Gravity Point® Anthology
VOLUME 1: 20 Steps to Resolve Stress Before It Makes You Sick
What if your stress doesn't have to make you sick?
What if there was a way to better pair your wellness practices with specific situations?
The Discovery That Changed Everything
I was sick for most of my life.
Chronic digestive issues, daily headaches, anxiety and depression that made it hard to function. Despite having loving parents, good doctors, and access to therapy, nothing seemed to work long-term.
In my twenties, I decided to become a therapist - partially because I wanted to help others, but mostly because I desperately wanted to help myself.
I earned my PhD in Counselor Education. I became a licensed trauma therapist with some of the most elite training available. I learned everything the research had to offer about stress, trauma, and nervous system regulation.
And then I started my career and burned out within six months.
I got sicker than I'd ever been - despite doing everything "right." Therapy, medication, meditation, exercise, social support. All the self-care in the world couldn't stop me from falling apart.
That's when I realized something crucial: if the best approaches weren't working for someone who understood them professionally, maybe the approaches themselves were incomplete.
So I did what researchers do. I went looking for what was missing.
Prevention vs. Pathology
Here's what I discovered in my research:
We have an incredibly sophisticated system for treating illness after it develops. Modern medicine works because it's built on four pillars:
Model - A comprehensive framework for understanding human anatomy (like Gray's Anatomy)
Matrix - Standardized assessment tools to evaluate what's happening in a specific person
Map - Organized systems for categorizing experiences (like the DSM or ICD codes)
Method - Specific treatment protocols matched to assessment results
These four pillars create what we call the paradigm of pathology - a complete, legitimate system for addressing disease.
But here's what's missing: we don't have these four pillars for prevention.
We know, for sure, that unresolved stress and trauma can make us sick.
We also know that the choices we make in our lifestyle can make a profound impact on preventing us from getting sick.
But we don’t have a standardized way to:
Understand how stressful situations actually moves through your complete system
Assess which specific responses are overactive or shut down
Map your patterns with precision
Match you with practices that resolve YOUR stress signature
Instead, we have solid wellness advice that only works for certain people in certain cases. General self-care tips that don’t necessarily resolve the root cause. And one-size-fits-all recommendations that might help a little but don't get at what’s actually going on.
Without the four pillars required for a complete paradigm, stress prevention and lifestyle choices can't be as legitimate, systematic, or effective as conventional care.
This is exactly what I set out to create.
“In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
The Solution: Building Four Pillars for Prevention
Over the past 20+ years, I've invested over $1.2 million synthesizing research from neuroscience, polyvagal theory, affective systems, interpersonal neurobiology, and more to build a complete paradigm for stress prevention.
Gravity Point® includes all four pillars:
Gravity Point® Model - A comprehensive framework revealing 20 distinct stress responses (not just fight/flight/freeze) that make up your complete stress system
Gravity Point® Matrix - Situation-specific assessment tool that identifies which responses are overactive, underactive, or balanced in triggering situations
Gravity Point® Map - Visual representation of your unique stress signature across all dimensions
Gravity Point® Method - A systematic 20-step process for resolving stress in any specific situation, matched to your assessment results
Together, these four pillars create a paradigm of prevention that mirrors the standardization of conventional care - but instead, they focus on giving you strategic protocols for how to make decisions and move through specific situations that are causing you stress - before it makes you sick.
Volume 1 of the Gravity Point® Book Series introduces the first component: the Model.
What’s the book about?
Gravity Point® (Volume 1): 20 Steps to Resolve Stress Before It Makes You Sick gives you the complete framework for understanding your stress system - the foundation everything else builds upon.
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As a neurocounselor, it’s my job to look at complex neuroscience research (neuro-) and turn it into tools folks can actually use without having to actually do the research (-counselor). I’ll give you an easy-to-understand way to understand the science of stress so you can better understand what’s happening in your body, mind, and relationships when situations trigger your nervous system.
You'll learn the neuroscience foundation you need to understand how stress actually works:
Why general wellness advice or stress resolution practices don’t work for situation-specific stress patterns
Why stress responses that kept you safe as a child might be draining you now
How your nervous system determines which specific responses activate in different situations
The difference between dynamic stress (that resolves) and distorted/depressed stress (that gets stuck)
How neuroplasticity means you can rewire automatic responses through conscious practice
This section bridges complex neuroscience with practical application - giving you the "why" behind what you'll learn to do.
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Most people think stress responses are limited to fight, flight, freeze, maybe fawn - maybe tend and befriend..
But through my research, I discovered there are actually 20 distinct stress responses that address different types of energy and information moving through your system.
Each response has a name starting with F (making them easy to remember) - like FOSTER, FLOWER, and FANTASIZE.
For each of the 20 responses, you'll learn:
What it does and why it matters
How it shows up in your body, mind, and relationships
When it's operating dynamically (effectively) vs. when it's stuck in trauma responses that don’t serve you anymore
Self-reflective exercises to recognize your patterns
This is where you build the language to understand what's actually happening in your stress system - the awareness that makes conscious choice possible.
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Once you understand the 20 stress responses, you'll learn how to use them to resolve stress in any specific situation. Spoiler alert: it’s a simple 20 step process you’ll learn once and return to over and over again - no matter the situation.
The Method is a universal process that works whether you're dealing with:
Workplace pressure and conflict
Relationship dynamics
Family stress
Health anxiety
Financial worry
Any other triggering situation
You'll identify one specific stressful situation, then move through all 20 steps:
Phase 1: Detach (Steps 1-10) - Release energy and information that doesn't serve you in this situation
Phase 2: Attach (Steps 11-20) - Pull in energy and information that supports your aspiration
Each step includes clear instructions and journaling prompts so you can apply the process immediately to real situations in your life.
This isn't theory - it's a practical tool that you can use over and over for complete stress resolution in every Triggering Situation you encounter ever again.
The Gravity Point® Book is for you if…
You're tired of managing physical, mental, and relational problems and are ready to finally resolve them.
You’ve tried everything - therapy, meditation, supplements, exercise - with limited results
You’re wellness-minded and intellectually curious - you want to understand WHY and HOW, not just WHAT to do
You can recognize your patterns but feel stuck in automatic reactions you can’t seem to change
You’re worried about getting sick from ongoing stress and want to prevent problems before they start
You want a science-based approach that respects both research and lived experience
You’re ready to learn a situation-specific method rather than general one-size-all advice
Join us for a virtual launch party.
Saturday, November 15 at 2:30pm CT
Join us for an afternoon of celebration and inspiration as we honor the launch of the book and introduce work that will help us understand how to resolve stress before it makes us sick.
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RELEASE DATE: November 5, 2025
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