Rise and Eat: A Breakfast on Flourishing, Even in Suffering

People are not meant merely to survive. A morning on what flourishing asks of us — and what makes it possible.

Karen DeCesare Doll, Psy.D., L.P. is a licensed psychologist and consultant who works with high performers — executives, leaders, and the people quietly holding organizations together. She is the author of Building Psychological Fitness: How High Performers Achieve with Ease and chairs the Flourishing at Work Network as well as the Elijah Institute.

Her work starts from an uncomfortable premise: the people who look most capable are often carrying the most, and carrying it alone. Flourishing, in her framing, isn't what arrives after the hard season ends. It's what becomes possible while the weight is still on you — when you've been given the right things to stand on.