For this month let’s talk about Truth. I don’t mean “telling the truth”. I mean living your truth. I’m not really one for resolutions, I find them unrealistic, often careless, and hard to stick by. You make a resolution because it’s “the New Year” and everyone else is doing it. I invite you to take a moment and look back, have you ever made a New Year’s resolution that stuck or significantly impacted your life for the better? If you did, I admire your planning and follow through. But I would think you are one in a few.

I’m not sure if its just me, but I hate and love the holidays. I think Christmas is the most magical time of year. A time to celebrate with family and loved ones. To get together and just be. But as part of that you are running around like a chicken with your head cut off, spend months planning, what feels like millions of dollars out the door, and then in a day it’s all over - and you are left wondering, was it worth it?

This is Part 1, of a multi-part series. So multi-part that I don’t even know yet how many there will be!

I always thought “getting better” or healing is how much you can do and how fast you can do it. Recently, I learned that is FALSE! A big old load of hooey. Your healing will take as long as it needs to take, and there is absolutely nothing you can do to change that timeline. I’m sorry if that burst your bubble. Trust me, it burst my own. Here I was slowly “getting better”. So I added more to my routine. My hip, neck, shoulder, low back, and original “mystery injury” started to flare up again. I thought, this can’t be, I’m “getting better”. So I had an adjustment, went for a massage, physiotherapy, osteopathy, continued to practice my yoga, walked longer and faster, etc, etc. Until I finally clued in, as my pain was slowly getting worse… I cannot rush my healing.

The biggest revelation I ever had was the importance of my alone time. I’m a people pleaser by nature. Meaning that no matter where I am, what I’m doing, I’m constantly worried about others - are they happy, having fun, am I acting right, fun enough, being a good host / friend / etc… While I am working on boundaries and the art of saying “NO”, the best way for me to recharge is by myself.

We have this unrealistic belief that if things aren’t hard, then we aren’t doing them right. When I started my yoga teacher training I red a book that introduced me to the concept of DHARMA: your life’s purpose.