“I followed one gut response… and it changed my entire life.”

I first heard about Human Design in the early 90s, sitting in a college class on comparative

religion. The lecturer didn’t show up that day, so the professor paired us off and gave each

group a topic to discuss. Ours was the I Ching. My partner, Mika, a student from Germany, could

not stop talking about it. What started as a simple assignment turned into one of those

conversations that stretches way beyond the classroom… astrology, religion, life. The kind that

lingers longer than it should. Somewhere in the middle of it, he mentioned this system called

Human Design, and a reader who traveled between the coasts. I wrote her a letter. I was big on

pen pals back then, and then, like most things at that age, I forgot about it. But I didn’t really

forget.

Something about that conversation stayed with me. Maybe it was the I Ching, maybe it was the

idea that there was a system out there that could explain how we’re wired. Years later, when I

came across Human Design again at a completely different point in my life, it felt less like

discovering something new and more like something finding me at exactly the right time.

By my second year of university, I was running out of steam, and school just didn't feel like the

right path for me. The classroom felt suffocating. I was bored, disconnected, and quietly

questioning why I was even there. I remember thinking there has to be another way to live this

life. At the same time, I had already exchanged a few letters with Maria, and she loved teaching

Human Design, and I really enjoyed our letters.

When I learned I was a Generator and began to understand my authority, something clicked

immediately. Not in a conceptual way but in a that’s already me kind of way. I had always been

someone who could work for hours when I loved something, completely energized, almost

unstoppable. And when something wasn’t right, I didn’t just feel off, I felt it in my body. Heavy.

Drained. Even sick. I didn’t have the language for it back then, but I was already responding to

life. Already saying yes to what felt right and no to what didn’t. Looking back, that level of self-

Trust at 20 years old was such a gift I didn’t even realize I had.

The real turning point came in the simplest moment. My roommate mentioned she was going to

New York City for the summer and casually said, “If you don’t have plans, you can come with

me.” There was no overthinking. No weighing options. Just a full-body response: yes. I’m in.

That one decision, one sacral, yes, changed everything. I moved to New York, got a job at a

hotel, and with my third paycheck, I invested in my first Human Design reading. Not because it

made logical sense. Honestly, it didn’t. But my body said yes, and by then I was starting to

listen.

New York became my place of experimentation. I followed my energy. I trusted what lit me up

and what didn’t. And life responded. Opportunities showed up. People showed up. I grew in

ways I never could have planned. By the time I was 23, I trusted myself fully, and that kind of

trust changes the entire way you move through the world.

But it wasn’t all easy. One of the hardest lessons I had to learn was understanding what was

mine and what wasn’t. People projected onto me a lot. They saw things in me, expected things

from me, and took more than they gave. And there came a point where I had to step back and

ask, what do I actually want? What belongs to me? That process of untangling myself from

everyone else’s expectations was just as important as learning to trust my gut.

Over time, as I began sharing Human Design with others, I noticed a pattern. Most people don’t

trust themselves. They’re looking for someone to follow, someone to tell them what to do,

something to fix what feels off. But Human Design doesn’t work like that. It doesn’t give you

answers; it gives you access. Access to your own way of knowing, your own rhythm, your own

truth.

I remember working with a Splenic Projector who was completely burned out in his job. Smart,

capable, a great communicator, but exhausted and deeply bitter. When we looked at his design,

it was like a light turned on. He realized he wasn’t meant to push the way he had been. He

wasn’t meant to prove himself in the ways he thought he had to. As he began experimenting

with his design, everything shifted. He found his place not as the head chef, but as a sous chef.

Second in command. Operational. Precise. Respected. And he thrived there. Not because it

was bigger or more impressive, but because it was right for him.

That same understanding changed everything in my own home several years later. My son, a

4/6 Splenic Projector with a split definition, is here to move through life in a deeply relational

way. His 4th line is all about his network—the people he surrounds himself with, the

opportunities that come through connection and trust. He learns through experience, yes—but

even more, through the environments and relationships he’s part of. His “failures” aren’t failures

at all; they’re part of how he refines who and what is truly correct for him. Watching him taught

me that my role isn’t to push or direct, but to protect his space so the right people and invitations

can find him.

My daughter, a 5/1 Emotional Generator like me, moves through the world very differently. She

doesn’t need to experience everything firsthand to understand it. She observes, she feels, she

processes, and over time, she gains clarity. With her, it’s about honoring her emotional wave,

giving her the time she needs to come to her own truth. Where my son discovers himself

through connection and lived experience, my daughter builds certainty through feeling and

reflection.

Watching them grow up with this awareness has been one of the greatest gifts of my life. Same

home, same upbringing, completely different designs. I didn’t need to control who they were

becoming. I just needed to recognize it… and support it.

To me, Human Design is your manual. It shows you how you function, how your energy works,

how you’re designed to make decisions. And then it leaves the rest up to you. There’s no

dogma here. No rigid path you have to follow. In fact, one of my biggest frustrations with

personal growth and spiritual space is how quickly people want to turn everything into a system

to follow. But every system started as someone else’s truth. You’re allowed to create your own.

Human Design doesn’t ask you to believe in anything. It asks you to experiment. To pay

attention. To notice what happens when you trust yourself even a little more than you did

yesterday.

Because the truth is… You don’t need to fix yourself. You were never broken.

You are becoming.

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