I listened to a voicemail from my student and friend this morning as I drove to our Prana Newton studio. She had called at seven am and so I knew something was up.

“Hi Taylor, I know you’re up at four so that’s why I’m calling so early. I’m just having a little bit of a meltdown. I don’t know if I can take care of ‘John’* anymore. I don’t know if I can do it. I think I might need to give him away or something. I feel like a Super-crap mom. I need a pep talk.”

My heart melted for this Super-mom and the pain she was feeling to come to such a point. It ached for all the Super-moms out there who have felt this way—more than once most likely—and had nowhere to turn.

“Joy,”** is a wonderful mother and human being. She gives herself whole-heartedly to her son, and gives her best in each moment. She has had her challenges–with her son’s father and making ends meet–but she always pulls herself through and shows up for John. She is a yogi, raw foodist, and spiritual person who brings light to the world every day she walks through it. Why does she come to this point? What happens?

We all have been at this point at some point/some moment in our lives, and so we can all relate—super-parents and super-people alike. We have all hit rock bottom and needed to ask for help. We have all wondered if we can take another step. We have all had that moment when staying in bed seemed like the best option.

We have all been there, and we’ve all made it through, and moved—HIGHER. It’s my belief, at this point in my journey, that it really doesn’t matter why or how this happens—why or how we get to a place like the one that Joy came to today. What is important, in my opinion, is having the support to move to a different place–and to know that this is part of a process of moving to a higher place.

“When you go low, you are about to go higher.”

I say this a lot in yoga class and to students and clients when they are dealing with a lot of pain and suffering. Both my personal and professional experience has “proven” this to me. Somehow, knowing this helps us to move through the difficult times with grace and a mindfulness, even in suffering. It doesn’t take the pain away, but this “quiet knowing” calms the mind enough to pull us through.

And also knowing that “this too shall pass.”

Pretty simple. But most things are.

Hang in there, Super-moms and Super-people, on those days when it seems that all is lost and you feel you can’t go on. You have it in you, or you wouldn’t be on this site right now, reading these words.

*Not his real name.
**Not her real name.