We are living in a world of crazy. Fast pace. Political upheaval. Constant noise. And in the middle of all of it, we tell ourselves a story. I'm doing this for my family. I'm doing this so they can have a good life.

came home from my first trip to Asia — Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam — and the first thing I did was walk to my kitchen sink, turn on the tap, and drink straight from it. Cold. Clean. Free. Not from a plastic bottle I had to buy every single day just to stay hydrated.

Let's talk about mom guilt. Because so many women carry it, this low hum of not enough that follows them from the school drop-off to the office to the dinner table and back again. And I want to ask: where did it come from, and does it actually have to be there?

I have been doing some writing lately, and I am really enjoying it.Which, honestly, still surprises me. For someone diagnosed late in life with dyslexia, writing was never part of my everyday joys.

It happened to me professionally first — though looking back, it started before I even knew it was happening. When I opened Seed Studio, I opened it with a business partner who was the Pilates person. She was more experienced, more deeply passionate about the method, and she was the one leading the teaching.

Scroll through social media for five minutes and you will find it. Five Pilates moves for a flat stomach. Pilates for weight loss. Get the Pilates body. You will find studios offering Hot Pilates, Reformer Pilates, Pilates rowing hybrids, all of them wearing the Pilates name like a label on a product.

I had been a Registered Massage Therapist for over 15 years and a certified Pilates teacher trained in a contemporary program. I thought I understood the method. I knew the exercises. I knew the choreography.