Launching a new career and business is at once energizing and exhausting. I find that I have days, weeks even, of unbridled excitement and creativity. Sometimes I can’t sleep at night because my mind is racing with ideas. I keep a notebook on my laptop called “Brain Dump/Ideas” to capture all the stuff that comes into my head before I can forget it. And I will forget it!

Raise your hand if you or someone you know has ever said either of these:

"I'm not flexible enough to do yoga."

"I need to do yoga to get flexible."

In my last post, I talked about how we judge ourselves mentally through our internal dialog and emotions. This time I want to share my personal journey to examine how we sometimes judge our physical bodies and how learning anatomy filled a major gap and changed my perspective forever. Like many people, I have had a love/hate relationship with my body for decades. I’m happy to say that I’ve grown to love it and appreciate it more than ever over the last decade. So how did that happen? Fair warning, this isn’t a short post so get comfy for a few minutes.

Ah, January. A month for new beginnings, fresh starts, and more judgment. In typical fashion, the year starts with people asking questions like:

“What’s your word of the year going to be?”

“Are you setting any resolutions for the new year?”

“What about goals or intentions?”

It dawned on me as I sat down to write this blog entry, that this was likely going to be my last one of the year. So that got me thinking about all that has transpired and my brain nearly cramped. This year has just been, well…. A LOT. I know you feel me on this!

Anyway, I thought I’d share some of what I’ll remember about this year. The not so great and the silver linings too!

It’s barely mid-November as I write this, but it feels like late Summer with 75 degree temps. Beautiful, yet strange. The leaves have fallen, the election is over (fingers crossed), and change is in the air.