Right here, right now is perfect

by Lisa Kohn | Dec 30, 2019 | Recovery

Even as I strive, more and more, to release my perfectionism (yes, I do know how silly and oxymoron-ish that sentence is!), I also allow myself, more and more, to embrace the notion that right here, right now, everything is perfect. Just as it is. I know these two...

FEAR – False Evidence Appearing Real

by Lisa Kohn | Nov 25, 2019 | Recovery

It was from my best friend (who is a psychologist) that I first heard the term, Complex Trauma. What do you know? I identified. I was reading about Complex-PTSD yesterday. Someone had posted a link on a Facebook group (The Trauma Thrivers), and I clicked through. What...

Give up trying to control anything

by Lisa Kohn | Nov 18, 2019 | Recovery

I’m in the midst of my month of readings, interviews, and presentations. I’m out here for a reason, doing my best to spread of a message of hope and love (and a message that extremist groups exist and are outrageously intoxicating and dangerous – best drug you’ll ever...

Embrace the wobble (and take care of yourself)

by Lisa Kohn | Oct 14, 2019 | Recovery

Again yoga. Again a learning. #Idon’tgojustforthephysical We were moving through a series of balance poses, while supposedly standing only on one leg and not putting the other leg down during transitions. Or during the poses. And supposedly not falling down during the...

I love you (your name here). You’re beautiful.

by Lisa Kohn | Oct 7, 2019 | Recovery

I was on my mat this morning, in a yoga class, moving through the poses and focusing on my breath. I was also aware – quite aware – of the anxiety coursing through me. There was no particular reason for my anxiety, no particular reason for my mind and body to be on...

Be in the moment and enjoy your life

by Lisa Kohn | Sep 23, 2019 | Recovery

This was the advice someone gave me. Someone I respect – and love – a lot. It seems like good advice. Quite good advice. I can get caught in my own head. I can go down the rabbit-hole of thinking – some might say obsessing – on the things that are bothering me or the...