The therapy helped. The books named it. The tools work beautifully — until the moment arrives and they simply aren't available. Here it is again.
A practice manual for the triggered moment. Not the calm after. Not the journal entry the next morning. The actual moment — while the freight train is moving, while every justification is available.
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A small one. Almost invisible. But enough. That choice point is what this book is about.
What does it mean to love heroically? Choosing love when fear has every justification. Staying open when everything in you wants to close. Showing up from the part of you that already knows the way through.
That is not a coping mechanism.
It is a way of being.
To move a stone from the ego side of the scale to the higher self's side. Not by transcending the ego. By recognizing it, again and again, in the moment it tries to run the show.
The scale shifts one stone at a time. Practice that turns the promise from theology into operational reality.
The Age of Ego is ending.
The Age of Love is arising.
One trigger at a time.
A field guide for the triggered moment. Each step moves you from the grip of old reactivity to the wisdom that has been there the whole time.
Each step has its own chapter. Each chapter shows the practice in motion through real moments — the email that landed wrong, the conversation that derailed, the family member who knows exactly which button to press.
The same trigger sends every one of us down one of two paths. The path of the higher self has been available the whole time.
Heart consciousness changes everything. Which path you take in the triggered moment determines what arrives next — for you, for the people you love, for the world the next generation inherits.
"Thoughtful, engaging, and a beautiful symphony of hope within the struggle of life."
Hollywood Book Reviews
"Here is a teacher who believes in you."
Pacific Book Review · Notable Book
Colin Tipping — creator of Radical Forgiveness — called this story one of the most powerful demonstrations of his work he had ever witnessed. The forgiveness circle in these pages is his. The Thanksgiving table that resulted from it is hers.
Colin Tipping · Radical Forgiveness
An MBA. A CPA. Two decades of nonprofit and spiritual community leadership. A certified yoga teacher. A screenplay named a Feature Script Finalist at the 2023 California Women's Film Festival. And underneath all of it: three DUIs, a jail floor, a brutal custody battle, four hours a week with her own children.
And then — twenty years of sobriety. Children thriving. A Thanksgiving table rebuilt from wreckage. A family that is thriving despite living through circumstances that should have broken it.
The practice in these pages is what made the distance between those two places walkable.
Not perfectly. But heroically.
Kindred Lights writes from the other side of a collapse she did not see coming. Before it arrived, she studied the worldly ways — an MBA, a CPA, the systems and disciplines of business. She excelled in the world the ego respects, and she still hit the floor. The untimely death of her mother, an abusive marriage, and alcohol addiction brought her to her knees on a jail cell floor after her third DUI. In that moment, she realized she would have to fight for her life and her children, and that she would have to find the divine promise of transformation in order to do it.
Twenty years later, the outcome speaks for itself: sobriety sustained. Children thriving — each having walked their own dark night with their own courage. A family that is thriving despite living through circumstances that should have broken it. People who start where this family started do not end up here.
For the past twenty years she has worked in nonprofit and spiritual community leadership. She is a certified yoga teacher. Her framework bridges contemplative tradition and measurable science — the Five Steps to Freedom align with established research in heart-brain coherence, HRV biofeedback, and nervous system regulation, and the books include citations to the foundational science underneath the practice. She holds a certificate in HeartMath's Resilient Heart program. A screenplay she co-wrote was named a Feature Script Finalist at the 2023 California Women's Film Festival. Her earlier writing on this framework has been recognized by Hollywood Book Reviews and Pacific Book Review (Notable Book).
More importantly, she has developed the framework in these books to bring the divine promise into daily life — the moment-to-moment practice that turns the promise from theology into operational reality. Her transformation is evidence that the divine intelligence works through our open hearts to create and fulfill our highest life purpose, no matter where we start out.
We are all kindred lights.
The book is the deeper read. The Map Minder is the free five-minute practice — a way to try the work right now, with whatever you are carrying today.
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