A Lawyer's Becoming

She was one of the most accomplished people I've ever worked with. A respected attorney whose work shaped lives, influenced policy, and carried genuine systemic weight. People looked at her and saw someone who had it all figured out.

What they didn't see was that she had almost no access to her own inner world.

She'd spent so long absorbing the emotional weight of her clients, her colleagues, her family, that she could barely tell the difference between what she was carrying for others and what was genuinely moving through her. She didn't even know how heavy it had become until we started working together.

We didn't begin with goals or strategy. We began with the most foundational question: What does your own energy actually feel like when it's not weighed down by everyone else's?

Through breathwork, energy clearing, and guided spiritual inquiry, she started to feel the difference between what she'd taken on from the world around her and what was truly moving through her own system. It sounds simple. It changed everything.

Because once she could feel herself again, she started noticing how much of her life had been built around obligation rather than truth.

The shift was quiet at first. She started saying no to things she'd always said yes to. She let a relationship end that had needed to end for years. Old family patterns that had been buried for decades surfaced, and for the first time, she had the inner ground to actually move through them rather than manage around them.

What surprised her most wasn't the hard parts. It was what came after. Not exhaustion. Not collapse. Space. Inspiration returning to her work. A feeling she described as actually being in her own life again.

Lena's Becoming

Lena had built a career everyone respected. Senior administration. Steady. Important. And completely disconnected from the part of herself she most wanted to live from: the artist she'd been before she chose the safer path.

She'd talk about it like she was describing someone else. The work she'd created years ago. The recognition. The way everything inside her came alive when she was making something. Then she'd catch herself and shift the conversation back to logistics, timelines, practical things. As if wanting that life again was something she needed to apologize for.

What she actually needed wasn't a plan. It was to stop abandoning herself every time the wanting got loud.

We started there. Not with goals, but with the fear underneath: that being seen as an artist meant being seen as impractical, irresponsible, too much. That the people in her life wouldn't take her seriously. That she'd fail publicly and prove the voice in her head right.

We didn't push past the fear. We moved through it. Session by session, she reconnected with the creative instincts she'd been suppressing for years. She started making work again. Not because she had a strategy for it, but because something inside her had stopped being willing to wait.

One of the first pieces she shared publicly led to an invitation she never expected. Then another. People weren't just noticing her work. They were seeking it out. She started saying yes to things that would have terrified her six months earlier, and finding that the terror had been replaced by something quieter and more solid.

Today, Lena is traveling, creating, and presenting her work around the world. The administrative career is behind her. The life she's living now doesn't fit any template she could have planned, because she stopped planning it and started letting it come from somewhere true.