Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Sometimes feeling as if you have hit rock bottom can feel optimistic as the only way to go is up.  Although I can imagine life could have gotten worse and I do fully appreciate that many others are worse off than we have ever been over the past few weeks, I also know that I can only handle so much. Even a week later, I am still recovering mentally and physically. I am…

  • I have been unable to focus long enough to write or to gather my thoughts in a way that is comprehensible. I still cannot share the details publicly on what is going on, but what does not kill us…, right? My patience has been tested and is still in tact. Short meditation sessions are helping me get through the days and having a new MRTTAD Team summer challenge gets me to the gym.…

  • June 18th (Sunday) 60′ Private yoga session June 19th (Monday) 20’29” 2km walk/run on treadmill 2’18” plank regular and elbow June 20th (Tuesday) ~wasn’t feeling well last night so had someone sub my yoga class and decided to just do a nice ‘leisurely walk’ today just to ensure that I reignite the habit of getting to the gym every day. Hoping to be back to normal soon – feel better than yesterday so far….…

  • The kitties continue to take me on the emotional roller coaster of loving and hating them. They are cutest and sweetest when asleep… 😸 They do provide me with excellent company when I am home all day. In fact, I have a migraine today but they are staying close by even though they usually sleep where the sun is coming in. 😻 With our upcoming move, we are looking at how much they…

  • 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.…

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