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🌊 The Threshold of Becoming an Artist — The First Birth of the Self

My grandmother was an artist.
Not the kind who sought exhibitions or applause —
the kind who painted because her soul needed somewhere to go.

She lost my grandfather soon after I was born,
and in her grief, she poured her entire heart into me.

We painted together before I could spell my name.
She showed me how color breathes,
how form whispers,
how silence becomes shape if you listen long enough.

Art was not a hobby.
Art was the first language my soul learned to speak.

By the time I went to art school,
I wasn’t “choosing a path” —
I was returning to myself.

Then came the moment that transforms every artist:

The moment when art stops being something you make…
and becomes something that makes you.

I remember sculpting clay in New York,
my hands learning the topography of the unseen,
my body learning how to translate energy
into shape, gesture, breath.

It was the first time the Self stepped forward.

Not the identity.
Not the girl who left home.
Not the daughter or the student or the “talented one.”

But the Self.

The part of me that knew how to create
from something deeper than skill,
deeper than training,
deeper than intention.

Creation became instinct.

And even now — decades later, across lifetimes of reinvention —
every threshold begins the same way:

With the memory of clay between my hands.
With the truth of what my grandmother taught me.
With the Self rising quietly, unmistakably, undeniably.

Art was my first crossing.

And everything that came after
began there.

With love and presence,
🌊 Gitanjali

Threshold Journeys
Where the inner crossings reveal the architecture of Becoming.

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

If this spoke to you, share it with someone standing at their own threshold.
I write about leadership, identity, and Human Design — where transformation becomes art and reinvention becomes remembrance.

Image Credit: Gitanjali Koppikar, *My Mother’s Sari*, 2025

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🌊 The Threshold of Leaving Home — “You Belong to the World.”

A Threshold Journey

I was nineteen when my father said it.

Not tenderly.
Not dramatically.
Simply, truthfully —
as if he were naming something he had always seen
but was finally giving language to:

“You belong to the world.”

At nineteen, I didn’t understand the magnitude of those words.
I heard freedom.
I heard possibility.
I heard a kind of blessing.

But what he was giving me was a permission slip from destiny itself.

My father named me after Tagore’s Gitanjali — “Song Offerings,” the book of poems he loved most.
I think now that he believed a child should enter the world already carrying contribution in her name.

He would tell me, inspired by Tagore,
that children are like the spring at the top of a mountain —
they come from the mountain,
but they must find their way to the ocean.

That was my first teaching in the nature of Becoming.

A spring does not cling to its shape.
A spring does not mourn its stillness.
A spring does not apologize for flowing.
It simply moves —
gathering momentum,
gathering wisdom,
gathering earth —
until it meets what it was always destined for.

But what no one tells you is this:

When the stream approaches the ocean, it hesitates.

Because meeting the ocean means losing its identity.

No longer “a stream.”
No longer defined.
No longer separate.
No longer recognizable.

That is what leaving home felt like.

A part of me longing for the ocean —
for the world, the art, the unknown —
and a part of me terrified that once I left,
I would no longer know who I was.

But my soul chose parents who set me free.
My soul chose a lineage that whispered,

Go.
Be who you were born to be.
Return only when you are ready.

My soul chose a father whose truth became my compass.

My mother, in her own quiet wisdom, once told me,
“If I held on to you, you wouldn’t be free.”
She knew I had to grow beyond the limits our culture placed on women —
and she loved me enough to let me go.
Her letting go was the soft power behind every crossing that followed.

And because of that…
I stepped into my first threshold —
the threshold of becoming a woman
the world would meet long before she met herself.

And that crossing changed everything.

Author’s Note

This moment — my father’s words — was my first initiation into the truth that identity is temporary, but Becoming is eternal. Every threshold since has carried an echo of this original blessing:
You belong to the world.
Go where your Self is calling.

With love and presence,
🌊 Gitanjali

Threshold Journeys
Where the inner crossings reveal the architecture of Becoming.

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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🌙 Field Note: The Moment the Mask Cracks

When the identity can no longer hold… the Self begins to rise.

There is a moment —
quiet, unmistakable —
when the identity you’ve carried for years
begins to fissure.

It doesn’t collapse dramatically.
It cracks.
Just enough for light to slip through.

And in that instant,
something inside you registers the truth:

“I cannot keep being who I’ve been.”

Not because it’s wrong.
Not because it’s broken.
But because it’s too small now.

The identity is efficient.
It’s protective.
It’s familiar.
It is who you wound up being —
the pattern your life sculpted around you.

But the moment your life asks more of you…
the identity becomes a shell
that no longer fits.

This is the moment most people run from —
the discomfort,
the disorientation,
the ache of not knowing
who you are without the mask.

But if you stay…
if you breathe…
if you meet yourself in that fragile opening…

You will feel something astonishing:

The Self was never gone.
It was simply waiting for room to emerge.

This is the moment that precedes reinvention.
Not the excitement.
Not the vision-board phase.
Not the “future self” work.

But this —
the crack in the mask,
the quiet truth rising,
the identity loosening its grip
as your deeper nature wakes up.

If you’ve felt that crack lately…
if you’ve caught yourself whispering,

“I think I’m done being this version of me…”

just know:

You’re not falling apart.
You’re falling through —
into a deeper coherence,
a clearer frequency,
a truer Self.

And what waits on the other side
is not a new identity…

but a new way of Being
that was always yours to claim.

🌙 Author’s Note

This note was written for the precise moment most people try to escape —
when the identity begins to fracture just enough for truth to seep through.

Not the dramatic breakdown.
Not the collapse.
But the subtle, sacred cracking that signals:
the version of you that once served you cannot take you where you’re going next.

This piece honors that moment.
The moment you feel the discomfort of becoming too large for the life your identity built.
The moment the mask no longer fits.
The moment the Self begins to rise — not because you forced change, but because you finally stopped holding the old shape together.

If something inside you stirred while reading this —
a recognition, an ache, a relief —
it’s because you are already in your own cracking open.

This is not the end of anything.
This is the beginning of your becoming.

With love and presence,
🌙 Gitanjali

Field Notes from the Threshold
Where the Self begins to speak.

