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Open Loop Mastery

Why smart, capable minds struggle—and why story is the surprising solution.

If you’re the kind of person who has a hundred tabs open—both in your browser and your brain—you already know what it means to want clarity, momentum, and peace… but feel like you're constantly circling the same thoughts, to-do lists, or past conversations, or you keep getting distracted from your vision for yourself.

You’ve read the productivity books. You’ve tried the mindfulness apps. You’ve set goals, chased purpose, and pushed through. You want to be more productive and efficient, but you also want to feel less stressed and overwhelmed.

But something keeps looping.
And the worst part? You’re exhausted by it.

You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. And you’re not alone.

The Invisible Condition No One Talks About

What you’re experiencing isn’t just distraction or procrastination—it’s Open Loop Fatigue: a mental and emotional burnout caused by unresolved stories your brain keeps trying to complete.

Every unfinished conversation.
Every choice you haven’t made.
Every task with no clear endpoint.
Every emotional echo from the past.

Your brain replays them—not to torture you, but to find a more useful story. It’s trying to help.

I didn’t set out to name a condition. like everyone, I just wanted to stop feeling so mentally tired all the time.

From the outside, I looked like someone who had it together. I am a TEDx speaker, a published author, the first British woman director with a film in the cinemas, a coach. I can light up a room or launch a project on demand.

But inside, my brain was never quiet.

There was always something unfinished, something unsaid, something I should be doing. It wasn’t just overthinking—it was replaying, like a film editor stuck in the cutting room, looking for the right version of a scene that had already happened.

That’s when I realized: I wasn’t just busy—I was looping.

And so were the brilliant people I coached. Entrepreneurs, creatives, leaders—they weren’t struggling because they lacked willpower or clarity. They were stuck in open loops: emotional echoes, mental tabs, unclosed stories. Their brains were trying to help—by replaying the past or preparing for every possible future—but it was burning them out.

I started to map the patterns. I gave the condition a name: Open Loop Fatigue.
And then I built the solution: Open Loop Mastery.

A practical, story-driven way to finally close the loops, reclaim your focus, and move forward faster—with less friction and more meaning.

Because when we think clearly, we decide better.
When we decide better, we act faster.
And when we act with clarity, we create lives that actually feel like ours.

That’s what I want for you.
Not just productivity.
But freedom—the mental space, emotional relief, and clear momentum to move forward on your own terms.

A Future That Feels Like Yours

Have you ever looked back on a moment and realized it wasn’t the event itself that shaped your life, but the story you created around it?

That’s how Open Loop Mastery began—not as a concept, but as a quiet moment in the middle of Spain, watching my sons walk out of a village without me.

For over a decade, I’ve been telling this one story about what happened when we stopped in a little bar for a much-needed drink, down a side street in Villalcázar de Sigra, somewhere in the middle of peninsular Spain.

I had no idea my life was just about to change forever.

My sons, aged 16 and 12 at the time, and I, were 23 days and 520km into a journey known as The Camino. My body hurt like I had been walking since the 13th century. I was grateful for that break. When I stood up, a searing pain in my knee made it clear I wouldn’t be walking any further that day.

But, the nearest place to stay was two and a half hours away. Next to our table was a chalkboard with a taxi number scrawled across the top of it. Harry, my youngest, looked at me sideways and said, “Maybe it’s a sign, Mum.”

It was ‘the smart’ decision, so I agreed! Only for both my sons to turn around and say: “No, you’re taking a taxi, we’re walking.”And just like that, I watched them walk into their future.

It was more than pride. It was also the ache of witnessing a loop close in real time—a chapter ending, a role shifting, a story becoming something else.

But, what...?

This is something I’ve never told anyone. As I climbed gratefully into a creaky bed that night I found a book under the thin mattress. Flicking it open at a random page, I stumbled across Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken, and something inside me stilled.

It wasn’t just the words; it was as if the poem had been waiting for me.

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other…”

The image of standing at a fork in the road, weighed down by the responsibility of choosing the right path, mirrored exactly where I had found myself—not just as a mother leading men of the future, but leading myself.

‘Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.’

My breath caught on the quiet realization that it wasn’t the decision to come on this walk that mattered most, it would be the story that I created around it that would shape our future. The choice isn't the story. The power is in how we frame the choice.

This Is For You

And this is where this story for you really starts. As I began to consciously create powerful stories from my own loops, I saw the same struggle everywhere.

First it was on that walk. Everyone who does The Camino is carrying the questions that keep them up at night, the missed opportunities they can’t let go of, the futures they fear they’ll never reach, the questions about who they are and what they are here to do—their own open loops searching for resolution.

The unresolved stories shape our lives equally as those we settle on, whether we’re entrepreneurs navigating high-stakes decisions, leaders trying to balance vision with execution, or simply striving for growth while grappling with self-doubt.

The loop isn’t a problem to fix; it’s the mind literally searching for a better story.

It is why our modern minds struggle, and story is both the trap and the key - but mostly, story has the surprising power to move us forward into the lives we’re meant to lead.

But without a new system to close the loop, the replay becomes your operating system.

That’s where Open Loop Mastery comes in.

What If You Could Rewire the Loop?

Open Loop Mastery is a practical framework for turning story into strategy. It helps you:

• Name the loop you’re stuck in—emotional, cognitive, behavioral, or identity-based
• Understand the story your brain keeps telling (and why)
• Create a new narrative that sets you free
• Close the loop with clarity, momentum, and meaning

This isn’t mindset fluff or productivity hacks. It’s a powerful, repeatable method rooted in neuroscience, narrative psychology, and decision design—created to help people like you reclaim focus, finish what matters, and finally move forward.