FORTHCOMING
CRI: Compassionate
Rational Inquiry
Three Circles for Returning to Yourself — whatever is happening outside you.
A method of inquiry, taken the long way. Not a book to be skimmed. A practice to be lived.
Three Circles for Returning to Yourself — whatever is happening outside you.
A method of inquiry, taken the long way. Not a book to be skimmed. A practice to be lived.
Something happens — a message left unanswered, a plan that falls apart, a word that lands wrong. In the seconds that follow, the mind drafts a meaning. The meaning hardens into a demand. The demand collides with reality. And the loop closes before you've noticed it began.
CRI is a method for seeing that loop clearly, interrupting it at the point where it actually forms, and returning to yourself — the self that was there before the story took over.
A sequential twelve-day arc plus a weekend practice. Six days descending into the loop, six days rebuilding outward. Morning questions, daytime awareness, evening contemplation — and a weekend structure to carry the work forward.
Walking the IDBR loop backward — from reaction to identity — then forward into choice. Each question peels back one layer of what the mind built in seconds.
The visual map — ME, YOU, LIFE — that shows where everything belongs. The image in which every tradition finds its place.
The short path back to clarity — designed for ordinary moments. Controlled Anchor Breath, Orient the Circles, Downgrade the Demand, Essence Return — then Choose.
Structured two-column worksheets for each day to see the loop clearly on paper.
Evening circle contemplations to feel the return in the body and let the day's work settle.
Philosophy, psychology, mindfulness — woven, not borrowed. The synthesis is original.
Pause the loop before the reaction takes over.
Locate the demand that holds the suffering in place.
Separate the circles — what's yours, what's theirs, what belongs to life.
Return to your resilient identity beneath the wounded one.
Choose your next step from a place that is actually yours.
…you've read the self-help books and found the insights useful but the practices thin.
…you've tried meditation and mindfulness but want something that also addresses the thinking that won't stop.
…you're caught in a pattern — a relationship that loops, a worry that returns, a feeling that won't move — and want a structured way through, not around.
…you want to understand why the method works, not just be told to trust it.
Bestselling author of The Life-Transforming Diet and The 5 Skinny Habits. Master's from Columbia. Maimonides scholar. Harvard Leadership and Coaching.
Early excerpts, the FIRST diagnostic worksheet, advance access, and launch-day invitations.