Image Credit: Gitanjali Koppikar, *Salt Flats*, 2024

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🌙 Field Note: The Self That Doesn’t Flinch

There is a Self you carry —
older than your stories,
wiser than your strategies,
untouched by the identities
you’ve had to wear
to survive,
to belong,
to succeed.

This Self does not flinch.
Not at uncertainty.
Not at reinvention.
Not even at the thought
of everything familiar dissolving.

Because unlike the identity —
which braces, tightens, protects —
the Self knows the truth:
You were built for thresholds.

Today, in a moment of stillness,
I felt it again —
that quiet part of me
that doesn’t startle
when life rearranges itself.

The identity says:
Hold on. Control it. Predict it.
The Self says:
Let go. Breathe.
You’ve crossed greater thresholds than this.

The identity scans the room
for how to fit in.
The Self takes its seat
as if it belongs everywhere —
because it does.

The identity trembles at endings.
The Self recognizes them
as portals.

There is a steadiness in you
that cannot be taught —
only remembered.
A knowing that returns
when the noise settles,
when the performance slips away,
when the world stops long enough
for you to hear your own frequency again.

If you pay attention,
you’ll feel it:

A spaciousness in the chest.
A rootedness in the belly.
A softness behind the eyes.
A sense that something in you
isn’t afraid anymore.

This is the Self
that crosses thresholds
without hesitation.
This is the Self
that leads.

🌙 Author’s Note

This field note emerged after a moment of profound clarity — the kind that arrives not through thought, but through recognition.
I was noticing how, even in the midst of uncertainty, there is a part of us that never trembles.
A part untouched by identity, circumstance, or memory.

This piece is a reminder of that Self —
the Self that watches your life change without gripping,
the Self that knows thresholds are not threats but invitations,
the Self that remains steady even when everything around you rearranges.

If reading this awakened the smallest sense of rootedness in your body —
a calm exhale,
a softening in the chest,
a feeling like “yes… that part of me is still here…” —
then you have already made contact with the Self that leads your evolution.

That contact is the path forward.

With love and presence,
🌙 Gitanjali

Field Notes from the Threshold
Where the Self begins to speak.

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🌙 Field Note: When the Identity Softens

There is a moment,
right before transformation finds us,
when something begins to loosen inside.

Not dramatically.
Not loudly.
More like a seam quietly giving way
after years of being pulled too tight.

That seam is the identity.

The identity loves its edges —
the familiar shape of who we’ve been,
the predictable story we know how to live inside.

But when the next evolution is ready to unfold,
the identity doesn’t get ripped apart.

It softens.
It thaws.
It loses its grip.

It starts with small things:
A reaction you don’t have.
A pattern you suddenly see through.
A habit that feels a little foreign,
like it belongs to someone you no longer are.

The identity dissolves gently
when we stop trying to defend it.

This is the mercy of transformation:
we are never forced out of ourselves.
We are invited.

And when the identity softens,
the Self steps forward —
quiet, grounded, unmistakable.

Not the self you “improve.”
The Self you remember.
The Self you return to.

The one who is here underneath it all —
steady as breath,
clear as a bell struck in still air.
The one who knows the way.

So I sit here in quiet contemplation,
not forcing change,
not chasing answers —
just noticing the moment
when something in me
softens.

Because that’s when I know:
the threshold is near.

🌙 Author’s Note

I wrote this field note in the wake of witnessing (in myself and in the women I walk with) the exact moment transformation begins — not with force, but with a subtle softening.

This piece is a homage to that moment.
The moment the identity loosens.
The moment the Self steps forward without demand.
The moment reinvention stops being an act of will… and becomes an act of remembering.

If something in you felt seen here, it’s because you are already in your own softening.
There is nothing to push.
Nothing to accelerate.
Only something deep within you preparing to rise.

This is how the threshold announces itself.

With love and presence,
🌙 Gitanjali

Field Notes from the Threshold
Where the Self begins to speak.

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🌙 Field Note: When the Self Speaks First

There are moments
when something in me becomes very still —
so still it feels like the world exhales.

And in that stillness,
I can tell the difference
between the voice of my identity
and the voice of my Self.

The identity speaks quickly.
Tightly.
Urgently.
Like it has something to defend.

The Self speaks slowly, softly,
intentionally —
like a truth remembering its way back to me.

The identity argues.
Self doesn’t need to.

The identity wants to be right.
Self wants to be real.

When the Self speaks first,
the body relaxes.
The breath opens.

There is nothing to protect
and nothing to prove.

There is only…
being true to who I am.

Not “my truth,”
not a story shaped by the past,
but the quiet knowing
that rises from a deeper place —
the place untouched
by fear, by memory,
by who I thought I needed to be.

When the Self speaks first,
the next step becomes obvious.
The future becomes simple.
The threshold becomes walkable.

So, I sit here in the quiet of my own presence…
and I practice one thing:

Listening
for the voice
that doesn’t need to convince me.

Listening
for the truth
that arrives without effort.

Listening
for the Self
that has been leading me
all along.

🌙 Author’s Note

This piece came to me in one of those rare, crystalline moments of stillness — the kind where the body becomes quiet enough for truth to surface without effort.
It was born from a deeper noticing: that transformation doesn’t begin when we “work” on ourselves… it begins the moment the Self speaks louder than the identity we’ve been defending.

If you felt something shift inside you while reading this — something soften, open, or exhale — that is the Self recognizing itself.
That recognition is the beginning of the threshold.

Thank you for meeting yourself in this moment.

With love and presence,
🌙 Gitanjali

Field Notes from the Threshold
Where the Self begins to speak.

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🌹 The Woman Who Hears You in Her Bones

A call to the one who is longing to come home to her Self.

There is a woman —
out there in the world right now —
who has been searching for something
she cannot name.

Not a strategy.
Not a roadmap.
Not another layer of self-improvement.

What she is searching for
is a frequency.

A voice
that lives where her own resonance lives —
beneath the noise,
beneath the performance,
beneath the identities she has mastered
and now quietly outgrown.

She does not need to be convinced.
She does not need to be taught how to rise.
She rises naturally, instinctively,
the moment she hears something real.

And when she hears it —
she hears it in her bones.

