Jason Gorbett, MA, MA, PhPrac

You’ve lived much of your life within a story that was already written for you — even if you didn’t always recognize it as a story. There were milestones you pursued, benchmarks you achieved, paths laid out by tradition, expectation, or success itself. Graduation. Promotion. Accolades. Milestones that whisper, You’re on track. They don’t answer the deepest questions, but they structure your life so convincingly that you barely notice the scaffolding supporting it. Then the scaffold disappears.

Every choice you make carries a weight you rarely notice. Promotions, business deals, relationship commitments, relocation, investing your time — all of it feels rational, deliberate, even inevitable. Yet often, beneath the surface of these “decisions” are hidden scripts — narratives you inherited, absorbed, or unconsciously adopted long ago.

What are you actually trying to hold together? Is it your sense of security? Your future plans? Your trust in narratives that once made sense? Or perhaps your belief that the world should behave in ways that feel manageable?