Some of you may not know this, but I used to be an art teacher and outdoor trip leader at an awesome little high school in the mountains of North Carolina. Back then, I remember noticing a pattern that every November I would get worn down and sick. (There is nothing like working with teenagers to ex...

Sometimes what we think is good for us isn't. Sometimes we can't recognize what is truly helpful for us until we stop pushing the body to "behave" and start listening to the body's messages with our hearts.

Here is a little story from my own journey:

Before I found Ayurveda, I was eating lots of s...