I went from feeling bad about taking time to nurture myself all the way to owning my true value and it changed my life.   I, like many women used to have guilt wash over me when I would take time away from my husband, family and business to take care of me.   Logically it didn't make any sense.   In my spiritually aligned business I took care of thousands of people. Of course I needed to take care of myself! If I didn't who would?!   Yet there was that pesky guilt feeling in my chest, shoulders and neck. It even made me feel nauseous from time to…

As a yoga teacher for 20 years I have always believed the best kind of yoga has been attending a class in person. And that just ain't happening these days. So, what has taking yoga online from your own home taught us? 1. It's just as easy for me to show up for myself as it is for me to not show up for myself. Notice if you find all kinds of excuses not to attend your online class or if you actually own your worth and step onto your mat when you want to do it. A great way to help you show…

We all have problems in our lives.   Every. Single. One. Of. Us.   How you face those obstacles reveals your human nature.   Of course, everyone has run and hid from their problems at some point in their lives, thinking that ignoring them is better than facing them.   On the other hand, when you face your problems head on, you not only gain skills and inner resilience, you also train yourself to look for how you can win in any situation.   I know, that sounds awfully masculine coming from me: "always look for the win."   However, I'm not talking about competition here.   I'm talking about shifting the way your…

I used to doubt myself more than I care to admit. Yeah, I know, I look all confident and courageous on the outside, a small business owner, yogini, teacher. But inside, there was a part of me that wondered if I was good enough, if I had what it took to really help people live better lives. I was pretty hard on myself at times and it kept me in a low vibe loop that I would yoyo in and out of. Because on the other side of that self doubt was the confidence and self love I exuded and taught to thousands…

Life used to be really hard. I'd beat myself up if I didn't live up to the rules I had put in place for myself like: 😒hitting a revenue target for my business 😫having an unhappy client that I couldn't "help/fix" 😒feeling like a bad mom when my kids didn't listen to me 😫thinking that I wasn't meeting someone's expectation of me I put myself through so much suffering! SO MUCH! We all do it. We beat ourselves up for not doing the uncomfortable thing in front of us (like having the conversation), then we get frustrated that we beat ourselves up and then we get pissy…

Wow! What a thought!   You get to decide who you want to be!!!!   So many of us have been taught who we are: through our parents, teachers, friends, bosses and everyone in between.   We try to meet everyone else's expectations of us without really thinking about who we are being in the process.   This leaves us feeling like we are spinning our wheels, not making any progress towards what we really want in life, maybe not even know what we really want from our lives.   No wonder you feel anxious when you are at a family get together!   Real power comes into play when you make…