Sheldon Hill
he/him/his

I think about the world as balanced between the good and the bad. There is joy, beauty and opportunity, just as much as there is sadness, pain and unfairness. And as much as we would like to control how much good and how little bad, life happens to you, not because of you.

 

Striving for balance has been a focus throughout my life. I would experience sadness, loneliness, and unfairness, but I would put my energy towards bettering myself, whether that be through school, social relationships, or self-development. I was fixated on justifying the uncomfortable emotions by telling myself that if I worked harder and got further ahead in life, then it would be only joy and excitement and peace. I believed that I had to feel terrible now, to one day feel wonderful.

 

As you may have guessed while reading this, I was focused on the wrong thing. If I had spent more time cultivating a mindset of allowing all emotions to exist (both the comfortable and uncomfortable), I would have found my peace much sooner. To see thoughts as things that can happen to us, but not shake us, and emotions as powerful modes of connecting to others. My qualms with my life didn’t come from truth, it came from a perspective that wasn’t serving me.

 

Now, I am humbled and honoured to work with people as they search for their own peace and balance. How I see the world isn’t what I impose on others, because everyone has a set of perspectives and beliefs that shape how they exist. But my job is to do what I did for myself: to notice what beliefs and what perspectives of the world are stopping you from living your life the way you want to, and using that new insight to enhance your life.