Kim Levings

— and Our Modern Versions of It There’s a pattern as old as humanity itself, and most of us don’t recognize it in ourselves until the damage is done. We face a crisis — in our business, our leadership, our family — and we go looking for a fix. We exhaust every strategy, consult every expert, deploy every resource at our disposal. And somewhere in the middle of all that scrambling, we remember God. We “plug Him in.” Not as the foundation of our response, but as a last-resort add-on. A magic...

Knowing yourself, showing up well, and choosing to grow. I didn't plan for a week alone in the African bush; it happened incidentally, but when I faced a week of solitude at Ngwenya Lodge — on the edge of the Kruger National Park in South Africa — I decided to lean into it rather than feel disappointed. The first day, I detoxed from the voices of others. The expectations (explicit or imagined), the input, and the noise of the past year of disruption and change. The second day, I turned on...

How returning to what you know can interrupt anxiety and restore your footing There's something I've noticed in people who navigate pressure well. It's not that they have better answers. It's not that they feel less afraid. It's that when things get uncertain, they don't improvise — they return. The concert pianist, preparing for a high-stakes performance, doesn't try something new. She plays scales. The elite athlete, heading into the most important match of the season, starts with the same...