Slingshot Designs

Category: Healing Patterns

  • While You Stir

    While You Stir

    What you did was one loss. What you never did was another. A poem about betrayal, absence, reciprocity, and the clarity of finally protecting what is present.

  • The Space Between

    The Space Between

    When your mind is still moving at crisis speed, quiet can feel unfamiliar. A personal reflection on the space between surviving and thriving—and the practical support, stillness, and small choices that help you find your way.

  • Writing Through Turbulence

    Writing Through Turbulence

    You may still be running meetings, raising kids, solving crises, and producing remarkable work—and still be in survival mode. Here’s how to recognize the turbulence, orient yourself, and use three small tools to stabilize before asking what comes next.

  • Dancing with My Shadow

    Dancing with My Shadow

    A poem about betrayal, the seeds of doubt, and the light inside a person that no one else can claim.

  • The Daisy Chain

    The Daisy Chain

    A poem for the woman hearing her own life in a voice she does not recognize—and for anyone holding a piece of another woman’s story.

  • When the Ground Moves

    When the Ground Moves

    I spent years adapting to a world I did not fit into without understanding how much of that effort was rooted in compromised equilibrium. Vestibular migraine gave me a new lens for balance, reputation, grief, and…

  • When Another Person’s Story Stirs Your Own

    When Another Person’s Story Stirs Your Own

    Another person’s story can stir grief, memory, fear or longing without making them responsible for what it activated. A reflection and four-step practice for holding compassion and boundaries at the same time.

  • When Your Customer Becomes Your Administrative Assistant

    When Your Customer Becomes Your Administrative Assistant

    Sometimes the greatest test of a system isn’t whether mistakes happen—it’s who is expected to carry the recovery work. A Saturday morning CPR class became a reminder that administrative burden is often invisible until it…

  • Cardinal Chronicles: If You Know the Taste

    Cardinal Chronicles: If You Know the Taste

    There is a particular kind of grief that rarely gets talked about. It isn’t the accusation itself—it’s the wondering that follows. If You Know the Taste is an invitation to think more critically, lead more…

  • Dreaming

    Dreaming

    A handful of blueberries became proof of something much larger: healing, hope, and the return of a future that finally feels reachable.

  • The Stetson

    The Stetson

    A dog drops a rope ball and walks away. What happens next becomes a lesson about resilience, recovery, scientific thinking, and the mentors who teach us to trust ourselves.

  • The Run Tells the Story

    The Run Tells the Story

    A single data point is rarely the story. Whether in quality management, nature, or personal healing, meaningful change often reveals itself through trends, patterns, and runs that become visible only with time.

  • Unfurling: What Pine Candles, Bleeding Hearts, and Pressure Teach Us About Growth

    Unfurling: What Pine Candles, Bleeding Hearts, and Pressure Teach Us About Growth

    New growth is tender before it becomes strong. In nature, pressure, dormancy, recovery, and emergence are not failures of the process — they are the process. Reflections on pine candles, bleeding hearts, healing, and…

  • Courage Has a Season

    Every year, our seasons and traditions grow more rich and robust—and that’s both the magic and the mess of it. The longer we live, the more the holidays collect layers. Memories stack like tree rings. Grief adds weight.…