We’re taught to build our lives through accumulation — more goals, more commitments, more noise. But clarity doesn’t live in clutter. It lives in space. Space in the calendar. Space in the body. Space in the nervous system. When we create space, we return to presence. And when we return to presence, we begin to hear what truly matters.

Those who know me would say that I am pretty chill and generally very optimistic. There are very few things that truly upset me to where...