Why am I Writing a Blog

Blogs seem like such a strange and intimate thing now a days. Like diary entries we’ve decided to share with the world - in a world that prefers a 90 second diary with flashing lights and shiny objects to keep it’s attention (me included in that preference a lot of days). So why blog? I could say to give you a portfolio of who I am as a yoga therapist or that I want to provide people with free resources or that my thoughts are so life changing the world needs to hear them.

Some of that might be true but the reality is I love blogging. I started when I was a teenager on the world of Myspace - happily sharing short stories and surveys and way too personal thoughts (very grateful myspace and my blogs have disappeared into the internet ethers). I continued with a WordPress when Facebook became more prevalent and then years ago I stopped. Why? Because it felt like I had nothing original or important or valid to share with the world. What could my voice in a sea of millions really matter?

Now I’m here with my own personal website once again. Yes, this is a space for my professional personality to showcase but also it is my creative space. Sure my voice might not really matter but who cares? I love to share my thoughts, my opinions, my perspectives. I love to play with language and to express with the written word. I love to underline and italicize and bolden text. I want to blog. I want to write about the things I feel passionate about and that is nine out of ten times - yoga.

If you get something out of this then that’s wonderful and I am truly happy for both of us. If you don’t that’s okay, too. Part of yoga is learning to be your authentic self and allowing that to exist without judgement - so here we are. My authenticity, my vulnerability. And who knows? Maybe I’ll even go back to my old WordPress.