There is a difference between forcing your gifts and learning how to work with them. Sometimes a skill, ability, or part of ourselves comes back into our life, and the real practice is knowing whether we are trying to control it, avoid it, or collaborate with it.

This talk moves through authenticity, perfectionism, high standards, yoga, Ayurveda, and the right amount of effort. When we learn how to meet what is coming through us with awareness instead of force, the practice itself can become part of the healing.

A Map of Wisdom
Here are some of the places we go together in this talk:
✦ Control Versus True Partnership
✦ Control vs. Collaboration
✦ Your Gift Wants To Be Shared
✦ Yoga And Ayurveda At The Heart Of It
✦ The Right Dose Is the Medicine

Something to Sit With
Where in your life are you trying to control a gift that’s actually asking you to collaborate with it?

A Restorative Step
Take 60 seconds. Close your eyes. Bring to mind one skill or gift you carry. Ask quietly, am I working with this, or am I trying to force it. Notice what the body answers before the mind does.