Some transformations don’t begin with a decision. They begin with a diagnosis. Or a crisis. Or a sentence you don’t yet have the words to process.

This episode is about what happens after that moment—when the world as you know it changes, and your body becomes the only reliable place to land.

Liza Futerman is a somatic educator, writer, and artist whose journey spans countries, disciplines, and modes of knowing. She grew up between Soviet Russia and Israel, lived and studied in Oxford and Toronto, and spent years mastering the language of the mind—until her mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis called her back to the body.

What followed was not just a personal reckoning, but a full-on reorientation: to grief, to movement, to mixed-abilities dance, to leadership as a question rather than a role.

This conversation is soft, but not small. It’s an exploration of what it means to come home to yourself—especially when everything you once knew about control, safety, and certainty has unraveled.