Keep the focus on myself

by Lisa Kohn | Jan 17, 2022 | Recovery

Another thing I learned when I first crawled into Al-Anon decades (yes decades) ago. Keep the focus on myself. The only way to not get caught up in needing to control what others say, think, feel, and do is to keep the focus on myself. Like much of what I heard in...

Surrender (even) more fully

by Lisa Kohn | Jan 10, 2022 | Recovery

Back when I was physically in the yoga studio again, the instructor offered this. Well, she actually offered, “Surrender more fully,” but I added the even. Because it’s what I needed to hear – and need to hear – again and again and over and over. I first learned that...

Good morning spectacular! I love you, Lisa! (and how that’s changed)

by Lisa Kohn | Dec 20, 2021 | Recovery

I think I first learned about Shauna Shapiro’s Good morning, I love you practice in Rick Hanson’s Wise Brain Bulletin. I may have been somewhat engaging in this kind of thing before, but reading her story definitely solidified it for me. Every morning, before I...

We arrive. We be.

by Lisa Kohn | Dec 13, 2021 | Recovery

Where would I be without my yoga practice and instructors to remind me? I say remind me, because, thank you to EVERYTHING, I do know this now. I do know that life is actually about arriving in this moment and then just being in this moment. I don’t need the teaching...

I’m unplugging my head from self-defeating thoughts (and the universe is helping)

by Lisa Kohn | Dec 6, 2021 | Recovery

Yes, I practice mindfulness and gratitude. I preach mindfulness and gratitude. And my brain can get caught in an endless repetitive loop of ruminations and justifications that SO get in my way. I’m working on that, and I’m working on accepting that. As I’ve learned to...

Must be present to win

by Lisa Kohn | Nov 29, 2021 | Recovery

Have you ever bought a raffle ticket, at an event, and down on the bottom of the ticket, most likely in small print, it says, “must be present to win?” Must be present to win. I’ve been thinking about that recently. Well, I’ve been thinking about it because my yoga...