What is a story? A sequence of events? A retelling? Or is a story an interpretation, a flow of energy from one moment to another, ever changing?

When someone asks me for a story, my brain shuts down. I have thousands of stories, of course, but in that moment of being asked my brain empties, like a toilet flushing, and mild panic sets in.

But, get me relaxed and comfortable in a small group and I’m an open book.

Maybe it’s my innate introversion; maybe I just don’t like being the center of attention. I’d rather have an intimate conversation over small talk any day. I dig deeply, looking for the truth within a truth, and find resonance when I pull a shining thought from the deep.

As a coach, this is where I excel. In the small, dark spaces, in the “in between” moments when your brain pauses in a story, no matter how true it feels, to make room for another truth. A greater truth, maybe a never-seen-before truth that’s ready to be brought out, gleaming and bright, for a poke around the world.

We all have stories. But no matter what you’ve told yourself, or others, no matter what parts you’ve hidden away, there is always more to be discovered.