The Field Guides
FOR THE MOMENT — AND THE MILES AFTER
Every pattern you're ready to break starts with the words you use to describe it. These two field guides work together — one to catch the old script running in real time, one to build the resilience to keep walking once you've broken it.
Seeing Freshly
Retrain How You See and Find Possibility Where You Saw Limits
The field guide for your lens.
"I'm not the creative type." If you've ever said those words, this one's for you.
When life changes the plan, through a layoff, a retirement, a divorce or a burnout, most of us keep looking through the same old lens, and we keep seeing the same limits. Seeing Freshly shows you how to retrain that lens using the phone in your pocket and a few minutes a day. No camera or art skills required.
It grew from a photography workshop I led for finance, HR and sales teams who were sure they didn't belong in the room. Forty-five minutes alone with their phones, and they came back with whole series of images they couldn't wait to share. That's the shift this book offers you.
Inside you'll find:
Five simple ways to see your street, your work and yourself as if for the first time
A private "soul sketchbook" practice that shows you how you're really doing
Gentle tools for working with resistance and self-doubt
A 66-day path for turning small moves into a new way of seeing
A Try this at the end of every chapter, plus my photographs and simple illustrations
You can't shift what you don't see.
Your Words Already Got You Here
Learn to Use Them to Write What's Next
Your words have already gotten you here — to this page, this chapter, this exact moment in your life. The question this book asks is simple, and not at all easy: are they the words that will get you to what's next?
Drawing on three decades of coaching people to find their voice in front of a camera, a room, and themselves, "Your Words Already Got You Here" hands you the same practical tools professional communicators use — pointed inward, at the script you've been running without realizing it's a script. Each chapter pairs a clear technique with a tool card you can return to long after you've finished reading, so the shift isn't just something you understand. It's something you can use, the next time you catch yourself performing an old line instead of speaking a true one.
What you'll walk away with:
- How to catch yourself mid-script — the specific tells that signal you're running an old pattern instead of speaking from where you actually are
- Practical language for high-stakes moments: what to say, and what to drop, when the room, the camera or the conversation gets hard
- Built-in tool cards for the book's core techniques, so you don't have to remember to reach for them
- A way to tell which "next chapter" line you're actually ready to write, not the one you think you should say
Creative Resilience
A Toolkit for the Job, Chapter or Life That Hasn't Been Invented Yet
"Creative Resilience" was written for the leap before there's a map for it — the job that doesn't exist yet, the chapter you can't outline in advance, the life you're building one uncertain step at a time.
This toolkit doesn't promise to remove the uncertainty. It builds the resilience to walk into it anyway, trusting your own footing to surf whatever comes rather than waiting for solid ground that isn't coming. It's the companion for anyone standing at the edge of reinvention, asking less "how do I make this certain" and more "how do I trust myself enough to start."
What you'll walk away with:
- A working definition of resilience built for uncertainty, not stability, because the ground won't hold still long enough for the old advice to apply
- Tools for the specific moment you're taking a leap with no map: a new job, a new chapter, a life that hasn't been invented yet
- Practical ways to trust your own resourcefulness instead of waiting for a plan that feels finished
- How to walk the unmapped trail without needing to see the whole path first
Ready to Shine?
Liz Stubbs has spent 30+ years helping people find the words that let them be truly seen and heard — as an award-winning broadcast director, media and communication coach, and now, as the author of these two field guides.
She's the founder of SoulNorthWayfinding, where she continues that work with communicators, career-changers and anyone ready to write their next chapter.
"My greatest privilege is to celebrate the light that lives within a person. When we stop ghosting our own lives and learn to inhabit our truth, everything changes. We don't just show up—we bloom." — Liz Stubbs
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