This woman is not looking to become someone new.
She is looking to return to who she really is —
the Self she abandoned
to succeed,
to belong,
to be the version of herself
the world rewarded.

She is powerful,
but tired of performing power.
She is brilliant,
but exhausted from holding up brilliance.
She is successful,
but quietly suffocating inside a life
that no longer feels like hers.

She is standing at a threshold
between identities —
between the life that once fit
and the life that is calling.

And she is no longer interested in
tweaking, fixing, optimizing,
or rearranging herself into another identity
that feels like a costume.

She is ready for the Self.
The real one.
The unconstructed one.
The one she can feel moving beneath the surface
like a tide that refuses to retreat.

This essay is written for her.
For the woman who hears these words — not in her mind,
but in the deepest chambers of her Being.

The woman whose intuition
has been whispering the same thing
over and over:

“Come home to your Self.”

She knows she is a leader —
not because anyone crowned her,
but because she carries a frequency
that rearranges rooms
without saying a word.

She knows she is a creator —
not because she has built something,
but because she cannot stop imagining
what becomes possible
when she finally returns home
to the Self.

And she knows she is ready —
not because she feels prepared,
but because she feels called.

This is the woman I write for.
The woman I walk with.
The woman whose life is already organizing itself
around its next evolution.

If you are that woman —
the one who feels more than she can explain,
who knows more than she can prove,
who senses the threshold
before she ever sees it —

then the threshold will meet you
exactly where you are.

Because you are not meant to reinvent yourself
from identity.
You are meant to remember yourself
from Being.

And when you do —
your leadership recalibrates.
Your energy ignites.
Your voice deepens.
Your entire life reorganizes itself
around the Self you were always designed to Be.

This arc was written for you.
But truly —
it was written because of you.

To the woman who feels this in her bones:

I see you.
I recognize you.
I’ve been waiting for you.

Welcome to the work.
Welcome to the remembering.
Welcome to the next iteration of your life.
Welcome home to your Self.

With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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🌹 Creation vs Construction

Why reinvention cannot be built — only revealed.

Most people approach reinvention
like a construction project.

I too, have done that.

Blueprints.
Strategies.
Timelines.
Identity work.
Brand archetypes.
Manifestation boards.
Trying to build the “next version” of themselves
as if the Self were a structure to assemble.

But the Self doesn’t need building.

The Identity needs building.
The Identity needs construction, maintenance, upgrading.
The Identity needs polish and performance and proof.

The Self needs none of it.

Because the Self is not a project.
The Self is a presence.

And this — right here — is where most of us get lost.

We are told to keep trying to construct a life
our identity will feel safe in,
instead of allowing the life
our Self is already calling us into
to be revealed.

Creation and construction are not the same.

Construction is effort.
Creation is emergence.

Construction is past-based.
Creation is Self-based.

Construction rearranges what already exists.
Creation reveals what was waiting beneath.

Construction is identity with tools.
Creation is Being expressing itself.

Construction is loud. Creation is quiet.

Construction happens in the mind.
It is busy, noisy, logical, linear.

“What should I do next?”
“How do I get there?”
“What’s the strategy?”
“What’s the right identity to step into?”

Creation happens in the body.
It is subtle, soft, and undeniable.

A pull.
A whisper.
A sensation of expansion.
A direction that makes no rational sense
and yet feels like truth.

Creation does not come from effort.
It comes from coherence.

The coherence of the Self
finally having room to speak
after the identity loosens its grip.

The Identity constructs. The Self creates.

The Identity builds from memory.
The Self creates from possibility.

The Identity seeks validation.
The Self seeks expression.

The Identity protects.
The Self reveals.

The Identity repeats the familiar.
The Self births the new.

The Identity wants a clear path.
The Self is the path.

And this is why so many reinventions collapse:

They are built from identity —
and the identity cannot take you anywhere new.

Everything it builds must be consistent with its past.

But the Self has no such limitation.

The Self does not need consistency.
The Self existed before the identity showed up, before we got language.

Creation cannot happen until identity dissolves.

Not destroyed.
Not rejected.
Not worked on.

Just loosened.

Just softened.
Just held lightly enough
that the Self can breathe again.

In every threshold I’ve walked —
after 9/11,
through global leadership work,
through art,
through Kenya,
through Human Design,
through this new era of my life —
this is my discovery…

I did not construct the next version of myself.

It emerged.

It revealed itself
as soon as the identity I had outgrown
quietly fell away.

Reinvention is not something you build.
It’s something you allow.

It’s not the construction of a new identity.
It’s the creation that happens
when the Self is finally free to express itSelf.

Creation is your natural state.

And when you lead from that place —
from the Self instead of the identity —
your life reorganizes itself around truth.

Your work, your relationships, your voice,
your leadership, your contribution
all begin to take a form
you could never have constructed
but always recognized.

Because creation feels like remembering.

And remembering feels like coming home.

Welcome to the return.

Welcome to the creation.

Welcome to the Threshold.

With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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🌹 Belonging, Exile & the Invisible Threshold

Why every woman on the edge of reinvention must cross the inner border of belonging before anything new can emerge.

There is a moment in every woman’s evolution
when she realizes she has been living in exile —
even if no one around her can see it.

An exile that doesn’t look dramatic from the outside.
It looks like success.
It looks like competency.
It looks like the woman who always figures it out,
always adapts,
always rises.

But inwardly…
something essential has been missing.

Because identity-belonging is not the same as true belonging.

Identity-belonging says:
“Let me adjust myself so I can stay here.”

True belonging says:
“Let me return to the Self so I can belong anywhere.”

And most women are taught the first long before they ever taste the second.

Exile begins quietly.

Not with a dramatic fracture
but with a subtle drift:

You soften a truth.
You mute a part of you.
You make yourself understandable.
You make yourself non-threatening.
You master the art of fitting the room.

You learn how to belong to others,
but you stop belonging to yourself.

And this is the invisible threshold every woman encounters
before any true reinvention can begin:

The threshold where she must choose
between belonging externally
and belonging internally.

Between her identity
and her Self.

Between safety
and truth.

Belonging to the Identity is always conditional.

