Your First Move
Three tools for the life you’re actually living.
You’re past the acute phase, or getting there. But something harder is still unresolved: figuring out who you are now. Not who you were before. Not who the system has categorized you as. Who you actually are, in this life, as you are now.
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Three tools. One honest starting point.
The Story Separator
Separate facts from the stories your mind has built around them.
5 minutes
The Energy Snapshot
Map your actual capacity, not what you wish you had.
5 minutes
One True Thing
Find one honest anchor point to build your next move from.
5 minutes
What is Your First Move?
Your First Move is a free guide from Reinvention Works™ for adults navigating identity change after disability, illness, or a health disruption. It holds three short exercises: the Story Separator, the Energy Snapshot, and One True Thing. Together they help you separate fact from story, plan from your real capacity, and find one true anchor to build from. It is peer-informed and educational, not clinical.
Built for the gap nobody hands you a map for.
- For you if you’re past the acute phase of a disability, illness, or health disruption, and the words recovery, resilience and silver linings don’t describe what you’re living.
- For you if every planning tool you’ve tried assumed you had consistent, predictable energy.
- Not a replacement for clinical care, therapy, or crisis support.
I built this because I lived in the gap.
Every tool I found assumed I had consistent energy. Every program assumed I was building back toward something recognizable. Every support group processed what was lost but didn’t build what came next.
For years I searched for a framework that addressed identity after life-changing disruption. I never found one. So I built one.
Shay Edmonds, Founder, Reinvention Works™ · Read Shay’s story
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Each tool previews one day of the Reset.
- Tool 1 → Day 1: Reality Check
- Tool 2 → Day 2: Energy Sovereignty
- Tool 3 → Day 3: Recalibrated Action
The 3-Day Reinvention Reset™ takes each tool deeper: live, with Shay, over three consecutive days.