Welcome to RiseWell and thank you for visiting. Creating a business and a website and all the thought, tech-savvy and frustration that goes into making decisions and watching them take root, or fall flat, is like the fine art of baking. Those Christmas cookies never look quite like the picture, and my cakes, although delicious, look more like a kindergarten project than the Ina Garten picture that inspired me to make them. But, I  persevere, and I’ve become known as the “baker” in the family regardless of the optics.

There is also a feeling of “coming out” into the world that creating RiseWell has ignited in me. All over this website, you can read about how important I think it is to show up authentically and as your full self, and here I am, trying to do just that and feeling exposed, a bit of an imposter and looking at my cozy bed and wondering how long I have before I can get under the covers and hide. But what I know is that all of this is entirely o.k. These feelings are part of being that full self. And…it is also o.k. to get under those covers for a while just as long as, at some point, I come out.

So here I am, out from under the covers, my full self, a little wobbly, but here. My main purpose for writing this Musing page is to share with you my own process of coming out, fully and authentically. I hope that by these admissions of my human strengths and frailties, I can be of service to your process of being and becoming more human. I am not yet sure what will arise here; probably rants, poems, some pictures… Consider this my first rant. And…welcome again to RiseWell. I hope you will find some of what you are looking for, here.