2024–present
The Rest Revolution
Productivity built on depletion is a debt. Rest is not the reward for the work; it's a condition of doing it well.
Writing & Journalism
I'm a writer first. Everything else came after.
Reported features, essays, and columns on work, mental health, and what it costs to keep achieving. Currently a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow at The Carter Center.
Featured columns
Forbes Careers Column
Regular columns on leadership, personal brand, and career reinvention.
Read on ForbesBusiness Insider Personal Essays
Personal essays on work, identity, and what it means to keep building a life.
Read on Business InsiderMy Podcast
Purposescaping: build confidence to reinvent and find purpose — conversations on becoming who you’re meant to be.
Listen on Apple PodcastsMy Substack
The Rest Revolution: weekly essays, frameworks, and the Sanctuary for paid members.
Subscribe on SubstackRosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship
The Mental Health Challenges of Midlife High Achievers
Ambitious midlife professionals are achievement-minded, both at work and home. But what happens to their mental health when they routinely set the bar high for parenting, caretaking, and careers while simultaneously setting the bar low for health, self-care, and social bonds? The Carter Center generously supported my search for answers through a yearlong reporting fellowship. For Forbes Careers, I reported on how caregiving burnout, information overload, the calls for solf life self-preservatin, work addiction, longterm unemployment, and parental stress shape the mental health of midlife professionals.
Learn More about The FellowshipSelected bylines
The Washington Post
On burnout, rest, and the cost of always-on workMy BIG ideas
2017–present
Purposescaping
A career isn't a ladder to climb, it's a landscape to shape — around what you're for, not what's available.
2013–present
Package Your Genius
The expertise you take for granted is the expertise someone else is searching for. Naming it is the whole job.
Watch
An interview on rest, work, and the ideas behind the writing
The newsletter
The Rest Revolution on Substack
Exploring burnout, inheritances, and the choice to move differently in midlife. The Substack picks up where the book and my Carter Center fellowship left off — personal essays, reporting, and the frameworks I use with clients, for readers who aren’t trying to stop achieving, just to stop achieving at the expense of everything else.
Essays
Personal writing on inheritances — what family, school, and era taught us about worth, and the ongoing choice to rewrite that narrative.
Frameworks
Brand strategies, workshops, and tools from fifteen years of Package Your Genius — for the seasons when your energy swings back toward the work.
The Sanctuary
For paid members: a growing library of recorded sound baths and somatic sessions, facilitated through the Auster Sound Method.