This pic popped up on my “memories” and after, going 🥹 I remembered how at that moment I felt very synced up, very connected to this little person.
Years later, when Jack and I were having another high vibes moment I asked him, “What do you think buddy, do you think we’ll always be friends?” He said, “I don’t know mom. I mean, years from now I will have a totally different brain. I don’t know if my brain will want to be friends with your brain.”
On Embracing the Here and Now
The quest for self-discovery still feels endless. My navel-gazing is neck-breaking. My internal interrogations make it impossible to relax. I am working on letting go of my resentments, my impatience, my perfectionism. I am learning to be gentler with myself instead of spiraling into negative self-talk and silent lectures about never doing enough, never being enough.
Read MoreHow Yoga Taught Me to Respect My Body
Unlike that first experience at 27, nowadays, at 41, each time I roll out my mat I focus not on how I’d like my body to change but on how my body is. Sometimes my lower back asks me to skip upward facing dog and I respect that. Sometimes my body craves going upside down and I respect that too. I am constantly humbled by the poses I want to do but cannot. More often, though, I take pride in my newfound ability to overcome the “shoulds” and just let things be.
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