Conditional on performance.
Conditional on approval.
Conditional on not being “too much.”
Conditional on being consistent with your past.

This is why so many women feel exhausted
even when their lives look full.

Identity-belonging requires maintenance.

And the more you maintain it,
the more you drift from yourself.

Belonging to the Self changes everything.

Belonging to the Self is unconditional.
Unshakeable.
Untouchable by circumstance.

It is the moment you feel that subtle click inside the body —
the unmistakable sense of:

“Oh. I’m back.”

A return without fanfare,
without performance,
without explanation.

A homecoming without an audience.

When you return to belonging with the Self,
reinvention becomes inevitable —
because the identity can no longer hold you.

This is the invisible threshold.

It’s not loud.
It’s not dramatic.
It’s not a social announcement.

It is a fracturing of the old inner allegiance
and the quiet claiming of a new one.

Reinvention begins with belonging.

Not belonging to a group.
Not belonging to a role.
Not belonging to a version of you the world recognizes.

But belonging to the Self
that remembers who you are
before you ever became who you needed to be.

When I guide women across thresholds,
this is the first crossing:

The moment she stops seeking belonging externally
and returns to the place in herself
that never left her.

The place that feels like truth.
The place that feels like power.
The place that feels like home.

Identity seeks belonging.
Self is belonging.

This is the crossing.

Welcome to the threshold.

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🌹 Returning to What Is True

Beyond “my truth” and into the Truth of Being.

There is a phrase we hear everywhere now:

“I’m speaking my truth.”

It sounds empowering.
It sounds courageous.
It feels like liberation.

But if you listen closely, what most people call truth is not Truth at all —
it is a story.

A meaning.
A memory.
A wound.
A perspective.
A feeling.
A reaction.
A pattern.
A survival strategy dressed in spiritual language.

Nothing wrong with any of this.
It is profoundly human.

But it is not Truth.

I learned this distinction early in my ontological work, long before coaching was an industry:

Truth is like gravity — impersonal, unchanging, unarguable.
Identity is personal — constructed, conditioned, adaptive.

Most people mistake the second for the first.

When someone says,
“This is my truth,”
what they often mean is:

“This is the meaning I made based on the Identity I developed to survive.”

But Truth — with a capital T — lives at the level of Being, not Identity.

Truth is what remains when the narrative dissolves.
Truth is the experience of the Self without filter or protection.
Truth is the knowing that arrives before language tries to name it.

Truth is felt, not defended.
Recognized, not argued.
Lived, not declared.

When you are being true to who you are, there is no need to convince.
No need to be right.
No need to be louder.

Truth doesn’t raise its voice.
It deepens the room.

And here is where the distinction between Identity and the Self becomes essential:

The Identity has truths.
The Self acknowledges Truth.

The Identity says:
“This is my truth.”
(meaning, emotion, interpretation)

The Self says:
“This is what is true for me.”
(alignment, coherence, Being)

The Identity needs validation.
The Self needs only expression.

The Identity fights for its narrative.
The Self rests in its knowing.

The Identity protects itself.
The Self reveals itself.

And if you are a woman standing at the threshold of reinvention, this distinction matters more than anything.

Because a reinvention built on identity-truths will always require effort —
you must maintain it, protect it, prove it, keep it alive.

But a reinvention built from being true to who you are — as the Self — requires no maintenance at all.
It is the most natural thing in the world.

When I guide women across thresholds, this is the moment that changes everything:

The moment she stops trying to speak her truth
and starts being true to who she really is.

The moment Identity loosens
and the Self steps forward.

The moment her frequency shifts
from effort to ease,
from story to clarity,
from past to Presence.

This is the moment she stops trying to align her life
and starts aligning with Truth.

What is true for you — beneath meaning, beneath narrative —
is the beginning of every threshold you will ever cross.

It is the doorway.
It is the compass.
It is the future already vibrating in your bones.

Not “my truth.”
Not “your truth.”

Truth.
The Truth of Being.

And when you return to it —
your life, your leadership, your voice, your purpose
all reorganize themselves around it.

Welcome back.
With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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Great Leaders Master the Science of Accountability with the Art of Authenticity

Credit: Photo by Zyanya Citlalli, Unsplash

Have you ever tried to “hold someone accountable” only to feel the conversation slipping into discomfort, defensiveness or silence?

You’re not alone.

One of the most common questions I’m asked:

“How do you hold other people accountable?”

I start with some light truth-telling:

“You can’t make anyone do anything they don’t want to do”

Where we ultimately land on is the real question leaders are trying to ask and really struggling with:

“How do you lead with integrity without being the bad guy?”

Accountability and Authenticity are Inseparable

Great leadership is built on two interconnected disciplines:

1. The Science of Accountability (the external world we measure)

The observable measures like being clear about our commitments (governance, strategy and goals), behaviours, actions, communication, timelines, agreements, roles, responsibilities and performance outcomes.

You cannot be accountable without being authentic.
You cannot take responsibility for the impact of your actions without being honest.

2. The Art of Authenticity (the internal world we express)

What is often hidden (driving observable measures) in our values, beliefs, emotional intelligence, principles, ideals, purpose, decision making and deep listening.

You cannot be authentic without being accountable.
Otherwise authenticity becomes venting, blowing off steam and emotional bypassing.

When Accountability is Missing, Patterns Emerge.

While we can’t see what’s under the hood, driving what people say and do, there are some predictable patterns:

Expectations are unclear or inconsistently followed
Under performance is tolerated, ignored or justified
People soften uncomfortable truths into vague “we need to be better” statements
Responsibility becomes so diluted no one actually owns anything
The person who speaks up gets labelled “difficult”, “dramatic” or “the problem”, and
Emotional bypassing - avoiding, minimising, or suppressing real emotions by covering them with logic, positivity, professionalism or intellectual explanation.

These behaviours aren’t malicious.

They are automatic, programmed responses that are deeply and authentically human.

It’s where avoidance feels safe, accommodation feels comfortable and ‘being kind’ gets confused with collaboration.

Without accountability, teams don’t collaborate, they co-exist.

The cost is high: Disengagement, quiet quitting, burnout, mistrust and turnover.

Great Leaders Change the Game

When leaders master the science of accountability with the art of authenticity, everything changes - organisations transform culturally and commercially.

