I used to play small in nearly everything I did. I kept my words to myself. Even when I had a conversation with someone and I knew what they were saying was incorrect I wouldn't say a word. Instead I rehashed the conversation over and over again for the next

When I first took yoga I was the one hiding in the back row and always did exactly what the teacher said to do, nothing more, nothing less. I followed blindly because I didn't know how to listen to my body. I thought the teacher knew best, that their cues were the only way to do a pose.

At the beginning of shelter in place I needed to do an hour of yoga everyday just to make it through the day. That wasn't going to be sustainable sharing our open floor plan house with the other two humans in my family. I needed something else that I would help me cope, work through the troubled thoughts in my head, and keep me from shutting down completely.

A mentor encouraged me to hold onto the calm-clarity feeling whenever it showed up. But that feeling was elusive and rare like a snow leopard.

Life coaching and traditional therapy overlap A LOT! Both help you understand yourself better, make sense of past experiences/traumas, and give you space to process and grow. They differ in that

The universe works in interesting and often surprising ways. Right now I find myself oscillating between anger, depression, and hope because our world feels broken to me, so I offer you these words as a silver lining and perhaps a beacon of hope. Sometimes things

I used to assume that everyone around me knew more than me. Really though I was just silently bowing to their superior knowledge and thinking that my words were not important enough to say. But sometimes someone would

When I was a kid, I had a massive Barbie collection, like you couldn’t count them all, kind of massive. I was in love with Peaches and Cream Barbie and Barbie and the Rockers. I even got

Change can be subtle, it can happen slowly over days, weeks, years or it can happen rapidly. What does change feel like for you? Is it something that excites you or is it something that causes fear? Both feelings are

I feel like I was born with anxiety but that’s not true. Anxiety is something that we learn from the adults around us when we’re young children. Anxiety is not your fault. We live in a…

Your subconscious mind either helps or hinders you, but sometimes it's not clear which one it's doing. As a child you either gave up easily or kept stubbornly trying when something didn’t go your way based on your subconscious beliefs.

Your mind lives in a state of distraction and it’s normal if pausing and being quiet feels uncomfortable. It might feel impossible to feel calm, focused, or peaceful. And yet, those feelings are more available to you then you may realize. It is possible to listen to your inner wisdom.

Self-acceptance can feel like a tricky beast. We spend our earliest childhood years blissfully unaware of self-doubt’s existence. Feeling confident in our choices and that we are the only important thing in the world. Then around