Dear Yoga,
You healed my broken-heart. I am forever grateful.
Shattered wide open. Complete and utter devastation. Crushed. This was my state of being as I stared down the face of divorce. Divorce was never the plan. It came out of nowhere, and I was left to pick up the pieces of my broken life.
Each time I stepped on my yoga mat, I entered sacred territory, many times crying my way through the entire class. For me, yoga became a moving meditation of prayer. The tears would fall as I submitted in front of God. I was honoring my body, my temple that God designed just for me. There I could live in the moment, minute by minute. I did not have to think about the scary future and the sad past. It was humbling and therapeutic. This sacred space did not accept self-judgment or disapproval. Instead, the practice celebrated me as “I am.” Yoga demanded absolutely nothing of me.
“Just breathe” was all I had to do.
Perfection was not part of the practice. And so I practiced, I grew and I learned A LOT!
Six years later, I am shocked that I get “to do” this life because it’s so incredible. Shortly after the heartbreak of divorce, I considered the marital split to be a tragedy, but now I see it as a blessing that revealed what it is that I have been created to do! It was a gift that came wrapped in the ugly package of divorce.
In this journey, I learned there’s purpose in pain, and if we allow the transition to go through us -gleaning all that we can- there’s a lesson to be discovered. And God will give us a gift to share. My gift is to help others who are broken and hurting, walking the same path through the valley of divorce.
No matter where you are on the journey from married to divorced, know that you can take this mess in front of you and turn it into your message. You can take what has crippled you and make it your strength. You can bloom where you are planted. I did it and became a divorce coach.
I understand the pain you feel right now because I have walked that same path. Together we can come up with a plan for your next step forward to reach a place of peace, purpose, and clarity. The first thirty-minute session is FREE. Contact me at connect@indiakern.com
Peace and Blessings to you,
India
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