For Individuals
The Clearer You™
How Seeing Yourself Clearly Changes Your Relationships, Your Work, and the Life You Are Building
Understand the patterns influencing how you think, respond, connect, make decisions, and move through different parts of your life. The Clearer You™ brings together your Portrait, emotional skills, Connection Style™, Security Pattern, the 7 Foundations, and six life arenas, then helps you move from recognition into practical action.
Understand the Person You Bring Into Every Part of Life
A fuller picture of yourself gives you more choice in how you respond to the people and situations that matter most. The goal of the book is recognition: the point where you read a paragraph and think, that is exactly what I do. Change begins there, because the pattern has finally come into view.
Reading helps you recognize the pattern. A different response in one real situation begins to change it. Each chapter closes with reflection questions and one concrete action to try.
Five Dimensions. One Life.
The five dimensions work together to create a fuller picture of how you move through life. The first four travel with you from one setting to another. The fifth shows where those patterns become visible in everyday experience.
Portrait
The characteristic way you take in information, make decisions, and engage the people around you. The Sixteen Portraits™ give that pattern recognizable names and practical language.
Emotional Skills
Four practical capacities you can build: insight, emotional balance, empathy and relational warmth, and drive.
Connection Style™
How you most naturally give and receive care. The Connection Styles™ are The Encourager™, The Anchor™, and The Clarifier™.
Security Pattern
What helps closeness feel secure, and what begins inside you when that security becomes uncertain. The protective move introduced in Chapter 3 is the behavior that may follow.
The Six Life Arenas
Where those patterns become visible: work and service, relationships, your body, money, solitude, and the chapter ahead.
Connection Style™ and Security Pattern can sound similar because both involve closeness. One describes the form your care takes. The other describes what helps closeness feel secure and what begins inside you when it becomes uncertain.
Four Emotional Skills
Emotional skills, as the book uses the term, are four practical capacities you can build:
Insight
Seeing your own patterns accurately while they are happening, not only in hindsight.
Emotional Balance
Staying steady enough to choose your response deliberately.
Empathy and Relational Warmth
Reading what the people around you need and staying present long enough to receive it.
Drive
Turning what you understand into consistent action in daily life.
Six Life Arenas
Part Two applies your patterns across six arenas of life, one chapter each:
- Chapter 5: You at Work and in Service
- Chapter 6: You in Relationships
- Chapter 7: You and Your Body
- Chapter 8: You and Your Money
- Chapter 9: You in Solitude
- Chapter 10: Your Next Chapter
The Relationships Reimagined® 7 Foundations Framework™
The book also examines your life through the 7 Foundations: Communication, Conflict, Trust, Intimacy, Finances, Boundaries, and Growth. Chapter 4 introduces the framework, and Chapter 11 applies it across your life.
The framework also applies to the relationship you have with yourself. Communication, for example, includes what you say to others and what you tell yourself.
For individuals, Intimacy is applied more broadly through Interpersonal Connection.
Find Your Starting Portrait
Chapter 1 includes a Quick Portrait Finder. Twelve questions point you toward a likely starting Portrait, and the book directs you to the fuller descriptions to read next. Choose the answer that feels more natural in ordinary life.
You can also use the online Quick Portrait Finder at RelationshipsReimagined.com/portrait.
From Recognition to Action
Part One: How You Are Built
- The Way You Are Wired
- How You Love
- How You Protect Yourself
- The 7 Foundations Framework
Part Two: Where You Actually Live
- You at Work and in Service
- You in Relationships
- You and Your Body
- You and Your Money
- You in Solitude
- Your Next Chapter
Part Three: The Complete Picture
- The 7 Foundations in Your Life
- From Insight to Movement
- The Life You Are Building
Who This Book Serves
The Clearer You™ serves readers who are single, dating, partnered, married, divorced, or widowed. The patterns it explores belong to you and influence every relationship in your life, including the one you have with yourself.
The Personalized Companion: The You Profile™
The book teaches the framework. The Profile applies it to you.
The You Profile™ is the personalized companion to The Clearer You™. It applies the framework to your current life and shows where your patterns are active now. The report:
- reads your four emotional skills, your Security Pattern, the protective move that appears under pressure, and the default loop that can follow
- applies the 7 Foundations across the areas of life where they matter most
- brings forward specific strengths, pressure points, practical shifts, and language you can use across the six life arenas
- closes with a focused action plan, a first seven days, a thirty-day direction, and tools for conversations with a therapist, partner, or trusted person
The You Profile™ is designed to sit beside what you learn in the book. Where the book and Profile point toward a similar pattern, that repetition gives you another reason to examine it closely. Where they differ, consider what the difference may reveal about your current circumstances.
When You Need More Than This Book
The book points toward outside support at several places, for mental health, trauma, safety, and major life decisions. Near the end, it summarizes what each kind of support is for, so you can choose the right one.
Written by Richard and Nancy Wallace
Richard and Nancy Wallace are the co-founders of Relationships Reimagined® and the creators of the Relationships Reimagined® 7 Foundations Framework™.
The Clearer You™ extends their work into practical self-understanding and connects directly with The You Profile™.
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Book Details
- Title: The Clearer You™
- Subtitle: How Seeing Yourself Clearly Changes Your Relationships, Your Work, and the Life You Are Building
- Authors: Richard and Nancy Wallace
- Edition: First Edition, 2026
- Publisher: Publish Reimagined™, an imprint of Wallace Consultancy, LLC
- ISBN: 979-8-9935822-3-8
Continue the Journey
The book gives you a structured way to examine yourself.
The You Profile™ adds a personalized report based on your responses.
Individual Sessions provide a facilitated setting for working through what you discover and deciding what you want to do next.
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This book is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional advice.