Oprah Daily: 4 Intentional Practices to Ground Your New Beginning

Growing up, I always marveled at adults. How did they decide what kind of life they would lead? How did they go about creating it, and how could anyone possibly choose just one path? From what I could see, there were so many possibilities! So many things to be, do, and see. My young self decided she would live many lives.

Now, at 40 years old, I’ve realized that reinvention is what maintains my joyful interest in life. It is a necessity.

Designing my life to flow in chapters nourishes me and provides an addicting freedom and expansiveness with each transition. I’ve been a West Coaster twice and an East Coaster thrice. I’ve taken a circuitous but amusing route through my career—from working at a cheese shop in Yonkers to founding an employee well-being company in San Diego—and once boldly experimented with marriage. I’ve traveled, collecting education, friends, and stories from around the world.

Investing in my education and becoming a board-certified behavior analyst gifted me with the freedom and experience to work wherever I wanted, now with individuals as a lifestyle design coach and with corporations on their well-being and company culture. Finding a way to use my voice as an international speaker has given me a vehicle for creativity and setting my thoughts into the world.

This way of aligned and transitional living felt so natural and rewarding that it became the inspiration for my book, F~ckless: A Guide to Wild, Unencumbered Freedoms, which challenges women to overcome stereotypical cultural narratives and fight for their rights to live interesting and authentic lives, too. Eventually, I learned that anything I needed, desired, or felt was deserving of a container in which it could potentially grow…