I’ve become fascinated by the mind’s role in overcoming chronic conditions and have been pushing my own edge to understand better how to help clients. One of the techniques I've been working with is to replace language around pain with words that are softer, more tolerable or even funny.

As pain science evolves, more and more research is corroborating that chronic pain is not a problem with the body, it is a brain signaling problem which results in longterm physical symptoms.

How to end vestibular neuritis and other chronic symptoms.

Wonder is one of those words that fascinates me. It can hold the grandeur of awe and surprise or pirouette without warning into doubt and uncertainty. It is a paradox, much like the paradox of an aging-person’s yoga practice. Once the gloss of fancy poses has worn off, it’s hard to describe exactly what that is. I think of it as sitting with the mystery.

One of the challenges of the post covid period is that many of us have experienced a kind of heartache which has no clear trajectory and no clear end point. When I think about post covid re-integration, here are 3 principles that have helped me create a transversal between loss and recovery.

I am 100% certain that I will not be the queen of all things DIY, but I now have a sense of what it takes to break through my own self imposed glass ceiling. “THIS IS MY YOGA.”