Where Staying Becomes Healing
by Meghan Wotsch, Certified and Registered Yoga Teacher
By the time I graduated high school I had lived in five states, in fourteen homes, and attended ten different schools, one of which I was the only person in my grade.
Meghan Wotsch, Certified and Registered Yoga Teacher
While I became proficient at adapting, making new friends, and exploring new landscapes, it took me much longer to learn that meaningful relationships require staying long enough to be changed by them.
I never understood the power of staying until I began practicing yoga.
What started as learning to remain in uncomfortable postures slowly became an invitation to remain with uncomfortable emotions, difficult thoughts, and eventually, with myself. Years later, I recognize those same skills in the therapy room, where healing often begins not by escaping discomfort, but by learning to stay with it.
Looking back, yoga helped me understand that mental wellbeing wasn’t simply about thinking the right thoughts. It was about giving the body a voice and the mind a way to listen.
Sometimes growth comes out of staying present long enough for our mind to quiet and notice what is instead of what isn’t.
From that place, clarity emerges.
Creativity returns.
Intentional action becomes possible.
Today, whether I’m sitting beside someone on a yoga mat or across from them in a counseling office, I find myself returning to the same truth: lasting healing happens when we care for both the state of the body and the story of the mind.
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