Month 1 builds the Pattern Map, the first artifact of your Navigator Framework. The Pattern Map holds what reliably repeats in your body and what reliably repeats in how care settings respond to your episodes. By recording both in one place, you build a stable reference you carry across encounters — instead of reconstructing your situation each time.
The three Parts move in sequence:
Each Part feeds the next. By the end, you have a Pattern Map (partial is expected) that holds recognition in a form you can return to.
You do not need to finish every section for the Pattern Map to be useful. A few reliable patterns are enough to begin.
QUICK START
The three Parts are designed to be taken in order. Each one builds on material from the one before.
Move at a pace that fits your capacity. Recognition work is allowed to be partial. Nothing in this month requires action beyond noticing and recording what repeats. Your Pattern Map can hold a few entries and still be functional.
SCOPE
This month focuses on recognition and capture. You name what repeats in your body, see how care settings respond to your episodes, and bring both into a Pattern Map. The cognitive work is observational. You are identifying patterns, not acting on them yet.
Scope: A framework for naming lived experience, seeing how different care settings process the same episode, and recording both in a Pattern Map you can reuse across encounters.
Safety: This content is educational and non-clinical. If you have new or worsening stroke-like symptoms, treat it as urgent and follow your local emergency guidance.
If this material activates fear, urgency, or self-doubt, pause. You do not need to push through for the work to become useful later.
MAP
A written record of what reliably repeats in your body and how different care settings tend to respond. Held in one place, in your language, reusable across encounters.
You learn to separate what your body does during episodes from what the system does in response. This stops inconsistent care responses from merging with your experience of the episode itself.
Emergency, primary care, and neurology settings each optimize for different things. Seeing these priorities makes inconsistent responses predictable rather than personal.
A clear line between what the system is responsible for and what you are responsible for, so structural gaps in care do not become your burden to manage.
PARTS
These Parts are designed to be taken in order. Each one builds on material from the previous Part.
TOOLS
Month 1 builds your Pattern Map. These tools support the recognition and capture work across Parts 1 and 2.
This month's tools support recognition and capture. They do not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment guidance.
Map recurring patterns in how your experience is understood, minimized, or redirected. Use alongside the seed captures in Part 1.
Classify what happened as signal or noise. Helps you decide which care interactions rise to signal worth documenting, given each setting's priorities. Use alongside the system-lens work in Part 2.
FINISH
By the end of Month 1, you have:
The Pattern Map does not need to be complete. It feeds the Signals section of your Navigator Framework and grows as recognition sharpens across later months.
If this month brought up fear, urgency, or self-doubt, that is a common response to recognition work. Pause when needed.