Chaos can come our way in so many ways. It’s in the economy, in politics, in technology, in the constant stream of demands in our professional or personal life that ask for our attention.
Chaos can feel both global and deeply personal at the same time. And it isn’t just outside us. Chaos also lives in our system, in the way our thoughts scramble to hold control, in our emotions amplifying what’s loudest, in our body bracing for risk. For some of us, turbulence has been the steady state for so long that calm itself can feel unsafe.
We can’t silence chaos, inside or out. But we can learn to navigate it, to recognize when our threshold has tipped, to steady the nervous system, and to return our cognition, emotion, and consciousness into conversation with each other. That’s presence of mind.
In this episode, I share how the SIRE Model™, Self-Awareness, Self-Inspiration, Self-Regulation, and Self-Expression, held in Self-Reflection, along with HALT, RISE, and SHIFT, becomes a repeatable pattern you can lean on when unpredictability builds into overwhelm.
Together we’ll explore:
∞ Why chaos is less about one big event and more about the stack of small disruptions that tip us past capacity.
∞ How consistency and re-centering train steadiness that chaos cannot take away.
∞ Practical ways to separate “now, next, later” so the urgent doesn’t swallow what matters.
∞ Why calm can feel uncomfortable when we’ve lived too long in turbulence — and how to let steadiness feel like home.
Chaos is part of life. Presence of mind is what allows us to move through it without losing ourselves.
Listen now to explore how to navigate chaos, outside and inside, with clarity and steadiness.
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