OwieZowie
Has something ever happened to you that cut deeply into your soul? Have you ever allowed someone access to your heart and you ended up being hurt by them? Have you ever loved someone unconditionally, given them your trust and found that they misused it? Have you ever been blind-sided by an event in life […]
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
Have you ever been subject to unkind words, insensitive comments, or criticism? Have you ever felt that something you did or said was misunderstood, misconstrued, or picked apart by others? Have you ever invested your time and energies into something meaningful to you, something that you cared about dearly, only to learn that your efforts […]
Hurt People Hurt People
If you have ever been a part of a relationship, I am willing to bet that you have also found yourself amidst an internal struggle that is, at least in part, due to something that has happened within that relationship. Something that was confusing, hurtful, or upsetting. Something that was difficult to let go of, […]
Resistance Makes the Heart Grow Stronger
Fun fact: I almost never remember my dreams. However, when I do, I am usually in flight. Ever since I was quite young, in fact, my preferred mode of transportation while dreaming has been flying. I had not thought much about this dream-theme of mine until I studied dream analysis in college and learned […]
Serenity Prayer
Most of us are familair with the following prayer: “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.” …Through experience, I have learned that it is not always easy to accept the things in our lives that are […]
Laugh and the World Laughs With You
Most of us are well-acquainted with the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. And of course, this is an excellent rule to follow, as it offers us sound advice as we navigate our way through life. But how many of us are familiar with Rule Number Six? If […]
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda
As the old adage goes, “You can’t make a square peg fit in a round hole.” Most of us know exactly what this saying means: You cannot force something (or most often, someone) to be something that it is not. We cannot make a square peg fit any better into a round hole by thinking […]
Fear vs Love
Several years ago, in my yoga study, I was given the assignment to journal and reflect on the connection between love and fear. Our homework began with the task of taking note of the what we are afraid of as well as the things that we love.visit it We were reminded that our feelings of […]
Pause
Consider this passage from the book, “Radical Acceptance” by Tara Brach. “In the 1950s a few highly trained pilots in the U.S Air Force were given the task of flying at altitudes higher than ever attempted. Going beyond the earth’s denser atmosphere, they found, much to their horror, that the ordinary laws of aerodynamics no […]
{YAM} Heart-Openers and Back-Bending: These poses, hence their name, involve the opening and blossoming of the heart. Which inevitably exposes the most intimate and vulnerable parts of our internal and external self. And not surprsingly, this can feel scary, uncomfortable. Yet, it can also feel beautifully and incredibly naked and raw, as these poses […]