I've been where you are.
It was a Friday night in the fall of 2023. I was overwhelmed, stressed, and on the verge of burnout. I made a drawing in a red Sharpie of what my face felt like — a taut, electrified barbed wire fence. I headed to yoga. Seventy-five minutes later, my mind was still racing.
A few weeks later, I was laid off. Surprisingly, I felt relieved. Deep down I knew things couldn't go on this way. So I did everything I thought should help: vacationed, hiked, spent time with friends, doubled down on yoga and meditation. Nothing helped.
In that space, I asked myself: what would have helped me? I remembered the impact coaching had on me years earlier — the opportunity to be heard without judgment, the clarity and confidence I gained, the support and direction I received.
"To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything, except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply, and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences."
— David Whyte, Consolations
I enrolled in the Integral Coaching program at New Ventures West, where the training itself was deeply transformative. Emotions that had long been repressed surfaced. I became more alive, more attuned to my purpose, more able to act from integrity with myself. I became, in Whyte's words, courageous.
Today I bring that same presence — and that same willingness to go into the difficult places — to the people I work with.
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