Mending with Mindfulness

Phewww. Have been hit or miss over here while nursing a come and go headache for the last 3 ish weeks.

Don't fret. I'll rally and see you Thursday 🧘‍♀️

4:15 pm Toula Yoga stretch and restore (like it sounds, we stretch, we rest, it's bliss)

1:00 Third Space Community Yoga
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Anddd now for my nap 😴

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A PERSON, NOT A PROJECT.

I think this is the thing I keep circling lately.

Not that I’m done growing or learning or changing. I hope I never am.

I’m just increasingly uninterested in spending my entire life preparing to become the person who will eventually live it.

A few ideas I keep lining up next to each other, turning over, and holding up against Scripture...

1. LIVE IN MY LIFE. STOP CONSTANTLY TRYING TO MAKE A LIFE.
Be here now. Be the observer. Notice without immediately fixing. This is my Tuesday body. Narrate the scene, not the story.

Different phrases from different places, but they keep clicking into the same lesson for me: I can participate in my life without constantly standing outside of it evaluating, interpreting and improving it.
There’s a difference between wisdom and surveillance.

“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” (Matthew 6:34)

Maybe that applies to more than obvious worry. Maybe some of my constant planning, analyzing and becoming is just another way of trying to get into tomorrow before I’ve finished being here. And maybe that isn't what trust looks like.

I can notice what is happening. I can respond to what actually needs me. And sometimes I can let an ordinary Tuesday remain an ordinary Tuesday.

2. CREATE MORE. CONSUME LESS.
I want less content about how to live and more actual living.

I want to make weird art. Write moody books. Read poems I don’t entirely understand. Learn things because they’re interesting. Touch trees. Have hobbies I'm mediocre at. Follow an idea down the rabbit hole.

There’s a particular kind of aliveness that seems to show up when I stop asking what can I get from this? and start asking what can I make with what I’ve been given?

The very first book of scripture gives us God creating. And then humans show up bearing his image and are immediately given a world to tend, name, cultivate and make things from.

Maybe we're not meant to spend quite so much of our lives consuming other people's experience of being alive.
Maybe we're supposed to figure out how to be inside ours too.

3. CONNECT WITH CURIOSITY, NOT CONTROL.
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2 more articles coming in Fall and then Spring ❤️

Fall coming this Oct - a book review on my 2026 favorite read.

Spring - a first person written (thank the heavens - anything else has felt like torture) 'Whats your Why' 🧘‍♀️

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Practice with me this week 📣

Thursday @ 1 pm
Third Space Community Yoga
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Thursday @ 4:15 pm Toula Yoga
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Saturday @ 9:30 am Littles Fall Yoga Workshop Series (September)

We have a white board outside our bedroom so I can let kids know when I'm taking a break and when I'll be back ...
Found this on our board today 🤣