On the first day of the rest of your life.

February 13th was my last day of work. Yes, I resigned. Brave? Irresponsible? Weak? How would you describe it? My burnout symptoms were manifesting themselves deeply in my body. My body has been aching, I have been sleeping and the smallest task was starting to feel like it needed a huge amount of energy. I’ve […]

On Vision Boards.

So I created a vision board this weekend for my year of 2013. It’s not totally finished; I’m waiting for a few more bold words to come my way to include. But, here it is. I think it’s beautiful. It’s meant to inspire me. It’s supposed to be raw, and vulnerable so that I remember […]

On releasing emotion through yoga.

I’ve been doing yoga on and off since I was 18 and in a more dedicated way in the last few years. One of the reasons I love yoga is because I believe that we store our emotions in our body and yoga helps us to release, unblocks parts of our body and helps us […]

On Recognizing Happiness.

We go through life in a state of “suffering”. I’m not trying to be dramatic; this is really the human condition. Buddhists say that life is suffering or dukha, commonly translated as “dissatisfaction” or “unease”. We spend our lives trying to work through this “suffering”. It doesn’t mean life is grim, painful, empty and therefore […]