"The most productive thing you might do today is deciding how your workday will end." Reader, I want to share a personal journey that transformed my relationship with rest and self-care during perimenopause. It's a simple story about creating boundaries that might resonate with many of you navigating similar waters. For months, my evenings followed a downward spiral pattern. I would set a reasonable 10pm bedtime, then I'd mysteriously become wired just as the hour approached. The day's...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Let me tell you about something magical that happens when two women create space to truly see each other. Picture this: Two women sitting together. Not networking. Not fixing. Not comparing. Just BEING. One might be staring down a career change. The other? Navigating the vast, sometimes terrifying landscape of an empty nest. Their stories are different, but their hearts? Completely in sync. What Happens in Those Moments of Real Connection When women pause and create intentional...
29 days ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Lots of people quote Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's most famous excerpts. Not a lot of people read his letters, speeches or understand the lineage of thinkers who inspired him. I spent some of MLK day cuddled up with a book Dr. King read and re-read during the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman. Thurman was a contemporary of Dr. King's father and a mentor to Dr. King. Thurman led a delegation to meet Mahatma Ghandi in 1936 and over his lifetime...
3 months ago • 1 min read
The day of my book launch I also got a call from my boss saying that I was passed over for promotion a second time. The next day, my book made the Amazon bestseller list at number 2, just below The Autobiography of a Yogi, one of the seminal books on yoga in the west. You might think, well, if they don’t appreciate you, make money from your book launch and just walk away. But, the book was written as a labor of love to benefit the yoga therapy profession. I will not receive any of the...
12 months ago • 2 min read
Release to Rise love yourself and grow Reader, I am beyond excited to share with you the upcoming launch of "The Future of Sacred Yoga," my collaborative book that shares insights, and inspiring stories of hope and love through the mind-body connection. In my chapter, A Military Yogi, I share my personal story—from a community organizer at a Californian co-op to a military yogi stationed in the heart of Iraq. I share about how yoga has been with me over my 20 year career. It's a story of...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Release to Rise love yourself and grow This season may be feeling more intense than you've felt in a long time. Circumstances are coming to a head, pushing and pulling you like you're going through a birth canal. Something must change. For those who embrace the woo, astrologers are saying that, this year we are closing a 20 year transit and beginning another 20 year cycle. Where were you 20 years ago? Where do you want to be 20 years from now? Whether or not you look to the stars for...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read
Release to Rise love yourself and grow Issa Rae's Instagram post on her New Year's Resolution was voicing everything we tell ourselves when setting resolutions: "In 2024, next year, I am about to be so much better. That text, responded to. That email, answered. That project, finished. That other project, started. That book, read." Isn't that the way it always goes? We start with the best intentions, then the second Friday in January, "Quitter's Day" comes around, or maybe we last until...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
