Is yoga better than therapy?

In 2016 I was going to therapy 3 times/week.

I was on anxiety medicine for OCD and depression medicine for major depressive dissorder.

I had just returned from a 5 day stint in an in patient hospital in Bangkok, Thailand where I learned art therapy and practiced yoga daily.

To say I felt broken was an understatement.

I felt DEAD.

Like a zombie… just making it to the next day by the little willpower I had fueled by endless episodes of Gilmore Girls and The West Wing.

I had arrived at what the professionals call BURN OUT.

It felt like the combination of having 12 cups of coffee, 2 hours of sleep, and no will to live.

Therapy and medicine helped.. ISH.

But most of the time, they reinforced my feelings of “not enough.” Only driving me to want to work harder, this time on myself instead of my career.

My career hustle inevitably turned into self development hustle.

It didn’t help feed my insatiable need to feel like I had done enough, was enough, or would be enough.

I was truly at a loss for feeling BETTER.

I felt stuck in the “maybe this will work” pattern of trying one more thing…

UNTIL I started practicing yoga and learned SELF healing tools.

Now I know what you might be thinking… that’s convenient, because you own a yoga business.

But this happened LONG before I ever taught yoga, let alone owned a yoga business.

At the time I found yoga, I was just trying to make it to the next day,

Until that point, I was chasing my tail, digging to hopefully learn something about my past to heal my future.

What I found through yoga and mindfulness is that my future wasn’t in the hands of my past.

It was (and still is) in the hands of my present.

How I am living THIS moment.

Finding yoga liberated me from a life of feeling broken and never enough.

It freed me from a constant need to fix myself.

It freed me from the hamster wheel of chronic stress, of constant burn out.

I fell in love with me… and you know what happened?

I stopped needing the medicine.

Therapy became something I chose as a tune up, not as a lifeline.

Mindful living became a lifestyle that has allowed me to fall in love, has a thriving career, and feel alive and purposeful in my work.

There is no one right way, but for me… connecting to myself through yoga not only solved my stress, it helped me love my life and work.

I have a surprise coming on November 1st. It’s going to be an opportunity like I’ve never done before.

The heartbeat of it is centered in helping you create a lifestyle of living present, so chronic stress, burnout, and endless searching becomes a thing of the past.

Yes, it’s for your body, but it’s also for your mind, your relationships, your work, your goals, your feeling of ALIVENESS.

I cannot wait to share it with you!