There’s a lot spinning around in my mind right now.

If you’re dreaming about a career change — or even just a shift toward something that feels more meaningful — let me introduce you to one of my favorite concepts: Ikigai.

Here’s a little truth bomb:You already have incredible strengths — not just the “skills” you’ve picked up at work, but the natural ways you show up in the world.

Somewhere along the way, we pick up a lot of ideas about what should matter — success, status, money, being "good enough."But midlife has a funny way of asking us to slow down and rethink it all.

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” 

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it, love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”