Leadership and Lurking Shadows: The responsibility of inner work in political and organizational leadership

An Excerpt:

When personal struggles are intense or prolonged, they often spill into professional life — and professional stress, in turn, can cut deeply into the personal realm. These experiences take a toll. They can make it harder to lead with the care, clarity, and presence that leadership demands. When leaders fail to tend to and stabilize their inner world, the impact is rarely contained. Inevitably, harm follows — whether to themselves, to those they lead, or to both. As a friend once told me, what we fail to metabolize will metastasize.