Carrot Poop, Rats, Yoga and Self-Compassion

Hi there world. I'd like to start this post by saying how much I love you, yes, you, the person reading this. You are beautiful, magical, and extraordinary. This is the absolute truth, my friend. Anything that you are going through right now, I just want to encourage you to stick with it, stay in it, immerse yourself in it, like you're walking through water with rubber boots that come up to your thighs. Doesn't matter if the water is a crystalline cinote, a shallow pond, or a thick, murky swamp. If it's where you are, stay there, and keeping allowing it to be. You have to get through it to move forward to something new.

So, I've been drinking a lot of carrot juice over the past few weeks. At least two glasses a day, most of the time mixed with a bit on onion, lemon, and an apple. And I just want to tell everyone how excited it makes me every time I poop to see the color a beautiful, bright carrot orange :) It's really a lovely sight.

Recently a rat named Yama came into my life. Now there are two more, name Poetry and Shiroi. They are so adorable and fast and wonderful! :) And they love love love raw foods. They eat the same foods as us, pretty much. Sometimes we've been feeding them crackers and some other cooked foods in small amounts to help ease the detox process, since the food they were given at the pet store was most likely GMO crap. Every day they seem to get more energy, feel better, more comfortable, and more playful. I'm so happy to be with them every day, and they teach me SO much. They are like little furry mirrors, lol.

Also we've been practicing Yoga on a more often basis, since quitting karate, and there's really not much I can say about this simply because there's soo much I could say about this. It's a process of growing, a journey to compliment the totality of your journey.

And the last one: Self-Compassion. Self-Love. There's nothing that's more important to me to practice each day, each moment, than this. That moment when you want to flee, when you recognize this fear and face it, and see it for what it truly is - when you see yourself, vulnerable, in the present moment, in that moment you become invincible.