Somewhere in that scroll hole, I saw an Instagram meme suggesting you name your brain. The idea is that when a dark thought shows up—like today is going to be awful—you can talk back to it. One woman said she named her brain Becky. So when the spiral starts, she says, Becky, I love you, but we absolutely cannot be doing that today. It helps. It puts a little distance between you and the thought.
Month: April 2025
Moving Closer to Your Dreams
f the next 1,00 days looked exactly like yesterday, would you be moving closer or further away from your dreams?
Am I Running a Cult?
With words, I am guilty. I say words like asana, prana, and namaste. I sometimes obnoxiously and joyfully show off my knowledge of Sanskrit. My longstanding students now know the Sanskrit names of many poses. According to Montell, this is insider language and the most telling hallmark of a cult.
Getting Laid Off
But let’s return to the initial question: What do you do when your life blows up? When you’ve been shivved, knifed in the back, and now you’re lying there, bleeding, asking, What the hell just happened?