I didn’t want cats. I truly never wanted cats. It never even crossed my mind that I might fall in love with them, or want them inside my house, or feel my heart rearrange itself around them. I thought they would be practical. Necessary. A solution to a problem.

The chicken feed brings in rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels. I knew we had more chipmunks than was probably ideal, but as soon as I started seeing rats and mice in the light of day every single day, I knew we had a real problem.

Coaching mastery may be one of the most essential human skillsets of this decade.
Not as a profession.
As a form of human literacy.

The world is changing quickly.
Work, identity, and structure are far less stable than they once were.
Technology, automation, and expanding possibilities have accelerated the pace of change beyond what most humans were ever trained to navigate.

If you’re reading this, chances are you are one of the quiet heroes of the coming age.
Some of you may feel a warm recognition at those words.
Others may instinctively shrink, assuming such a title must be meant for someone else.
But this is neither flattery nor exaggeration.
It is simply what becomes clear when you witness enough humans up close.
The ones who find their way here tend to share a certain kind of depth,
a certain kind of wisdom,
a certain way of sensing that there are truer ways of being than the ones we were taught.

Parenting has been one of my greatest teachers, not because it demands perfection, but because it asks something deeper of me:
inner leadership.
The more years I spend raising my children, the more I realize that almost everything in life eventually comes down to this. The ability to turn toward my own inner world, to meet myself honestly, and to lead myself with steadiness… this is the thread I want to run beneath every choice I make as a mother.

Surrender.

What a concept.

It sounds so lovely and easy to do.

But when you’re in the eye of the storm, it can feel like the fight for your life.
Because surrender asks us to release control.
And if we lose control in the heart of the storm - what will keep us alive?

I don’t believe my way is the right way for anyone else.
What a weight that would be—to carry the illusion that I could hold the map for another soul.
I don’t want that responsibility.
It’s not my work to know what’s right for anyone else.
My clarity will never require another’s agreement, and someone else’s clarity will never require mine.
This is one of the few things I really know.

There’s an evolution happening — one we can feel in the air around us.
Technology is advancing in ways that will change how we live, work, and connect. But it’s not a split between worlds, or a fight between the natural and the artificial. It’s a widening — an expansion that’s asking us to evolve in step with what we’re creating.

The liberation I most need — the kind that moves me most deeply,
is the liberation of myself from myself:
from the parts of me that hold the other parts hostage.

What a tender and courageous thing it is to live a truly authentic life.

It would be comforting to believe that if we were aligned enough, kind enough, vibrated high enough, or spiritually attuned enough, life would only ever meet us in harmony. That authenticity could somehow shield us from chaos, pain, failure, or heartbreak. That being true to ourselves would mean being safe from the dangers of the world.

It’s taken me years to understand that not all movement is progress. There are still days when urgency sneaks in, disguised as motivation, and I can feel the pull of “do it now” pounding in my chest, convincing me that action alone means forward movement

A Mind Rebel™ Coach does not come to the conversation as the one who knows. They come as the one who listens.

People often ask what makes a powerful coach.
They expect a list: presence, reflection, questions, structure.
And yes—outer skills matter. They shape the container.

A Mind Rebel™ Coach begins with one unshakable belief: every human is whole.

Not someday. Not once they’ve healed enough, proven enough, or learned enough.
Whole now.
Capable. Creative. Resourceful.

I’m not sure there’s any feeling more important to me than feeling free.

I would choose freedom over safety almost every day of the week.
(I’m sure there are a few days in my cycle where I’d choose safety instead… but nonetheless.)

People, relationships, and connection shape this life in ways we can’t always see.
Every person we meet holds up a mirror, knowingly or not.
Energy, emotions, perspectives, fears, hopes, choices — all reflected and returned. We reflect. We are reflected. Again and again.