As we looked at creativity in a broader sense this month, beyond the finished products, programs and polished presentations that make up the everyday fabric of working life, one question kept surfacing in the silence of my own exploration: does meaningful creation necessarily require pain? Or can it arise just as genuinely from a place of calm, sufficiency and inner peace?
Read MoreMay is Mental Health Month, and I think the most honest thing I can say about mental health, after everything I have been reading and sitting with this month, is that what feels broken is not you, it is never you. What is broken is the story we were told about time, about value, about what a life well-lived looks like.
Read MorePurpose is a word we use often, but rarely pause to define. What if connection isn’t just a byproduct of purpose, but the source of it? What if we’re not chasing impact to feel fulfilled, but chasing connection?
Read MoreDisconnection has become the norm. Connection isn’t something we “achieve.” It’s something we practice every day in small ways: Noticing, pausing, listening, reaching out, checking in.
Anicca doesn’t ask us to like change. It asks us to recognise that we are change: that thoughts, roles, relationships, and identities are all living processes. We’re never stuck, we’re always moving. Quietly, continuously, sometimes invisibly, but moving nonetheless. Change isn’t an interruption to life, it’s simply the way life expresses itself best.
Read MoreChange is one of the few things in life we can most definitely count on. Yet, it also remains one of the most feared, misunderstood, and resisted experiences we encounter. Whether it’s a career pivot, a relationship shift, a personal transformation, or even a change in daily routine, something in us tightens.
Read MoreNowadays, hope and resiliency aren’t soft skills, they’re survival skills.They are the emotional infrastructure that allows us to keep building, especially when it’s hard, when it’s slow, when it doesn’t look the way we thought it would.
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