Anxiety in the Body: How to Feel It Without Being Overwhelmed
Understanding where anxiety lives in your body, and learning to work with it there, is a different and often more effective approach than trying to address it at the level of thought. Because by the time anxiety shows up as thought, it's already been present in the body for a while. The thought is often the last thing to arrive.
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Living Untethered: a Michael Singer book review on letting go of control
Michael Singer finds me again. His books seem to appear exactly when I need them, and this one was no different. Both of his previous books held me through times I needed holding, and this one is doing the same.
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Hindu Deities in Yoga: The Ancient Stories Living Inside Every Pose and Practice
Every yoga class I loved as a student, truly loved, the kind where you roll up your mat a little changed, had one thing in common. A story. Not the anatomical kind ('now we're going to create external rotation in the hip socket'). The ancient kind. The kind where a teacher would begin with: there is a story about...And something in the room would settle. Everyone would shift slightly on their mats. A collective leaning in.
The Body as a Source of Emotional Intelligence
I did not understand, for most of my life, that my body was a source of information. I understood it as a vehicle, something that transported my mind from one place to another. Something to be maintained. Something that felt things, yes, but whose feelings were secondary to what I thought.
Contemplations App Coming Soon
Your body already knows the way back. The Contemplations App helps you listen. Guided meditations, breathing practices, emotional check-ins and a journal, woven into the quiet spaces of your day. Rooted in yoga and somatic wisdom. Designed to feel like coming home.
Start where you actually are
Quietly Ok
Felt sense: Steady, a little spacious.
A good day is worth building on, not rushing past. Practices for when there's room to go deeper.
In Transition
Felt sense: Between chapters, footing unsteady.
Change rarely feels as clean as it looks from the outside. Honest company for the in-between.
Seeking Clarity
Felt sense: Unsettled, unsure, thinking in circles.
When you can't tell what you actually want, start by getting curious instead of certain.
Lonely, even around people
Felt sense: Present but apart, hard to close the gap.
Closeness has more to do with old patterns than the people currently in the room.
Disconnected & Numb
Felt sense: Foggy, far away, running on autopilot.
Numbness is a freeze response, not a failure to feel. Gentle ways back into your body.
Sad & Low
Felt sense: Heavy, flat, hard to name.
Some days don't have a clear reason. You don't need one to be allowed to feel this.
Ashamed, not enough
Felt sense: Small, exposed, quietly convinced you're the problem.
That voice is loud, not accurate. A different way to talk to yourself.
Anxious & Overwhelmed
Felt sense: Wired, braced, too much at once.
When your system won't stop scanning for the next thing; start with your breath, not your to-do list.
Guilty, can't say no
Felt sense: Yes again, when you meant no.
People pleasing isn't a personality trait; it's a nervous system habit. It can be unlearned.
Grieving
Felt sense: A weight with no fixed shape.
Grief isn't only for death. It's for the versions of life that didn't happen too.
Angry & Frustrated
Felt sense: Charged, tight-jawed, close to the edge.
Anger is information, not a flaw. Here's somewhere for the charge to go.
Ebooks
Book Reflections
Living Untethered: a Michael Singer book review on letting go of control
Michael Singer finds me again. His books seem to appear exactly when I need them, and this one was no different. Both of his previous books held me through times I needed holding, and this one is doing the same.
Seeing Desire for What It Really Is
We often look to others to decide what we want. We glimpse a moment in their life — a success, a lifestyle, a relationship - and imagine that having what they have will complete something in us. In truth, what we’re seeing is never the full picture. It’s a snapshot lifted out of a much longer, messier, deeply human story.
Learning to Trust Through Love
We often speak of love as something we either have or don’t, something we fall into or out of. Yet few of us pause long enough to consider its deeper purpose. What if love is not the destination, but the lesson itself?
Yoga as Life’s Lens: Reflections on Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi is more than a spiritual memoir; it’s an invitation to see life through the lens of the soul. In his telling, the extraordinary becomes accessible, not as far-off miracles but as a way of living rooted in self-awareness, discipline, and love.
Sanctuaries of the Self: Finding Rhythm and Ritual on the Road
Travel has a way of unravelling us. It stretches our boundaries and expands our horizons, but in the movement, we often lose the steady pulse of our daily rituals. After eight months on the road, I’ve realised that protecting your practice isn’t about rigid adherence to a schedule; it’s about finding the spaces that help you return to yourself—the ones that feel less like a workout and more like medicine.
When Coming Home Feels Different: How Space, Change, and Perspective Shape What “Home” Means
Sometimes, stepping away from everything you know is the only way to truly see it.We all have places we’ve outgrown, or thought we had. The home that once felt heavy, the routine that seemed suffocating, the four walls that turned into a mirror for our restlessness. But what if it wasn’t the place holding you back? What if it was what you carried inside it?
The Things I thought I needed (and what I actually found)
When I set out on what I half-jokingly called my adult gap year, I had a very clear picture of what I was chasing. I wanted adventure. Something new every day. A change of scenery. Access to incredible things for my photography.