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About Us
Erica Ando, PhD is a coach, certified somatic practitioner and writer whose work explores the relationship between achievement and self-worth. Drawing on three decades of study in the Feldenkrais Method and meditation, she works with reflection, embodiment and nervous system awareness to shift long-held patterns of striving.
Earlier in her career, she owned a design business whose clients included the MoMA Design Store, Takashimaya and design galleries and boutiques across the U.S., Asia and South America. Her writing has appeared in more than 25 international publications, including artpress (Paris), Aesthetica (London) and BOMB (New York). She has worked with more than 1,000 students and clients across nine countries. She co-founded INTERVAL PAPER and co-created The Good Enough Guide.
Michelle A M Miller is a coach, interdisciplinary artist, writer and End-of-Life Doula whose work explores memory, mortality and meaning through reflective practice. Drawing on decades of journaling, meditation and thoughtful inquiry, she creates spaces for people to engage life’s hardest questions with honesty and care.
Her artist books are held in more than 20 public collections, including Harvard University and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Her work has been supported by the Puffin Foundation, Women’s Studio Workshop and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Through her project Room for Dying, she has guided more than 100 community members in death awareness conversations exploring our finite lives. She co-founded INTERVAL PAPER and co-created The Good Enough Guide.
About the Brand
INTERVAL PAPER is a collaborative coaching project founded by Erica Ando, PhD and Michelle A M Miller. Their work critiques Never Enough Culture — the unquestioned standards that tell us nothing we do or have will ever be enough — and what it costs to live inside it. Through guided experiences rooted in somatic practices, death awareness, and mindfulness, INTERVAL PAPER helps people live fully engaged — without burning out.
Topics
The Cost of Capable High-achievers learn early to override discomfort, exhaustion and doubt. This conversation explores what that conditioning costs — and what it takes to finally stop.
Good Enough Is Not Giving Up The cultural narratives keeping driven people stuck in cycles of overperformance — and the reflective practices that help them recalibrate without losing their standards or themselves.
What Dying Teaches Us About Living When time is finite, what actually matters becomes impossible to ignore. A conversation about death awareness, somatic practice and the questions that reorient everything.
The Overfunctioning Trap For entrepreneurs and anyone holding a full life together: how the pressure to never drop the ball becomes embodied — and how to begin setting it down.
Reclaiming the Pause In a culture that treats busyness as virtue, deliberate rest is a radical act. A conversation about reflection, mindfulness and the small practices that create room for a more intentional life.
Let’s Talk
If you're a podcast host or journalist exploring Never Enough Culture, burnout, reflective practice or what it means to live and work differently — we want to hear from you.
Reach us at hello@intervalpaper.com