Thank you! It was so inspiring to read your story! I've always privately chuckled to myself when people would tell me to have a five year plan. I never, ever even had a five month plan! ☺️ But somehow life has always worked out better than I could imagine and in ways I never would have seen coming.
I love this essay and your poem so much ! Life is amazing and so big, she has her own intelligence and the way she helps us and guides us on our path is always a miracle for me. The way your passion for writing led you to becoming such a unique and great teacher with classes full of restorative yoga but also poetry, music, philosophy is such a gift for you but also for all of us. How lucky students we are ! Thank you Emmie 🩷🙏 !
Totally agree, all the best decisions in my life were all ones where I didn't really know what I was getting into at the time. There was no way I could have planned for any of them.
Also reminds me that I recently found an old journal where, due to an exercise from a self-help book, I had made a multi-decade "plan" reaching into my nineties(!!!) It was actually kind of horrifying to read; I would be absolutely miserable with the life I had planned for myself now. Thankfully none of it went as planned!
Lovely read Emmie, and so relatable. HD actually helped me surrender to having no plan, letting my sacrum guide me to the next breadcrumb in the trail just took all that pressure off me and while I often have plans they rarely stretch further than 3/6 months ahead at a time. I find this a much more liberating and exciting journey to take! Five years is a long time!! I could have had three separate careers between now and then! 😂 (MG!!) xx
The 5yr plan question would always make me recoil and feel trapped. I also find when you move overseas to another city the same question comes up "how long do you plan to live there, what is your plan?" before even considering that maybe living 'here' is the plan. I even had someone argue with me over the fact that it's better to have a 5yr plan than not having one. I personally find life more interesting when it leads me to places I never expected. Maybe because I grew up that way. Or maybe creative people just don't think of life in such a linear way? I graviate more to a loose plan (which is basically writing down hopes and dreams) which aren't tied to a specific timeline and to be open to all the beautiful unplanned things. Just because you don't have a 5yr plan, it doesn't mean you don't have dreams, goals and aspirations.
I was one of those people with a perfectly crafted five-year plan that subsequently fell through. It was devasting but the thing I'm slowly learning is that life is much more creative than me (good and bad lol). And I think the things it has set for me will be much grander than the plan I had originally.
deeply appreciate the reminder ☺️💛
Beautiful and so so important!
so felt, appreciate the rant 😂
you get it hahahaha
Thank you Emmie! 🤍 Catching up on all your beautiful writing after taking a break from Substack a little while ago… 🪷
so nice to have you back bambi !! xo
Thank you! It was so inspiring to read your story! I've always privately chuckled to myself when people would tell me to have a five year plan. I never, ever even had a five month plan! ☺️ But somehow life has always worked out better than I could imagine and in ways I never would have seen coming.
yes!!! this has been my experience too 100000% of the time!
Thank you! As a yoga-writer-singer-etc multi-hyphenate, this gives me hope. 💜🙏🌀
our way is so okay 🥲
I love this essay and your poem so much ! Life is amazing and so big, she has her own intelligence and the way she helps us and guides us on our path is always a miracle for me. The way your passion for writing led you to becoming such a unique and great teacher with classes full of restorative yoga but also poetry, music, philosophy is such a gift for you but also for all of us. How lucky students we are ! Thank you Emmie 🩷🙏 !
how lucky i am to be surrounded by the most wonderful women in tdr! 🥺 thank you, cecile!!!
Totally agree, all the best decisions in my life were all ones where I didn't really know what I was getting into at the time. There was no way I could have planned for any of them.
Also reminds me that I recently found an old journal where, due to an exercise from a self-help book, I had made a multi-decade "plan" reaching into my nineties(!!!) It was actually kind of horrifying to read; I would be absolutely miserable with the life I had planned for myself now. Thankfully none of it went as planned!
I also found a old journal and if I had stuck to that plan I would also be unhappy!
Lovely read Emmie, and so relatable. HD actually helped me surrender to having no plan, letting my sacrum guide me to the next breadcrumb in the trail just took all that pressure off me and while I often have plans they rarely stretch further than 3/6 months ahead at a time. I find this a much more liberating and exciting journey to take! Five years is a long time!! I could have had three separate careers between now and then! 😂 (MG!!) xx
The 5yr plan question would always make me recoil and feel trapped. I also find when you move overseas to another city the same question comes up "how long do you plan to live there, what is your plan?" before even considering that maybe living 'here' is the plan. I even had someone argue with me over the fact that it's better to have a 5yr plan than not having one. I personally find life more interesting when it leads me to places I never expected. Maybe because I grew up that way. Or maybe creative people just don't think of life in such a linear way? I graviate more to a loose plan (which is basically writing down hopes and dreams) which aren't tied to a specific timeline and to be open to all the beautiful unplanned things. Just because you don't have a 5yr plan, it doesn't mean you don't have dreams, goals and aspirations.
thanks for this beautiful reminder
I was one of those people with a perfectly crafted five-year plan that subsequently fell through. It was devasting but the thing I'm slowly learning is that life is much more creative than me (good and bad lol). And I think the things it has set for me will be much grander than the plan I had originally.