Dear Friends,
The shift in seasons can be felt all around us right now, we are on the verge of change in the world around us. Remember last week’s blog post, when I talked about setting a boundary about a silly little, but important, thing to me? Last week, one of my students and I were talking about the importance of trying the new, the unfamiliar, even when we are not so comfortable with the new, with the unfamiliar. It’s important to know ourselves, and to set our boundaries, that is, I think, of utmost importance…but there are times when we might consider something a boundary because it doesn’t feel familiar to us, because we are uncomfortable with the thought of change…and I do think there is great value in being willing to be curious about, and to perhaps take a risk and try something new even if that new makes us uncomfortable. We simply don’t know if it will resound with us if we don’t try it. While not applicable to everything, I do think we would all be well served to move through our lives with a little more curiosity. Take my silly little boundary from last week as an example. Yes, the question I ask myself, “how can I continue to show up in my work feeling genuine in what I do so that I don’t feel like an imposter” is an important question to think about and feel into, and, in my own life, it wouldn’t serve me to ignore that question and forge ahead with something new because that something might create more followers or get me more attention. But if that question causes me to get set in my ways without ever being curious about how new and different ways and modes might make me feel, if that questions makes it so I refuse to try new things and be curious about how those new things might feel in my life, if that question makes it so I don’t ever change and shift what I’m doing even if it would serve me, then it is allowing me to get stuck, to stop being curious, to stop growing and learning. My dear friend, I hope you can live your life feeling genuine and true in what you are doing and how you are living, and simultaneously stay curious about ways that you can change and shift as you continue to grow and learn. Have an amazing week. Love Krista
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*Washington DC is surrounded by 40 boundary stones, 36 are the original stones laid out in 1791-1792 marking the original boundary of the city. Dear Friends,
Are there ways we can shift, change, hold boundaries in our own lives to make what we’re doing in our work, with our friends, with our families feel better, truer, more sustainable in our own lives? Let’s be honest here, there are times when we have jobs that are not so great, or maybe when our family or friend life feels overwhelming and hard, and that is deeply part of this life. I have had my share of not so great, or downright terrible jobs in my life, of times when my family life was hard and exhausting. There are times when we’re simply in the thick of it and there’s just no way to exit that thick…but even in the thick of it, with some creativity, I think we can shift and change to make our lives feel a little better, a little more sustainable. A while ago my son and I were talking on the phone, and he was encouraging me to try some instagram reels for my business. I was telling him that, while I’m not opposed to learning and seeing if that is something that feels good, brings me joy, or is ease-filled, one of my personal boundaries in my business is always creating things that feel true to me. I want my work to feel good and sustainable. I don’t ever want my work to make me feel like an imposter, like I’m trying to be something I’m not, or like I’m putting on a show. I have a firm boundary in that area because I don’t want to do something that makes me feel untrue to myself. It’s a small thing, that boundary, and one that certainly can shift and change, but I think it makes a big difference in my own life...it helps me feel true and good in what I do, it helps me avoid the dreaded imposter syndrome that I feel plagues so many in my line of work, it feels correct to me. There are times when we just have to live with the hard…where perhaps spaces in our life feel hard and there’s no exit from that hard. Even so, I do think there are ways, with a little creativity, that we can make life feel a little better, a little truer, a little more sustainable even in the hard. I hope you have a week filled with creativity, my friends...who knows, maybe by the time you read this I’ll be creating some instagram reels…but maybe not. :) Love Krista Dear Friends,
A few weekends ago, my son, a friend of ours and I hopped in the car on Sunday morning to mosey on up to our favorite cross country ski spot in West Virginia, White Grass, to go cross country skiing for the afternoon. My son and his friend had no school the next day, as it was a holiday, so they were going to be able to sleep in, and, well, you take snow when you can get it during the winter in the DMV. We had an absolutely fabulous day, we had so much fun and it was just completely wonderful. A few weeks prior, when we got our snowstorm in the Washington DC area, I had been out skiing a couple of different times. I was up at White Grass the weekend before the snow fell in my area, and then I was able to get out in Rock Creek Park the day the snow fell to ski for a few hours. Even so, that Sunday I was determined to get my book club book finished in a timely manner so I could get out skiing in the park one more time, because, well, snow is unpredictable in the DMV…you never know if or when it will be back. As I was reading, snuggled in my bed on a Sunday morning with no one else in my house, I realized I just didn’t want to go. Yes, snow is unpredictable around here, yes, it could have potentially been the last opportunity I had to go skiing this winter…and also, I was cozy in my bed, tired, and didn’t actually want to move my body. So I stayed in bed. I finished my book, I watched a show, I lazed about until it was time to get to my book club…and it was exactly right. Sometimes we need to take the opportunities that present themselves…but there are other times when it’s just correct to walk away from said opportunity, even when we don’t know if or when it will come again. I hope, this week, you have an easy time knowing which opportunities you should take, and which ones you should simply let go of. Have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista “Being kind means responding to the needs of others—and people can be kind, no matter how old or young we are.” —Fred Rogers
