You chose this. You worked for years to be here. And yet, somewhere between then and now, something curdled. The thing you love became the thing you dread. Not all the time — that would almost be easier. It comes and goes. Some days it flows. Other days you open the case and feel nothing but a low hum of tension in your hands, and underneath it, a belief so deeply embedded you barely notice it anymore.

We have to find a way to transition from making it personal to making it professional.