November 2025 Class Calendar

I am not the feelings I feel

For a long time, I thought the goal was to stop feeling the feelings I didn’t like. To find the trick, the practice, the thing that would finally make me okay.

I tried lots of escape mechanisms—yoga, sex, travel, work, wine, marriage, a dog (10/10 recommend). Some of it helped for a bit. Some of it hurt. But the feelings always came back.

I’m realizing (slowly): the point was never to stop feeling.
The feelings keep coming. That’s just being alive. That’s my humanness.

I can feel myself shift when I stopped building my identity around my emotions—when I stopped confusing what I feel with who I am.

And honestly? That’s where the joy lives. In remembering I’m something steadier. Something that can hold it all and still be okay—that there’s something in me that stays.

Fall always offers this lesson. Everything in nature is cycling, shifting, letting go—without shame about it. Trees release their leaves unapologetically. The wind doesn’t cling to the last warm day. The world trusts itself to change, again and again. So why are we so hard on ourselves for doing the same?

a breath for the inner shifting with the seasons

Try this when the world feels heavy, or when you’re sure you’re doing it wrong:

• Inhale through your nose — feel your belly expand like it’s taking in sunlight.

• Hold for a moment — let the warmth spread.

• Exhale through your mouth — release what’s ready to fall away.

• Pause at the bottom — notice the stillness before the next inhale.

That pause is the reminder: endings are part of the cycle.
Even the quiet moments are full of life preparing to return.

In sweet solidarity,

Mary

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