Chill Yoga

06/24/2026

Not everyone will “get you .” 🤪
And that’s ok !!

The need for constant understanding is quietly exhausting and releasing it is one of the most FREEING things you will ever do !
Try this out in the summer light .
Let go and accept you are unique meant to SOAR .

The moment you stop needing someone to understand you - you will finally stop being hurt by the fact that they do not.

This took me a long time to learn.

For years I believed that if I could just explain myself clearly enough - find the right words, the right moment, the right tone - the people who misunderstood me would finally see me.

They never did. Not because I failed to explain. But because some people are simply not able to see you the way you need to be seen. Not unwilling. Not able.

And the moment I stopped making their understanding a condition of my peace - everything shifted.

I stopped rehearsing conversations in my head. I stopped feeling wounded after every interaction that went nowhere. I stopped handing people the power to define how I felt about myself.

You do not need everyone to understand you. You need a few people who genuinely try. And you need to be at peace with yourself regardless of who does and who does not.

The need for constant understanding is quietly exhausting. Releasing it is one of the most freeing things you will ever do.

Not everyone will get you. That is not your failure. That is just the truth of being human.

(Attaching photo of One of my favorite places)

06/24/2026

If you keep getting sick, have chronic pain, or you just feel so exhausted and don’t know why— sometimes it’s because your nervous system has been beyond threshold for weeks, months, or years.

All of us have a different level of nervous system capacity. Some of us go into crowds and immediately feel over stimulated. Some of us go into crowds and feel alive and relaxed and open. When we don’t know what our capacity is, our nervous system can be past our threshold. It’s natural for us to have periods in life where we go past threshold. But, we also need to practice bringing the nervous system back to our “green” zone or what’s called ventral vagal.

The best way to do this is to:

1. Put yourself in a place where you feel safe. For most people that’s a cozy couch or bedroom. Environment signals to your nervous system it’s reset time.

2. If you can, make it cool: You don’t want be overheated. You also want to be able to place blankets around you and be as comfortable as possible.

3. Use airplane mode: put your phone on airplane mode or do not disturb. Don’t worry about answering emails or phone calls/texts for a few hours. If someone might get worried just shoot them a text that you’re taking some down time.

4. Zone out: dissociation gets a bad rap. Dissociation is an issue when it’s chronic or keeps you from connecting in your relationships. Intentionally zoning out gives your thinking mind a break. Read or listen to a fiction book, watch your favorite show or movie. Do whatever makes you feel relaxed and calm.

Nervous system hygiene is one of the most important things you can do for your physical and emotional health.

If you practice this you’ll feel less irritable, more grateful for people in your life, and much better at knowing when your nervous system is begging for a break

06/21/2026

06/17/2026

Some people reach a point where they feel they have nothing left to offer. And sometimes, within a year or so, their health quietly begins to unravel, in ways no scan can fully explain.

Not sick in any way a test can find. Just missing a sense of purpose.
Research consistently shows that people who feel their life has meaning and direction tend to live longer and stay sharper as they age.

This is not soft talk. It tends to show up in the body.

Part of the reason seems to be indirect: purpose appears to pull people toward the things that keep them well. They tend to move more. They connect more. They take better care of the body carrying them through their days.
And it does not have to be grand.

In my practice, purpose often looks small: a grandchild to pick up, a garden to tend, a friend who depends on the morning phone call.

It can be as simple as mentoring someone, showing up somewhere you are needed, or having one reason that gets you out of bed on a hard morning. When people find that reason, they often describe sleeping better, feeling steadier, and noticing their spark return.

You do not need to save the world. You need something that needs you.
What is one thing that gives your days a sense of meaning right now?

06/15/2026

If you have arthritis, someone has almost certainly told you it is just "wear and tear." You used your joints for decades, the cartilage wore down, end of story.

That story is missing most of the picture.

Here is the clue that breaks it. Extra body weight raises arthritis risk not just in your knees, but in your hands. You do not walk on your fingers. If arthritis were purely mechanical, body weight should not touch them. But it does. That tells us something other than wear is at work.

Think of your joints like coral reefs. Cartilage has no blood supply, so it is fed by the fluid in the joint, and movement is the current that keeps that fluid circulating, delivering nutrients and flushing waste. Sit still for ten hours a day and you are putting the reef in stagnant water. But there is a second threat. Reefs also bleach when the surrounding water turns toxic. In the body, fat tissue acts like a chemical factory, releasing inflammatory signals, and high blood sugar damages cartilage from the inside. So the reef can suffer even when the current flows, if the water itself is inflamed.

The hopeful part: both the current and the water are in your hands. Across more than 100 trials, exercise eased arthritis pain about as well as common anti-inflammatory pills, and combining movement with an anti-inflammatory, plant-forward way of eating beat either one alone.

I wrote a full article and movement plan below 👇️

Share this with someone who has been told their joints are just worn out.

06/11/2026

Summer is a time for quiet reflection especially in the mornings before the hustle of the day. If you’re not a morning person like me; challenge yourself to do something different, wake up with the sun ☀️ and soak up all the magic that happens before 10am .
I promise, it will be worth it ! 🌼🌸
Challenge:
Mornings in Montana
Mornings on the beach
Mornings in my own backyard
Mornings with a friend over coffee
Mornings in a tent , on a bike, floating on the water,
Mornings in prayer and meditation on a mountain ⛰️ or at my kitchen table …

06/11/2026

You know the walk would help. You know the early night would help. Yet you scroll, you delay, you choose the easy thing now and promise to be better tomorrow.

This is not laziness. It is how the human brain is wired.

Research on what scientists call present bias shows that the brain systematically overvalues immediate rewards and undervalues future ones. The benefits of healthy habits, more energy, better health, longer life, are distant and abstract. The comfort of the couch is immediate and concrete. Your brain, by default, picks the now.

Understanding this changes the strategy. Instead of relying on willpower to overcome your wiring, you work with it. You shrink the healthy behavior until it is almost effortless, and you make it immediate. Lay out your shoes the night before. Keep the fruit visible and the chips out of reach. Make the good choice the easy, obvious one.

Research on habit formation supports this: small, easy, consistent actions become automatic far more readily than large, daunting ones.

As a physician, I have stopped telling people to try harder. I tell them to make it easier. Reduce the friction. Lower the bar so far you cannot say no.

You do not need more discipline. You need a smaller first step and fewer obstacles.

What is one healthy action you could make so easy and immediate that you could not talk yourself out of it?