FREE LIVE ONLINE INNER GROWTH EXPERIENCE
Why Stress and Overthinking
Keep Taking Over Even When
You Understand Them
Discover why the reaction can begin before conscious thought catches up and learn how to recognise the pattern beneath it.
Inner Growth Coach and founder of Intrinsic Living®, Craig Young reveals why stress driven patterns can activate across your thoughts, emotions, body and behaviour before the mind has time to make sense of what is happening.
And most importantly:
He will show you how to begin recognising the loop as it forms creating the awareness needed for greater clarity, space and choice.
Live online • One focused two hour experience •
No prior experience needed
The next Break the Loop Live Date:Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom
A ROOT LEVEL EXPLORATION
Of Stress, Overthinking, and Emotional Patterns
A live, facilitated training that explores how stress driven patterns operate beneath conscious awareness and what allows them to change at the level they form.
Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom
FREE 3-SESSION LIVE ZOOM EXPERIENCE WITH PAUL "OLLIE" UPFIELD
Why Pushing Through Keeps Leaving You Stiff, Flat and Starting Over
Discover why the discipline that once made you capable can become the pattern that keeps running you into the ground.
Former professional NRL player, sports coach and Movement Facilitator Paul "Ollie" Upfield reveals how all or nothing effort, ignoring physical signals and demanding more from yourself can become a repeating loop across movement, work and life.
And most importantly:
Inside Break the Loop: Live, he helps you begin noticing what pressure brings out in your body and behaviour creating more awareness and choice without treating movement as punishment.
FREE LIVE ONLINE INNER GROWTH EXPERIENCE
Why Stress and Overthinking Keep Taking Over Even When You Understand Them
Discover why the reaction can begin before conscious thought catches up and learn how to recognise the pattern beneath it.
Inner Growth Coach and founder of Intrinsic Living®, Craig Young reveals why stress driven patterns can activate across your thoughts, emotions, body and behaviour before the mind has time to make sense of what is happening.
And most importantly:
He will show you how to begin recognising the loop as it forms creating the awareness needed for greater clarity, space and choice.
Live online • One focused two hour experience • No prior experience needed
The next Break the Loop Live Date:Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom
Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom
What you will discover in this free live experience
Why the reaction can happen before thought catches up
See how pressure can trigger a body response, emotion and automatic urge before you have had time to think it through.
Why understanding the pattern has not changed it
Learn why you can explain a reaction afterwards and still be caught by it the next time pressure rises.
How to recognise the loop as it forms
Begin noticing the trigger, interpretation, body response, emotion and urge that make up your own repeating loop.
Plus: Guided Effortless Meditation and practical experiential exercises on the live session.
What you will discover in this free live experience
Why the reaction can happen before thought catches up
See how pressure can trigger a body response, emotion and automatic urge before you have had time to think it through.
Why understanding the pattern has not changed it
Learn why you can explain a reaction afterwards and still be caught by it the next time pressure rises.
How to recognise the loop as it forms
Begin noticing the trigger, interpretation, body response, emotion and urge that make up your own repeating loop.
Plus: Guided Effortless Meditation and practical experiential exercises on the live session.
Why Paul understands the push through loop
Stories from people who have worked with Craig
PROFESSIONAL SPORT
Paul competed at professional NRL level, where pushing through discomfort was often rewarded as part of performance.
MORE THAN A DECADE COACHING
He has spent more than a decade coaching football teams and observing how pressure exposes technique, habits, impatience, comparison, force and avoidance.
A DIFFERENT DEFINITION OF STRENGTH
His own experience of burnout, disconnection and rebuilding changed what strength meant: a body you can trust, not one you are constantly fighting.
Stories from people who have worked with Craig
Three Sessions. One Coherent Arc Of The Work.
This live training unfolds across three sessions, each addressing a different layer of the same process. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is skipped. Each session creates the conditions for the next.
Session One:
Orientation and Grounding
The first session establishes a shared understanding of how patterns form, why they repeat, and why effort alone doesn’t interrupt them. This is where language sharpens, awareness settles, and the group begins working together experientially.
Education, connection, and guided exercises build the internal conditions required for deeper work. It’s not about change yet. It’s about stabilising the ground so the work can go where it needs to.
Session Two:
Revealing the Root
The second session is where the underlying drivers become visible. This is where attention moves beneath story and explanation and into the level where patterns are organised. Rather than working on reactions, the work meets what shapes them.
For many, this is the first time the actual root of a repeating pattern becomes clear not abstractly, but directly. Sensation, emotion, memory, and belief are seen together as one process, rather than separate parts. This is the pivotal session. Not because it is intense, but because it is clarifying.
