"In the end, our children are likely to act and live as we act and live. Nurturing their inner lives means nurturing our inner lives, for their sake."
I shared this quote with my De-stress Yoga class today. It comes from this weekend's "On Being" interview, "What We Nurture," with wife, mother, grandmother, Jewish Buddhist teacher, and psychotherapist Sylvia Boorstein. You can listen to the full program here.
As I shared with the class, I think we can all relate to the feeling that we are somehow being selfish when we take time to nurture ourselves. In reality, the time we take is not just for ourselves, but for those around as well. I invited the class, and invite you, whether you are a mother, father, son, daughter, aunt or uncle, to bring to mind someone in your life for whom you can be a role model by taking the time to nurture yourself.
To all of the mothers, Happy Mother's Day! Namaste.
maybe that's my specialty . . .
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