Email list karmic debt

I received this lovely email earlier today, in response to the ♡ letter I sent yesterday…

After the initial shock and natural emotional activation, it made me wonder: how many of you might feel the same-ish?

While it’s a stretch to say I enjoy being challenged, I’ve learned to appreciate the growth that comes from having my blind spots highlighted. I have come to love constructive feedback.

When leaving Namaste Yoga in 2022, I was not in the best headspace. It was one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made. It was also the second year of my husband’s sobriety—and mine. I was raising two toddlers, navigating a possible divorce in the middle of a cross-continental move, grappling with an identity crisis, and adjusting to a new life in the mountains. All of this was layered on top of the collective hangover we all felt, courtesy of Covid.

I had saved the Namaste mailing list for future use, and when I finally settled into our new life, I revisited the list. It wasn’t so big that it would include every student who had ever attended the yoga studio for the decade I called it home, but it was too large to only contain people from my classes who knew me personally.

I made the assumption that many of you would want to hear from me—and took the risk that some might not. The possibility of maintaining the connection with the community I lived in for a decade plus outweighed the risk. I sent a couple of re-introduction emails to test the waters, with invitations to unsubscribe.

I’m not here to sell tbh; I genuinely want to connect with people who I enjoyed being around and who like to think about the same quirky things that I do.

• Where do we all go when we sleep? Is god out there or in here? How much free will do we really have? Are we all driven by early development imprints?

• Can you change your personality by changing your gut bacteria? Is depression and anxiety rooted in our gut?

• Why are emotions so hard to sit with? Is emotional fluency the antidote to addiction?

• What do we share with others? Is that infinite space in you the same as in me and if you are in that place and I am in mine - are we really one?

• Would you like to keep hearing from a yoga studio owner turned therapist?

Please stick around if you too like navelgazing topics like these.

The email banter I have going with some of you is priceless and something I very much look forward to.

If this kind of thing annoys you, please unsubscribe!

PS: As for our baddie Mark, he answered the below poll saying he’d like to hear more about motherhood related topics, and no, he did not unsubscribe...

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