I might be an optimist, too — but I am looking forward, mostly. I can look back and see “positive times” in the past. Happy times and the like. I mean, my teen years weren’t terrible, just boring. University was basically high-school do-over for me. Graduate school was good, just busy (I was doing a dual program plus…

One thing that I find really odd is that several of the Very Popular Girls from my high school were on FB bemoaning how they “wish they could go back again” and how HS was “the best time ever!”

My best childhood librarian, to me, was a Weird Sister. Early on, she fed me every small Book of Shadows. When I moved away, she gave me several envelopes. Each one said “open on this birthday.” And each one was a reading list. She kept feeding her little witch long after I had moved away. I don’t even remember her…

It’s really funny because this reminds me of a very recent incident.

We walk year round everywhere (live in a city, car free). My husband’s work is across the street from the library; I walk past the library every day to get to work, so it’s useful to me for us to just take books back when there are a few in the basket, without having to carry 10000 books at a time! LOL :)

Perhaps it has multiple meanings?

yoga mudras (hand gestures) can do a lot of good.

The good. Business is growing and i’m 80% toward my big milestone goal in one aspect of my business. Also, my husband — very surprisingly — planned a surprise birthday brunch at a cafe that I’ve been wanting to go to for a while now AND got me tickets to see a fav comedian (also a surprise). So cool.

I think it’s a great idea to start looking for a new position. Sounds like it’s a terrible fit and who wants to live through that? I hope you find something soon!

I find those sorts of things very rarely work, so I suggest making one small change in one of four areas:

Turkish hamam towels. I love them. They are absorbent but also dry quickly (we live n a wet environment). And they’re generally huge and affordable, and you can wear them like a scarf in case the earth is ending and you jump onto a space ship (or, you know, good for travel).

For me it had to do with “financial fears/insecurity” whenever I had the teeth falling out dreams.

mine are bout teeth falling out AND those are apparently about financial security (or lack thereof). Somehow, they all stopped about 3 years ago, and I was not any more financially secure, I guess I was just less scared about it?

Are you far from the library? This happens to us all the time. We have 3 weeks with the books, but usually are done with half of them within a week, so we take them back and get more. This is why we keep a 3-teir bookshelf with a little label on it (chalk board and chalk) that says “due date” under it. So, we put the…

I think that we are definitely headed for some kind of shift, but what that is — IDK. I don’t know what it will look like.

Thanks for this! I shared it on my social media.

Head to your local studio and ask to trade. I trade in my studio — cleaning in exchange for yoga. So, it’s pretty straight forward — spray out the mats, sweep the floor, dust the shelves and DONE. Takes about 30 minutes and you get yoga class for free. It’s a great way to get your yoga classes in. :)

You’ll be fine. No one is ‘comfortable’ in a yoga class — that’s kinda the point. And, as a yoga teacher, you’ll be fine. No one — other than the teacher — is paying attention to you. :)

It really does help me. It gives me more energy and my body feels more “real” (IDK how to describe this other than that).

Weight training can help quite a bit, along with eating enough to go along with it. There are lots of diets to support that — so you’ll have to research it. I like Paleo — it works really well for me (also have issues with dairy). Mine is “high carb” — so I eat a lot of potatoes, sweet potatoes, quinoa, millet.