Welcome to Positive Peace LLC! You’re joining a community of passionate social justice leaders who have felt the weight of the world on our shoulders, but believe in taking a different path. A path that does not mistake a mission-driven life for martyrdom. Where repair does not mean waiting to fix what breaks—it means active restoration of ourselves and our communities to our fullest, healthiest, and happiest. Not as a “side quest” to the service work we love—as the starting point.

This is the foundation of my approach as a Restorative Peace Coach. My name is Danneile, and my career in global peacebuilding and violence prevention has shown me that perhaps the greatest oversight in social impact—from crisis response and healthcare to civil rights and education—is lack of repair for the very people burning out when called to do this work.

I will never forget the street outreach worker whose exhaustion I could hear in her plea, “But who’s taking care of me?” I would ask myself that same question years later as I found myself developing chronic illnesses, financially trapped in bad situations, or zoning out on my phone for hours because I had nothing left to give. You may have asked yourself that question upon reaching a level of burnout that made all the staff meetings, LinkedIn career advice, productivity hacks, budgeting apps, Bluesky rants, and medication feel more like playing Whack-a-Mole with symptom relief than true problem-solving. Not to mention all the ongoing harm and injustice in the world that, let’s be honest, affects us even more than most because we are not only professionally invested; we’re often ourselves personally affected.

Which is why in my coaching, I reinforce that service is not “self-less”—it’s self-full. The restorative justice principles that I have spent my career applying to help communities across the world heal from conflict also provide the blueprint for long-overdue self-healing that we are meant to do together, in community. Now as the Founder and CEO of Positive Peace LLC, I am dedicated to empowering leaders like you to stop sacrificing health, wealth and joy, so that we can all build a better, more peaceful world together without breaking down in the process.