ABOUT CAMERON

 

I am a learner, a laugher, a mama lion, a partner, a leader, a sounding board, a seeker, a seer, a teacher, a writer, a rider, a mentor, a safe place to fall.   I capture light and true moments.  I look for the story beneath the story.  I am learning to know and embrace my shadow and my light.  Learning to let all of me live here.  To inhabit all the corners of me and all the rooms in my life. I am learning to know my own voice and listening.  I am on a mission to feel more, spin less, adventure, come together, and know my way home. 

I believe the world is changed with one small kindness, one creative spark manifested, one story told, one authentic step, one song, one injustice repaired, one hardness softened, one poem, one boundary held, one act of forgiveness, one tree planted, one shame bathed in light, one bold step, one generous act, one disruption, one unexpected tenderness.  That is the possibility we all carry.  What is within us all.

So there. 

 

Some of the places that taught me things...

From a very early age I learned that I could earn love.  I was a satellite dish collecting subtle clues and cues about how to win people and consequenlty feel safe.  I equated love with my specialness.  My dazzle was what made me loveable.  I intuited how I needed to behave, to look, to perform, to earn it, win it, gold star my way to belonging,  happiness.  So I did those things.  I did all the things.  I learned an enormous amount.  I played in a sandbox of ideas with other minds that pushed and pulled my own like silly putty.  I mimicked and repeated, absorbed the insights of others and wore them as my own. I had a photographic memory. I crammed and it worked.  I got good grades, and good access.  I was athletic and fit and desired. When I was shining for other people, I was on top of the world. Even on top of other people.  Not in the good sex way, but in the I might be a little better than you because I did all of these things, and it took me less time, and all these people think Im amazing way.  But I thought my amazingness is what made me me, what made me worthy and real.  Then real shit happened and I have been trying ever since how to inhabit myself comfortably and inhabit the contours of my life fully.  

But, for the sake of posterity...here are some pieces of information.

I went to Columbia College in NYC for undergrad and majored in Cultural Anthropology, so I am uniquely qualified to show you around the upper upper West side, and I know words like ethnocentrism and hegemony.

I went to Cambridge University in England where I tried out for a number of plays using a fake British accent.  I'm pretty sure they didn't cast me because I did their accent better than them. 

I got my JD from UCLA Law School which qualified me to be a lawyer.  So I did that for a while.  It also trained me to be a hyper logical and argumentative ass-hat, although really, I think it just made me better at something for which I had a natural gift.  To be fair, I was probably bound to be an ass-hat in my twenties no matter what I did, so I shouldn't blame UCLA.  

I am a trained writing mentor, instructor and editor.

I am trained and certified in mediation and conflict resolution so I will totally win if we ever get in a fight. Sorry.

I am trained in public speaking.  So I often find myself talking in public.  

I am a Martha Beck trained coach so sometimes I can't help but say words like resonate, and hold space and abundance.  Sorry again. Also, Oprah is my dear friend.  And obviously Gayle too.  They are so fun.

I am trained as an Equus coach by the Equus Institute where we all speak horse together and it makes other people feel left out.  

I am the owner of Cameron Hill Photography.  And I work there too. 

I am the Founder of The Inhabited Life. I hope you will join me there.