You get to choose how you feel no matter what

by Lisa Kohn | May 13, 2019 | Recovery

Sometimes I remember this. Sometimes I get this. Sometimes I can stop myself as I sink into worry or fear or frustration and pull myself out. Sometimes I can, and sometimes I can’t. But I’m working on it more and more each day. I don’t mean ignoring or glossing over...

What’s the story you’re telling yourself?

by Lisa Kohn | May 6, 2019 | My Story

It’s a paradox. Even as I’m learning more and more, and more and more, to give up control and to stop trying so hard – at just about everything – I’m also learning more and more, and more and more, that I have more control than I often think I have. In some ways it...

Right here, right now, I am in joy

by Lisa Kohn | Apr 29, 2019 | Hope and Amazement

My thoughts were going a mile a minute this morning. I was on my way to my yoga practice; it was a gorgeous, sunny spring morning; and I was caught in a situation in my mind, trying to figure it out, going over and over – and over and over – what wasn’t working and...

Letting it be enough (and a few of my reviews and awards)

by Lisa Kohn | Apr 22, 2019 | My Story, Writing

My drive for more can be relentless. If I’m not being intentional and careful, it can hit me pretty much in all that I do. In my work, in my writing, in my yoga, in my working out, in my lifting, in my relationships and personal commitments, in my… Pretty much...

I was best friends with the Messiah’s children

by Lisa Kohn | Apr 15, 2019 | Hope and Amazement, Recovery

Many people tell me that they couldn’t do what I’m doing. Somehow the fact that I’ve pretty much bared my soul (and my insecurities and anxieties) to friends, family, clients, and strangers – and that I do it over and over again, and more and more, each time I speak...