The Excavation Starter Kit

This is not a self-help exercise. There is no affirmation to repeat, no vision board to assemble, and no promise that seven days of writing will solve anything. What it does is far simpler: it gives you a method for listening to your own internal conflict instead of running from it. The premise is borrowed from real-world peacebuilding. In every divided society — every country split by civil war, every organisation fractured by rivalry — the conflict follows patterns. It can be mapped. It can be governed. And the same is true of the conflict inside you. Over seven days you learn to map yours. Each day introduces one concept drawn from the ideas in Your Civil War Within and Treaties with the Dead — factions, dictionaries, ceasefires, treaties — gives you a writing prompt built around it, and asks you to apply it to your own experience. Your entries are saved on your device, privately, and nowhere else. By the end of the week you will understand the method. You will have named the factions inside you, noticed where their dictionaries diverge, and written your first treaty with yourself. That is the foundation — and if you want to go deeper, The Excavation (the guided 6-week edition) is where the real dig happens. What you get: — Seven guided days, one concept each, with a writing prompt built around it — An interactive tool that saves your entries and tracks your progress — Ground rules for honest writing that actually gets somewhere — Works on your phone or laptop — write wherever you are — An export button so you can keep a permanent copy of your work No theory without practice. No practice without honesty. You start with where things actually are — and you go from there. Your civil war within has something to tell you. This is where you start listening.