A few years ago, I was at a farewell party for a colleague, mingling and making conversation. Since I find small talk tiring, I asked a question I was truly curious to learn more about:

“What are you excited about in your life right now?”

I posed it to a doctor I knew, expecting a spark of enthusiasm. Instead, she paused… a long pause. I could see it in her face: she was scanning her life, searching for an answer. But there wasn’t one. She shared that life had become a relentless cycle of work, parenting, and countless responsibilities pulling in every direction. She was doing everything for everyone else—but nothing just for herself.

What does “Truth Begins Within” really mean?

We spend a lot of time thinking about telling the truth to others.
But the real work?
It's being honest with ourselves.

Noticing the lies that we tell ourselves.
The ones that sound like hope, responsibility, or “being realistic” — but underneath, they're keeping us stuck.

Here are a few greatest hits women tell themselves:

Ten years ago, I found myself grappling with a question that quietly changed my life: "Who have you not given yourself the chance to be?" In other words, in what ways had I unconsciously written myself off, without genuinely exploring whether these self-imposed limits were true?

If you're anything like me, you’ve probably pre-decided many times that certain activities, experiences, or roles simply weren't "you"—without ever truly verifying if that was accurate. In 2015, the label I’d firmly applied to myself

A Ted Talk about friendship. 

Rhaina Cohen explores: Why friendship can be just as meaningful as romantic love?

For many (me included) it is. As Raina Cohen says:

"We're all better off recognizing there's more than one kind of significant other."