Anneriek's Perspective

Self-leadership isn't a skill you build. It's a presence you uncover — and it changes everything about how you live, love, and show up in your own life.

Let me tell you something that breaks my heart and makes me furious: Teenage boys are drowning, and we're telling them to swim harder. They're struggling with depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicidal thoughts at rates we've never seen before,   and we’re not showing up for them.  We tend to experience them as ‘difficult’—they lock themselves up in their room (or behind computer screens), don’t help out in the house and at best ‘grunt’ when asked a question—and we become