I read an article the other day in The Atlantic by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen about How to Care Less about Work, an except from their new book, Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home. I read the article with a deep resonance and a sense of …
Tag: Yoga
Change and Cheating
Recently I have been cheating on Yoga with Tai Chi. I had been struggling with Yoga, expecting too much of myself, and it became a pressure war – why am I not better at this? Everyone can do this but me. I used to be better at this, before I sprained my ankle and took …
Dirty Windows
The other morning I got up at 5 a.m., a habit I have been trying to recreate. It allows me a few minutes to blog before my husband, deceived by the empty spot in my bed to think it’s time for him to get up, and cranky when he realizes how early it really is, …
I Don’t Have to be Good at Yoga
For a long time I wasn’t good at yoga and that bothered me. I used to weep through class because I couldn’t effortlessly lift my legs and go into shoulder stand – I had to rock back and forth, useless cheating that frustrated me to no end. Then I started going to yoga every day …