I come to this work by living it — by following something older than credentials across borders, traditions, and more than one complete dissolution of the life I had built.

I've had the outer structure of my life come apart several times. What I found each time was not wreckage, but something more like an invitation to an alchemical truth: what falls apart was never the whole of you. The real substance, the deeper self, remained. And it was that — the interior life, the imaginal, the soul's quiet knowing — that reorganized everything else when I stopped fighting the dissolution and started tending it.

I think of it as coming Home. It is the deliberate, unhurried work of returning to yourself - not as you were, but as you are becoming.

Along the way, I thru-hiked 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail. I trained in yoga, meditation, and energy work. I've sat in silent retreats. I lived with indigenous communities in Guatemala, supporting displaced communities in the long work of rebuilding after disaster. I worked in post-conflict Bosnia, in community development across Central and South America, and in corporate boardrooms in New York. I have taught thousands of people contemplative practices on stages, in studios, in living rooms, and on mountainsides.

What all of it taught me — the conflict zones and the boardrooms, the mountain paths and the ceremony circles — is that the human psyche is not a problem to be solved. It is a living system, layered with symbol and story, image and shadow, longing and memory. It wants to move toward wholeness. It will find its way, if given the right conditions.