I couldn’t wait for Saturdays. It’s when I allowed myself just one guilty pleasure: A diner breakfast with eggs, toast and potatoes, all for $7, including tip.

I was a college freshman, a new Manhattan-ite, and living off just one piece of advice from my money-savvy parents about my finances: “Be responsible.”

This month I celebrated five years as a small business owner, a big departure from nearly two decades as an employee of the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and New World Symphony.

To say it has been the most rewarding and challenging part of my career is an understatement. Small business has given me a platform to do the work I’m called to do, yet it requires constant inner work to know my purpose -- and business savvy to build a model around it.

Let’s pretend for a moment. I’m my 2024 Self, chatting with my 2019 Self.

“You’re not going to believe this, but in 2024, you’ll be talking to clients (and an internet full of strangers) about the life-changing power of being kind to yourself.” The response? “Ha! That’s ridiculous.”

That’s because 2019-Me—the one who grew up hearing, “Life sucks and then you die,” whether or not it was meant ironically—didn’t see any version of me becoming an advocate for self-kindness, ever.

2023 was a wild ride, a year of transformation. After a few years of building a successful consulting firm, I decided to take a leap into a new realm of work—to lean into my purpose and allow it to light the way in new, deep, and powerful ways.

Below is a template to create your own “recipe(s)” for wholeness so you can bring more of it into your life. These are playful suggestions meant to inspire you to get creative and experiment. Use the chart as a jumping-off point for your own creativity and what feels good or appropriate to you.

For many years, the desire to experience an extraordinary life propelled me forward.

After reading Dr. Gary Chapman’s 1992 couple’s self-help classic, The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, I couldn’t stop thinking about applying the idea of love languages to work.

I love offering business healing to help clients recognize and resolve patterns of thought and feeling that are at the root of the roadblocks and challenges they’ve been experiencing at work and in life. Together, we intercept, deconstruct, disrupt, and override these roadblocks, on energetic and physical levels, to achieve lasting change.

Business Healing is very effective at tackling a number of challenges and issues by examining and addressing their root causes. When we release and relieve what you’ve been carrying around energetically, we can free up or create more space inside so you can realize a fuller You in life and at work.

Businesses are not just legal entities, but dynamic entities with a consciousness that exists within its leaders, teams, and body of work. By recognizing and addressing the energetic layer of a business, leaders and teams can heal and create a thriving business.

Healing is available for everyone, not just the physically ill. And just about everyone has gone through something painful or unexpected at work, including leaders. When leaders experience personal healing, it can benefit their entire workplace.

Business, Meet Energy. Welcome to The Business Healer.