Coming Home to Self with Caren Wakoli
Dreaming Ourselves Alive by Amel Murphy
Episode notes
On courage, healing and owning your story. With Caren Wakoli, hosted by Amel Murphy.
What does it actually take to come home to yourself — and what have you been running from in the meantime?
Caren Wakoli is a storyteller, poet and founder of Emerging Leaders Foundation in Kenya. In this conversation, she speaks from a place of hard-won aliveness: a life shaped by poverty, loss, the courage to build something without funding, and the slower work of learning to own all of it.
This is a conversation about living with intentionality rather than motion; about the difference between surviving and inhabiting your life. Caren reflects on five years without a single donor, the letter she wrote to God when she hit the wall, and what healing looks like when you stop treating it as optional.
"If we don't do the work to heal ourse ...