With a Full Heart

As any parent knows, our children have personalities and characters that they show from the very beginning. And if nothing untoward interferes, what we see, and know, of them early is what carries forward. One child is naturally cautious, another likes to be the center of attention, you know the drill. From the very first,…

I was reading a column this morning about a woman who was longing to purchase her childhood home. She’s driven by many times, even gone inside with the consent of the owner, but she still toys with the idea of wanting to have it, wanting it to be hers, feeling a need to hold onto…

It’s incredibly easy to put things off, to find excuses, to be the “pro” at procrastinating. It’s also incredibly easy to second guess ourselves, to think about the things we would “love to do” or that we “long to do” and find a multitude of reasons why it couldn’t/wouldn’t work. The two elements are intertwined,…

I was talking to a friend just now, someone who is winding down her career and thinking about what comes next. We were talking about the people that we know who have retired. They seem to be divided into two distinct camps. One is the group who are even more engaged than before, whether it…

Many of us, if not most of us, play tapes of the voices from moments in our past in our heads. These are not the “you can do it, you got this” messages, these are not the “wow, you are so good at this” voices. They are the voices that question and criticize and erode…

When I teach yoga, as many yoga teachers do, I start with a theme for our practice and I end with a few minutes of guided meditation as my students relax into their final savasana. Given the fact that I primarily teach older adults in either a long term care or assisted living setting, my…