What Can You Do About It When Life Feels Impossible?

It was all I could do to watch the clouds go by.

Lying in bed, I had no energy to read, listen to music, or even walk ten steps to the toilet without collapsing. I was bedbound with M.E./Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, alone, and weeping.

Then one day, at my lowest point, I got fed up feeling sorry for myself. I reached for the pen and paper beside the bed and asked myself one question:

“What can I do about it?”

I started writing down anything that might help—no matter how small. Getting a flask of tea in the room. Contacting a friend of a friend who also had M.E. Simple things. Possible things.

And something shifted.

Just writing those things down made me feel better. I’d taken back a small piece of control over my illness, and it changed everything. That question became my lifeline—and eventually, my life’s work.

Who I Am

Over the next 15 years, I researched and experimented with resilience—not from books alone, but from lived necessity. I had to figure out how to build a life worth living despite chronic uncertainty and unpredictable energy.

I trained as a coach and workshop leader, combining that professional expertise with everything I’d learned through my own recovery. And I discovered that the question I’d asked myself that day—“What can I do about it?”—worked for others too. For people dealing with chronic illness, overwhelming work, relationship uncertainty, or simply feeling stuck when life refuses to go to plan.

I’m writing now because I’m coming out of another long phase of illness. My health still limits what I can do, which means I won’t always publish every week. But that’s exactly why I’m here—because I know what it’s like to rebuild from nothing. To have to ask “What can I do about it?” all over again. To find your way forward when your body and circumstances won’t cooperate.

I’m not writing from a place of having it all figured out. I’m writing from inside the work of living well despite chronic constraints.

What You’ll Get

When you subscribe, you’ll get:

• Practical frameworks for identifying what you can control (and letting go of what you can’t)

• Perspective shifts that help you see your situation differently—the kind that make you think “I never looked at it that way”

• Concrete actions you can take this week, even when your energy is limited

• Permission to accept that life won’t be perfect while still moving forward

• Real talk about navigating chronic illness, overwhelming work, relationship uncertainty, and feeling stuck

Not more information to process, but clarity on what to do next. I want you to finish reading and think: “Yes. That’s what I needed.”

This Is For You If:

You’re exhausted and overwhelmed. Dealing with chronic health issues or unpredictable circumstances. Stuck despite trying everything. Tired of inspirational platitudes and ready for something real.

Life won’t always cooperate. Your body might not. Your circumstances might not. Your plans might fall apart.

But there’s always something you can do.

Let’s figure out what that is.

Life 2.0 starts here.

Pete

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