It has been such a privilege to learn from the many stories and insights that surface in our Laddership Circles each week.

A profound image that a member of our circle shared yesterday:

I was the receiver of a micro moment of kindness with major ripples in my early twenties…

I was at a point in my life when I was extremely low and, while I don’t think I would have acted on it, thoughts of ending my life had started to creep in. It was a dark time and I didn’t see a way out of the darkness. I was working in the front office of a government office and barely holding it together.

My boss came back from her lunch break and brought me a cookie with a big smile. It touched my heart on a day when any shred of kindness or love meant I was able to get through that day.

I do not even remember if I ate the cookie, that wasn’t the point. It was like someone lit a candle in a super dark room and it was enough light that now 20 years later I still remember it so clearly.