by Jen Tews | Oct 7, 2019 | Off the Mat
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times Life has its fair share of surprises. Some of them delight us, some of them terrify us, but all of them can reveal to us who we...
by Jen Tews | Sep 30, 2019 | Off the Mat
Have you ever questioned your worth? I know I have. I thought that I wasn’t good enough, no matter how hard I tried or what I did, I just wasn’t able to measure up. I doubted what I wanted, what I felt, and what I needed and began to defer to others to make sure...
by Jen Tews | Sep 23, 2019 | Off the Mat
The first sign that I have entered the wilderness, that calm place in the forest where everything sounds a little quitter and is a little stiller, is I experience ANXIETY! The type of anxiety where my default reaction is to hand my life over to someone else and ask...
by Jen Tews | Sep 16, 2019 | Off the Mat
Growing up, everyone seemed to want to tell me who I was. It was confusing to me because I felt like they were missing really seeing me, but they insisted I was wrong. How was I to know who was right, did I really know who I was? Eventually I...
by Jen Tews | Sep 9, 2019 | Off the Mat
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”- E.E. Cummings I didn’t feel very confident growing up. I dreamt of being confident like Zena, soaring through the air, but in...
by Jen Tews | May 21, 2019 | Off the Mat
There is a running joke in my family that I won’t be able to find my way out of the woods if I got lost. This is because I don’t know my cardinal directions. Sometimes I can figure it out, but it takes a lot of effort and if it’s cloudy, or I don’t know what time of...
