No one tells us that a breakup is a nervous system event. We speak of heartbreak in metaphors, but the body speaks in symptoms. Tight chest. Restless nights. Sudden waves of panic. A hollow feeling in ...

I used to believe that love was what held a relationship together. That if two people loved each other deeply enough, they could withstand anything—circumstances, pressure, mistakes, even each other.

We all love talking about attachment styles these days, especially when it comes to relationships. Is he avoidant? Am I anxious? Is she emotionally available? But what if attachment theory doesn’t ...

When I worked as a professional model, people would see me in a magazine or on a billboard and say, “I want to do that.” What they didn’t understand was that it meant being evaluated constantly, ...

She was done not fully being herself. She realized she was the only self she could be—and not being unapologetically true to herself was a disservice to her soul and the world. She was done listening ...

I’ve struggled to find the words this week. To find the balance between blind rage and constructive communication. To understand why I feel the need to find that balance at all. Racism isn’t new to me ...

During that global pandemic that disrupted life as we know it, many people attempted to find the silver lining in the chaos. For some, it brought people closer to their friends and families. For ...

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I often think of yoga as a practice which moves beyond the boundaries of the spoken word. I did my first teacher training in Cologne, Germany—at a time that I didn’t speak more than a handful of ...

She would have been 93, now. Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and ...

It is often said that we don’t find yoga, but that yoga finds us. That something in our life, in the universe, responds to our readiness to benefit from what yoga has to offer us and then presents us ...

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