35 Laps Around the Sun: Happy Birthday to Me

I started the year 2020 like many, with visions of clarity, alignment, and ambition, and I am ending 2020, celebrating my 35th Birthday, feeling drained but content with where I am in life.

I have slogged through the strange crucible of pandemic-living, relationship straining circumstances, and a professional life that no development course or self-help book could have ever prepared me…