I help people return to what makes us fully human, and participate more fully in life.

We can build lives that work and still feel like something is missing. 

We can be successful, responsible, happy, yet find ourselves restless, disconnected, or feeling hungry for something we can't quite name. 

I don't think that hunger is necessarily a problem to fix. Rather, it can point toward parts of our humanness that have been neglected: our relationship with our bodies, with other people, with the living world, with what matters to us deeply, and with our ability to participate and contribute beyond what's in front of us every day.

My work begins there. 

I'm interested in what helps us live as fuller human beings, not simply functioning or achieving, but developing our capacity for deeper engagement and aliveness. 

I came to this work by a somewhat winding path. 

For much of my professional life, I worked in research and business strategy, studying people, asking questions, looking for patterns, and trying to understand what drives human choices and behavior. 

Alongside that work, I was drawn increasingly toward a different set of questions: What helps a human life flourish? Why can a good life still leave us restless? What allows us to recognize what matters and respond to it? And importantly, what does it mean to participate well in the world?

Those questions eventually took me to wilderness guiding, nature-based practices, rites of passage work, and interfaith ministry. I trained as a Wild Mind and Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide and have spent years guiding wilderness experiences and facilitating reflection for individuals and groups. 

These may look like different strands of a life, but to me they belong to the same inquiry:

How do we pay attention to what is actually happening within ourselves, between us, and in the larger living world around us? And how do we do this well?

Today, that inquiry takes shape primarily through my writing, teaching, and guiding. 

I believe that to really live, we must participate fully in life. I believe becoming more fully ourselves is part of this equation. Our participation is part of it too. Both are necessary and consequential. How we live matters not only to us, but to life around us. 

I write a weekly Invitation to Your Life email. It offers a weekly opportunity to engage differently with your life. To listen more closely. And to notice more fully what it is asking of you and, if you desire, to respond. 

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