Between Chapters
Between Chapters offers thoughtful essays, practical insight, and steady companionship for those rebuilding, reorienting, or simply pausing to listen more closely. If you find yourself between what was and what’s next, you’re in the right place.
Leadership is often described as an opportunity.
A chance to influence, to grow and to make meaningful change.
And it can be those things.
But many leaders today are carrying a quieter truth: Leade...
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Before the next essay arrives, I wanted to pause and write to you personally.
Over the past months, we’ve explored transitions, resilience, identity, purpose, confidence, joy, and the quie...
Most of us were taught to think about growth as a linear process. You figure something out, make a change, and move forward.
And sometimes that does happen.
But more often, growth looks cyclical. Yo...
After periods of burnout, grief, or prolonged transition, many people say some version of the same thing: “I don’t feel joy the way I used to.”
They often assume this means something is broken. That ...
There is a phase of growth that rarely gets celebrated. It isn’t a breakthrough. It isn’t a big reveal. It isn’t a moment where everything suddenly feels clear. It’s the middle.
You’ve stopped doing ...
We talk a lot about becoming. Becoming more aligned. More whole. More ourselves.
But becoming has another side that doesn’t get named as often – Letting Go.
Things must loosen. The shape of your lif...
Resilience is often described as the ability to bounce back.
To push through. To stay strong. To keep going.
And to be fair, resilient people do keep going.
They do recover.
They do find their footi...
Many people think of leadership as something you step into once you feel ready, once you’re confident, clear, and certain about the path forward.
But in real life, leadership often shows up much earl...
There’s a particular kind of self-doubt that shows up after change.
Not the kind that comes from fear of failure, but the quieter loss of footing that happens when the old rules no longer apply. You’...
There comes a moment in many transitions when a quiet question surfaces:
What if I chose differently now?
For many of us, that question feels risky. We’ve invested time, energy, and credibility. We...
There’s a quiet discomfort that arises when life looks fine on the outside, but feels slightly off on the inside.
You’re still showing up. Still achieving. Still doing what’s expected.
And yet, somet...
We are storytelling creatures. We make sense of our lives through the stories we tell about who we are, what we do, and why it matters.
But what happens when those stories stop fitting?
I see this o...
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