Session Three:
Unpacking, Integration, and Open Inquiry
The final session is about making sense of what has been revealed and how it integrates back into real life.
Patterns are unpacked carefully. Questions are explored openly. What emerges on Day 2 is contextualised, stabilised, and translated into understanding that can be lived with personally and professionally.
This session includes open inquiry and space to ask what matters most, without agenda or pressure. The focus is not on adding more, but on allowing what has shifted to organise naturally.
Nothing here stands alone. Each session prepares the system for what comes next.
This experience is for you if you...
Find that your mind does not switch off, even when the day is over
Replay conversations and second guess decisions long after the moment has passed
React under pressure, then question why it affected you so strongly
Feel tension or internal pressure even when everything appears fine
Keep saying yes, then feel resentful or depleted afterwards
Have already worked on yourself, but the same pattern still returns
Want to keep your strength and ambition without continuing to pay for them with yourself
Join this free 2-hrs session live experience
with Craig Young
See the pattern beneath stress and overthinking. Understand why it repeats. Begin creating more space to respond differently.
Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom
Moments That Quiet Certainty Can’t Explain
There are points where the familiar approaches don’t quite reach. Patterns return — not loudly, but reliably.
The words change. The context shifts. Yet something underneath remains the same.
- It’s felt as a pause.
- A pull back.
- A reaction that arrives before there’s time to choose.
This is how the system has learned to respond under pressure.
When insight lands… but doesn’t hold.
Something meaningful may be touched, yet the familiar charge returns because the work
stopped where the pattern itself did not.
Addressed from many angles — still repeating
Understanding and careful reframing can be present while the deeper driver of the response remains unreached.
When depth is sensed without a clear way in
An important somatic moment often arises and passes, with the work returning to story and explanation out of respect for what isn’t clearly mapped.
What’s been missing has never been more tools, but a way of working that reaches where patterns are formed, sustained, and able to reorganise.
Join this free three session live experience with Paul "Ollie" Upfield
Stop starting over. See the pattern beneath the push through loop. Understand why it repeats. Begin creating a different relationship with effort, pressure and your body.
Break the Loop: Live is not a workout program. It is a guided experience that helps you recognise what happens under pressure mentally, emotionally and through the body so you can begin responding with greater awareness and choice.
This is how the system has learned to respond under pressure.
Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom
Join this free 2-hrs session live experience with Craig Young
See the pattern beneath stress and overthinking. Understand why it repeats. Begin creating more space to respond differently.
Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom
Break The Loop: Live is brought to you by Intrinsic Living®
Intrinsic Living® was founded by Craig Young to help adults understand and interrupt the stress driven patterns beneath overthinking, emotional reactions and self-doubt so they can rebuild calm, clarity and self-trust.
Craig Young
Inner Growth Coaching through awareness, emotion and subconscious patterns
Craig brings more than 30 years of experience building and consulting across businesses, along with the lived experience of three major burnouts and the deeper rebuild that followed.
His work brings together Inner Growth Coaching, Effortless Meditation, breathwork and embodied awareness in a grounded, practical and non judgemental way.
Break the Loop: Live is where that work begins: seeing the pattern more clearly.
The Coaches Behind
Break The Loop: Live
Break the Loop: Live is held by facilitators who approach the work from different directions and meet at the same depth. Each brings a distinct way of working with pattern, regulation, and integration. Together, they allow the work to be met mentally, emotionally, and through the body. So understanding is not just reached, but lived.
Craig Young
Root level facilitation of patterns through
awareness, emotion, and integration
Craig’s work is grounded in lived integration, not borrowed technique. Over several decades, Craig built businesses in consulting and technology while quietly carrying burnout, overthinking, and a growing erosion of self trust. From the outside, life appeared successful. but internally, pressure was accumulating.
The turning point came when it became clear the issue wasn’t external demand It was the patterns organising his internal responses.
Craig stepped away and spent years rebuilding from the inside out through deep inner growth, spirituality, effortless meditation, breathwork, somatic work, and applied behavioural change. The work wasn’t assembled — it was lived. Over time, this integration became a coherent approach to pattern level facilitation — shaped by real world leadership, psychological depth, and embodied practice — rather than theory or trend.
Paul “Ollie” Upfield
Pattern level facilitation through movement, regulation, and embodied experience
Paul’s work begins in the body and moves outward into life. After years competing at the highest levels of elite sport, discipline, pressure, and physical resilience shaped Paul’s early world. Hard work was the standard. Pushing through was normal.
Over time, that approach stopped addressing what was happening underneath. Burnout, disconnection, and a quiet loss of confidence began to surface. Not from failure, but from carrying pressure without another way to process it. Movement became the bridge back.
