A closet is just a hard conversation .... (I heart you Ash Beckham)... and we all have them. Every time I watch this video, I find so many gems I want to keep and hold tight to... especially the idea that hard is hard - and we all have hard. Great wisdom and grand equalizer! I wanted to share it with you here, today, because I'm sort of quietly celebrating a level of transparency around how I exist in the world after what has felt like a very long and slow evolution, one more with myself than with all of you. As I thought about where I'm at while updating my About page today, I realized that I am comfortably sitting on the other side of fear. That's not to say that I am completely fearless, but what I know now with a new certainty is that my fear is no longer in control . I'm not sure exactly when it happened... it was a slow letting go rather than a wild leap of faith (thought there is always some of that, along the way), but I can sense h