yoga

So this post is mainly to say thanks. You guys are so amazingly kind to me, and you’re all helping me to learn important lessons like 1) being vulnerable sometimes and 2) allowing others to be kind to/help you.

For those of you who are new here, yeah, my Twitter does get pretty personal. I have trouble articulating why, exactly. It just does. I know some things I share because I hope others will feel less isolated about their experiences. Anyway.

Just a coupla quick points because a lot of you have asked…

Fatigue: this just kind of hit out of the blue this week. But, it makes perfect sense that my body would get in my face, all “hey! enough stress. i’m done.” There’ve been a lot of signs that my system just wasn’t keeping up: insomnia, shivering, blah blah blah. It’s not even alarming, given the “luck acrobatics” of my last few years. And by the way, some of the contributing stress has been “off-the-wall-good” stress. Stuff I am very psyched and grateful for. Both kinds wear ya down tho. So, I cut aggressively to no alcohol or caffeine, daily walks, yoga, mediation, diet, etc. changes to help it even itself back out. So far so good. Heed your own body’s warning signs, OK?

Separation: Mr. P and I separated, quite amicably, around New Years. We started talking about it publicly in late February. Divorce is never an easy decision and we did not make ours lightly, but I can tell you it’s led to wonderful things for all 4 of us, and a much more stable and loving (ironic, innit?) family life. He’s only moving out now, and will live very close by and remain totally involved in our day-to-day lives. The girls are more relaxed and happy than they’ve been for a long time. We really appreciate the many kindnesses folks have extended.

So, nothing to see here. No crisis. Much joy and hope. Off to the Cape for the weekend to relax with my parents. Will resume travel Friday for some client stuff and PodCamp NYC. Very sorry to be missing both Expo 2.0 and NewComm Forum, but maybe next year!

With deep gratitude,
Pistachio

PS - This blog is a hodgepodge scrapbook/social media lab/ place to put cooking seesmics, etc. I blog (somewhat more) regularly at www.PistachioConsulting.com.

Thank you to my friends on Twitter for this help: (this was collected ages ago, but I’d been having trouble updating this blog)

I guess by now it’s apparent *why* I’ve been a little jumpy on the inside. When I wrote this the separation was not public. These do help. One day at SXSW I went and hid behind the cardboard thingy outside the bloghaus, cranked out some sun salutes and then worked on my headstand. I also get strange random urges to do crow (bakasana) which I suddenly started to be able to do despite months of neglecting my practice.

Elsie Escobar @YoGeek and of course you can just listen to the last 15 min of this episode and chill… http://is.gd/Bb

Elsie Escobar @YoGeek suptabaddhkonasa’s good 4 chillin’ but the task is done faster by going upside down, if ur up 4 it do this! http://is.gd/1dR

Vice-Queen Maria @vicequeenmaria I like doing corpse pose with an eye pillow on my forehead and a blanket rolled up under my chest

Elsie Escobar @YoGeek going upside down will do it most of the time http://tinyurl.com/yppu83

Catherine Laine @cat_laine child’s pose, downward facing dog, leg’s up on the wall pose is especially nice

dllavoy @dllavoy supta bada kinashia (no idea how to spell). the three diamonds. (This one? http://yogajournal.com/poses/663 -laura)

Jen Zingsheim @jenzings Inversions are very good for calm…try a shoulder stand or plow…they work for me. Bridge pose too.

Lauren Vargas @vargasl I prefer childhood or cobblers poses to ground myself.

Eve @GeekGirlTV Child’s Pose. Downward dog? but mostly just child’s pose.

frozen2late @frozen2late Child’s pose is the most relaxing. http://tinyurl.com/24myrp

Connie Crosby @conniecrosby Shava-asana is always the best to calm me down