Whisper #20 - The Work Beneath the Work
When you feel unsure inside, you try to look certain outside.
Anxiety kissed me. Silence whispered back. These whispered letters are born from that silence to calm the voices in my head, and maybe the ones in yours.
When you feel unsure inside, you try to look certain outside.
What if this is all you get?
Holding space isn’t about carrying what surfaces. It’s about staying regulated while intensity moves.
Peace isn’t always embodiment. Sometimes it’s just avoidance with better language.
Discipline can be devotion — or it can be violence with better manners. The difference isn’t in the routine, but in the relationship.
Life can keep working while something essential goes missing. A reflection on what happens when the heart is quietly bypassed.
Coming back doesn’t have to be heavy. Sometimes practice only asks to be met, right where you are.
What we often call presence isn’t something travel gives us. It’s what remains when the noise falls away.
Presence doesn’t come from saying the right thing. It comes from being somewhere the body recognizes as safe.
A day in Berlin where being lost, unprepared, and present turned into something I couldn’t have planned.
Sensitivity isn’t the problem. This is a reflection on vulnerability after practice, grounding the body, and learning to stay rooted when everything opens.
Even in paradise, people ache. A reflection from assisting a yoga teacher training at Vikasa—the breath, the breakdowns, and the beauty between it all.
You can do everything right and still feel wrong. This is not a story about burnout—it's a story about the kind of discipline that hides your wounds in wellness clothes, and the tender undoing that brought me home.
I didn’t know how to stay, so I became everything I could run toward.
True self-love isn’t a performance. It’s not a mask. It’s not about being kind to everyone but yourself—or cutting people off and calling it healing. This whisper invites you to meet the sacred flame between: the fire that warms without burning.
Somewhere along the line, you got slapped by life… and you smiled like it didn’t hurt.
If you had to choose between achieving your goals and waking up loving yourself completely… which would you pick? This whisper explores the tension between pressure and presence—and how to tell if your goals are truly yours.
10,374 Rejections Later… What happens when the dream finally says yes? A true story of ambition, burnout, and the collapse of identity disguised as success.
I chased the sun with burnt-out shoes. Carried silence in a screaming world.
It once burned as anger. Now it writes, moves, heals.
An invocation of soul connection, silence, and the unspeakable moments that shape us.
A mythic letter to leaders — reminding that true leadership is rooted like ancient trees, not built on clouds of control.
A sacred farewell to the younger self — honoring the battles fought, the love carried, and the warrior who kept standing.
A descent into the mythic forest within — where loss, death, and silent rebirth weave their silent echoes.
A reflection written after 154 days of travel—exploring identity, fear, and returning home with a new self.
A reflection written after 140 days of solo travel — shedding skins, losing anchors, and standing at the threshold of a new self.
Reflections on the invisible routines that shape us — whether rooted in office walls or infinite roads.
Written from the shores of India — reflecting on sadness, emptiness, and surrender, even when life looks 'perfect' outside.
Quiet reflections. Embodied practices. Soul notes from the path. Insights on healing, yoga, breath, and being delivered softly, once a week.