Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • There is a habit that I became acutely aware of back in my life coaching training days. It is our need to respond to others by either devaluing, minimizing or dismissing their experience. Seemingly benign, innocent or even empathetic statements can have this effect even when we think we are doing the opposite. For example, let’s say that your partner brings home dessert to have after dinner. You take the dessert, put it…

  • When my husband makes a point of telling me that I am constantly seeming grumpy or on edge and then have these bouts of “weirdness” where I am overly silly and happy, then I take a step back to consider the validity of his comments. Although never formally diagnosed as depressed or bipolar according to labels, my therapist some years back allowed us to call my moments as ups and downs. While I appreciate…

  • We had a decision, then we changed it, then we reconsidered, then a new option came up, now we are back to uncertainty. I am not sure my psyche can take it…. Without too much detail, I think I can sum up our options as follow: 1 – Spain 2 – Saudi 3- Stay Number 1 is our preferred choice now because it gets us to a fresh start away from the region…

  • Last Saturday I was not quite as warmed up as I should have been doing our practical yoga exam. We did things a bit quicker than normal to save on time. Unfortunately, I did not also apply this to pushing myself a bit less knowing that injury was possible…. So, we were nearly finished when we went into upavistha konasana (seated wide legged stretch) when I felt something in my glutes pop. It…

  • Well, I have been talking about it for almost a year or more now. With the finishing of my 500hr yoga teacher training, I decided it was time. Plus, it coincides with my 41st birthday and time for me to start living up the midlife crisis period, right? There are not many hair stylists I would trust to do this to my hair, but Waleed is my man. I have been going to…

  • Just wanted to update that my visa run yesterday went very smoothly. It definitely made a difference to meet at a later pick-up point as I was the second to last in the car. The border crossing was easy peasy and since I had not had as much time in the car I managed to hang on to have a full drop off back home. It was borderline there, but I made it.…

  • I am about to do my next visa run to the Oman border…. I am hoping that there will be fewer passengers and I am meeting them at the second to last pick-up point in hopes of minimizing my time in the car as much as possible. Hopefully this will be the last visa run that I have to do and that either I will be coming in on a new visa or…

  • Okay, so it has been months that I have been stuck on a book from Book Club. It just has not kept my attention even though it is actually interesting. Perhaps it is because it is depressing and it not really told in a way that makes me properly connect with any of the characters. I think it is fiction based on true events, but in any case I am struggling through it.…

  • My logical brain says that it is time to start to prepare for life after: full-time yoga training constant stress of M’s situation worry about paying people back fretting on how to pay the next bills For almost 18 months or maybe even close to two years, it has been a life of stress and struggle. I took for granted my health insurance, regular paycheck, being rent-free and choosing a life of leisure…

  • It was a lovely weekend overall, though I guess I am a bit tired from it. This is normal for me, but it was the end of a part of my yoga chapter. These beautiful ladies all graduated from the 200hr Kaya Yoga Teacher Training held in Abu Dhabi at the Bodytree Studio from January to June 2017. The final practical exams were held this weekend with the ladies bringing their clients to our place…

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