Dear Friends, I’ve been thinking a lot, this past week, about last week’s blog post and specifically about ways we can both show up and be genuine in our own selves, and simultaneously have a willingness to listen, learn, soften and shift with those in our lives. A few days ago I stumbled upon the above quote…”being kind means responding to the needs of others”. As a bit of a born people-pleaser who has tried my best to find better ways to show up in my own life and with my own needs, I have looked for ways that I can create boundaries, listen to my own needs, and, instead of automatically bending to the needs or desires of those around me, listening deeply to what I want and need. But I think kindness, responding to the needs of others, being aware of the needs of those around us doesn’t have to be an either/or situation, but in many circumstances can instead be a both/and solution. I think there are ways we can both respond to the needs of others, and be aware of the needs of others while simultaneously thinking about our own needs and creating good boundaries for ourselves. We don’t have to live in a perpetual state of either/or. Sometimes it takes slowing down, really listening, and maybe some creativity to come up with both/and instead of either/or solutions, but I do think it can be done with regularity if we are willing to put the effort in to slow down, to listen, to perhaps think a little more creatively about solutions. I hope you have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista Your purpose is to be yourself. You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else. You are wonderful just as you are.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh Dear Friends, You are wonderful just as you are, my friend. You are wonderful just as you are. I took the Washington DC building museum tour recently, and one of the things that struck me during the tour was the builder/engineer/architect's insistence that his vision come alive in that building. Instead of building in the Greco-Roman style like so many buildings in our area, he based his design on a few buildings from the Italian Renaissance. He had a vision for his project, and saw that vision come to fruition…but as we were on that tour it became clear that the builder had both his vision and also had a deep unwillingness to deviate from that vision. Our purpose is to be ourselves….but how do we stand in our right to show up to life in our most genuine way…whether that is with our families, in our workplace, in our movement practices, with our friendships? What does it look like to be genuine and true to ourselves so that we can be more genuine and true to the world around us? At the same time, what does it look like to both be genuinely ourselves in our lives and simultaneously listen to and be interested in the needs and opinions of those in relationship with us? Can we both be genuinely ourselves and also willing to listen, learn, soften, shift with those in relationship with us? I don’t think those two things are mutually exclusive…I think there is a way that we can be both genuine in who we are, and interested in the opinions of those around us with a willingness to listen, learn, soften and shift when needed. I hope you have a week where you can genuinely be your wonderful self, with a willingness to listen to those around you. Love Krista Dear Friends,
A dear friend of mine and I were talking about those emotions I was feeling last week, specifically grief, in the lead up to and after last week’s blog post…her children have long since grown and formed their own families, but she was saying that even years later, she’ll once in a while have waves of grief over the time that her kiddos spent under her roof…missing that time and space even years later. Another friend told me waves of grief hit her at random, in unexpected times and places, even years after her father passed. In both conversations we talked about those experiences and feelings, and about the lack of words we have in our language to express those different types of grief. The grief we experience when our kids have grown and gone is not the same as grief when we lose someone we love, but I think those emotions are all a form of grief, even if they manifest and hit differently. Perhaps you’re in the middle of the grief of mourning the loss of a loved one. Maybe it’s the loss of a dear animal. Maybe it’s an unexpected or even a long anticipated change in your life. Perhaps it’s a sickness in yourself or someone around you, or a change or shift in abilities. Maybe it’s the change of a family dynamic or structure…or perhaps it’s something completely different. Grief is a universal experience, my friend, with some experiencing it more deeply and more fully than others, but with all of us experiencing grief throughout this life of ours. I think there are times when we try to dismiss our own emotions because they might not compare to, they might not be “as bad” as the experiences of those around us, but dismissing our feelings does not mean they will go away…those feelings are still in our body even if we dismiss them as less than important. Grief is a universal experience, but I don’t think we’re meant to walk through our grief alone. So perhaps, if there happens to be grief in your life that you are walking through during this season, perhaps you might be willing to open up, to talk to those around you, to allow someone else in to walk with you in your grief. We are not meant to live this life alone, in good times or in bad. I hope you have an amazing week full of connection and vulnerability, even in the hard. Love Krista Dear Friends,
