How many shrink to fit? Dull the spark. Softening the edges. All for the illusion of belonging. But what if “too much” isn’t a flaw at all? What if it’s a direction? The right room doesn’t ask you to quiet down. It benefits! The right room doesn’t shrink your passion. It draws on it! The right room values it!

Running the Healthcare Gauntlet: Part III Remember when COVID turned healthcare into an ultramarathon no signed up for? Part III of my series looks at what it really felt like to run that race. From the chaos of changing rules to the resilience that kept people moving when the finish line never came. Because healthcare's story isn't just about the miles we ran; it's about whether we learned anything from the hardest stretch of the course.

Stories Worth Living & Words Worth Sharing I’m Alissa… writer, storyteller, wife, mom to three boys, and a corporate escape artist in...