the Race We Choose: Running Toward Ourselves - Returning to Self Forgot and Life Are Invited Choose

A reflective work on the nuances of the human experience-the structures that organize our lives, the truths we learn to recognize, and the choices that allow us to participate more consciously and trust the road we are on.Through twelve spacious essays, The Race We Choose explores identity, capacity, agency, stewardship, discernment, and return. It asks what happens when the definitions that once guided us become too narrow to hold the life we are living-and what becomes possible when we recognize that the life we are responsible for is also ours to choose.This is not a manifesto for reinvention or a prescription for becoming someone new. It is an invitation to acknowledge what we carry, discern what belongs, honor what is complete, and meet our lives with greater clarity, courage, and trust.Valerie Pickar is the founder of Red Thread Consulting and creator of The 12 × 12 Journey(TM). Her work is informed by more than twenty years in the financial industry, where she witnessed how ambition, success, responsibility, and expectation can shape a life. She now explores the intersections of wealth, agency, stewardship, and returning to what is true.