For the last two years, I’ve hosted a New Year’s Eve Restorative Yoga Celebration. As part of that reflective celebration, I invited people to choose a word or phrase to guide their intention for the year. This past year, I chose the word “streamline'' for myself. My...
I spent about the first 15 years of my adult life wearing my exhaustion like a badge of honor (as shame researcher and storyteller Brené Brown says). Without any regard for time, space or personal limits of energy, I said yes to just about every appealing invitation...
Several weeks ago when I checked in with the folx in my online community to ask them how they are – for real – I started to get slightly different responses. I’d heard them name exhaustion, anxiety and stress many times before. But this time, they also started to use...