Do you have a hard time feeling good while people you love are hurting? When we codependently commiserate with others, expressing pity for them or sharing about our own lives in a negative light so someone we love experiences solidarity, we can actually add time to their healing process …

Do you attempt to avoid emotional triggers, or do you embrace them as the healing prompts they truly are? When something in the external world brings up strong and uncomfortable emotions, the average person’s tendency is to run from or try to control the person or situation that appears to be creating them. But when we do that, we miss out on …

I was on crutches the day I boarded my flight for Dr. Sue Morter’s alumni retreat. My mind insisted I wouldn’t even be able to ascend the 108-step staircase to the Oceana shala at the Bodhi Tree, let alone do yoga. Little could I have imagined that in just over a week, my knee injury would be so entirely healed, I’d be hiking and surfing my way through Costa Rica!

When fear or any of its tributaries like concern, worry, hurt, and judgment have us, we don't often jump to "how can I get in there with these uncomfortable emotions and experience them in my body?" But that’s exactly what we need to do …