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.
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.
Rock Bottom · Recovery · Resilience · Reinvention
A lived model for navigating disruption without rushing.
R4 Style is guided by three simple, human metaphors:
Together, they offer a shared language for understanding where you are—and what intentional movement forward might look like.
👉 The Meaning Behind the Metaphors
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.
On the Other Side of the Street
A memoir about choosing life after everything changes.
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.
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.

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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