by Lisa Kohn | Jan 29, 2024 | Resilience
Again, a yoga practice. Again, exactly what I needed to hear. I remember when I first heard this, when I crawled into Al-Anon decades (and decades) ago. “You’re exactly where you need to be,” they told me. That gave me such freedom to begin to accept myself as I was,...
by Lisa Kohn | Jan 22, 2024 | My Story
It’s been a tough week. A very tough week. I am okay, and I am learning and evolving and being. But it’s been a tough week. I still can get cut to the core and lose my sense of self, even as I grow more and more stable and centered. I can slip back into the self-doubt...
by Lisa Kohn | Dec 3, 2023 | Recovery
My yoga practice is such a saving grace, even though there still is so much I can’t do. (Side note – I REALLLY should have filmed my handstand when I could do one. I don’t know when/if I’ll ever be able to hold myself up not against the wall again!) It saves my body....
by Lisa Kohn | Oct 16, 2023 | My Story
Again, my yoga practice and instructor. Again, what I needed to hear. Come from curiosity, not expectation. It is so easy to go into situations, conversations, and daily life rife with expectations. Expectations that can leave me disappointed. Expectations that can...
by Lisa Kohn | Jul 31, 2023 | Resilience
Once again, I heard this in yoga class…but it’s so so so true. So easy to forget, but so so so true. Pain happens. Sometimes pain really, really happens. But how much I suffer with it is at least somewhat in my control…and therefore optional. I know my yoga instructor...