Dr. Paul Conti

But when we stop and examine, here we see someone who's very happy with her career and her success and all that is good in her life, but it wasn't everything.

And she had to see, like, there's something I have to do where we're like, there isn't anything that comes back to me other than the knowledge that I've done something, right?

And now you see, oh, let's add that component.

So she's understanding herself better along the way that the education and learning and fortitude of the professional is important.

But gosh, there's another dimension of her life that she wasn't paying as much attention to.

Then when we start asking questions about that, we see, oh, like, this is someone who did a lot of volunteering, like back in college, right?

And

She's never even thought about that.

You know, she's thought about it until we talked about it, right?

And other times in her life where, you know, she would, she got to sneak away from the things that were important to do something good for someone else.

And we see this has run through her life.

It's just at some point in time, the pressures of life, she sort of lost everything.

Right.

And now she has it back again and she has a more full sense of self, a happier life one day to the next.

And this is also preventive medicine too.

Now she knows like, don't let that go in my life.

Like that part is very important to me.

I have to maintain this, this balance because this is how I'm taking care of myself and moving myself into the future.

It's just an example of how the know thyself and bringing compassionate curiosity, looking at our history, looking at the automaticity and it's looking at our life narrative and

This is so empowering and that agency and gratitude then lets us take ourselves down if we choose entirely different paths.