How many years have you lost just being so hard on yourself? It’s an interesting phenomenon. We tell ourselves that time flies, that it’s slipping through our fingers, that we must be as productive as possible to make every single minute count. And yet how much time do we continually lose to criticizing our bodies, denying our desires, questioning our true experience, and worrying what people think of us?
Read MoreYou can't go back to the way you were, for you are forever changed, and while you know you aren’t who you used to be, the newest version of you is still emerging. Now is the time to nourish the well of creativity, not to hastefully tap it again.
Read MoreIs it really enough of a contribution that I spend our days feeding, burping, changing, and soothing? Certainly I could be doing more? Certainly I could find some way to prove my worth to society while stuck in this nursing chair?
Read MoreDon't wish away what is such a sweet, tender, hard, exhilarating and ultimately short time. The two of you have the rest of your lives to be older. In fact, older is guaranteed.
Read MoreThe conversation looks something like this: Life is going way too fast, there’s too much to do, we’re worried we don’t have enough time to get everything done and what we do do is not good enough. Pepper that with feelings of judgment, comparison and plain ole’ perfectionism and you’d nail what so many of us are experiencing on a daily basis.
Read MoreI’ve got a little story for you. 2006 was one of the biggest years of my life. It started out mellow enough with setting a few intentions here, voicing a goal or two there and by the end of it I’d bought a house, gotten married, and was a newly enrolled holistic nutrition student flying back and forth from Oakland to NYC to attend monthly classes.
Read MoreYou’re getting closer. Closer to what matters. Closer to what feels good without feeling guilty about it. Closer to letting you just be you.
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