The book was the beginning

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You read the book. Now grab the tools — and find the people walking this road with you.

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The next step

Ready to go further than a book can take you?

The book gave you the framework. The Live BRAVE 12-Week Framework walks it with you — week by week, with the practices, the structure, and the accountability to make BRAVE your default instead of your good intention.

12 weeks
Guided BRAVE practice
Video + workbook
Video lessons and the BRAVE workbook
Self-paced
Start when you’re ready
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The Live BRAVE Framework: the 12-week journey to a stronger, calmer, more courageous you, by Rob Z Christensen
Rob Z Christensen

Rob Z Christensen

Author of BRAVE

You’re not the first to walk this.

BRAVE grew out of lived experience in the fire service and recovery, then became a practical system for meeting stress, uncertainty, and difficult moments with more presence and choice.

Rob’s recovery was featured by The New York Times in the documentary An Act of Service.

The BRAVE Wall

You’re on the BRAVE journey. Show it.

Post a photo of yourself with the book — starting the journey, or finishing it — and add your face to the wall. Every face here is someone who chose to keep going.

The wall is just getting started.

Be one of the first.

The easiest way: upload your photo right here.

On Instagram? You can post there instead — tag @livebravetoday and use #BeyondBRAVEbook (add #LiveBRAVEToday too).

From the Book — Behind the Scenes

Meet the people behind the stories.

Real people. Real worst days. Real proof that you can come through them.

Here are some of the faces behind the stories you read — and a few moments from the making of BRAVE and the film that started it all.

Some of the people you read about share more here — in their own words.

Coming soon.

Your story could be the one someone needs.

Maybe you’re still in it. Maybe you’re years past it. Either way, what you’ve carried might help the next person carry theirs. Share as much or as little as you want.

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A real person reads every story before anything is shared, and you can ask us to remove yours anytime.

Keep going. Keep choosing. Keep BRAVE-ing.