If you carry weight for other people, you probably do not need hype. You need orientation. This page is that orientation. It is how I got here, what I hold in a session, and why the work exists.

I am Keith Goff, founder of CaddieWithin. As a kid, I learned to read the room fast. I learned what got approval and what got heat. I learned to manage myself around people. That helped me function, but it also trained me to perform and to stay braced.

I made real mistakes. DUIs are part of my story. Not as a badge. As a cost. There were seasons where I tried to outrun what I did not want to face and numb what I could not name. Over time, the consequences made honesty unavoidable.

I got sober, mostly outside AA. That meant building my own structure and accountability. It also meant I could not hide behind anyone else. I had to sit with discomfort without reaching for a shortcut.

Then came divorce and parenting. Those chapters force reality. Parenting teaches presence. Pressure does not care what you meant to do.

My wins look different now. They look like showing up clean, keeping my word, and not needing to dominate a room. This is not a redemption story. It is a record of consequences, ownership, and rebuilding.

I do not have a universal message for you. I am not here to define you or hand you a script. What I do have is lived time with distortion, and lived time with less of it.

Under pressure, the mind writes rules in the background. Some help. Some quietly damage decision making. CaddieWithin exists so you can see what is running as you experience it, and claim what you hold as true for yourself.

If you carry real stakes, you can be competent and still feel crowded inside your own head. Many places try to fix you, hype you, diagnose you, or sell you a future version of yourself. This is not that. This is clarity without pressure.

A CaddieWithin session is a bounded conversation built around inquiry. I name what I can observe, ask clean questions, and keep the space free of persuasion. I do not diagnose. I do not prescribe. I do not claim authority over your meaning. Your decisions remain yours.

The golf metaphor is not decoration. Golf is one of the few places where the next shot is yours no matter what the last hole looked like. It is slow enough to reveal patterns and quiet enough to hear your own thinking.

If you want a simple starting point for what inquiry means, you can read about the Socratic method. If you want neutral context about how decisions get shaped under pressure, you can read about cognitive bias. Those links are references, not instruction.

Return = a steady return to the sweet spot — shot by shot, round by round.