Through awareness, motion, and honest physical engagement, Paul discovered a different relationship with strength — one grounded in regulation, self respect, and presence. That work now forms the foundation of his facilitation. In Break the Loop: Live, Paul brings movement and embodied practice that allows patterns to be met, not just talked about, then integrated where they actually live.
Break the Loop: Live is held at the root level shaped by lived experience,
complementary approaches, and a shared respect for depth.
Break The Loop: Live is brought to you by Intrinsic Living®
Intrinsic Living® helps adults recognise and interrupt the stress-driven patterns that keep repeating under pressure creating greater clarity, space and self trust.
Paul Upfield
Pattern level facilitation through movement, regulation, and embodied experience
Paul "Ollie" Upfield is a former professional NRL player, sports coach and Movement Facilitator. He brings a practical physical doorway into Break the Loop for people who understand pressure, effort, performance and recovery more readily than
inner growth language.
Inside Break the Loop, movement is not a workout bolted onto the work. It is a way to notice in real time how you rush, force, compare, hold back or ignore what your body is telling you.
Paul helps participants stay engaged and experience a different response. He does not provide therapy, physiotherapy, injury diagnosis or rehabilitation.
Break The Loop: Live is brought to you by Intrinsic Living®
Intrinsic Living® was founded by Craig Young to help adults understand and interrupt the stress driven patterns beneath overthinking, emotional reactions and self-doubt so they can rebuild calm, clarity and self-trust.
Craig Young
Inner Growth Coaching through awareness, emotion and subconscious patterns
Craig brings more than 30 years of experience building and consulting across businesses, along with the lived experience of three major burnouts and the deeper rebuild that followed.
His work brings together Inner Growth Coaching, Effortless Meditation, breathwork and embodied awareness in a grounded, practical and non judgemental way.
Break the Loop: Live is where that work begins: seeing the pattern more clearly.
A few practical questions
A few practical questions
What is Break the Loop: Live?
A free 2-hrs session live Zoom experience with Craig Young. It introduces you to why stress driven patterns can keep repeating and helps you begin recognising your own loop more clearly.
Who is it for?
It is for adults who may look capable on the outside but feel caught in overthinking, second guessing, emotional reactions or repeating patterns on the inside. It is open to all genders and roles.
Do I need meditation experience?
No. You do not need to empty your mind, concentrate perfectly or have any previous experience. Craig will guide you through each practice.
Is this therapy or counselling?
No. Break the Loop: Live is educational and experiential. It does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions and is not a substitute for qualified professional care.
Is this the same as the Break the Loop Retreat?
No. Break the Loop: Live is an accessible awareness and recognition experience.
The Break the Loop Retreat is a deeper, structured inner growth immersion.
When and where does it happen?
The sessions run live on Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom. Registration is free.
A few practical questions
A Few Things People Often Want to Know
What is Break the Loop: Live?
A free 2-hrs session live Zoom experience with Craig Young. It introduces you to why stress driven patterns can keep repeating and helps you begin recognising your own loop more clearly.
Who is it for?
It is for adults who may look capable on the outside but feel caught in overthinking, second guessing, emotional reactions or repeating patterns on the inside. It is open to all genders and roles.
Do I need meditation experience?
No. You do not need to empty your mind, concentrate perfectly or have any previous experience. Craig will guide you through each practice.
Is this therapy or counselling?
No. Break the Loop: Live is educational and experiential. It does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions and is not a substitute for qualified professional care.
Is this the same as the Break the Loop Retreat?
No. Break the Loop: Live is an accessible awareness and recognition experience. The Break the Loop Retreat is a deeper, structured inner growth immersion.
When and where does it happen?
The next Break the Loop: Live is on Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom , live via Zoom.
Registration is free.
When The Work Deepens, How We Show Up Matters
When depth is required
There are times when insight, strategy, or understanding aren’t enough. What matters then is the ability to stay present with yourself, with pressure, and with what’s actually unfolding without rushing, avoiding, or handing control back to old patterns.
This training offers a structured way to meet that moment. Not to become someone else. Not to fix what isn’t broken.
But to understand what has been shaping your responses, and learn how to meet that more directly. Nothing to perform.
Nothing to prove. Just intentional time set aside for work that goes deeper.
Free to attend. No surface level theory. Three live sessions.
Live Start Date: Tuesday, 8 September 2026 | 6:30 pm-8:30 pm AEST | Live via Zoom
Join Break the Loop: Live
Join Break the Loop: Live
Break the Loop: Live is educational and experiential. It is not medical or mental health treatment and is not a substitute for support from a qualified professional.
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