Sometimes emotions hit us at unexpected times in unexpected places, right? As some of you know, my older kiddo is in his freshman year of college. My younger is in the midst of figuring out where he is going to go to college this coming school year…it’s been a lot, these past two years of applications, stress, change, excitement. It has been a lot. I feel like I did a lot of processing in the months leading up to my older son’s senior year of high school and scattered throughout the year…there was, in fact, a lot to think about and process. Even so, I feel like I have done less so this year in terms of processing. I wonder if the fact that I did all that processing last year, I felt all those emotions a few short months ago made it so those emotions already felt processed, familiar, like I knew how and what I would feel during this time. Well, last weekend my boy got an acceptance letter the day before I taught a prenatal class…and let me tell you my friends, walking into that room full of beautiful expecting mamas, those emotions that I thought I had already processed hit me like a freight train. It was staggering, the emotional weight of that college acceptance coupled with those beautiful mamas just starting their motherhood journey…absolutely staggering. I had no idea, I had zero idea I would be so emotionally affected by the dichotomy of our different spaces and places in life…the starting and the ending. I know, I know, it never really ends, this parenting journey, but it does change, as it should. My dear friend, there are times when we just get hit by unexpected emotions…and the best we can do is hold on, breathe through them, recognize they are happening, and sometimes…well, sometimes cry in the middle of teaching a prenatal class…and all those reactions are just fine, my friend, they are just fine. Have an amazing week. Love Krista “Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.” ― Fred Rogers
Dear Friends, I might be on a bit of a Mr. Rogers kick….the man did say some amazing things. The above quote reminded me of a poem that I happen to love…and that I need to be reminded of on a not so irregular basis, but I think especially during the turn of the year…perhaps I’m not alone, perhaps you do too: Today I Asked My Body What She Needed. By Hollie Holden Today I asked my body what she needed, which is a big deal considering my journey of Not Really Asking That Much. I thought she might need more water. Or protein. Or greens. Or yoga. Or supplements. Or movement. But as I stood in the shower reflecting on her stretch marks, her roundness where I would like flatness, her softness where I would like firmness, all those conditioned wishes that form a bundle of Never-Quite-Right-Ness, she whispered very gently: Could you just love me like this? My dear friend, it is my hope for each and every one of us this week that we can love ourselves and those in our lives exactly the way we are right now, at this moment, in this time and place…with zero conditions. Have an amazing week. Love Krista “There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.”
-Mr. Rogers Dear Friends, Establishing an atmosphere. If you live in the DC area like me, you’ll be surrounded by snow as you read this. It always amazes me to look around at the world covered with snow and to notice how instantaneously the way the world around us shifts and changes…us on the other hand, unlike our world when one adds snow, we simply do not change overnight in general. I stumbled across the above quote this past week and it struck me how applicable Mr. Rogers words were…not only to those people in our lives, but also to our own lives. How often do we insist upon change in ourselves and in those around us? We demand it, we give ourselves timelines and time limits. We judge ourselves and others when said changes do not come to fruition, when they have not been fulfilled, or when they fall by the wayside. But I wonder how it might feel in our lives if, instead of insisting and requiring change in ourselves and others, we instead focus on establishing an atmosphere that is conducive to such change. Perhaps we look at the changes we want to establish or encourage with a little more love, gentleness, and insight into what will really help us and others with said changes. How would it feel if we soften a little more toward ourselves and those around us, so we have less of the feeling of judgment for ourselves and others and instead begin to create a space, a life that feels safer, kinder, and more loving to ourselves and others. Change is important, it’s necessary, it’s good. But equally important is establishing an atmosphere in which we, and those around us can grow into wanting that change. I hope you have an amazing week, my friends. Stay warm! Love Krista "For some reason we like to see days pass, even though most of us claim we don't want to reach our last one for a long time. We examine each day before us with barely a glance and say, no, this isn't one I've been looking for, and wait in bored sort of way for the next, when, we are convinced, our lives will start for real. Meanwhile, this day is going by..." - Tom Hennen
Dear Friends, Sometimes we have these big, grandiose plans…plans on ways we’d like to enact change in our lives, plans for things we’d like to do, for places we’d like to go. Thinking about and planning for big changes is good, important, at times really fun. But there are times, I think, that we can get stuck in the grandiose, so much so that we stop living in the here and now because we’re simply stuck in the grandiose, we’re stuck in these lofty goals that might be wonderful, but when we look at them, they end up feeling completely unobtainable. I think there is a lot of good in grandiose plans, I certainly don’t want to diminish them, they serve an important purpose in moving us forward and creating impetus for change…but equally good, I think, are those small, incremental steps we can make toward our goals, toward the changes we’d like to implement. Those tiny movements toward the change that we want to see in our lives are just as important, or at times even more important than the lofty goals, simply because those small steps are oftentimes more obtainable for us. I wonder how it might feel if we spent a little more time making small, obtainable, some might even say minute changes…because, my friend, those small, incremental changes add up, and have the power to create a big difference in our lives. I hope you have a week full of small changes, they’ll be sure to add up to some big results. Love Krista “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius.
