From the Table

Walking away from something you built from the ground up can shake the foundation of who you are. When I stepped away from the business I had dedicated decades to — a company that carried my ideas, my designs, and years of training others — it felt like a collapse. Not a sudden fall, but a slow, heavy unraveling. I didn’t leave on my own terms. And that, more than anything, was what broke me. The grief wasn’t a week or a month of sadness. It was a long, hollow period of adju