Enjoy it!

The best advice I ever received about being a mother was from Darcy Kamin, the amazing lactation consultant at Yo Mama Yoga-Boulder. It was in a prenatal breastfeeding class. She said “Enjoy your baby.” Since then whenever I’ve noticed that I’m suffering, that it’s feeling too hard, that I’m not having any fun at all or connecting with my child, I’ve thought of those words and I’ve been inspired to turn things around.

I’ve also realized that Darcy’s advice applies to everything (well, almost). Enjoy your day. Enjoy your food. Enjoy your running. Enjoy your yoga practice. Enjoy your wife. Enjoy your husband.

Ever notice how all these things can become battlegrounds?

My beautiful vinyasa teacher, Lesley Desaulniers, would often say in class that we were trying to strike a balance between effort and ease. Sometimes the drama of daily life becomes, well drama. Effort. Heavy. Where is the balance in our lives that some of us more easily find on the mat? I’m on quest. Each day I try to find joy, but it’s more like I’m working on milking the joy out of every day, however I can. My little girl and I have changed our routine. New playgrounds, dinners out, adventures to new parts of town. It’s been nothing short of amazing and transformative. I’ve found that the energy I am cultivating inside myself is being matched by the energy in the world I interact with.

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