When your muscles are sore after a workout, it can feel really validating. We all feel that bit of pride after your glutes ache from that extra set of squats. No pain, no gain, right?… Post-workout muscle soreness is a common reaction to training. When your muscles work hard, they’ll naturally feel a bit fatigued afterward, and eventually, they’ll become stronger once your body properly recovers. That’s pretty normal.

I found becoming a mother a devastating experience. There was this explosion of love and attachment for someone like I’d never known before. But, I had completely underestimated how hard it would be to bring an utterly helpless being home and keep it fed via nipple torture every 90-120 minutes. Layered on that was the stress of the almost crippling anxiety that something would go wrong and I would kill my baby in a thousand different ways. He was so tiny and fragile!

I think I forgot, somewhere between the spring of 2020 and now, how to have fun and it has left me feeling untethered. When I cast my mind back, it feels like having joy in my life was as effortless as breathing. And now I kind of can’t remember how to do it. I've been feeling a little stuck, so I've come up with a shortlist of 5 ways I'm going to try and reconnect to joyfulness and groundedness. Join me--you can borrow from my list or make your own.

It’s me again, here to talk to you about the next of the kleshas! The third of the five kleshas is Raga, translated to attachments. This is generally interpreted to be attachments specifically to material things. The teaching of the Sutras is that this attachment creates inherent insecurity because material things are fragile and can be lost or broken. When we inevitably lose that thing, it causes suffering.