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 I am back teaching yoga again.  Come and see me  STILLNESS WEDNESDAYS @ 1PM RANDALL OAKS RECREATION CENTER 500 N Randall Rd West Dundee, IL FREEFORM YOGA WEDNESDAYS @ 5PM RAKOW CENTER 665 Barrington Av Carpentersville ALSO A COUPLE OF SPECIAL EVENTS COMING UP EXPERIENCE IV: YOGA DREAM 9/23 7P RAKOW CENTER DARK FLOW 10/10 1P RANDALL OAKS RECREATION CENTER SUPER SAVASANA 12/1 8PM RANDALL OAKS RECREATION CENTER You can get more information at the Dundee Township website

 This is a picture from 2016 and I look happy, but I am really not.  I talk about how I screwed so much stuff up that year and it was the beginning of a slippery slope of doom with people who knew me, loved me, and the vomit of lots of anger, sadness, and guilt I was carrying for so long.  I think we all have years like this when we were at our worst.  How can we recover?  Did I make everything better? Was I able to grow and learn from it? Can you? Can anyone?  Time heals, but we must help move that process along. MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR - Frank Sinatra ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID - Poppy SACRIFCE - Kx5(Kaskade, Deadmau5)/Sofi Tukker WORST DAY - Illenium REPLICA - Fear Factory WILL I - Music from the Broadway Musical Rent WHEN LIFE IS GOOD AGAIN - Dolly Parton

There are moments in time where things come up for us that we don't know how to deal with. There are times when depression hits us like a ton of bricks. We don't know where it came from. We don't know how it happened. So, we find ourselves not knowing what to do, and we try to run away from it. Panic attacks happen out of nowhere, and we don't have a plan for how to deal with it. So obviously, the best thing we can do is create plans for bullshit. By creating plans, we learn not to run away from this, but to face it. Sometimes we can explore and see where it came from, and some people might say, "I don't give a shit where it came from because I just don't like what I'm experiencing, and I want it to be over with." I have always been of that mindset. However, these days I am someone who will sit with the feeling. I will let it consume me, and then I will let it pass by. There are unfortunately days where depression can take a long time for me to...

  Finding My Footing After Everything Fell Apart: A Guide to Resetting Mid-Year Let's be completely honest for a second: this last stretch of the year has been a total mess for me. Who comes up with these arbitrary checkpoints anyway? Sometime around July or August, right in the suffocating heat of summer, you look up and realize the grand plans you made back in January didn't just stall out: they completely derailed. It’s such a shitty place to be. You're standing amidst the wreckage of half-finished goals, mounting burnout, and a brain that feels like it’s running on dial-up internet while everyone else on social media seems to be thriving on a perpetual yacht vacation. Panic attacks crept in uninvited. The deep holes we create for ourselves through self-doubt and over-hustling got a little too comfortable. If you’re sitting there right now feeling like your life recently fell apart: whether it was a relationship ending, a career hiccup, a health scare, or just a ...