Shiver.Smile.Sigh.

I am deeply fed up with behavioral models that promise, through ready-made formulas, to create the better, superior, optimized human being. There are quite a few models and concepts that claim to resist emotional dulling, bitterness, and neglect. Too often, they strike me as lofty, dogmatic, or detached from real life—trapped in hypes and trends, and in practical application frequently awkward or far too rigid.

 

What I enjoy to create instead is the delivery of simple behaviors for everyday life—ways of acting with heart and courage, not just thinking cleverly.

 

What I am bringing into being is rooted in the idea of the Caring Trickster within us -

the power of our capacity to:

 

→ consciously interrupt ingrained reaction patterns,

so they lose their automatic grip.

→ step out of prescribed roles and inflated expectations

before they make us compliant and inert.

→ undermine deception and dominance

without resorting to destructive behavior ourselves. 

The Shiver.Smile.Sigh. Etiquette Academy is about supporting the people who are challenging meanings with what they’re creating. Those whose work is redefining the way that we see things.

 

Does this sound familar to you? 

You’re grinding through endless tasks but still feel like you’re missing something essential, like the joy or meaning in your work. It’s as if a part of you is disconnected, and you’re desperate to reclaim that sensitivity?

 

A colleague’s offhand comment sets you on edge, but you can’t quite pinpoint why.

You feel vulnerable, caught off guard by emotions you don’t fully understand?

 

After long days of nonstop meetings and chasing deadlines, you feel drained, like a performer stuck in a never-ending efficiency circus, craving a genuine break but unsure how to take one?

 

Then, the encounters designed by the Shiver.Smile.Sigh. ETIQUETTE ACADEMY provide shelter from the messy, ambivalent emotions swirling inside you and show you how to tap into your own fierce, nurturing trickster power.

 

The Shiver. Smile. Sigh. ETIQUETTE ACADEMY  is molding the Caring Trickster energy in you and with others. Its methods and tools can outperform the cabinet of mean habits lived out by maligned narcissists, sociopaths, pretenders, demagogues, and grinches. 

 

The Affirmation of Shiver. Smile. Sigh.

 

In a world obsessed with cognitive mastery and emotional control, I,  Patricia , propose a gentler entry point to self-awareness — one that begins in the body. I call it unruly care: a way of listening to the wisdom of instinct, movement, and subtle sensation before the mind rushes in to label or fix. From this way of sensing my simple three-step mantra emerges: Shiver. Smile. Sigh.

I apply it as a body-based salutation that reconnects physical experience with the emotional field. Developed through continuous observation of trickster attitudes in people - I enjoy those fleeting gestures of ease, play, and resilience that appear when we stop trying to manage ourselves.

 

This practice gives the body tangible docking sites to re-enter feeling — to ground awareness in movement rather than thought.

 

 

Shiver.

 Let the body tremble — gently, deliberately. A small shiver loosens the grip of tension and invites comfort through motion. It tells the nervous system: you can let go now.

 

Smile.

 Wear a smile, not as a mask, but as a signal. The act itself sends warmth through the body, softening the face and opening subtle channels of connection. A smile becomes a quiet bridge to empathy — both inward and outward.

 

Sigh.

 Release the breath you didn’t know you were holding. The sigh resets rhythm, allowing air, thought, and emotion to flow again. It is a physical punctuation mark — the body’s way of saying: enough, for now.

 

 

Together, these gestures form a micro-ritual — a small, clever design to coax the Caring Trickster to awaken and sense. 

 

I, Patricia, will show you how to apply this basic embodied salutation not only as a gesture for the mind, but as a foundation for many other body experiences. Through these practices, awareness learns to move with curiosity rather than control — transforming ordinary sensations into subtle acts of freedom.

 

Curious to join us?

 

Then send an email to patricia@blisstobusiness.com and I will introduce you to procedures and invite you to dates of gatherings.