Split tree with one side vibrant and green, the other dry and lifeless, symbolizing the fracture of alignment and the path to restoration.

The Fall of Alignment

June 15, 20253 min read

Before there was pain, there was misalignment.

Adam didn’t just break trust.

He broke the design.

We call it The Fall, but the rupture didn’t begin with rebellion. It started with abdication.

Adam didn’t protect.
He didn’t speak.
He didn’t lead.
He watched presence collapse into pressure and said nothing.

In that silence, the energy shifted.
Eve stepped into the space he was meant to hold.
She reached, she took, she led.
Not because it was right, but because he wasn’t.

Her mistake happened in the vacuum of his silence.
The serpent didn’t just tempt Eve…
He exposed Adam’s absence.


This is where alignment dies:

Not in the action, but in the role reversal.

And we’ve been living in that distortion ever since.

When men disengage from presence, women bear the spiritual burden.
When polarity collapses, confusion enters the house.
When we abandon our God-given design, we inherit di-sease.

We don’t just feel misaligned.
We pass it on.
Through our faith systems.
Through our families.
Through our bodies.
Through the stories we tell ourselves about worth, responsibility, and love.


Misalignment is generational.

And so is the restoration.

If you’ve ever felt like your life looked fine on paper but still felt hollow,
If you’ve ever carried more than your share in a relationship,
If you’ve ever tried to earn love by doing more, holding more, proving more…—

You’re not broken.
You’re misaligned.

You weren’t created for a hustle-based identity.
You were designed for divine alignment.

And when that alignment fractures, faith becomes fear, intimacy becomes imbalance, and clarity becomes impossible.


This is why I created the Maverick Movement and everything I teach.

🧭 The Clarity Assessment is your starting point for locating misalignment across the 5Fs—Faith, Family, Fitness, Fellowship, and Field.

🔥 Maverick Unleashed is my refusal to let the world bury who God created you to be.

🕊 Maverick Faith* is my rebellion against religious systems and spiritual worldviews that hide the heart of God.

💔 Maverick Intimacy* is my response to the polarity and intimacy collapse we’ve started calling normal.

⚡️ Maverick Awakening is my uprising against the numbness that keeps us asleep to who we really are.

And INITIATION is the private, one-on-one recalibration I offer for those ready to walk out of confusion and back into design.

* New books coming soon (late 2025) completing the Maverick Trilogy.


Let me leave you with this:

God doesn’t restore through control.
He restores through grace and order.

He’s not asking you to do more.
He’s inviting you to come back into alignment with Him, with your design, with the person you were created to be before the world told you who you had to become.

If your life feels out of rhythm, it might not be a failure.
It might be a fall.

And your restoration won’t start with more performance.
It will start with clarity and presence.

👉🏻 Take the Clarity Assessment


Or if you’re ready to recalibrate privately and powerfully…

👉🏻 DM INITIATION


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From my radiant Maverick heart,
– Jeff
❤️‍🔥

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Jeffrey S. Simpson is a strategic advisor, movement builder, and spiritual disruptor—guiding trailblazers and purpose-driven souls to live boldly, unleash impact, and align with their divine design. Through his signature frameworks—the .1% Effect℠, Be EmPowerful℠, and the 5F Framework℠ (Faith, Family, Fitness, Fellowship, and Field)—Jeff helps others become who God created them to be in life, work, and legacy.

A Maverick with nearly 37 years of service in and with the U.S. Navy and over 15 years at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Jeff brings battle-tested leadership to every conversation. He holds graduate degrees in divinity and ministry, a bachelor’s in religion, and an associate’s in engineering. He is a certified Strengths Champion coach, actively pursuing certification in the Enneagram and credentialing through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

When he's not coaching high-achieving pioneers, Jeff can be found on the dance floor as a passionate ballroom, rhythm, and social dancer.

Jeffrey S. Simpson

Jeffrey S. Simpson is a strategic advisor, movement builder, and spiritual disruptor—guiding trailblazers and purpose-driven souls to live boldly, unleash impact, and align with their divine design. Through his signature frameworks—the .1% Effect℠, Be EmPowerful℠, and the 5F Framework℠ (Faith, Family, Fitness, Fellowship, and Field)—Jeff helps others become who God created them to be in life, work, and legacy. A Maverick with nearly 37 years of service in and with the U.S. Navy and over 15 years at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Jeff brings battle-tested leadership to every conversation. He holds graduate degrees in divinity and ministry, a bachelor’s in religion, and an associate’s in engineering. He is a certified Strengths Champion coach, actively pursuing certification in the Enneagram and credentialing through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). When he's not coaching high-achieving pioneers, Jeff can be found on the dance floor as a passionate ballroom, rhythm, and social dancer.

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