Many of my clients and friends have been talking about purpose (your why) lately. It’s not that surprising when you look around at how the world is unfolding. It’s pretty grim these days (not that I don’t also see the beauty, but…). It makes a ton of sense to me. There’s a desire to reconnect to something more meaningful speaks to the balance our inner worlds are seeking beyond the existential realities banging at our doors.

I don’t know the first time I saw a zine. But I remember how I felt when my world collided with one. Like I was being pulled into this raw, analog, work-in-progress, unfinished experience of life. It was one of the most honest things I had seen.

LYOL - live your own life. It’s a reminder that no one else is me and no one else can actually live my life, except me. So why not hop in my lane and get after it in the way that best works for me. Not everyone will know or understand what works for me or what I need or what I want. And that is ok.

It’s such a cool invitation on its own, but I like it even more if we dig deeper. If we allow ourselves to first sit with, understand, honor, love whats here for us and who we’ve been, and hold that part of us FIRST. THEN go about evolving…

For as long as I can remember, I have wrestled with the exploration of who I am. Sometimes it’s been easy. Sometimes it’s been nearly impossible. The drive to know myself deeply has taken me to many places + people that ultimately led me back to me, deep to my core, in new + surprising ways, unlocking new + surprising understandings of myself.

I would give myself full permission to be exactly where I am, whether that was on a mountain top, down a rabbit hole, or anywhere in between. Permission to be me…