Personal Reflections

Personal Reflection: The Dogs Overseeing My Work, and Abundance in Life Right Now Lately, my camera roll reads like a love letter to the unconventional life I’m living. More and more I see the mundane moments documented--a flower blooming, a sunset that feels like magic, the sunlight falling in an unexpectedly delightful way, or a view that feels like home in one of the many, many homes I am lucky to have. This month I have stayed in three different homes with three dif

Alt Text: A jagged coast of lava rock cliffs drops into the deep blue of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kona, Hawai'i. I didn’t know it while I was in it, but these last two months have been a real-life experiment in how messy, disorienting, and deeply human it can be to try to chase alignment in real time. This one is long. If you’re not here for that, here’s the TL;DR: I spent months f***ing around and finding out, and learned that liberation lives in choosing, unchoo

A plane wing breaks through the horizon line of a dusk sky featuring a tiny waxing crescent moon. Personal Reflection: One-Way Flights Sometimes life asks us to move forward without promising what’s next. I sat across from my massage therapist after a massage during my visit back to Wichita. She asked, “Where do you head next?” I responded with the words I’d been practicing, “I’ll head to St. Louis to stay with my sister’s family, Denver to stay with my brother’s family,

A glassy, turquoise sea meets the mostly clear, blue sky at the horizon line. Personal Reflection: A Vision, Unfolding I was sitting by the ocean the other day when I randomly remembered a vision board I created in spring 2022. It was a period of deep transition–I was a year out of a long-term relationship, wrapping up my first year working at a new school, a few months into teaching yoga, and only just beginning to feel grounded. With my Mr. Sketch markers and chart paper

A sliver of orange sunset slips between dark clouds over a deep blue ocean. Personal Reflection: Quiet Knowing For those who knew me before 2024, there were about four months at the end of 2023 when I kept saying, “I don’t know yet, but I’ll know in January.” This was my response to questions about the future. At the time, I was in a wonderful teaching position, loving my students and team, but still felt like something was just a click or two away from alignment. I was expl