michelle^whipple

WRITER & ARTIST | WHOLE + FREE MENTOR

I started thinking about living with intention and purpose when I was diagnosed with, what I thought would be, a fatal illness at age 21. I spent many years running the treadmill of things I thought I SHOULD want, have and be. Then after my son was born, more than ten years later, I realized through my new eyes as a mother, how precious life is–not just his life, but MY life.

That meant I needed to make changes. My inner voice had become so quiet after years of being neglected and ignored, I realized I needed a deliberate effort to reconnect with myself. I’ve worked in mental health as a psychiatric PA (physician associate) for the past ten years, but even with that experience, I became doggedly interested in what works.

The WHOLE + FREE Mentorship is a product of this work. As I’ve overhauled my life, I’ve had so many wonderful conversations with friends, family…even strangers, about the steps I’ve taken and the changes I’ve made (many of which are chronicled here in my blog!). The Creative Living Mentorship is the way I’ve chosen to share these tools with individuals looking to reconnect with self and to find actual aliveness in life.