Pathways to possibility

Three years ago, I navigated a major career transition as I stepped out of nonprofit executive leadership and into a period of unknown.

At that time, I felt scared and worried about moving forward into uncertainty. Parts of me felt lost and broken. Parts of me felt confused and concerned. The inner knowing within me felt quieted by an ever-growing inner critic.

I’d been accustomed to intensely busy work days filled with back-to-back Zoom meetings. Constant activity and constant thinking felt normal. Rest and silence felt radical. I wasn’t used to being 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧.

For the first time, I experienced a stillness. A stop. A pause. My whole life had been a climb, and, now, a massive degree of chosen and unchosen change was redirecting my path in a way I didn’t fully understand.

𝙉𝙤𝙬, 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬.

That pause opened up a new space, which awakened my awareness of parts of my life that desperately needed my attention. My health, my mothering, my marriage all cried out during this period as being in deep need of care and repair.

I had learned to deprioritize my needs, to disconnect from my body, and to override my intuitive knowing. I began a journey to unlearn, to reconnect, and to remember how to listen to the wisdom within.

During this journey, I reintegrated my broken pieces into a mosaic of liberated living. From this pause, I restored my health, my mothering, and my marriage by infusing renewed patience and commitment. From this space, emerged my vision for supporting leaders in their conscious transformation. My coaching practice, Piñata Possible, was born shortly thereafter.

I have many stories about this “in-between” time and what it taught me. It was both a breakdown and a breakthrough that scared and served me in ways that awakened me to the life I was meant to be living.

I honor all that was. And I see how my life unfolded into the 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵 lessons I most needed to learn. I continue to live, and I continue to learn, now with an awareness of how to restore infinite possibility even amidst the most unfavorable and uncertain circumstances.

I know it is my work to do to open pathways of possibility for others. I commit to holding space for leaders to awaken to the infinite power and potential they hold within. In some ways, this has always been my path. Now, I am awake to it.