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How I Found Hope After a Life-Changing Diagnosis

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In 2014, at the age of thirty-one, I was told that I might soon have serious difficulty walking.

For months, my body had been sending me signals I did not understand. I experienced numbness, vertigo, falls, loss of coordination, difficulty reading, disorientation, bladder problems, and other neurological symptoms.

I would walk down the street and suddenly lose my balance. I would look at a page and struggle to process the words. Parts of my body stopped feeling familiar.

Eventually, an MRI revealed more than thirty lesions in my brain and more than twenty in my spinal cord.

I was diagnosed …

Please Tell People They Matter

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When You Need the Company of Animals

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The Consequences of Their Actions

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When Someone Truly Loves You

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If You Can’t Be a Safe Harbor for Someone

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She Grew Up Being Misunderstood

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What My Tired Eyes Taught Me About Paying Attention

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In my second year of Ayurvedic medical school, my eyes started burning around nine o’clock every night.

I did what most students do. I rubbed them, blinked hard a few times, and went back to the screen. Exams were close. The lecture slides were on my laptop, the reference texts were PDFs, and the practice questions were on my phone. My whole education had quietly moved onto glass, and I was reading it for twelve or thirteen hours a day.

The irony took me an embarrassingly long time to notice. By day I was memorizing Shalakya Tantra, the branch of …

Forgive Yourself for Not Seeing the Red Flags

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When People Show You They’re Not a Safe Space

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Someone’s Mental Health Struggles

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The Hidden Danger of Burnout No One Warns You About

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For most of my career, I trusted my ability to assess risk.

I spent decades working in technology, much of it in information security and startups. Risk was not an abstract concept to me. It was my job to anticipate what could go wrong, question assumptions, identify vulnerabilities, and make decisions when the consequences mattered.

And yet, at one of the most important moments of my life, I failed to recognize a vulnerability in myself.

I was severely burned out.

I didn’t understand how much it had affected my judgment until after the financial consequences could no longer be undone.

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The Way Someone Responds to Your Pain

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You Will Never Regret Taking More Pictures

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Never Forget How Brave It Is

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When You Can’t Do Things the Way You Used To

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“What stands in the way becomes the way.” ~Marcus Aurelius

I’ve had two strokes, and after each, there were things I had to relearn. Walking wasn’t what it used to be. My balance became a problem. There are days when my head is foggy, and I have trouble concentrating. My body doesn’t always cooperate with what my mind wants to do.

And over the years, I’ve had plenty of other health problems thrown into the mix.

But I’m not telling you that because I want anybody feeling sorry for me. That’s really not my thing. If anything, the health problems

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I Am Understaffed

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You Were Doing Your Best

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3 Ways Your Brain Adapts After Emotional Abuse

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“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~C.S. Lewis

I’m not sure why some of us have a tougher journey than others, but I can say I wouldn’t be who I am today if I hadn’t loved a narcissist.

Most days now are filled with love from my three little rescue doggies. But there are days I am teleported back in time.

Just the other day, I was standing in my kitchen on a quiet Tuesday afternoon when a familiar smell caught my attention.

I had the window …

I Hope You Stop Calling Yourself Lazy

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