for support with your Integration Plan!

If it’s hard to get time to yourself, this can be the best option for you.

It requires more trust than intensive tracks, and I imagined it would be harder for clients on this track to prioritize the Integration work, but the people who chose this track have tended to be more maintenance-oriented than urgency-motivated, and it has actually worked out great.

No need to make a choice now; I take your preferences into account when I make my recommendations.

I offer all my clients very clearly spelled-out options tailored to their needs, intensity, schedule, and starting point.


  • On timing:
  • One of these extremes might appeal, or Step 3 could become something in-between:
  • Weekend Intensive:
  • Get it done in 3 days flat!
  • OR
  • Steady Pace:
  • A few months of 80-minute sessions every 2 wks.
Explore options
at Step 1.

* I guarantee 100% satisfaction or your money back regarding significant improvement in your life satisfaction based on the specific metric we define together at Step 2.

No faith/hope required.

Want to be able to interact with people without losing yourself?
Let's

dismantle that mood-bomb
$ 2700
  • Your first of three $900 installments gets you
  • everything from the DIY PLAN,
  • plus:
  • A care package via snail mail.
  • Thumb drive for recording all our Zoom meetings.
  • Two-and-a-half days of my undivided attention.
  • Measurable improvement in your quality of life.
  • An app for integrating your 9 Big Breakthroughs in just 5 minutes/day.
  • Nine weeks of after-care calls on a bespoke cadence.
Starts with the same FREE coffee.
Wanna read more first?

No faith/hope required.
I guarantee significant improvement in your life satisfaction based on a specific metric we define together in advance.
accepting
new clients


For self-diagnosed 'high-functioning,' highly technical guys, I have seen

results equivalent to
5.5 MONTHS of weekly sessions of any kind

IN JUST 2 DAYS of

$ Dismantle a
mood bomb

  • I guarantee you'll see results
    when most facilitators can't guarantee anything at all...
  • 5 months faster
    No weekly performance anxiety.
    No keeping your hopes up/down.
    Just tangible, nearly-instantaneous relief.

  • at the exact same price.
    For comparable results, other facilitators require 5 months of weekly sessions or more. Even if they only charge $125 per session (usually 50 minutes), that's $2690 total, not counting the 2 weeks of "getting to know you" sessions you pay for before any real work begins.

  • How about guaranteed, lasting results 5 months earlier?



Sure, there's 9 weeks of after-care,
but the fulcrum is right up front:

Within just 72 hours, we

  • Measure the pain.
  • Melt it away.
  • Notice the difference.
  • Measure the change.
  •  

Hesitation is Healthy

If you’re on the fence
for any of the following reasons,
JUST DON’T DO IT.

That’s right.

I’m warning you now:

if any of the following are an issue,
it isn’t gonna work out.

Note conditions 4 + 5!

  1. If you don’t have a device with both Zoom and a USB port, or are not comfortable enough with comupters to, for example, navigate this in-browser app…


    …bummer.

    That’s a separate issue/learning curve I can’t help you with.

  2. If you don’t trust Zoom, Chrome, Gmail, and text, then my routine means of communication won’t work for you.


    (I don’t need to know any secrets or your past, so if you feel compelled to express yourself, you can opt to mute yourself, or journal by hand.)

    I honor your privacy, and these tools have limitations.

  3. I won’t ‘save’ you.


    I don’t call 9-1-1.
    I’m not on-call.
    I’m not available for free support, now or later on.

    My harm-reduction attitude flies in the face of 12-step, religious, and diagnostic models, so I’ve been able to help people make life more worth living, but I’m not a mandated reporter, nor am I trained to think in terms of disease, or offer medical or behavioral health advice.

  4. Sleep and chemical factors that keep you in consensus reality are important.


    My approach may be rendered ineffective by mind-alteration during or within 30 days before/after. 

    No shame if you stray!

    It’s just the guarantee that’s nixed.

  5. If you’re unwilling to keep your celibacy/relationship status as-is between now and the integration of our work, I might recommend a different timeline.


    In other words:

    You would tell anyone you might be involved with that you’re not making any moves or decisions for 30 days before and after your work with me, because sexual/primary relationship changes would nix your progress.

    (Luckily, stating this has usually created an atmosphere where the ex/potential/current partners relax in a happy-to-accommodate, quietly-excited sort of way.)

I don’t manipulate sales:

I’m not going to convince you or change your comfort-level with these pre-requisites.

They’re guarantee-nixing pre-requisites.

This is your heads-up.

On Crushes

A crush can be a helpful fantasy — a phase in finding love for yourself.

Just don’t mistake the real me for being open to come-ons, gifts, or activities beyond our written agreement: I’m not.

If you’re prone to crushing, or think that maybe, once you meet me, something like that might happen, we can address that first: I know some amazing people with great success in that realm.

I’d be happy to not just refer you (temporarily or otherwise) but actually help you get started with them.

That’s my no-wrong-door policy.

You can, of course, stop at any point.

You can cheaply opt to go it alone, use my app for support and accountability, or involve a buddy/Peer-Support Specialist/etc.

The surest route to lasting relief is to replace sessions 3-12 with Step 3.

Not everyone is game for a 2- or 3-day intensive.

I’m not out to ‘sell’ you on a cookie-cutter package. That’s just my best offer.

If your budget allows, those same results can be accomplished at a pace that’s a better match for you and your schedule.

No sudden moves 

Step 1
Free Introduction Call: 20-30 mins.
I listen for 20 mins. 
I refer you to the best support I know of for your situation, and if it’s me, we can talk about that an extra 10.

You sleep on any decisions, and we talk again for free.

Step 2
Taste-Test Call,
Detailed DIY Planning Call, 
and then
10 follow-up calls
to help you navigate the vast knowledgebase and Do It Yourself!

Step 3
Guaranteed Success.
Option to work with me 1-on-1.

Don’t believe me?
That’s healthy skepticism!

How ’bout just doing the simplest thing ever: email.

You’ll immediately get my take on why smarts can be so isolating.

Hit ‘Reply’ to ask me anything!

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