You Already Know Something Needs to Change. You Just Can’t Do It Alone.
The life you built looks right from the outside. But you’re exhausted from performing a version of yourself that was never really yours. Story Catching is how you stop living someone else’s script and start writing your own. 10 private sessions. 4 months. One spiral that changes everything.
You’ve tried figuring this out on your own.
You’ve read the books. Done the journaling. Maybe even sat in a therapist’s office and talked about your childhood for an hour every other Tuesday.
And some of it helped. For a while. Until you walked back into the same house, the same job, the same patterns, and the old story started running the show again.
Not because you’re broken. Because the story that’s been running your life was written before you had the language to question it. By your parents. By your culture. By every moment you learned that being yourself wasn’t safe.
That story is patient. It knows your triggers. It knows your routines. And it’s been practicing a lot longer than the new one.
You don’t need more information. You need someone who can see the story you can’t see from inside it and walk the spiral with you until the new one holds.
This is not therapy. This is not life coaching. This is Story Catching.
Story Catching uses a framework called the ORIGIN spiral, built on narrative coaching, somatic psychology, and Andean wisdom traditions. Four archetypes. Six phases. One question at the center of all of it:
What story are you living, and who wrote it?
The Serpent grounds you in your body so the old story can’t hijack your nervous system.
The Jaguar drags the hidden story into the light so you can finally see what’s been running the show.
The Hummingbird opens the space for what’s actually possible when the old script drops away.
The Condor rises above the whole landscape and maps the path from who you’ve been performing to who you actually are.
This isn’t theory. You will feel it in your body before you understand it in your head.
The 1:1 Story Catching Program
10 private sessions over 16 weeks.
Weekly for the first month while we build the foundation. Bi-weekly in the middle while you experiment with the new story. A solo flight period where you prove to yourself it holds. A closing ceremony where you speak the new story out loud.
37 structured emails between sessions.
Daily the first week. Twice a week after that. Every email is built on the ORIGIN spiral. Reflections, tools, prompts that keep the work alive when we’re not on a call.
WhatsApp access to me throughout.
Not a chatbot. Not an assistant. Me. When the old story fires at 2am or you’re standing in the middle of a moment and don’t know which direction to move, you have a direct line.
Your Flight Path.
A living document that maps exactly how your mindset, behavior, and environment need to shift together. This is the tool that turns insight into sustainable change.
Your Story Discovery Journal.
A personalized record of every tool, every breakthrough, every piece of evidence that the new story is real.
A Definitional Ceremony.
In your final session, you speak the new story out loud. Who you were. What happened. Who you are becoming. This is the moment the work becomes identity.
And then there’s this.
Your full $1,897 investment in the 1:1 program applies as credit toward the Reignite Journey Retreat in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador.
Six days. Waterfalls. Volcanoes. The Amazon basin. The same ORIGIN spiral you walked privately, now experienced in a group alongside people who understand exactly what you’ve been carrying.
That means the retreat is included. Not discounted. Included.
You also get a full year inside The Rewrite, our monthly Story Catching community. Live calls. Ongoing practice. A room full of people who decided the old story wasn’t the one they wanted to
keep telling.
The 1:1 program. The retreat. The community. One investment.
Pricing
Every dollar applies as credit toward the Reignite Journey Retreat in Ecuador. You are not paying twice. You are investing once and getting the deepest version of this work available.
This is for you if:
You built a life that looks successful but feels like it belongs to someone else.
You’ve been the strong one, the provider, the fixer, the peacekeeper, the performer for so long you forgot what your own voice sounds like.
You’re in the middle of something. A divorce. A career question. A quiet crisis nobody else can see. And you know that going back to the old version of yourself is no longer an option.
You don’t need to be ready. You just need to be honest.
Who is Chad Petersen?
I’m the founder of The Story Catcher. I live in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador, at the base of an active volcano, which feels about right for a guy who burned his old life to the ground and built a new one from the ash.
I’m a certified narrative coach. I’ve studied Andean healing traditions in the mountains of South America. I blend somatic psychology with story work because I learned the hard way that you can’t think your way out of a story that lives in your body.
I’ve been the guy performing the recipe. Three marriages. A career that looked perfect from the outside. A life built for everyone but me. I know what it costs to keep that going. And I know what it takes to stop.
This work exists because I needed it first.