Think of leaders like Jacinda Ardern, Barack Obama or Indra Nooyi, individuals who embody authenticity while maintaining clarity in communication, transparency in decision making and extraordinary commercial results through values-driven leadership.

Case Study: Microsoft’s Cultural Reset

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO since 2014, ushered in one of the most significant cultural transformations in modern corporate history, from a competitive, siloed, “know-it-all” culture to a profoundly more human, collaborative, accountable “learn-it-all” organisation.

Why is Satya’s leadership a perfect example of this philosophy?

Authenticity (the art):

Led with empathy after his son’s disability shaped his view of humanity
Shifted Microsoft’s culture from “know-it-all” to “learn-it-all”
Encouraged leaders to share personal stories and embrace vulnerability

Accountability (the science):

Introduced clear, measurable behavioural expectations for leaders
Tied culture change to growth, innovation and performance
Reinforced ownership and follow-through across the entire organisation

The Result: Microsoft became one of the world’s most admired companies:

Repeatedly ranked as Glassdoor’s 2025 Best Places to Work
Outperformed peers in DEI, culture, and human-centred leadership - What Microsoft can teach leaders about cultural connection
Commercial performance skyrocketed and market value increased 10x - How The Tech Titan Rode AI To Record Heights ~$300B in 2014 to more than $3T by 2025

So, How Do You Hold People Accountable?

“The most important thing a leader must do is to look inside themselves. You cannot leave your values behind when you walk into the office.”

— Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo (2006-2018)

There is one place to begin: Take accountability first.

Before you can expect accountability from others, you must be willing to take the stand that you are accountable.

This doesn’t mean everything is your fault.

It doesn’t mean you are the problem.

It doesn’t mean you’re to blame.

It’s an act of leadership.

It means you choose to look at every situation from a place of agency:

You give up the right to blame circumstances, systems or other people.
You stop waiting for someone else to change first.
You recognise that how you relate to the situation shapes the outcome.

This stand is not a statement of fact. It is a declaration:

“You can count on me to view and respond to this situation from ownership, not reactivity.”

Accountability can’t be taught by simply expecting it or being right about it through policing or performance management.

It is best taught through modelling.

When you show others what accountability looks like and what it feels like, that it’s grounded, non-defensive, curious, responsible, you create the conditions where others are empowered to follow your lead.

You gain influence, not through authority, but through alignment.

Conversations become simple.
Expectations become clear.
People stop hiding and start thriving.

“If you want people to be inspired, be inspiring. If you want people to be engaged, be engaging. If you want people to be accountable, be accountable”

— Kylee Stone, Founder and CEO The Performance Code

Bring it to Life: Reflection

Integrity isn’t always restored in a single leap.

It’s built in the quiet, consistent moments where you choose alignment over avoidance.

As I often say: The best way to eat an elephant is to take one small bite at a time.

Start with reflecting:

1. Am I honouring what I said I would do - clearly, fully and on time?
2. Have I clarified expectations, or am I assuming others “just know”?
3. Is what I’m saying accurate - and would others see it as true?
4. Am I acting in alignment with what I stand for and the standards I uphold?

“Integrity is a matter of a person’s word, nothing more and nothing less.”

— Michael Jenson, Harvard Business School Emeritus Professor

What is one area you will tackle to align with your values and connect with your true potential, passion and purpose?

Ignite Your Passion,

Kylee x

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🌹 The Self Beneath the Identity

Why reinvention isn’t about becoming someone new — but remembering who you’ve always been.

There is a moment — quiet, unmistakable, crystalline — when a woman realizes that the identity she has carried for years no longer fits.

It doesn’t break.
It doesn’t shatter.
It simply… loosens.

Like a garment she has outgrown without noticing.

And in that loosened seam, something ancient begins to breathe again.

Something that was never lost — only covered.

…the Self.

For decades, I have watched people cross thresholds that changed everything — not because they chose a “new identity,” but because the old one finally dissolved enough for the Self to step forward.

The Identity is who we became.
The Self is who we are.

The Identity is shaped by past, pattern, story, protection.
The Self is untouched by any of it.

The Identity is constructed.
The Self is unconstructed.

The Identity works hard.
The Self simply wants to express itSelf.

And most of the world is trying to reinvent from identity — rearranging patterns, polishing strategies, trying on personas like costumes, hoping one of them feels like truth.

But reinvention doesn’t happen at the level of identity.

It happens at the level of Self…. and Being.

It happens when the Self — the deepest, most unguarded part of you — begins to rise again, like a tide that cannot be stopped.

That rising is what I call the threshold.

Not a doorway you find,
but a doorway that finds you.

The threshold is the moment you hear your own voice — not the voice shaped by expectation, survival, or proving…
but the one that has been whispering beneath all of it.

The voice that says:

This is not who I am anymore.
This is not the life I’m meant to carry.
This is not the work I’m here to do.

There is something so distinct that’s calling.

It has always been there, under the surface, waiting to be unconcealed.

And when that voice comes — it is not asking you to become someone new.

It is asking you to remember.

To remember the Self beneath the identity.
To remember the vastness beneath the history.
To remember the truth beneath the noise.
To remember the woman you were before the world told you who you needed to be.

Reinvention is not the construction of a new identity.

It is the return of the Self.

The Self who is not trying to fit in.
The Self who is not trying to impress.
The Self who is not performing, managing, or protecting.

The Self who is clear.
The Self who is coherent.
The Self who is powerful without trying.
The Self who is already whole.

Every threshold I have ever crossed —
from the ashes of 9/11,
to global stages of leadership,
to art, Kenya, Human Design,
to the reinvention of this era of my life —
was never a reinvention of identity.

It was a remembering of Self.

This is the work I do now.

I guide women to the place where identity loosens and the Self breathes again.
Where reinvention is not a project, but a homecoming.
Where the future isn’t built — it’s revealed.

You do not need a new identity.

You need only to come back to the Self beneath the identity —
the part of you that has always known exactly who you are.

Welcome to the arc.
Welcome to the remembering.
Welcome to the Threshold.

With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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🌹Field Note: After the Crossing

The space after every crossing is where your new frequency settles.

