You can't podcast or app your way into it

One needs to be habituated to the practice of reducing pain and suffering, which in modernity take the form of anxiety, depression, and other diseases. “Dis” “ease”—or a lack of ease in the body—forms in the body/mind complex in so many ways.

At work or anywhere, wellness has to be a way of life. It is not a concept you can podcast your way into and learn without embodying—without practicing—the knowledge in a way that prioritizes it. This necessarily means that when you practice wellness, you are not working—you are in fact deprioritizing your work at that time. To quote a favorite writer I follow, L.M. Sacasas, “You can’t optimize for rest.” You can’t pursue wellness on a chronic lack of sleep, or when you are chronically worried or depressed. You have to put wellness first.

The closest of cousins, mindfulness and wellness are especially difficult concepts to teach in the workplace, where optimization of productivity and profit are a requirement. In the workplace, individual and interpersonal ease—and by extension mental and emotional steadiness—are often subsumed by the larger race to meet deadlines and the daily communications demands and deliverables that define its environment.

Thanks to the intersectional experience I have between and in big business—from spending ⅓ of my career on Wall Street and the rest of it growing wellness businesses—I am uniquely qualified to train organizations and individuals on mindfulness practices. I have developed an approach that meets organizations in this 21st century intersection of highest-levels of stress, disease, and even loneliness and lack of belonging at work.

The mindfulness sessions I offer fundamentally provide both learning and practicing of clear and actionable instruction in posture, breath, thinking, communication, and relationships consistently and over the long term. The sessions are designed to foster transformation in individuals, groups, and organizations simultaneously and as a whole.