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    • Start Here
    • R4 Framework
    • About
      • About R4 Style
      • Mission - Values - Vision
    • The Journey
      • The Crossing (The Book)
      • What Readers Are Saying
    • Writing & Listening
      • Notes from the Crosswalk
      • On the Other Side Podcast
    • Connection
      • Community
      • Follow Along
      • Reach Out
  • R4 Style
  • Home
  • Start Here
  • R4 Framework
  • About
    • About R4 Style
    • Mission - Values - Vision
  • The Journey
    • The Crossing (The Book)
    • What Readers Are Saying
  • Writing & Listening
    • Notes from the Crosswalk
    • On the Other Side Podcast
  • Connection
    • Community
    • Follow Along
    • Reach Out

Step Into R4 Style

A Lived Framework for Change

There are moments when life changes without warning.

An illness.
A loss.
A shift in identity.
A future that no longer looks the way you imagined.


R4 Style exists for those moments.


R4 Style offers language and perspective for people navigating major life transitions—when certainty fades, familiar roles fall away, and the path forward feels unclear.


You may not have chosen what brought you here.
But you can choose how you move forward.


The R4 Framework


R4 Style is built around four interconnected stages that reflect lived reality—not idealized recovery:


Rock Bottom

Recovery
Resilience
Reinvention


These stages are not linear.
You may revisit them more than once.
R4 Style honors that truth.


👉 Learn the R4 Framework

Rock Bottom · Recovery · Resilience · Reinvention

A lived model for navigating disruption without rushing.


The Metaphors


R4 Style is guided by three simple, human metaphors:


  • The Curb
     
  • The Crosswalk
     
  • The Other Side of the Street
     

Together, they offer a shared language for understanding where you are—and what intentional movement forward might look like.


👉 The Meaning Behind the Metaphors


The Book


On the Other Side of the Street

A Life Chosen—Because You Weren’t Meant to Stay at the Curb


Written by Rob Quinn, MS,  this book grounds the R4 Style framework in lived narrative, reflection, and hard-earned insight. It is an invitation to pause, reckon with change, and choose forward movement—on your own terms.


👉 Explore the Book

On the Other Side of the Street

A memoir about choosing life after everything changes.


Writing & Reflection


Notes from the Crosswalk

The R4 Style Blog


Reflective writing on transition, recovery, self-trust, and choosing what comes next—written for people navigating the middle, not rushing to the other side.


👉 Read Notes from the Crosswalk

Reflective blog posts on life in transition


👉 Receive new Notes from the Crosswalk—quiet reflections on change, delivered occasionally.


Connection


R4 Style exists to invite reflection, shared language, and conversation—not to prescribe answers.


If something here resonates, you’re welcome to connect, follow along, or reach out.

You don’t have to cross alone.


👉 Connect with R4 Style

R4 Style is a lived framework for understanding how people move through disruption—without rushing, fixing, or erasing what came before.

 

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