There’s a tenderness that follows every threshold —
the stillness after a choice,
the soft hum of a new frequency finding its way through you.

No fireworks.
No grand declaration.
Just the quiet knowing that something in you has shifted.

When you cross a threshold, the mind looks for proof — it wants to see the evidence of change.
But the soul whispers, “Wait. Let the new rhythm take root.”

This is the part we rarely honor — the liminal space after the leap, before the landing.
It’s where your energy recalibrates, where the next chapter begins to hum beneath your feet.

So if you feel both expanded and unsure, liberated yet tender — you’re exactly where you’re meant to be.
The ground beneath you is learning your name again.

Rest in that.
Breathe there.
The next version of your leadership is already taking form.

With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

Image Credit: Gitanjali Koppikar, *Kashmir Series*, 2024

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🌹 Crossing the Threshold: The Leadership Within You

The most powerful leadership begins when you lead yourself across the threshold.

Every new era of your life begins with a single decision — to meet yourself again.

There comes a moment — subtle but unmistakable — when something inside you whispers, “Not this anymore.”
The career, the role, the rhythm that once felt right begins to feel like a costume that no longer fits.

You sense that the world is changing, and so are you.
You feel the old identity loosening, the new one not yet formed.
You’re in between — standing at a threshold.

And that, my friend, is the most powerful place you can be.

The Call of the Threshold

Thresholds are sacred.
They are the invisible lines between what was and what’s next — between who we’ve been and who we’re becoming.

Most people resist that in-between. They rush to fill it — to find the next title, the next plan, the next certainty.
But the threshold isn’t a space to rush through. It’s a space to listen.

Because inside that silence, leadership is reborn.

In my own life, thresholds have been portals — from art to transformation, from form to energy, from control to coherence.
Each time I crossed one, I didn’t become someone completely new; I became true to myself.
In a sense, I came closer to who I really am.

The Inner Threshold of Leadership

Leadership isn’t only for those with teams, titles, or audiences.
Leadership is the willingness to walk first — to embody what you wish others to remember.

The new era of leadership isn’t about authority. It’s about authenticity.
It’s about leading with energy that says, “I am aligned with myself.”

When you’re in alignment, your presence becomes permission.
People don’t follow your words — they rise to meet your frequency.

This is the threshold you cross every time you choose coherence over control, truth over performance, presence over perfection.

The Decision to Begin Again

Maybe you’re standing at a threshold right now — between one version of your life and the next.
Maybe you’ve outgrown the strategies that once worked, the expectations that once defined you.

If so, pause here.
Breathe.
Feel the ground beneath you.

You don’t have to know what’s next.
You only have to say yes to what’s real.

That yes is the crossing.
That yes is leadership.

A New Era Begins with You

Every movement begins within a single human being who decides to live in integrity with who they are and what they stand for.
That’s what this new era of leadership is asking of all of us — to lead from frequency, not force; from embodiment, not explanation.

When we cross the threshold within, we don’t just reinvent ourselves — we realign the world around us.

So, if you’ve been hearing the whisper, “It’s time,”
trust it.
The next version of your life is waiting for your yes.

The door is open.
Step through.

With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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🌹Field Note: The Pause Before the Pivot

Sometimes leadership begins in the silence between breaths.

(Because sometimes, the most powerful movement is stillness.)

This morning, before the world began moving too fast, I sat by the window watching the light change across the water.
Everything felt quiet — but alive.

There’s a moment in every transformation where the old rhythm has ended, and the new one hasn’t yet begun.
It can feel like nothing is happening.
But in truth, everything is rearranging itself beneath the surface.

For years, I used to rush this part — to fill the silence with plans, strategy, momentum.
I equated stillness with stagnation.
But the more I’ve studied energy and Human Design, the more I see that life breathes in waves.
Every exhale needs its inhale.
Every expansion needs its pause.

The pause is not the absence of movement — it’s the recalibration before your next expression of coherence.
It’s where the new frequency forms.

So, if you’re in that space right now — between the life you’ve known and the one that’s calling you forward — take a breath.
You are not behind.
You are becoming.

The new current is already forming under your feet.
Your only job is to stay attuned.

When it’s time to move, you’ll know.
And when you do, the movement will feel like remembering.

With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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🌹 The Frequency of Leadership: How Energy Shapes Influence

Energy is the new language of leadership.

Leadership is no longer about strategy. It’s about frequency.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned after decades of coaching leaders across the world, it’s this:

Leadership isn’t about what you do.
It’s about the energy you broadcast.

People don’t respond to your words — they respond to your frequency.

You can say all the right things, but if your energy carries fear, self-doubt, or contraction, your team, clients, or audience will feel it instantly.
Because energy is information — and the body always reads it before the mind does.

This is why Human Design has become such a profound part of my work.
It doesn’t just show what kind of leader you are — it shows the frequency you’re meant to lead from.

The Invisible Language of Leadership

We’ve been taught to lead with logic — with plans, frameworks, and control.
But beneath every spreadsheet and strategy deck is an energetic truth: the room feels you before they hear you.

You don’t have to tell people who you are.
Your frequency does that for you.

This is why two leaders can deliver the same message, yet one ignites trust while the other triggers resistance.
It’s not the content — it’s the coherence.

When your words, emotions, and actions are aligned, your energy field becomes clear.
People can relax in your presence.
They feel safe.
And in that safety, their own brilliance awakens.

That’s leadership at the level of frequency.

Energy Precedes Action

Every decision, every conversation, every act of influence begins in the unseen.
It begins with who you’re being.

In Human Design, this is why understanding your energy type and communication gates matters.
When you operate in alignment with your design, your energy becomes efficient, magnetic, and trustworthy.
You stop leaking power through overexertion and start leading from embodied presence.

The paradox is this: when you stop trying to control your impact, your impact expands.

Coherence in Action

Think of coherence as energetic integrity.
It’s when the signal you send out is the same as the truth you hold inside.

When a leader is incoherent, people feel confusion, even if the words sound confident.
When a leader is coherent, people feel clarity, even if the message is simple.

Your energy communicates before your mouth does.
The most powerful leadership skill you can cultivate today is energetic self-awareness — learning to attune to your own field before you enter a room, a conversation, or a decision.

