Do you feel like a misfit at work?

Personal growth and spirituality have always been the crux of my life.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to scratch beneath the surface and understand how people think, feel and operate on the deepest level. And to work through my challenges to be as happy, healthy and at peace as I could possibly be.

At 14, I bought a Rider Waite tarot deck and did readings for my friends and family. I studied Eastern religions and philosophies in high school and college.

I stumbled across “The Celestine Prophecy” in 1993 and it blew my mind.

I started my yoga practice when I moved to LA in 1998 right after college, then studied Sanskrit a couple years later when I moved to NYC. I adopted the practice of ahimsa (non-violence toward all beings) and became a vegetarian.

I’ve had decades of therapy and coaching. Attended countless healing and developmental workshops. Inhaled books on relationships, conscious communication, healthy boundaries and codependency. Meditated and journaled my heart out (one year, I filled 11 journals!)

All the while, I felt like a misfit at work. 

I had “traditional” jobs that you’d find through a headhunter. Yet deep down, all I really wanted  was to do my own inner-work and help others find their peace and clarity as well.

At 28, I was in a training program to become a coach. But stepped off that path when I had to choose between my job as a marketing director at a national magazine or attending the program’s final workshop.

Yet here I am today, FINALLY having realized my dream of becoming a professional coach. 

Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I could spend my days marinating in personal growth work. 

It feels like my life makes SENSE now. Like *I* make sense now. 

The feelings of relief, rootedness and certainty are unbelievably amazing, in contrast to the way I used to feel when I was doing the things that didn’t match with who I am.

If you can relate to what I’m saying, I SEE YOU.

I DEEPLY understand what it’s like to feel slightly out of place at your job. 

I understand the disconnect of being interested in things your coworkers can’t relate to. 

Of feeling like something’s off.

Like you’re surviving but not thriving at work, AND of not recognizing yourself in this position, because you KNOW that the image your colleagues have of you, is NOT who you are.

That you’re BRILLIANT at something that doesn’t apply to your job—even if that something’s only a nagging feeling in your gut that’s glinting under the surface of your awareness.

I SEE you, I UNDERSTAND what you’re going through and want you to know that you’re NOT alone in this experience. 

There IS another way. Allow yourself to DREAM about its possibility.