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!

I was in an abusive relationship for the first time in years, but this one held a wild role reversal. Instead of the more familiar role of the victim, this time, I was actually the abuser! At least so says my knee …