Starving for Control: How I Hid My Anorexia Behind Leadership and Perfection

I was anorexic in college.And no one knew. Not my professors. Not my classmates. Not even most of my friends. From the outside, I looked like I was thriving.I was everywhere: on committees, in student government, organizing rallies, speaking up in class, and fighting for the causes I believed in. I was leading. But behind …

Rooted in Pronoia: Trusting the Journey at the Halfway Point of 2025

At the halfway mark of 2025, I am doing something rare in my world of go-go-go: I am choosing to pause. Not to make a new to-do list. Not to strategize or optimize. But to listen – to what my spirit was asking for. Last week, I was with my Impact Eleven family at our …

The Courage to Finish: From Struggle to Book Launch

In 2020, when the world was on pause, I finally sat down to begin writing the story I had held inside me for years. At first, it was simply that, a story. A way to process everything I had experienced, to document the highs, the heartbreak, and the moments of reckoning that changed the course …

The Power of Time: From Then to Now, We Rise

Nine years ago, I walked out of federal prison and into a life that no longer looked anything like the one I had built. I wasn’t stepping back into comfort, I was stepping into the unknown. This past week, I celebrated nine years home. Nine years of unlearning, rebuilding, redefining. Nine years of choosing every …