What Is the Keys & Doors Mini-Workbook? (and How to Start Using It Today)
Dearest Plague Rats,
I never set out to invent a system—I only meant to survive.
In the margins of my notebooks stretching back years, I sketched a ritual to carry me through breakdowns and breakthroughs alike. During periods when I had nothing left, it kept me breathing. And in those manic moments, when lightning struck and I had too much, it gave me a way to channel that electricity without dangerously burning out.
Over time, I realized what I had built: a hidden doorway, waiting in the dark. A way of meeting myself exactly where I was, and still stepping forward.
I came to call it the Keys & Doors Method.
What began in those margins is now here for you, in the form of a free Mini Workbook—your first step into the practice.
The Keys & Doors Mini Workbook
The Keys & Doors Method (KDM) is my framework for living with what I call variable capacity—the reality that our energy, focus, and emotional bandwidth are not the same every day.
Most productivity systems assume you'll show up the same way each morning. They're built for steady, predictable capacity. But that's not how most of us actually function.
Variable capacity is the truth they don't teach: some days you wake up ready to tackle ambitious projects. Other days, getting dressed feels like an achievement. This isn't weakness to correct. It's how most of us are built.
This Mini Workbook is your introduction—free, simple, and designed to show you how one daily page can help you build trust with yourself, create momentum even when you're starting from nothing, and begin to see your extraordinary mind as something you work with instead of something that works against you.
What You'll Find Inside
The Heart, Door, Key process—the three words that saved my life:
Your Heart is your capacity right now (Tender, Steady, or Full). Not what you think you should have—what you actually have.
Your Door is one action sized to match your Heart. Not your entire to-do list. One thing. One commitment you'll honor today.
Your Key is the tool that makes your Door possible to open—the environmental shift, the preparation, the permission to begin imperfectly.
The Mini includes a guided Daily Page template you can print or fill out digitally, plus space to experiment with protection elements (Leeches and Gates) when you need them, evening practices that transform today’s work into tomorrow’s strength (The Mirror, Find Your Rats, Ward Rounds), and research-backed resets that remind you that no day is ever lost (Ward Bell and Waistcoat Protocol).
Why I Made This
Resilience isn't built by powering through or pretending to be at full strength every day. It's built by meeting yourself where you are—and still moving forward.
I made this Mini because I needed you to have something you could start with right now, without hesitation. The full 83-page Keys & Doors Workbook goes deeper with expanded teaching, guided exercises, tracking tools, and a complete set of templates—but I wanted to unlock this first Door for you immediately.
Because you might be sitting on a bathroom floor at 4 AM right now. You might be staring at a calendar full of demands while running on empty, thinking the only solution is to hide. You might be in the middle of a creative surge so intense it threatens to destroy you.
Wherever you are—that's exactly where this method begins.
Your Invitation
I invite you to see what it feels like when you stop apologizing for your variable capacity and start honoring it. I invite you to see how the Keys & Doors Method works in your own life.
