For as long as I can remember, every time I felt down, sad, or stressed, my mom has always had the answer. “Just go for a run,” I hear her say. Argh…this makes me want to smack her pretty face. Who on earth wants to go running when they’re feeling miserable…
Our toddlers are still so little, but in a lot of ways they are fast developing their independent minds. And with that desire for independence comes a frustrating conflict between the desire and the capabilities needed to fulfil it…
I put together this short, 8.5 minute yoga sequence that is perfect to do first thing in the morning. It is not too vigorous, so feel free to do it in your PJs. Roll out your mat, or simply plop onto the floor next to your bed. Whatever works for you…
When it comes to making decisions, we cannot choose one thing without simultaneously turning something else away. With every choice you accept, you are choosing to not accept something else. Oftentimes we are far more attached to the possible sacrifices than we are with the possible outcomes…
If you are a stay-at-home mom or dad then you can relate when I say that this “job” is in no way the relaxing, spend-all-day-in-athleisure, hanging-out-at-coffee-shops experience that many might think it is…
I picked her up, thinking she just needed to be held. Still the tantrum continued. She arched her back, in a desperate plea to have a need fulfilled that I was clearly neglecting…
I know that it doesn’t work like that – that love is not mutually exclusive and it is totally possible to love more than one person with equal intensity. But I still can’t help but worry that my love for my new baby could take away from my love for Maya. Or, that my love for Maya is so overpowering, that Nugget will get less…
I feel that as we get older, the people we click with get fewer and fewer. Back in high school, it was easier to form friendships and feel a connection with several people. These days, at least for me, it is not that simple. Again, like dating, I need to feel a kinship, a sharing of general thoughts, lifestyle and beliefs before pursuing a friendship further…
So, there I am…yoga mat in one arm, water bottle in the other and fluffy grey Uggs on my feet. I had no escape. I was committed. There was only one choice…do some yoga right there: the sweaty, grunting, weightlifting muscle men and me, barefoot and pregnant in the gym…
We are complex creatures, us humans. Each one of us has spent our whole lives learning about ourselves and still do not quite know who the heck we are or why we do the things we do. The depths of our extraordinary minds are far beyond our own comprehension, let alone our own control. So is it not reasonable to believe that we can not always know why a day goes south…