The deeper accounting
What is this costing me?
Not financially, although there were costs there too. I mean the deeper accounting. The life energy spent adapting to systems that were not built for me. The cognitive load of managing perception alongside performance. The years of carrying invisible weight that no one was measuring, and no one was acknowledging, including me.
This is a memoir of the life that made the work possible.
Architect of Becoming is a memoir of four decades navigating leadership, identity, caregiving, and the slow, often difficult work of becoming authentically oneself, rather than the version of myself I believed I needed to be.
It is a book about the life that made the work possible. A career that crossed healthcare policy, government, consulting, and executive leadership. Becoming a mother through adoption as a single woman in my forties. Loving and learning from my extraordinary son. A diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia. A season of burnout that became a turning point. The death of my mother, and everything that grief revealed about what I had been carrying.
It is honest about what broke. Careful about what rebuilt. And clear-eyed about what I now understand that I could not see when I was in the middle of it.
