Tag: writing

  • The spiral, the season, and the softening

    The spiral, the season, and the softening

    There’s a familiar idea in yoga and personal growth that progress isn’t linear — that we move in a spiral. We circle back to familiar places, familiar doubts, familiar edges… but we’re not where we once were. We’re further on, even if it doesn’t always feel like it. I’ve shared that idea many times, both…

  • Stop punching yourself in the face…

    and some other ideas for dealing with stress. Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of funny short videos on Instagram where a stressed-out woman considers throwing herself down the stairs/smashing a hammer into arm or leg/setting her car into reverse in the drive so she can jump behind it to knock herself down… All so…