“What good is easy?’ my yoga instructor asked. “If it’s easy, we’re not learning. We don’t want easy.”

Welp, I disagree. Actually, I disagreed. Out loud, albeit to myself.

Don’t get me wrong. Not easy (aka hard or sometimes really, really hard) has probably, in at least some if not many ways, gotten me to much of where I am today.

It was hard – fun but hard – to build my coaching and consulting practice. It was hard – just hard – to get through cancer and chemo. It was hard – it is hard – to keep moving through the many layers of trauma I’ve discovered, and damn, am still discovering. It clearly was hard to live through all of that as well.

I have been quite good at doing hard. And, in many ways, I am grateful for that.

But to say I don’t want easy…welp that’s just not true.

I want people to ask me what’s going on and to answer, “actually not much right now.” I want to turn to myself at the end of the day and congratulate myself on how slow and easily and gently I took that day and all my tasks and accomplishments. I’m ready for the universe to get over it’s hilarious recent sense of humor and give me just a wee bit less to work through or to get done.

I’m even ready to learn easier. It doesn’t have to be hard for me to learn something. I’m learning so much right now – in all my practices – and it’s quite easy.

Going easy wasn’t how I raised myself. It’s the opposite of the Mighty Mouse complex I used to have. That I needed to have. Pausing and laughing and playing along my way used to be the hugest learning for me.

I’m happy to say, I’m getting quite good at it.

I know why my yoga instructor said what she did. And I still like hard in yoga…sometimes.

But I also now really like – and really look forward to – easy.

How about you?

I’d love to hear your thoughts, and please share this post with others if it resonates with you. Let’s start a movement of loving ourselves First Most Always™️!

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