I was born with a strong awareness of my truth and a sensitivity to the energy that animates the world.

I sensed a presence in the world around me.  

It wasn’t fully ‘other.’  It felt like we were in a conversation that never ended.

When people felt one thing and said another I felt that.  When they judged a group of people I felt them trying to avoid their own self-loathing. 

I imagine you can relate.

I wanted to do well by my tribe.  So when they told me from time to time that I was letting them down, I trusted that. 

Did you catch that?  I trusted the emotional reactivity of my tribe over my own wisdom.

My memory is a picture.  I see myself sending a bit of my truth to others with the hope that when I do better they will send it back. 

Decades later, I’m sitting on a beach with a spring storm frothing about me and I realize that forgiveness is never earned.  It is always a gift. 

When I mess up I am forgiven because it is right to forgive.  It is healthy.  It is the water that flows around us all.  

Forgiveness is baked into this whole experience of trying to do right in a world where we can do anything.

As I walk back up the beach I hear a voice in my mind say to me, “I only ever wanted to love you.” 

The conversation I’ve been in with the animating energy of the world shifts. The white noise is gone.  That conversation is in the foreground again.

I have a witness.  This loving presence witnessed me disown my truth.  It is celebrating my return to wholeness. 

It was never necessary for me to walk this world less than whole.  I have never been asked to do that.  I have always been loved as I am.

I come to this work of life coaching battle worn and filled with joy. 

I can add nothing to you.  You are completely whole. 

But I can hold space for your truth. I tend to see the ways it gets passed over.  I tend to notice when it shows up.