Visit here for more of The Caged Girls. Chapter 35. There’s a fearful quiet that permeates when you do nothing. The silence leaks into my bones and stills my clumsily racing heart—until I feel my heartbeat quicken, made...
The physical practice of yoga has so much to offer. It gives us time away from our minds and hearts and space to grow and inhabit our present physical states of perfection. More, yoga...
Visit here for more of The Caged Girls. Part Eight of The Caged Girls: A Billion Steps Back—How to Trust Enough to Fail (Chapters 25-28). Chapter 25. I decided to overcome my eating disorder once...
Visit here for more of true-life novel The Caged Girls. Part Four: I Heard a Caged Girl Sing Chapter Eleven. I gingerly placed her sleeping body on the red microfiber sofa. She twitched slightly, but...
Read Part One of The Caged Girls: The Prologue Through Chapter Three. Read Part Two of The Caged Girls: A Life in the Mind (Chapters Four & Five). Part Three: Yoga Pants, Sticky Mats & Freedom. Chapter Six. I...
Part One. The prologue. My body used to be a cage. I used to claw and worm and wriggle and starve myself to fit through its bars. Because the real me was trapped...
Upward-facing dog might be one of the top 10 yoga poses (after all, it is in the sun salute series), but this pose is not simple or even for many yogic bodies, regardless of...
My shoulders ache. My neck is tight. They’re sore from holding up my tired and aching heart. The world isn’t always an easy place to inhabit. It can rub a sensitive soul the wrong...
Well, today didn’t exactly go as planned. My not-feeling-so-hot daughter stayed home from school this morning, nixing my own plans. This isn’t the biggest deal. Rather, it’s more of a stringing series of happenings...
I can be an extremely “heady” person. I often get stuck in my thoughts and inside of my mind and, I swear, it almost feels at times like I’ve forgotten that I even have...