Dear Friends I’ve had a little keychain with that quote and a little turtle charm living on my keys for several years now. Months ago the quote fell off the keychain and all that remains is that little turtle…but every time I see my little guy it reminds me of the words Confucius said, that it does not matter how slowly I go, as long as I do not stop. That particular quote has informed me in many areas in my life these past several years since I stumbled across it and immediately purchased said keychain…it does not simply hold true in one area of my life, but informs me in many…my healing, my relationships, my strength, my movement practices, my business…so many of my various journeys. It does not matter how slowly I go, as long as I do not stop. This time of year we have a tendency to want to enact change in our lives…and in some ways it’s a good time to do so. The end of one season and the beginning of another. The end of one year and the beginning of another. A darker and colder time to sit and think about desired and needed change For some, the act of decorating our houses and then carefully putting said decorations away is included in this time of year and provides a good impetus for change. Change is necessary, it’s important, it’s good. Change is a constant in this life, and we have to be willing to move and change throughout our journey. But sometimes in these transition periods we try to enact change so quickly that we end up giving up, we try to move faster than we should, implement too much change too fast, and we end up stopping instead of sticking with the needed changes in our lives. I wonder how it might feel, in this season of shifts and changes, if we slowed down, if we allowed ourselves to shift and change in a sustainable way and with small steps. I wonder how it might feel if we really allow ourselves to step into and embrace Confucius’ quote “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” My dear friends, if you have needed changes in your lives, I hope you can slow down, but never, ever stop. Have an amazing week, my friends, and a very Happy New Year. Love Krista Dear Friends,
How are you feeling, this week sandwiched in-between major holidays? A little more space in your brain? A little peopled-out? A little lost and out of your routine? Somewhere in-between? My boys, a friend and I took a couple of days to run around New York City on the days leading up to Christmas…it was lovely to step away for a few days, to have a change of pace and scenery, to see NYC dressed to the nines for Christmas. It is good, necessary, essential to step away and have a change of pace every so often. I really do think our bodies and our minds need that change in routine, setting, life and movement practices. And yet, equally important to stepping away for most is getting back into that routine, into that sense of normalcy. Making that routine and normalcy ease-filled and sustainable, I think, is absolutely essential…because it’s near impossible to make something into a routine when it’s hard to show up for that something. It’s near impossible to get back to something when that something feels unsustainable. It’s the time of year when some choose to make resolutions, when some choose to look at aspects of life we might want to shift and change…and inevitably for many movement practices are part of that New Year’s Resolution list…but it’s important to get back to and create those routines in a sustainable way, which often means starting slowly, and in small amounts. So, my friends, I invite you to try our community, and our movement practices. We have 10 minute practices that would be perfect for starting that new routine in a sustainable way…and I would just LOVE to see you join us. I know online strength, cardio and yoga isn’t for everyone…but I think for many it makes our movement practices a little more sustainable, a little easier to show up for…there are just fewer hurdles to get around, it’s easier to stay in, or get back to routine when you inevitably fall off, it’s easier to wrap your mind around doing 10 minutes of movement instead of an hour of movement…and who knows, maybe you’ll do a couple once you’ve started! Movement is so important for our wellbeing, let’s make it easy to show up and do it. My dear friends, I invite you to try your first month of our movement practices for FREE. You’ll get access to all 28 livestream practices a week + full access to our 24/7 on-demand video library + a once a month in-person class for that full month after sign-up. I’ll email you a couple of days before your month is up so that, if our studio isn’t serving your movement needs, you can cancel before you get charged. My online studio is one of my favorite things in the world, and I absolutely love seeing, talking to and connecting with all of my students throughout the week…it is an absolute joy in my life, and I really do hope to see you there, my friend. Love Krista www.kristamasonmovement.com/free-month Dear Friends,
Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day, the longest night of the year. Today ushers in the official start of winter…after 10:27 pm today light begins to come back slowly by slowly. I wonder how it might feel to take a little time today to sit and reflect on how life feels right now, at this moment. I wonder how it might feel to reflect on shifts we might want to usher in with this new season, with the coming new year. I’ve never been a big New Years resolution person if we’re being honest, but of late I’ve been thinking there is something really beautiful and beneficial in taking time and space to pause, to assess, to take note of how we feel now and how we could shift or change to feel better…while also being mindful that we are doing so without judging ourselves, without adding shame to our lives, without telling ourselves we aren’t good enough without that change. My dear friends, whenever I sit in reflection, a thing that always comes to my mind is how deeply grateful I am to all of you…so thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I hope you have been, and continue to have an amazing holiday season, however that might look like to you. Love Krista Dear Friends,
I was looking around at the trees, those trees that a few short weeks ago were filled with leaves and now are bare, leaves that once were bright and green are now fallen on the ground under our feet. There is a starkness, a barrenness in the world around us. We are coming close to the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, and I don’t know about you but I can certainly feel the dip in energy levels in my own body. It’s harder to move, we have less energy, less light, more darkness. I think it’s important to listen to that dip in energy levels, to slow down and find a little more ease. And yet, simultaneously, we feel better when we move. When we find space and ways to move our bodies, our bodies and our minds end up feeling better. We feel less stuck, our energy levels go up when we move our bodies even this time of year. So perhaps, while allowing ourselves to slow down, we can also find movement in ways that feel nourishing and good. Instead of holding fast to a norm that might not serve us right now, perhaps we might find new ways of movement that serve us in this time. I hope you have an amazing week, my friends, filled with movement that serves you right now. Love Krista Dear Friends,
This time of year always gets a little crazy, right? So many extra tasks to navigate, extra gatherings to navigate, extra emotions to navigate…all while the weather is getting colder and harder itself to navigate. Sometimes it feels near impossible to slow down, to breathe, to savor and enjoy moments in our days and weeks. Sometimes we don’t want to slow down, to breathe, to sit in the emotions that might crop up during this season and this time. Sometimes those spaces of slow hurt, they don’t feel so good. I wonder how it might feel if we intentionally took time to slow down, to move a little more purposefully, to do less in this time when it feels like we need to do more. I wonder how it might feel to breathe into those spaces that might feel a little less comfortable. I wonder how it might feel to meet ourselves and those around us where we’re at, instead of where we want, or expect ourselves or others to be? My dear friends, whether you are navigating a season that feels a little too fast and full, or emotions that feel a little too big, I hope you can treat yourself and those around you tenderly and with love, and give yourself a little more space to slow down. Have an amazing week, my friends. Love Krista Dear Friends,
I was walking along the creek the other day after a rain. The creek, of late, had been low, with rocks sticking up that I normally didn’t see. But after this rain it was running over the edges, fuller, moving faster. I don’t know about you, but this time of year I always find a fluctuating scale when I step on it. It’s colder out, the need for comfort food is strong, there are parties and gatherings, food and drink are more readily available. We can easily begin to beat ourselves up over a lack of self control when it comes to gatherings, the negative self-talk can flare up easily and quickly, the comparison to those around us can come bounding into our heads and our hearts…but how might it feel if we choose, this year, to be more compassionate and less negative towards ourselves when it comes to this issue? My dear friends…like that river, weight fluctuates for some…but something that never, ever fluctuates is your inherent worth. It doesn’t matter if you gain or lose or stay the same weight your entire life, that in no way adds to or subtracts from your worth, because your worth never, ever fluctuates. I hope, during this time of cold and celebrations, that you can be more compassionate toward yourself, that you can recognize a little more fully that your worth never, ever fluctuates, and that you can enjoy life a little more fully this season. Have an amazing week, my friends. Love Krista Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie Dear Friends, Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a day we’ve set aside to pause and recognize the things we are grateful for…and to eat, and to