The free resource library is exactly that, free. For everyone. No email required for most resources.
It contains: the Nervous System Decoder, a 3 part video series on the inner guidance system, selected Signal Checks from the archive, a somatic tools explainer covering TRE, Brainspotting, and Flash EMDR in plain language, and the Signal Method overview.
That is a list, and a list tells you nothing about which one to open. So here is what each is actually for.
The Nervous System Decoder is the one to take first if you have never had language for any of this. It names the 3 states the body moves between and gives you something to do in each. Most people read it and recognise their own last fortnight in it.
The 3 part video series on the inner guidance system is for the stage after naming, when you want to know why you keep overriding what you already knew. It is the longest thing in there and the one people come back to.
The Signal Checks are short. They are the ones to use when something has just happened and you want a way to read it rather than a theory about it.
The somatic tools explainer is there because people arrive having heard 3 initials somewhere and not wanting to ask what they mean. It says what TRE, Brainspotting and Flash EMDR actually are, in ordinary words, so you can decide whether any of them is relevant to you before you ever speak to anybody.
The Signal Method overview is the shape of how the whole thing fits together, if you like to see the map before you walk anywhere.
Everything is organised by what you are working with, not by format. So if you are dealing with overwhelm, you will find the relevant tools together. If you are navigating a relationship pattern, the resources are grouped by that.
I organised it that way because format is how the person making a thing thinks and it is never how the person needing it thinks.
Nobody wakes up wanting a video. They wake up with a situation. You have a conversation coming on Thursday that you have been dreading, and you want whatever is useful for that, in whichever form it happens to be in.
So you do not have to know what you want. You only have to know what is going on, which you do.
Start anywhere. There is no sequence. The right entry point is whichever one your body responds to.
On that, a word about how to actually use a library of free things, because free is not entirely free.
The cost of free is that it is easy to collect. You download 4 things, feel briefly better, and then they sit there as 4 more items on a list you are behind on.
I would rather you took 1 thing and used it badly than took all of it and used none.
So: open 1. Use it this week, in the actual week you are having, not in the better week you plan to have. Then decide whether you want another.
If it is not useful, put it down. Nothing in there needs finishing. It is not a course and there is no order, and you are not failing at it by leaving something half read.
Why it is free at all is the question I get asked most, usually with some suspicion, and the answer is not complicated.
The things in that library are the things you need before you can make a decision about anything else. Language for what is happening in you. A way to read a signal. What the methods actually are.
Charging for that would mean charging people to find out whether they need help, which is the wrong way round.
A practical note on the videos, because they are the thing people start and do not finish.
They are not a sequence you have to get through. If the second one is the relevant one for you this month, watch that one. Nothing in the first is required to follow it.
And watching 10 minutes properly, sitting down, is worth more than watching all of it while doing something else. That is true of everything in there and it is the only instruction I would actually give.
If you would rather have a route than a choice, this is the one I suggest most often.
Start with the Decoder, because it gives you the words. Use a Signal Check during the week, on something that actually happens. Then, if either of those landed, read the somatic tools explainer, so you know what the options are before you are in a position to need them.
That is about an hour in total, spread over a fortnight, and it is more than most people are ever given about their own inner workings.
And honestly, most of what is in there is what I needed and could not find, in plain enough words, when I was looking for it myself. So it is in there in the plainest words I have.
More like this
The Nervous System Decoder, what it is and why it is free.
TRE, Brainspotting and Flash EMDR, what they actually are, in plain language.
The paid library, and what Reset Room members and Substack subscribers access.
The quieter things, the ones written before they are tidied up, go out in the Reset Letters on Substack, at resetletters.substack.com.