My Journey with Human Design

In 2020, my friend introduced me to Human Design. I was completely fascinated and utterly enthralled with learning more about my blueprint about how my energetics worked, how I function best, and the more I learned about myself (and my friends and family), the more I wanted to learn.

One thing I absolutely love about Human Design, is that it’s not predictive. It doesn’t attempt to determine who you will meet on what day, but instead, it’s about removing social conditioning to get closer to our authentic essential self (our true essence). By working with our personal energetics it shows how our energies naturally want to participate in life (how we will naturally bring opportunities forward and make decisions in the best way). Culture and social conditioning has a way of dictating that there is a correct way to do life. i.e. stay in the same job for 40 years, and this will lead to happiness. While that might be right for some energy types, it is not correct for other energy types!

The more I learned about Human Design, I felt like I could talk about it all day long… and someone said, “what if you did this as a job?” At the time, it felt SO far away from being attainable to be a Human Design reader. I was an art teacher, my husband was in a PhD program, and covid happened, so even my own generator energy (where I am meant to feel lit up by life by doing things that make me feel satisfied) felt really drained and exhausted. At the time, I was prepping art materials to send home to 350 students per week and teaching to a screen all day. I switched jobs to a project manager at a university to try to reclaim some of my drained energy, but ended up in similar patterns: feeling drained by the bureaucracy of higher education, while longing to talk about personal development and Human Design all day instead! 

I changed my own trajectory by starting Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Life Coaching course in October 2024 and was really excited to be learning to become a life coach! However, each time I would talk to classmates about Human Design, they would mirror back to me this excitement and enthusiasm that would “spill” out of me as I would describe their charts and the energy dynamics. Eventually, one classmate/friend said to me in May 2025, “I don’t know what sign you’re looking for to pursue Human Design, but this is it!” (referring to my excitement looking at her chart with her!)

There were a lot of limiting beliefs that came up (including, but not limited to: is this practical? Can I find clients?Is it too woo-woo? Will I be able to a living around this? Is the market already saturated around life coaches & human design readers? But ultimately, none of those limiting beliefs (most of which I’ve been coached on by my fellow Wayfinder classmates) have stopped the feeling: I come alive when I’m talking about Human Design.

My energy feels expansive looking at someone’s chart, breaking it down into small, digestible pieces, describing all the ways they are magical & powerful. I love showing them that it’s social conditioning (not their energetics) that’s causing them dissatisfaction/suffering/pain/etc. Then, I love bringing coaching into the Human Design reading and asking what tiny action step can they take to live their energetics a little bit more? To decondition from society’s conditioning and get more in their own true alignment and work with their energetics is such a gift!

In May 2025, I started taking my own action steps by signing up for a Human Design certification program and launching my Human Design informed life coaching business. I am so thankful to my clients and Wayfinder coach community for such an amazing space we have created! Here’s to celebrating this past chapter & cheers to the next one as it continues to unfold!

xoxo,
Danica