A Whole Lot Of Hooha

When I was a teenager, I didn’t think I’d live to 21. In fact, I believed I didn’t care if I did or not. My drinking started at aged 13 - a little scrumptious and disgusting bottle of orange Midori in the display cabinet, easily topped up with Fanta.

That little serum of altered reality connected with something within me that I had begun to grieve - the magic of childhood. I felt light, floaty, fun, embodied, all the things that were fading under the disdain my parents had begun to feel for the adolescent version of myself and the nauseating ride of puberty.

This twisty, wild road of ethanol-fueled prowess, speed, pingers, cocaine inflated my tiny frame to enormous size - I turned it into a fabulous rock and roll story that nearly took my life, multiple times.

As I stand on the cusp of 50, I’ve now got 13 years of immensely healthy choices to look back on. I reside in a body that’s loved, strong, agile, rides a bike to the beach each day, cartwheels with the grandbabies and feels somehow sexier than ever. Which is good because - what the fuck happened to my forties??

In the midst of projects and children and tragedies and triumphs, the forties turned into a high-velocity blur of deeply transformative life choices that I’m looking back on now with much gratitude but very little recall.

As I’m about to move into the official decade of unsolicited advice-giving, what I want to ask you is this - if you stay on the path you’re on right now, where are you going to end up in 10 years time?

Start refining TODAY. Go to your yoga mat and move for 10 minutes, sit, breathe and improve the quality of your respiration for just 6 rounds, focus your mind to a quality you want to bring up to the surface of your personality and keep repeating those things over and over again until you arrive.

REPETITION CREATES REALITY

Then refine the goals, elevate and expand until it’s time to go inward and then meditate until you take your last breath. Do not die with your potential withering away inside of you, do not take all of that electric creativity within you to your grave. Do not live your life in the cage of someone else’s conditioning.

I never thought I would see 50. And I could not be happier about it. If your 30, plan to be the fittest you’ve ever been at 40. If you’re 40, the strongest you’ve ever been at 50. If you’re 50, the most powerful you’ve ever been at 60. At 60, the wisest and kindest you’ve ever been by 70. If you’re 70, 80, 90 and beyond, share what you know with the world. We need you.

As I prepare to sink into reflection over the next week, contemplate joining me in one of my final Yoga Therapy sessions for 2025, our first Yoga Teacher Training in 2025 (two spots left) or in January for my first 21-Day Dissolving Patterns Program of the new year. It’s an adventure worth taking, no matter what you are wanting to dissolving.

Have a squizz below at how Shane and I can help you recalibrate your compass in the direction you really want to be going

Much love as always
Little Ol’ Duck Lissie.