09/04/2026
I’m speechless as I’m standing there naked in the men’s bathroom at my new gym.
NAKED.
And suddenly, I realize…
I have made a terrible, terrible mistake. 😂
I had been getting undressed when someone walked past me toward the exit.
I only caught their side profile and the back of them.
My brain took approximately 0.003 seconds to assess the situation:
MAN.
MEN’S LOCKER ROOM.
YOU ARE NAKED.
ABORT MISSION. 🚨
I froze.
How did I walk into the MEN’S locker room?!
Do I grab my clothes?
Do I cover myself?
Do I run?
Do I pretend this is completely normal and confidently walk out like, “Good afternoon, gentlemen”? 😂
And then…
I looked around.
Wait.
No.
I was in the WOMEN’S locker room.
I had been in the right place the entire time.
My brain had taken one tiny piece of information, filled in everything I couldn’t see, created an entire story, and then convinced my nervous system that the story was TRUE.
All within seconds.
And once I stopped laughing at myself, I thought…
How often do we do this?
We see part of something.
We make an assumption.
Our mind fills in the blanks.
And then our body starts reacting to a reality that may not even exist.
Apparently my newest spiritual teacher is the locker room at the gym.
And her lesson was:
Maybe get the whole story before you panic.
Preferably before you’re naked. 😂