13/02/2026
The "Pause" I Didn’t Know I Needed ☁️✨
I’ll be honest: this second pregnancy has been incredibly confronting. Lately, my nervous system hasn’t just been "busy"—it’s been completely overwhelmed.
Between the demands of daily life and the mental load we carry, I’ve found myself in a cycle of depletion. I’ve felt that heavy tug of guilt—feeling like I’m putting every other responsibility before myself and the tiny life I’m growing.
Since teaching yoga, life became more about the doing and the giving. I was holding space for everyone else, which, if I’m being real, mirrored every other part of my life as a friend, mother, daughter, wife, and employe etc. And I was forgetting to hold space for myself.
My initial teacher training taught me that we all wear these masks and labels. We perform these roles so well that we forget: we are not those labels. At our core, we are just a soul having a human experience.
As someone who naturally thrives in a "Yang" world—loving the heat, the fast pace, and spinning all the plates—pressing "pause" feels uncomfortable. It’s a physical and mental confrontation to just stop.
In my personal practice I’m choosing to lean into the Yin. 🧘♀️
Yin Yoga is teaching me to sit with the discomfort and the sensations without trying to "fix" or "do." It’s a practice of shedding the names and the roles to just be. It isn’t easy, and it isn't possible every second of the day, but it’s the reset my nervous system is screaming for.
I’m taking these steps to learn this practice—firstly for me, so I can find my own center again. Maybe down the road, I’ll be ready to hold that stillness for others, too. But for now? No labels. Just being. 🤍
SlowDown