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Adhana McCarthy, MPAS, PA-C, C-IAYT is a Scholar, Certified Yoga Therapist, Certified Life Coach, and Army Physician Assistant who has served in the military for 19 years. She works with leaders and high-risk professionals to help them regulate their nervous systems, so they can have clarity and courage during high-stakes situations and decrease the risk for burnout. She uses the tools of yoga, mindfulness and cognitive reframing to build personalized strategies to ease the anxious mind, quiet self-criticism, and improve personal leadership as they reach for big goals. She has taught internationally and works with military, medical professionals, and entrepreneuers
"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...
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...
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...