08/23/2026
From class this morning…
There have been times in my life when I have felt so compelled to change that I almost felt claustrophobic until I could shed that skin. I’ve been fortunate (at times I didn’t feel so fortunate) to have been presented with big choices in my life but those types of cataclysmic shifts are rare. I believe the Universe is handing you the risk for a reason.
But the real knowing of Self comes in the subtle shifts, subtle blooms, that wash over you because you allow them to and maybe even learn to welcome them. As women, we hold ourselves to a different standard as much as we are held to a different one and we lose sight of who we are and one day we wake up and say, “What the hell happened to me” and we get a divorce and we dye our hair and we change jobs and we do all the things until, if we are lucky, we land in a yoga class that actually teaches yoga not just pretty stretching and we realize we haven’t fully exhaled for years and we actually begin to feel the mat beneath us and we listen, finally listen, to the voice inside that has been saying “I’m right here” and we remember the pearl necklace has been around our neck all along and we begin that journey of the self through the self to the self. If we are lucky.
Dedicated to Susan’s beautiful daughter on her 40th birthday. It is, indeed, an auspicious time for a woman. And dedicated to Women. Brave women who don’t move the way fear makes you move but move the way love makes you move. We will be ones to save us.
