Tag: Yoga Blogger
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Using your Intuition during a Health Crisis
This topic weighs on my heart, daily. I just need to say… YOU are in charge of your health. No one else. I wish I would’ve understood that better when I started going through my health crisis. I used to be the one who thought doctors had all the answers. I really thought anything could…
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How to Live Less Afraid
Fear. It’s everywhere. Fear is a mechanism that has evolved as a survival technique. Fight, flight or freeze is our fear response. It activates the sympathetic nervous system. While fear is useful when we are encountered with danger, it doesn’t benefit us to stay in the sympathetic nervous system daily. So, how do we overcome…
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I do see color and it’s Beautiful
I hear a lot of people use the micro aggression “ I don’t see color” as a way to “prove” they aren’t racist. I think that saying is overused and worn out. So, I want to start by saying that I DO see color and it’s BEAUTIFUL. Black skin tones are beautiful and worthy. I…
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Stop comparing suffering
“But my problems are nothing compared to yours.” Is my least favorite thing people say to me. The truth is, even the littlest struggle is valid because it’s your struggle. My struggle doesn’t invalidate yours. I want to be able to be there for those who struggle. I want other’s to be able to see…
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Grieving the loss of “normal”
Has quarantine bummed you out? Experiencing more stress and anxiety than usual? Me too. The truth is, we don’t know how much “normal” we will get back. This has been my reality for about three years. I don’t know how much of my life will be normal after the brain injury. So, we collectively need…
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People can’t save you, only You can do that
We’ve all heard the story. The damsel in distress who gets saved by the knight in shining armor. How dreamy, right? Wrong. Obviously this fairy tale can’t actually happen in reality. I don’t mean to burst your bubble. But fairy tales just don’t apply to reality. The only person who can save you is yourself…
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Writer’s Block
Right now, we all have a big influx of time.when we first went into quarantine, I was grateful for extra time to finish projects. Most of them are writing projects. For all of March, I had a horrible case of writer’s block. My creativity disappeared. It was hard. I stated questioning my spirit. Why was…
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Fear and Surrender
During all pandemonium there is fear and surrender. I have found this to be true in all my own experiences but also in the experience of society. I find fear to be a natural response. It is the “first responder” of our emotions. The problem is that fear makes us do crazy things. Fear can…
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Health: the one true wealth
I realized that health was our “one true wealth” when I was hospitalized 3 years ago. When I lost my health, I pretty much lost everything. In the midst of the COVID 19 social atmosphere, people have gone to great lengths to protect their health. And that’s how it should be. Think about it, losing…
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An Ode to my Inner Child
When I say inner child, I’m referring to myself in every stage of life. From the day I was born until now, I completely honor the person that I have been. Every belief that I created to protect myself worked for the time that I needed it. Every pattern of behavior and every habit I…
Stephanie Darnell 