I dream about your little face all the time. Would you have my curly brown hair? Your father’s chubby cheeks? What would your smile look like? The dream is the same, every time. I walk into the ...

For 25 years, I ran. Not literally, though some days it felt that way. I ran the family business. I ran the household. I ran toward my children with everything I had because I loved them completely ...

We haven’t been able to properly connect in a while. She’s been consumed by work, and the few times we did speak her voice was stressed and clipped. It wasn’t the conversation I was longing for. And ...

No one tells us that a breakup is a nervous system event. We speak of heartbreak in metaphors, but the body speaks in symptoms. Tight chest. Restless nights. Sudden waves of panic. A hollow feeling in ...

I used to believe that love was what held a relationship together. That if two people loved each other deeply enough, they could withstand anything—circumstances, pressure, mistakes, even each other.

I have a good friend who is convinced everything is too late for her. On a girls trip, we all got tattoos. In the moment it was fun. Afterwards came the spiral: it’s too late for me to get tattoos. On ...

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The stench of illness hangs dank and heavy in my sister’s bedroom. The room is dim and grainy, littered with pill bottles, cluttered with magazines and reams of hospital paperwork. One bare-bulbed ...

Saying “thank you” ain’t nearly enough, I’m sure we agree, but it’s a start! Those who know war, as they say, hate war. It’s not a thing of glory, it’s a thing of mud and blood. Plato said “Only the ...

She was done not fully being herself. She realized she was the only self she could be—and not being unapologetically true to herself was a disservice to her soul and the world. She was done listening ...

It is often said that we don’t find yoga, but that yoga finds us. That something in our life, in the universe, responds to our readiness to benefit from what yoga has to offer us and then presents us ...

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