There was a man who saw me completely.
Not the version I presented to the world. Not the accomplished professional or the capable leader or the woman who had it together. The whole thing β the depth and the struggle and the soul underneath all of it.
His name was John. And in our kitchen in Carnation, Washington, on an ordinary afternoon, he said something I didnβt fully take in at the time:
βThe world needs you and your gifts. You have the gift of true empathy. You see people and help them see each other. The world needs your deepest gifts.β
He said it like it was simply true. Because for him, it was.
John died on August 6, 2012. A paragliding accident in British Columbia, five days after his 55th birthday. And in the unimaginable grief that followed, something cracked open in me that has never closed.
I learned β at the deepest possible cost β what it feels like to be truly seen. And I have spent every year since giving that away.
That is why I do this work.
Not because I studied it. Not because I built a methodology around it. Because a man stood beside me in a dressing room when I felt broken and told me I was beautiful and meant it. Because he rode the waves of me without trying to fix them. Because he saw my soul underneath my struggle and never once confused the two.
I know what it feels like to be seen that way. And I know β because I have witnessed it hundreds of times β what becomes possible for a person, a leader, a team, when they finally experience it.
That is the work. That has always been the work.
It just took me a while to say it out loud.
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