What Death, Receiving, Companionship & Shame have to do with how we inhabit change — The beginning is also the finish line. A series on charting transitions for our Aliveness comes to a conclusion with a lesson on Death. Joy and grief must exist together. Life is a series of arrivals and departures through which we must companion ourselves, or be companioned. …

*Originally published on LinkedIn October 7, 2020 Have you ever wondered if you’re on the “right” path? Have you ever taken a brave chance on yourself, to follow maybe what you couldn’t articulate to others but knew was the way? …

Four secrets to navigate uncertainty with ease, joy, and grace. — Navigating transformative transition - much like good travel - is full of surprises, unforeseen circumstances, fortuitous encounters, and an ability to befriend — rather than cast out — uncertainty and the unknown. How we approach transition, change, or even trying out leading (or being) in a new way with a…

Lessons learned from a country in crisis, Dengue Fever, and running a first-ever international leadership for impact retreat — “Welcome home,” they say. But this implies I left? I feel an inner resistance to what I know is a well-meaning greeting made by friends and family upon my arrival to America, but what feels to me like confusion, a misunderstanding. …

Where do you feel most vibrantly alive, peaceful, and free? Try something rebellious with me…Are you aware you are breathing? Let’s take a big inhale through the nose, and then an even longer (calm) exhale through the nose. Did your breath make it down to the belly, or did it stay up in the chest? Let’s do it again…inhale…exhale. And…

The courage it takes to risk being who we are. To love oneself, cracks and all. — I have suffered from anxiety for as long as I can remember. A fear of not being the best, a fear of failing or not achieving the highest A++ available, the most books read in a summer, the sought after scholarship, the most precise barre student/teacher, a highly paid job…

Dear Brave Heart and Courageous Rebel, Have you ever felt trapped…in a job, a role, a path, a life? You know something doesn’t fit right, but you don’t quite believe it could be any better, or you don’t *think* you know what else you might do. You’ve become caged in…

17 months in the making, and I am here. I am writing from Sri Lanka at long last. Even sweeter than I dared to remember, but for reasons surprising even to me. Each trip a longer and deeper conversation with life I continue to choose to participate in over and…