Roller coasters, phishing and Halloween

When I was a kid Halloween was so scary!!  But also exciting? Isn’t that funny?  Being scared can actually be a little fun? Like a roller coaster (a real one, not the proverbial one we are suffering through right now). 

As an adult, I take fear very seriously. There is a lot of fear driving us right now and for good reason. Fear has the important job of trying to keep us safe.

When I was training to be a yoga teacher, my yoga instructor did a whole session on teaching from a place of love versus a place of fear. I get it. This lesson was supposed to parallel our lives. We should respond with love over fear so that we respond compassionately with others.  As I propelled along my yoga journey though, I began to question the simplicity of it.

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