Before you speak, ask:

“What frequency am I transmitting right now?”

Leading by Design

In my own chart, I have what’s called the Channel of Leadership (31–7) — the voice of influence and the energy of direction.
This means my leadership isn’t meant to be forced; it’s meant to be invited.

Each of us has a different energetic blueprint for influence.
Some lead through ideas.
Some through emotion.
Some through timing, creativity, or intuition.

When you understand your energetic architecture, you stop imitating leadership — you embody it.

Human Design gives us the map.
Coherence gives us the embodiment.
Frequency gives us the impact.

The New Frontier of Leadership

The leaders of the new era are not defined by titles or systems.
They are defined by resonance.

They lead through presence, alignment, and authenticity.
Their power doesn’t come from authority — it comes from integrity of energy.

If you take one thing from this, let it be this:
Leadership is no longer about what you control.
It’s about what you carry.

When your energy and your essence match, you become magnetic — not because you’re trying to lead, but because your frequency makes leadership inevitable.

In vision, power, and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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🌹 Crossing the Threshold: My Mission for the New Era of Leadership

A transmission on identity, freedom, and the sacred crossing every leader must walk through to embody who they came here to be.

There are moments that divide a life — not by years, but by awareness.
Moments that ask us to leave behind what is familiar and step barefoot into the unknown.
Moments that whisper, it’s time.

For over three decades, I have stood with people in those very moments.
I have coached and trained more than half a million people across the world — guiding them to complete their past, no matter how harsh, messy, or brutal it may have been. I have stood with people in the darkest corners of their humanity and watched them walk free.

I know, in my bones, that anything can be complete — that our souls are vast, our being is magnanimous, and that freedom from the past is not a dream, but a choice. And once we make that choice, there is no looking back.

That work has been my life’s art form — empowering people to return to a blank canvas and create who they are from nothing. To design a future born from pure possibility, not the patterns of their past.

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of standing shoulder to shoulder with people who have faced the unimaginable — Olympic athletes preparing to stake everything on a single moment; a young woman who crossed frozen waters to escape North Korea; a man who survived torture and found his way back to breath; parents learning to live again after losing a child.

In every story, no matter how different the circumstances, there was a single defining moment — a threshold. That quiet instant when something in the human spirit whispers, enough. When we realize there is no going back — only through.

I’ve witnessed what happens when a person says yes to that crossing — when they choose freedom, not as an idea but as a lived frequency. That moment, that choice, is where transformation truly begins. I carry each of those stories as sacred reminders of what is possible for all of us.

Now, in this era of my life — in my Line 6 wisdom years — I am bringing together everything I’ve lived and loved: transformation, art, energy, and Human Design.
I work with leaders, creators, and visionaries who are standing at their own threshold — that sacred space between what was and what’s next — and who are ready to step across with grace, clarity, and power.

This work is not about fixing or improving who you are.
It’s about remembering.
It’s about coming home — to the original frequency you were designed to live and lead from — your true coherence.

I call this body of work The Threshold — the sacred space where the old identity dissolves and the next iteration of your purpose emerges.

My mission is to guide leaders through that crossing — to help them shed what no longer fits, reclaim their energy, and embody the leader their soul came here to be.

I believe we are the living art of creation itself.
When we learn to work with our design, with energy, and with presence, leadership becomes not something we do, but something we are.

This is the work of the new era — where vision meets vibration and transformation becomes art.
Where power is no longer about control, but coherence.
And where each of us becomes a lighthouse — shining with the brilliance of our own design.

Reflection Prompt:
What threshold are you standing at right now — the one that asks you to choose freedom, even before you know what’s next?

With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali
Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

If this spoke to you, share it with someone standing at their own threshold.
Each week, I write about leadership, identity, and Human Design — where transformation becomes art and reinvention becomes remembrance.

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🌹The Art of Reinvention: Sculpting a New Self

Reinvention isn’t a restart — it’s an unveiling.

Maybe, transformation isn’t always about becoming someone new — sometimes it’s about remembering who you already are.

We are never finished works of art.
We are living sculptures — shaped, smoothed, and refined by every experience that meets us.

Every heartbreak, every success, every ending, every new beginning leaves its mark.
And if we look closely, we can see the divine artist at work through it all.

For years, I thought reinvention meant starting over — new goals, new visions, new identities.
But what I’ve come to see is that reinvention is not about becoming someone different.
It’s about allowing the next true version of yourself to emerge.

The Studio of Becoming

When I was an artist, I learned that the sculpture is already inside the stone — my job was simply to remove what was no longer needed.

It’s the same with us.
The self you’re becoming is already within you.
Reinvention is the art of releasing what’s complete so that your next expression can take form.

We don’t always choose the moments that ask us to change — sometimes life chisels us open.
Loss. Transition. The quiet ache of “not this anymore.”
But we do get to choose how we meet those moments — with resistance, or with reverence.

When you meet change with reverence, every ending becomes a creative act.

Identity as Art

Identity isn’t fixed.
It’s a living conversation between who we’ve been and who we’re becoming.

We spend so much of our lives perfecting roles — the professional, the parent, the leader, the visionary — that we forget these are all temporary installations.
Beautiful, important, but never meant to define the whole gallery of our being.

When I look at my own life — from artist to global coach to Human Design guide — I see a series of installations, each one teaching me a new texture of expression.

Each chapter didn’t replace the last; it integrated it.
That’s the art of reinvention — not erasing what was but expanding what’s possible.

Human Design as the Blueprint of Becoming

Human Design, to me, is like the blueprint beneath the sculpture.
It shows you where your natural curves and edges are — your rhythm, your timing, your voice.

When you understand your design, you stop forcing yourself into shapes that don’t belong to you.
You create from alignment instead of effort.
You begin to sculpt your life from truth rather than from expectation.

Reinvention stops being reactionary — it becomes sacred.

The Threshold of Freedom

Every reinvention begins with a threshold — that quiet moment when you realize that who you’ve been can’t take you where you’re going.

If you’re standing at that threshold now, know this:
You don’t need to know your next form.
You just need to make space for it to appear.

