キノ・マクレガ―のインスタグラム(kinoyoga) - 8月11日 03時40分

Do you ever feel like quitting? I do. All the time. Sometimes I wake up feeling defeated for no specific reason, just the sum total of all the every day difficulties of life. Other times I casually scroll through social media only to feel disconnected and lost. Or I hear about someone else's accomplishments and turn a critical eye towards my own (or lack thereof). I have the depression gene, if there is one. I've struggled with it since I was a little girl. Sadness can be its own comfort and addiction. Grief, victimhood and loss play a familiar tune. Quitting can seem like the final vindication for a battle that was stacked against you from the start.
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You might look at me and wonder what I ever have to be sad about. It may appear like I'm queen of the castle. Every day I pray for a miracle that will make my Dad better, while facing the heartbreaking reality that his time is limited. That in and of itself is enough some days to make me want to hide under the covers and not come out. For whatever it's worth, I've struggled through and fought for many things in my life. In high school I walked a path between being sexualized and harassed by men twice my age while never having a date with a guy my own age. I didn't even allow myself to dream big dreams as a little girl. When I finally found yoga and started teaching, people were not flooding to my class. I taught one or two people and drove all around town wherever anyone would have me teach. When I wanted to make a yoga video and write a yoga book, I didn't have production companies, magazines, agents or publishers banging on my door. But I kept going. I kept practicing. And slowly, little by little, I started to believe that there might be space for me in the world, that my voice might have something valuable to add, that people might benefit and be touched by something I share. Thank you for listening, for believing in me, for taking the time to connect, to share your heart with me.
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Now my 4th book is coming out this September! It has so much of "me" in it that it's like a mirror of my soul. It's called The Yogi Assignment and it's available for pre-order. Click the link in my bio for more!

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