Chapter

If you've made it this far, you've already read the origin story. This chapter is a little less dramatic.

These days, I'm building businesses, supporting clinicians, consulting, coaching, collecting ideas faster than I can execute them, and learning that creating a meaningful life requires just as much intention as creating a successful career.

For the first time in a long time, I'm focused on building something that feels sustainable—not just impressive. While I don't know exactly what's next, I know I want more connection, more community, more laughter, and more spaces where people can show up as themselves.

Right now, I'm:

• Growing Renewal Room and creating a space where both clients & clinicians feel supported, valued, and empowered.

• Building Handled into something bigger than a business and into a place where helping people can take many different forms.

• Consulting, coaching, & helping people navigate the messy middle between where they are and where they want to be.

• Serving as a Professional Auntie, which may be one of my favorite job titles.

• Learning how to put myself on the priority list, too.

• Attempting adulthood: home buying, future planning, and occasionally remembering to fold the laundry.

• Exploring new ways to build community, connection, and support systems for the people around me.

• Asking for support is often harder than offering it.

• Community matters more than I realized.

• Being understood and feeling understood aren't always the same thing. 

• Rest doesn't have to be earned. 

• The people who seem to have it together are usually figuring it out as they go, too. 

• Some of the best parts of life happen when you stop trying to control the entire story and trust yourself to handle whatever comes next.