Ten months and ten countries later, I realized how much my journey was about deviating from what society deems as a successful & fulfilling life and re-learning what it really meant to live well and feel good both physically and emotionally.  Without much thought (and normally I was very calculated & meticulous with my decision making process), I started following the voice of my intuition, fought off the "why's" and "but's" from my inner critic and took some chances. I called it my spaghetti phase of just throwing ideas against the wall to see what would stick. And the more I listened to that intuitive voice, the louder it became and the happier and healthier I felt.  I attended health supportive culinary school in NYC at the Natural Gourmet Institute, studied Ayurveda in Kerala, India, completed my co-active coaching training at The Coaches Training Institute in LA, London, and SF, and did countless personal research to understand what I was going through and how to take better care of myself.  I came away from my trip with the belief that many of us are just surviving out there, but we all deserve to thrive.