You’re Not Broken and You Don’t Need Fixing


01-24-2026

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers

Hey Tribe 🤍

We’ve been trained to believe “growth” means improvement.
Like we’re a project. A problem. A personality to manage.

But this year taught me something more honest:

Fixing is what you do when you think something is broken. Leadership is what you do when you recognize you’re responsible.

And that shift changes everything.

Because most of what we call “self-sabotage” isn’t sabotage.
It’s a system doing what it was trained to do.

Old programs. Old protections. Old patterns that used to keep you safe.

So the work isn’t to shame those parts of you, or try to transcend them, or “be above it.”

The work is to bring the right internal leadership online.

  • Not more self-analysis.
  • Not more self-improvement.
  • Not more chasing breakthroughs.

Here’s what that looks like in real life:

  • You stop negotiating with your own boundaries.
  • You stop abandoning yourself to keep the peace.
  • You stop calling dysregulation “intuition.”
  • You stop mistaking urgency for alignment.
  • You get kinder — but you also get clearer.

And you begin to live from a different center.

Healing isn’t becoming a new person. It’s (re)organizing who’s in charge.

For founders, leaders/parents, this matters even more than it does for everyone else — because your nervous system is not private. It becomes culture. It becomes communication. It becomes how decisions get made. It becomes the pace your whole company or family runs at.

So as we close this year, I’m not interested in resolutions. I’m interested in leadership.

The kind that doesn’t require perfection — only presence.
The kind that doesn’t perform confidence — it embodies it.
The kind that doesn’t try to fix the system — it learns how to run it.

If you’re entering 2026 with that same knowing — that it’s time to lead yourself differently — I offer a Leadership Re-Boot Diagnostic.

It’s a strategic diagnostic designed to identify the patterns shaping your leadership, nervous system, and decision-making — and what needs recalibration next.

My wish for you in 2026 is simple: Stop trying to fix yourself, and start leading yourself with clarity, steadiness, and trust instead.

With strength and alignment,

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Lisa Watson

Lisa is the founder of the (re)Method™ — a framework for self-leadership, nervous system regulation, and rewriting the internal programs that shape how we think, decide, and lead. This newsletter explores clarity, integration, and reclaiming authority from the inside out. So you can lead yourself, your business, and your family, with clarity, integrity, and a regulated nervous system.

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