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I’ve been practicing self-awareness since I was 8 or 9 years old, long before I knew what it was called. There’s a specific moment I remember from third grade when I got fed up with listening to the fear in my head. It kept me from doing what I truly wanted over and...

How do you know when something just isn’t right? I know for me, there’s a little constriction in my gut and in my throat. My breath is shorter and shallower - it’s harder to take a full breath. Then my mind feels like it has an itch…something’s off. The answer comes...

My focus in the groups and programs I provide through my business, Samya Yoga Healing, have a theme lately - taking responsibility for our reactions to reduce violence towards ourselves and in relationships. It’s not surprising since my personal commitment over the...

There is a lot of pain in the world. And we are wired at a basic, biological level to avoid and escape pain. But if we always let that reaction control us, we end up living from a fear state. The other aspect of life as a human is all the love that is also present in...

One of the wonderful things about living abroad is understanding there are so many different ways for things to be done. It’s common to believe how we do things at home is how everyone does things across the world. Every country has its own unique way of looking at...

Living by the ocean has made me realize life is a lot like the changing ocean waves—sometimes steady and calm, sometimes choppy and unpredictable. Each transition we go through in life asks something different of us. Maybe balance, patience, and courage. Or simply the...

My last stop in North America before heading back to Jeju Island was Vancouver, Canada to visit my dad and his wife. We had one interesting conversation around what to do when interacting with someone who is speaking about information you know is wrong. My dad shared...

I just spent a week in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina for a small family reunion with my in-laws. It's a beautiful place overlooking a lake that reflects the lush, thick forest that surrounds it. Life is slower there. Time is spent filling the space between...

Eleven years ago, I woke up with diminished hearing and ringing in my right ear. And it didn’t get better. Since I listen for a living, I was scared. What was going to happen? Was it going to get worse? It sent me on a journey of ruling things out, trying medications,...

One of the most common sentences I hear from women about anxious reactions: “I just have to stop it.” This sentence is the reason we keep suffering and staying in the loop of anxiety. One of the BIGGEST misconceptions about any challenging emotion is that it’s ‘bad’...