Ouch.

Some unconscious changes have occurred in my life, along with many actions of purpose. To start (and to reduce our grocery bill) I quit drinking soda and vitamin water, swapping it instead for decaf iced tea and ice water with lemon. I made the change thinking I'd 'curb' my soda intake back in November. Now, two months later I have found myself no longer craving the magic elixer of corn syrup and carbonation....well, for the most part.

The next change to my life was marrying the love of my life. The man I spent 30+ years searching for. The man who made me feel comfortable writing sentences ending in prepositions regardless of what many of us had been taught to do. His awareness of work/ life balance is well defined, where mine is (was) completely out of whack. Now I feel emotionally complete. I am blessed with friends, family and my guy. How lucky am I.

I then moved on to challenging myself to improve my health. This has proven to be an exercise in getting to know my body. There is a new relationship being forged between the idea of my body and health and its reality. To cannonball myself into this effort, I opted for '21 days of yoga' - the only exercise that seemed innate to me. As a child watching endless hours of television I would do random stretches to keep myself physically occupied while watching Dallas or Dukes of Hazard. Unknown to me at the time, many of these 'stretches' would resurface in my yoga classes as 'poses'. I am not a runner, a weightlifter, a talent in team sports - my body and mind just don't seem to connect the dots and make those things happen. Yoga found me long before I found it.