“My father had stopped speaking a few days before, his pale blue eyes cloudy and wide, staring straight up into something only revealed to the dying. Holding his clammy, freckled hand, I felt cognitively displaced, somewhere between six and one hundred years old.”

- Bristol Baughan


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bristol Baughan is a writer, speaker, and professional leadership coach interested in storytelling and weaving regenerative community. She is on faculty at the Esalen Institute, a former executive producer of Emmy®-winning and Oscar®-nominated films, a TED fellow, Future Architect, and founder of Inner Astronauts. She holds a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica and a B.A. in International Studies from American University in Washington, DC. She is currently living in the Azores, Portugal with her mother.