Examined Living
Examined Living is a community for people who want to understand themselves more clearly, live with more intention, and take part in honest conversations about identity, belonging, adaptation, mindfulness, and change.
A place for the work
Much of who we become begins as adaptation. We learn ways of thinking, reacting, protecting ourselves, and making meaning long before we notice those patterns taking shape.
Examined Living is a place to explore those patterns without reducing ourselves to them. It brings together thoughtful conversation, practical resources, guided reflection, education, and real community for people who want to live more consciously.
You don't need to have everything figured out. You only need a willingness to look honestly at your experience and stay curious about what may come next.
Who this is for
Much of Bradley's work started with, and still revolves around, people who discovered through DNA testing that their family story wasn't what they'd been told. He is one of them. The NPE Virtual Summits, NPE Awareness Month, and years inside the NPE community shaped everything Examined Living is built on. If you're here because of a discovery, you're as welcome as anyone, and you'll find people who understand without needing it explained.
The questions an NPE faces about identity, belonging, and what to do with a truth nobody asked for are not unique to NPEs. An upbringing across cultures, an estrangement, a divorce, a career that ended, a faith that changed, a diagnosis, a loss. Any of these can leave you asking who you are now. The circumstances differ. The work is shared, and so is the room.
Three ways to take part
Begin here
Free
Join the wider Examined Living community and start taking part in conversations about identity, belonging, awareness, and intentional change.
The full membership
$29/month or $319/year Founding rate. The first fifty members join at $29 a month and keep that rate for as long as they stay. It moves to $39 after that. Annual members get twelve months for the price of eleven, and a copy of The NPE Experience when it's released.
The Inner Circle is the private membership inside Examined Living for people who want to go beyond reading about these ideas and start working with them.
Choose monthly or annual billing at checkout. Founding rate applies to the first fifty members.
Limited to ten
$1,197 once
Become one of ten Lifetime Founding Patrons who help establish Examined Living. Permanent Inner Circle access, a personal Founding Patron collection, and a lasting place in the community's story.
Only ten Lifetime Founding Patron places will be offered.
Inside the Inner Circle
Structured education in identity reconstruction, trauma and recovery, mindfulness, integration, and conscious human development.
A growing collection of practices for awareness, grounding, emotional regulation, reflection, and integration.
Books, guides, exercises, recordings, and practical tools you can return to as your work develops.
Private live gatherings for deeper discussion, questions, shared practice, and time with Bradley and other members.
Bonus episodes, extended conversations, cut segments, and material that goes beyond the public Bradley Hall Show.
Bradley is in the threads and at the gatherings. Ask him directly.
The idea behind the community
Examined Living begins with a simple premise: many of the patterns people judge most harshly in themselves began as intelligent attempts to adapt.
Awareness gives us the chance to understand those adaptations. Community gives us a place to examine them honestly. Practice gives us a way to take part, on purpose, in what comes next.
This is not about rejecting who you have been. It is about building a more intentional relationship with who you are becoming.
About Bradley
Bradley Hall is a speaker, author, educator, trauma recovery coach, and the creator of the Hall Human Development System. His work explores how experience shapes identity, perception, adaptation, and choice, and how awareness helps people take a more conscious part in what they become next.
He started coaching athletics in 1987 and went on to coach at every level, with national championships along the way. Coaching athletes led to personal training and nutrition consulting for adults, which led to life coaching, and then, in 2018 and alongside his own NPE discovery, to trauma recovery coaching. Nearly forty years on, the work has moved from the body, to the life, to the identity underneath both.
Examined Living brings that work into one place: his courses, his podcast conversations, guided practices, written resources, and a live community built around the same questions.
CTRC-S trauma recovery coach and IAOTRC faculty and approved supervisor. M.A. in Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute. Retired firefighter and EMT. Navy Hospital Corpsman. President of the NPE Network Board. Creator of NPE Awareness Month and the NPE Virtual Summits. Author of Being Blessed Is a Choice and The Personal Power Playbook.
Side by side
| Examined LivingFree | The Inner Circle$29/month founding rate, then $39. $319/year | Lifetime Founding Patron$1,197 once | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community conversations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public gatherings and announcements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Academy courses | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guided meditation library | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Member resource library | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inner Circle Live | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Backstage Pass | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| The NPE Experience on release | – | Annual only | Signed copy |
| Lifetime access | – | – | ✓ |
| Personalized Patron collection | – | – | ✓ |
| Founding Patrons Roundtable | – | – | ✓ |
Questions
Yes. The wider Examined Living community is free to join. The Inner Circle is the paid membership that holds Bradley's courses, guided practices, private resources, live gatherings, and bonus content.
Every current and future Academy for Integrative Health course while your membership is active, guided meditations, the member resource library, private conversations, Inner Circle Live gatherings, Backstage Pass content from The Bradley Hall Show, and direct access to Bradley in the threads and at live gatherings.
Both give the same Inner Circle access. Monthly is $29 per month at the founding rate, $39 after the first fifty members. Annual is $319 per year, which is twelve months for the price of eleven. Annual members also receive a copy of The NPE Experience when it's released.
The first fifty Inner Circle members join at $29 a month and keep that rate for as long as their membership stays active. After fifty, monthly membership is $39. There's no separate founding annual rate.
Yes. You can cancel a monthly or annual subscription any time from your account. Monthly access continues to the end of the current billing month. Annual access continues to the end of the year you've paid for. There are no partial refunds.
Lifetime Founding Patrons receive permanent Inner Circle access, a personalized welcome collection, signed copies of Bradley's books including The NPE Experience on release and future qualifying titles, numbered Patron recognition, and an invitation to the annual Founding Patrons Roundtable. Only ten places will be offered.
Examined Living is hosted on Circle, where you can reach conversations, Academy courses, resources, events, and your member profile from one account. The Academy for Integrative Health has moved inside the community, so there's nothing separate to log into.
No. Circle walks you through creating an account when you join or purchase a membership.