Welcome to the chaos
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Your body rebels. Existential crisis at 3 a.m. Society treats you like an expired coupon. Welcome to midlife.
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You're running a script you didn't write.
You've spent decades being nice. Easygoing. Available. Got what was left over.
The script is older than you. Older than your mother. Hell, older than your great-great-grandmother.
Now what?
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I'm Line.
I'm not a psychiatrist. No master's degree. No TED Talk. No perfect 5 a.m. morning routine with kale smoothies and gratitude journaling.
What I have is a life that's kicked my ass and taught me more than any credential ever could.
I've been the good girl, the people-pleaser, the fixer. Twisted into emotional pretzels to keep everyone else comfortable. Built the career. Raised the kids. Held it together. Still hit the wall.
Then I torched the script.
I'm not here to fix you. I'm here to hand you the match.
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Twenty years running equine-guided therapy and coaching. Sixteen years as a foster mother. A small farm in Norway. Author of Screw the Script and Torch the Script.
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You are not broken.
The script is.
So what's the script, exactly?
The script is the set of instructions you got handed before you could read.
Be nice. Don't take up space. Be helpful. Be agreeable. Don't make a fuss. Make everyone comfortable. Don't have needs of your own.
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You absorbed it. Your mother absorbed it. Her mother before her. By the time you noticed it was running you, you couldn't tell the difference between you and the script.
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Most women never notice. They die having performed it perfectly.
Midlife is when the script starts to break — and you get the rarest opportunity of your life.
To see what's actually you.​
The Books
Screw the Script names the scripts running your life. Torch the Script is where you burn them.
Don't skip the workbook. The match is in there.
Field notes from a Gen X life in motion. Stories that didn't fit in the book — written as they actually happen, no five-step plans included. Read the Chronicles →