What makes you get up in the morning?

For as long as I can remember I have had a passion for sitting and listening to humans and marveling at their resilience, resourcefulness, and survival instincts.

When I see human faces I see beauty, I see suffering and I see enormous potential for transcendence.

We are incredibly complex and intelligent beings and yet we can get restricted and limited by the threads of well-worn patterns of childhood experiences or social norms or we can be bullied by our internal inner critic who forever ruminates on the "not good enough story" or "unrelenting standards" or catastrophizing and exaggerating potential threats lest we humiliate ourselves or find ourselves at the edges of our personal comfort zone.

I love seeing people open up to the possibility of their own body's wisdom, to the truth that the longing for peace and fulfilment is within reach by their own wise choices.

I love to see a person transform their anxiety and fear into courageous and open personal growth.

I love holding space for people to feel what they are feeling without fear of judgement, to relax and drop the mask as they learn this is a safe place to land where they can be brave and vulnerable and share their challenges and longings and know that as a fellow traveler I am right there as a witness to support increased awareness of their own inner wise guide.

When we find our purpose, we discover that we can become the one we were destined to be despite all the challenges.

Who are we called to be?

What to do with this one wild and precious life?

It is one of the things that helps me get up in the morning, to walk with people and explore ways to live an examined life that recovers personal authority and vitality.

We are all born flawed, we are called to love the unlovable parts of ourselves, and to learn what helps us rise and what carries us through difficult times.

Nature has equipped us with infinite resilience and we can trust that.

What fires your passion? What matters most?

What gets you up in the morning?