Let life carve you.
Let your design guide you.
Let your truth take shape in ways you couldn’t plan but were always destined to live.

Because the most powerful art you will ever create — is yourself.

With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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🌹Leadership in the New Era: From Control to Coherence

From the old paradigm of force to the new rhythm of frequency.

There was a time when leadership meant having all the answers.

Command. Strategy. Authority. Control.

We built organizations — and often our own identities — around the idea that certainty equals strength. But the world is changing faster than the models we built to lead it. The old paradigms of control are cracking, and in the space between, something new is emerging.

That space is coherence.

Coherence is not control — it’s alignment.
It’s what happens when our vision, words, and actions vibrate at the same frequency.
When what we say, do, and feel become one current of truth.

In the old paradigm, leaders managed outcomes.
In the new one, leaders manage energy.

When I look at the leaders I’ve coached over the years — from CEOs to creators — the ones who create true impact are not necessarily the most strategic or charismatic. They are the ones who are energetically coherent. You can feel them before they speak. Their presence brings nervous systems into regulation. Their clarity stabilizes chaos. Their words carry frequency.

That’s the shift we’re in — from leadership as control to leadership as coherence.

Control belongs to the mind. Coherence belongs to the field.

For decades, I watched high performers try to lead by managing every variable, burning out in the process.
Control separates us — it’s the energy of I must hold everything together.
Coherence unites us — it’s the energy of I am part of something larger that already knows what to do.

In the language of Human Design, coherence is alignment with your natural frequency — the way your energy is built to lead, communicate, and take action.
When you lead from that place, your leadership becomes effortless magnetism rather than effortful management.

From Force to Frequency

When we lead through control, our voice becomes tight, our energy contracted.
When we lead through coherence, our voice relaxes — it carries truth.

You don’t need to be the loudest person in the room.
You need to be the most resonant.

People will follow not because you convince them, but because they feel safe, seen, and synchronized in your field.

That’s what I call energetic leadership.

It’s the difference between speaking at people and speaking through frequency — between commanding attention and inviting coherence.

The Embodied Leader

True leadership is not about doing more.
It’s about becoming more present — more attuned to your own design, your emotions, your timing.

When you are coherent, your presence is the strategy.
People don’t need another leader who has all the answers.
They need a mirror that reminds them of their own wisdom.

The new era of leadership begins when you stop trying to control your impact and start embodying your frequency.
Because coherence, unlike control, doesn’t require force — it requires truth.

In vision, power, and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

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🌹The Threshold: How Reinvention Found Me

(Some moments divide life into “before” and “after.” This is the story of one that changed everything.)

There are moments in life that divide everything into before and after.
Sometimes they arrive quietly, and sometimes, like lightning, they change everything.

For me, one of those moments was the morning of September 11, 2001.

At the time, I was living in New York City—making art in my 8th Street studio while managing transformational seminars at the World Trade Center. I had moved from India at twenty, a shy girl carrying sketchbooks and big dreams, studying painting and sculpture, soaking in the pulse of the city that never slept. I spent my days covered in paint or clay and my nights listening to jazz at the Blue Note.

I was sculpting form—but also shaping identity—learning who I was becoming.

I loved going to the World Trade Center. My art lived on the beautiful white walls of the long hallways and the office. I was meant to be up in the office at 8 a.m. on September 11th, but the universe had other plans for my future. Looking back, I see that morning as the moment that permanently altered the trajectory of my life.

When the towers came down, I lost ten years of my artwork—but I also lost the twenty-year-old artist’s picture of her future self, the version I thought I would grow into.
In the middle of mixed emotions—grief, disbelief, shock—a strange gratitude rose up.
I realized that if I was still here, my work on this planet wasn’t done.

That day, something ancient and new awakened in me.
The artist didn’t die—she arose, she transformed, she came into being.
She began to sculpt lives instead of clay.

For the next two decades, I traveled the world coaching hundreds of thousands of people in leadership, performance, and transformation. I worked with CEOs, change-makers, and teams across continents. The thread through it all was the same: people long to be free—free from the past, free from the noise, free to create again.

Part Two: The Second Awakening

Transformation was not new to me—but it arrived again, in an unexpected form, on a quiet afternoon when I came across something called Human Design.
At first, I dismissed it. I’d heard it described as a “profiling system,” and I wasn’t interested in being labelled or boxed in.
But life has a way of circling back with things meant for you.

Five people in one week asked if I knew my chart. So, finally, I looked.
And something extraordinary happened.

As I stared at that strange-looking map—part astrology, part circuitry—I felt like a doctor examining her own X-ray. It wasn’t information I was reading; it was recognition.
My design felt like a mirror showing me the deeper architecture of my soul.

Every major moment of my life made sense:
the art,
the leadership,
the reinvention,
the pattern of crossing thresholds into new identities.

I saw that my entire life had been preparing me to blend art, energy, and wisdom—to guide others to see who they truly are beneath the roles they play.

That day, I stopped searching for what was next for me—for my voice in this era.
I realized it had always been there, encoded in my design—waiting for me to listen.

What I love about Human Design is that it doesn’t tell you who you are; it reveals how you’re built to move through the world.
It’s not a box—it’s a blueprint.
It doesn’t define you—it frees you.

For me, it opened the doorway into the work I now do with people—the work that brings all my life’s callings together.

In my work, I see leaders who’ve achieved so much yet feel a quiet dissonance inside—a sense that they’ve outgrown an old identity but don’t yet know who they’re becoming.
That’s where Human Design becomes a compass.
It brings you back into coherence with your own frequency—your natural rhythm of vision, power, and presence.

I call this space the threshold—the sacred space between what was and what’s next.
It’s the space where reinvention begins.

If you’re standing at a threshold in your life right now—maybe you’ve reached the top of something, or something you once loved has lost its spark—know that this isn’t an ending.
It’s an initiation.

You are being sculpted again.
You don’t have to abandon who you’ve been; you only have to remember who you are.

And when you do, the next version of your leadership, your work, your life—will emerge naturally, beautifully, on purpose.

We are never finished sculptures.
We are living works of art, shaped by every choice to begin again.

Come home to yourself.
Welcome to the threshold.

With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali
Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.