There was a time when I didn’t understand depression. When I knew someone was going through it, I would often think that they should just “cheer up”. And if they were a Christian, they needed to cheer up fast, because Christians don’t really struggle with things like that. My misconceptions all came to a halt […]
How did your interest in dance come about? My dad was a police officer and a DJ on the side. He passed away from a fatal car accident when I was a year old. When my mom was pregnant with me, he put his headset around my mother’s stomach and I would respond to it. […]
There was a particular type of job that I really wanted but although I felt capable, I also felt unqualified on paper, and that’s what I kept telling myself. The result of that self-talk was refusing to even apply to those types of positions. A spiritual mentor rebuked me on that frame of thought and […]
What kind of work do you do? My job title is Senior Research Associate Scientist. I work for a biotech startup company called Arbor Biotechnologies. We’re a gene editing company that focuses on creating genetic medicines to help patients that have rare genetic diseases. So typically these diseases are inherited into the person so we […]