It’s incredibly easy to be living a good life and still feel as though you’re failing at it. We compare our lives to the ones we imagined for ourselves and to the lives we think everyone else is living. Somewhere in all that measuring, how much of the sweetness of our own lives do we miss?
We enter marriage carrying hopes about love, family, stability, and who we’ll become together. But as life changes, it can be worth asking: what did we actually promise each other and what do we need now?
Caregiving can hold love, exhaustion, resentment, devotion, grief, and guilt all at once. This piece explores what happens when caring for someone you love begins to cost you pieces of yourself.
There comes a moment in a woman’s life when she realizes the room is no longer looking at her the way it once did. No
Years ago in yoga therapy school, a teacher told us a story, whether folklore, tradition, or simply a very wise parent’s fantasy, I’ve never been
A reflection on Robin Williams, neurological illness, identity, and the difficult question of what happens when being alive no longer feels fully livable.
A friend recently asked me what three things I would tell my younger self. At first, I thought she meant health things. Supplements. Hormones. Sunscreen.
I have spent a good part of my life practicing some form of wellness. Yoga, meditation, breathwork, movement, nutrition. I’ve studied these things, taught them,
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how easy it is to slowly lose connection with yourself while still appearing completely functional on the outside.