see family, and maybe to have tough conversations…I recognize this day, and the holiday season we are entering into is not all sunshine and roses for everyone. I’ve been thinking about this holiday, and about the practice of gratitude, and about what it might look like if we were all willing to practice gratitude on a daily basis….setting aside a day or a month is great, but what might it look like, what might it feel like if we begin to integrate that gratitude practice into our everyday lives. I do believe that gratitude is a daily practice…it’s not something that comes automatically, but is a muscle that needs to be worked, stretched and used. And, as with all muscles, when we’re willing to put in the effort and the work, it yields results, it changes us, it reshapes us. Just like muscles, gratitude makes us stronger and healthier and allows us to live fuller lives. I believe gratitude has the ability to create powerful change in our lives…but only if we are willing to put in the work, only if we’re willing to put in effort on our part. Change rarely occurs without effort, without work. My dear friends, I hope, this week, that you can find a few more spaces in your life to practice and integrate gratitude. Have an amazing week, and a wonderful holiday. Love Krista Dear Friends,
I was thinking more about last week's blog post, and about seeing the beauty in our surroundings even when those surroundings might be hard, might not be our favorite. But here’s the thing, my friends…these past few years I’ve recognized that, equally important to seeing the beauty in our life, in our situation….equally important to that in my life personally is seeing, naming and acknowledging the hard. It doesn’t serve me to push the hard to the side, to ignore its existence, to only see the good. It doesn’t mean the hard will go away when I pretend it isn’t there. It doesn’t mean the hard will stop affecting me when I pretend it isn’t there…it just means I won’t deal with it in a healthy manner, I won’t look at it because, well, it’s hard. My dear friends, if you are in the midst of the hard, in a space we all walk through at times in our lives, I hope you can see the beauty, I really hope you can. I hope, also and equally, that you can see and acknowledge the hard, you can recognize the effect it has on you, and you can move through and process the hard in a healthy and whole manner so you can come out the other side. We can do hard things, my friends. We can do hard things. Have an amazing week, my friends. Love Krista Dear Friends,
I was walking in the woods the other day. I’ve been trying to get out a lot lately to enjoy the fall colors and weather while we have them. This particular walk had me going on a trail that is not my favorite this time of year. It’s a pretty steep downhill at times, which is a little treacherous during “leaves on the trail” season. It’s really close to a major road, which means a lot of road noise…there’s nothing particularly wrong with the trail, it’s just not my favorite trail this time of year. And yet, there’s beauty to be found, my friends. There’s beauty to be found. I wonder how it might feel, when we’re inevitably on those trails in life that aren’t our favorite places to be, if we really looked for the beauty in our surroundings…even when it might not be our favorite spot to sit in, to move through. I wonder how life might change things if we were able to find glimpses and glimmers of delight even when the surroundings might be challenging, hard, annoying. My dear friends, if you are on a trail that isn’t your favorite right now, I hope you can find some glimpses and glimmers of beauty even in the midst of the challenge. Have an amazing week, my friend. Love Krista Dear Friends,
I talked a lot last week about what I thought to radiate kindness wasn’t, but I didn’t talk a whole lot about what I thought radiating kindness looked like. My dear friends, I think we radiate kindness when we slow down and choose to really see and listen to those around us. I think we radiate kindness when, instead of judging, we see those around us as worthy, even if and when they have a different mode of thinking, philosophy of life, status in life then we do. We radiate kindness when we value our own self and our own worthiness in addition to those around us. We radiate kindness when we choose to interact with instead of reacting to people and things that might make us want to react poorly. My friends, we don’t need grand gestures to make a difference in the world around us…we can make a difference in small ways each and every day by putting a little more kindness, a little more light into the world. Let’s radiate a little more kindness today, and, when doing so, make our world a little more light-filled this week, my friends. Love Krista |
Hi, I'm Krista!Krista Mason is a movement instructor based in Washington DC. She founded an online strength, yoga and movement studio, teaches group classes, hosts both local and overseas retreats, hangs out with private clients, and absolutely loves the work she gets to do. Archives
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