In November of 2009, I was in my junior year of college and living in Southern California. I worked at Starbucks, had just started dating my ex, and was going to be leaving the country for the first time in January to study abroad for six months. I was just learning what it meant to be an adult, ... Read More »

During this time of the year, many of us like to indulge in things that get our adrenaline pumping, like watching scary movies and visiting haunted houses. It's all in the spirit and spookiness of Halloween where we play on some of our most basic fears (death, for one - I mean how many skeletons ... Read More »

In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I want to share one of the most powerful tools you can have at your disposal to prevent you or someone you know from being a victim of domestic violence: your rights in a relationship. Once you know what these are, you can recognize when they are bei... Read More »

Earlier this year, I reached 72 consecutive days of meditation - a personal record! Then, after two weeks of traveling (and still meditating), the time-change on the 17-hour flight home caused me to miss the midnight deadline and my personal record was gone.I was frustrated with missing the 73rd ... Read More »

I have been teaching weekly Queer Yoga classes at the Institute for Human Identity for the past several months and I thought now is as good a time as ever to reflect on what brought me to offer these in the first place. When I first had attractions towards others as a young kid, these feelings we... Read More »

You’ve been doing all the practice poses leading up to sirsasana (headstand) for several weeks.You’ve done it against a wall. You’ve even done it with bent legs without support. Today is the day that you will straighten your legs with no support from the wall and come in to the full expression of... Read More »

If there’s one thing I have heard time and time again in my career as a mental health counselor, it is: “I’m not good enough”. It may not always be expressed in these exact words, but the sentiment is there. These are all versions of the same story: Not enough. Yes, sometimes, the can’ts and the... Read More »