Today, self-love looks like this: Eating a fresh scramble with organic eggs and veggies, next to the flowers I bought for myself. 💖 It is highly unusual for me to prepare a meal for just myself. I happily cook everyday for my kids or friends, but there is something inside of me (down deep!) that…
“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the “thinker.” You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.” – Eckhart Tolle Rituals are powerful. They create a container to hold a singular focus for our mind and body. When dealing…
I started playing music in my yoga classes for a very practical and necessary reason: teaching in elementary schools, there were constant noises and distractions. I needed some background, ambient music as a kind of white noise to help create a peaceful environment. The music made a space where it was then possible to hear…
“Go ahead and press up into your headstand.” Ugh, not those words again. Please, anything but that. It was 1999 and, yes, I was in a yoga class. Folded forward in Prasarita Padottanasana, the crown of my head firmly planted on my mat. My spine was lengthened and my hands were aligned in the perfect…
This is the part of the ride where my body starts to ache and feel tight. We are on an airplane on the way to good ol’ Dallas, Texas, to see our family for Thanksgiving. We are two hours in, one more to go. The man behind me keeps jabbing his knees into my chair. Not…
I was streaming down the freeway, kids chattering in the backseat, music playing on the radio, and my mind going through my To-Do list for the dinner party we were throwing that night, when I heard my son yelling, “Mom! Mom! Mooooommmmm!” I tuned-in to my three-year old saying, “What kind of tree did we…
She sits by her window. The first light of a crisp dawn is starting to break through the night. She is up before anyone else and almost does not recognize the quiet hum in her house. Today is her birthday. Does she know I am watching her? She is different than she was years ago. …
I was diagnosed with chronic neck pain in college. It would frequently “go out” and hurt so much I couldn’t even turn my head. Everyday things like driving became extremely difficult and sometimes impossible. I was using so much Advil I thought about investing in their stock (if, you know, I actually had any money…