- What is R4 Style?
R4 Style is a lived-experience framework for navigating major life changes. It uses the metaphor of the curb, the crosswalk, and the other side of the street, along with the Four R’s—Rock Bottom, Recovery, Resilience, and Reinvention—to offer language and perspective for change.
- What are the Four R’s?
The Four R’s are Rock Bottom, Recovery, Resilience, and Reinvention. They are not fixed stages or a step-by-step process. They can overlap, repeat, and appear differently throughout our lives.
- What does “The Crossing” mean?
The Crossing is the central metaphor of R4 Style. The curb represents recognizing that something has changed, the crosswalk reflects uncertainty and movement, and the other side represents rebuilding and creating meaning within the life that follows.
- Is R4 Style therapy or a self-help program?
No. R4 Style is not therapy, treatment, a prescription, or a formula for overcoming adversity. It offers lived-experience perspective, reflection, and language that may help people better understand where they are in a period of change.
- Who is R4 Style for?
R4 Style is for anyone navigating change, disruption, uncertainty, recovery, aging, loss, identity shifts, new beginnings, or other significant life transitions. Your circumstances do not need to look like mine for the framework to be relevant.
A Question for the Crossing
What question about your own crossing feels most important to ask now?
Questions open the door; accessibility helps ensure that more people can enter the conversation.