Walking Together

Integration unfolds very differently from breakthroughs.

Where breakthroughs come in an explosion of clarity, integration is like a long, meandering walk in the woods. Best experienced with a calm mind and open heart.

As you walk, your path might curl, bend, twist, fade, or double back on itself—which can lead you to confuse progress for stagnation or regression. Neither is true.

You might walk through areas where the trees have grown so thick and dense that light no longer filters through the canopy, leaving you in darkness. Bring a candle.

Sometimes bears or wolves or cougars will stalk you from the shadows, perhaps even emerging into your path to confront you. If you face them, they’ll lose their teeth.

You can see why looping, stalling, and abandoning the path is commonplace.

The danger is real, and where your growth potential lies in wait.

While the description of a long walk through a deep, dark, dangerous forest isn’t enticing at face value, the truth is, you can make integration a helluva fun time.

If you accept the terrain you’re heading into, that alone dulls many of its edges.

If you pack for the weather, you’ll sand the edges down even further.

If you bring a guide, you don’t have to walk alone.

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That’s where I come in, should you so please.

I won’t walk for you.

I won’t tell you where to go.

I won’t decide who you become.

I’ll help you see your path clearly.

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I’ll help you keep walking when the path bites.

Through this kind of support, real, lasting change becomes possible—in a way that doesn’t feel forced, contrived, or like you’re following in someone else’s footsteps.

And that makes all the difference in the world.

Before I committed to walking my path, I tried that of others. 

I tested their approaches and used their ideas.

I picked up their tools and tried my hand at their methods.

But I always felt like I was being dragged along someone else’s path.

Which, at least for me, is no way to go through life.

So—if there are breakthroughs or ideas or changes you’ve been wanting to turn into your new baseline but you’ve been struggling to flip the switch, I’m here.

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Integration is the path I’ve walked until the dirt learned my name.

Integration is what makes becoming who you wish to be possible at all.

To begin, all you need to do is reach out—reply to any Whimsie or send an email to [email protected]—and tell me what’s alive for you right now. That’s all.

Once we’ve viewed the trailhead, you can decide if you’d like to walk together, or not.

No pressure. No games. Never ever.

If we walk together, that might look like weekly phone or video conversations. 

Or slower, deeper email exchanges. Or texts and voice notes traded back and forth. 

Perhaps you prefer a stiff blend of all the above.

Point being, there’s no rigid template for how we walk and talk.

Only a steady commitment from both sides to stay with what’s unfolding.

We’ll find the rhythm together, and I’ll help you keep it.

Now the choice is yours.

Always has been.

With love from the forest,

~ Alexander

P.S. If you missed Fear of Being Seen, or Integration Alchemy, I suggest reading those two pieces to better understand how we’ve arrived at Walking Together.