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LION: The Reader's Workbook

Personal Alignment & Behavioral Patterns

Justin M. Eastland, LMSW

Available August 17, 2026 · Amazon

Individual Use

What This Workbook Is

LION: The Reader's Workbook is a structured personal companion to the main text. It is designed for the individual who wants to move beyond reading and into application — working through the internal architecture of their own behavioral system using the LION Model as the operating framework.

Who It's For

This workbook is written for the individual reader: someone working through the main book on their own, someone in individual therapy who wants a structured self-inquiry tool, or anyone who prefers to do the reflective work privately before bringing it into a relationship context.

What You'll Work Through

The workbook moves through three of the six LION pillars that govern the internal system: Pressure, Capacity, and Identity. Each section pairs explanatory framing with structured exercises, reflection prompts, and pattern-mapping tools designed to surface the behavioral signatures that most people carry without knowing it.

How It Works

Each chapter of the main book has a corresponding workbook section. You can use them in sequence — reading a chapter, then working the companion exercises — or return to specific sections as you encounter relevant patterns in daily life. There is no correct pace. The work is the point.

Pillars Covered in This Workbook

Pressure

Map the internal and external forces currently compressing your behavior — and identify where the load is highest.

Capacity

Locate your structural ceiling: the point at which your behavioral system shifts from adaptive to reactive.

Identity

Surface the core operating assumptions about who you are — and trace how they shape the patterns you run automatically.

LION: The Reader's Workbook cover

Publication Details

SeriesLeaning Into Our Nature
WorkbookVolume 1 of 2
FormatPaperback · Digital
LaunchAugust 17, 2026
RetailerAmazon
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Field Notes
From the Work

Occasional writing on the LION Model, relationship patterns, and the harder questions that don't fit in a book chapter. Written by Justin. Sent when there's something worth saying.

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