Part 3: Coming Home, Chapter 4: Quiet Return We’ve all heard of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey: an archetypal myth involving an unlikely hero who experiences a form of disruption to his life as he knows it. He hears a call to adventure, an invitation that propels him out of the ordinary and into the […]

Part 3: Coming Home, Chapter 3: Re-call In the spring of my second year, I became an empty nester when my youngest set off on an eight-month adventure in Europe. Prior to her departure, I worried that I might be lonely. I had never lived on my own, my entire adult life having been spent […]

Part 3: Coming Home, Chapter 2: Learning To Stay I arrived home after my Camino adventure feeling like a new person. I felt alive, vibrant, and loved—even loveable. A month later, I turned 50 which felt like a threshold moment as I was entered this new decade with a fresh way of relating to myself, […]

Part 3: Coming Home, Chapter 1: Beginning Reflecting on those first weeks on my own, I always smile remembering those early feelings of freedom and liberation. I recall that felt sense of lightness, the result of untangling myself from a life that no longer fit. And I can also recognize how, at the time, I […]

Part 2: Identity – The Unravelling So, there I was, working for a big corporate company, hustling to sit at another table that wasn’t mine. I had a brand-new plan; scramble my way up the ladder and prove my worth — to myself and others. My plan wasn’t completely misguided, though. Beneath my desire for […]

Part 1: Ambition When I received my Executive Coaching certification in 2021, I had big dreams for how my career would take off —but I underestimated how much my own insecurities would shape my path. At 46 years old, I had just graduated with a BA in Leadership (my late-in-life decision to go to University […]