For most of my life, I’ve been the one people counted on.
A steady worker. A business owner. A father of five. A husband. A friend. I’ve always found joy in seeing others succeed — lifting up teammates, supporting my children, helping my loved ones shine.
But underneath all of that was something I never talked about. Something I could barely admit to myself:
I didn’t feel worthy.
Despite all the outward success, I carried an invisible weight — patterns I didn’t understand, habits I couldn’t break, and a sense of self-worth that felt fragile, or sometimes missing altogether.
In late 2024, something shifted. I started learning about adult children of alcoholics (ACoA), dysfunctional family systems, and the deep emotional imprint they leave. It was like a language I didn’t know I’d been speaking all my life...
What if an app could gently help us notice the small behaviors that signal something deeper?
What if it didn’t judge us — just offered a kind, quiet nudge?
What if healing didn’t have to be loud?
AwareFlow is not about fixing yourself. It’s about becoming aware — and then becoming free.
You are not alone. You are not broken. And you are not too late.
“I believe healing starts with awareness. And awareness starts by being honest with ourselves — gently.”
Jason Babcock
Founder of AwareFlow™
The Empty Nest Reflection
In 2024, something else changed — I became an empty nester for the first time at age 50...
Familiar, Not Comfortable
This wasn’t comfort. It was familiarity with sadness. Familiarity with shame. Familiarity with self-doubt.
Now, I’m retraining my brain — gently, daily — to make something else familiar:
- Kindness
- Hope
- Confidence
- Stillness that doesn’t mean threat
- Joy that doesn’t feel like guilt
Learning How to Be a Man
... a roadmap to manhood. Not the hardened kind. The honest kind. The kind that says:
You can be soft and still be strong.
You can love deeply and still lead.
You can be a man who feels — and that is enough.
The Sniffing That Was Never About Sniffing
I’ve struggled with a nervous sniffing habit since I was young...
It was a cry for relief. A nervous system begging for safety.
And now, for the first time, I’m learning to offer myself that safety from the inside.