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What we get wrong about goal-setting — and what it can actually do for us. Most of us have a complicated relationship with goal-setting. We've done the January resolutions that fizzled by February. We've made the vision boards, filled the journals, downloaded the apps. And somewhere along the way, many of us quietly concluded that we're just not "goal people" — that the whole apparatus is better suited to a certain type of driven, optimized, color-coded personality that we ar

Over the past few years, while being sick with a chronic illness (one I only recently became aware of), I’ve done a lot of deep reflecting as part of the healing process. As I started to recover enough to turn back toward my work and interests, to return more to the outer world, I kept having a nagging feeling that I should pick a new name for myself. I’ve felt the urge to have a nickname or another name many times throughout my life. In elementary school, I wanted a name wi

For years, I worked as a health education trainer for city government. I did a pretty decent job supporting the health of young people. I advocated for best practices, knew how to represent the institution’s values clearly, and how to write and speak in ways that stayed polished and aligned with policy. In a job with such a wide reach, that felt like a powerful skill—single initiatives could impact tens of thousands of students. But somewhere along the way, I realized I was l

I’ve always known something about my light. Even as a child, I felt it in myself on good days. I was drawn to it in others, and I’ve always been attracted to basking in beautiful light—whether in a person, a landscape, or the way the sun hits a wall in late afternoon. I even named my child after the idea of light. But for much of my life, when survival mode took over, my light felt like it flickered out. I didn’t know how to bring it back when I needed it. Sometimes I’d have