On Stillness, Defiance, and the Art of Authoring Our Own Life Rest is one of those concepts we think we understand, until someone asks us to define it. Then we realize we've been confusing it with sleep. Or vacation. Or the absence of work. Or collapse. None of those are quite it. Rest Is Not One Thing This is the first truth worth naming: rest is plural. It takes different forms for different people, in different seasons, at different hours of the day. What restores one person depletes...

What if quiet quitting is the most honest thing we can offer our over-responsible, perfectionist , searching selves? What if it's not quitting at all but regulating, healing, giving in amounts that are sustainable and controlled by you? I've spent over 25 years looking at organizations through a leadership and HR lens. I've studied the engagement surveys, designed People & Culture roadmaps, hired incredible folks and watched them succeed, and chase the next thing. I've led variety of growth...

For years, photography guided me into presence. When my life took a turn I thought was for the better, which turned out to be for the worst, photography became the thread that led me back. Back to presence. Back to awe and back to joy. Through the lens, through walking in nature, through paying attention, I begun discovering something: My thoughts are not facts. And I am not my thoughts. This was a captivating revelation. The Discovery If we can notice  our thoughts, then logically, we...