You Stop Restarting unhappiness.
ABOUT US
You've probably come here to find out a little more about the people behind Stop Restarting.
Welcome, we're Lisa and Marcus.
We've been exploring these questions for years, separately and together.
Over time, we noticed something appearing again and again in conversations with people, regardless of what they'd already tried — therapy, mindfulness, energy healing, retreats or non-dual teachings.
Someone could understand exactly what was happening. They could see the pattern, recognise the belief and know intellectually that it wasn't true.
And still feel it.
That became increasingly interesting to us.
Because if you can know you're good enough and still feel inadequate, or know you're loved and still feel unlovable, then there's something worth exploring about the relationship between what we think and what we feel.
Two perspectives, one exploration
We created Stop Restarting together, drawing on years of our own exploration and conversations with people who found themselves caught in familiar patterns of searching, struggling and trying to change their experience.
Marcus brings more than twenty years of exploring how the mind creates and maintains these patterns. His work focuses on recognising the Mindline — the beliefs, interpretations and stories that quietly shape the way we experience ourselves and our lives and what happens when all of these concepts and ideas are seen through.
Lisa brings her experience of working with the body and the felt sense, exploring what happens when feelings are allowed to be present without needing to analyse, explain or change them.
We've found that these explorations naturally complement one another.
Sometimes recognising the Mindline brings an immediate shift in how something is experienced.
At other times, the mechanism may be clearly understood, yet familiar feelings and bodily responses continue. Exploring these directly can reveal something that understanding alone hasn't made apparent.
And sometimes it's through the felt experience itself that the Mindline becomes visible.
There isn't a particular order to any of this, or a process everyone needs to follow.
It's simply an invitation to explore what's actually happening, rather than assuming something needs to be different.
What happens when we recognise the Mindline without following it?
What is actually being experienced before the familiar interpretations begin?
And what happens when even the impulse to change our experience is recognised as part of the same mechanism?
Sometimes simply seeing this clearly is enough.
Sometimes questions remain.
And sometimes there's an interest in exploring together, not because something is missing, but because the exploration itself is worthwhile.
That's what we offer through Marcus & Lisa.
Individual conversations, online meetings and in-person gatherings where we can look together at whatever is happening.
No agenda. No belief to replace. No particular place you need to get to.
Just an open exploration of what's here.
Explore with Marcus & Lisa
Everything shared on Stop Restarting is freely available for you to explore and recognise for yourself.
If questions remain, or you'd simply like to explore further with us, you're very welcome.