Ms. Leah Gooch facilitates classes that integrate practices such as yoga, meditation, and creative writing with modern techniques to help individuals cultivate self-awareness and personal growth. Through these approaches, participants learn to process frustration and channel difficult emotions into creative expression. Her website, illuminateself.org, highlights a two-week commitment she made in 2016 to meditate for four minutes each day, a practice that led to a significant personal insight. Ms. Gooch works with diverse populations, including incarcerated individuals, individuals in the entertainment industry, and older adults, supporting them in reconnecting with their sense of purpose and well-being.