My whole life, I’ve been a “health nut.” When my sister asked for a chocolate donut, I asked for a cucumber with French dressing. At age five, I loved chatting with my grandmother about vitamins and health foods. We connected on that stuff, and on washing and moisturizing our faces at night with beautiful products that made our skin feel nice.

So years later, after consuming countless kilos of soy products, and just placing an order for 200 bucks worth of soy meatloaf, soy burgers, soy brownies and god knows what else, I read some research on soy and all it does and doesn’t do for you (go to notsoy.com for more info), and I was stunned. I thought soy was “healthy?”
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Joy and freedom are interlinked. In order to have joy we must have freedom, and when we have freedom, we are joyful.

Yoga teaches us that we always have a choice. That we are free. In any situation, we always have a choice—even if we feel we’re stuck, imprisoned, etc., we are not. We can choose otherwise.

I loved my ex-husband dearly and will always love him, as he was my first true love, we were together for 18 years, and created a beautiful child together, whom we co-parent.
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