THE BLOG

This was the reality for Laura Alessio, who joined me on the It’s Your Story to Tell podcast. For years, Laura battled unexplained symptoms—crippling vertigo, overwhelming fatigue, and a deep sense that something just wasn’t right. Yet time and time ...

You may not be a nurse, but chances are you’ve worn the caregiver hat more times than you can count.

Maybe you’re the one your family leans on. The colleague who always picks up the slack. The friend who listens when others need to vent, even when y...

What if everything you thought you had to be… was a lie?

What if the blueprint you were handed—by your parents, your culture, your entire upbringing—wasn’t meant for you at all?

For so many of us, the idea of success wasn’t discovered—it was assign...

What happens when the very thing you’ve worked so hard for—your career, your calling, your identity—becomes the very thing breaking you? What do you do when pushing through is no longer an option?

That’s the raw truth of burnout, and chances are, if...

Grief is one of the most complex emotions we face in life. It doesn’t come with a rulebook, a timeline, or a set pattern. It hits differently for everyone, and just when you think you’ve gotten through the worst of it, a wave crashes over you again.

There comes a time in almost every professional’s journey when something feels off. You wake up with a heaviness in your chest, dreading the workday ahead. Maybe your work used to excite you, but now you feel drained, unmotivated, or even resentful. ...

We live in a world that often rewards silence. Go along to get along. Don’t rock the boat. Be agreeable. We are taught, sometimes explicitly but more often subtly, that speaking up—whether for ourselves, for others, or for what we believe in—is risky...

Breaking free from our ingrained thought patterns can feel daunting, like trying to reroute a river that has flowed the same way for years. Yet, within this challenge lies the key to genuine transformation.

Imagine your mind as a garden, with pathwa...

Failure. It’s a word most of us fear—something we avoid at all costs, a sign that we’ve somehow fallen short. But what if failure isn’t the end of the road? What if it’s actually the door to something greater?

In today’s world, success is often meas...

Dr. Gabor Maté has spoken extensively about how self-abandonment—the ways we disconnect from our true selves to gain approval, avoid conflict, or meet expectations—can be at the root of disease, burnout, anxiety, and even chronic illness.

Self-aband...