(Thought you might have needed to hear that today.) How to Follow Along on My Insight Timer Teacher Journey Stop, breathe, and take the time for yourself and for your family that you want, crave, and need, to be happy and healthy. It is simply not true, my dear working parents, that all of life’s professional opportunities will pass you by, simply because you turn off work for a few days or weeks. As was the idea that amazing opportunities could and would arise, even while I was on vacation. I remember getting this invitation while in Columbus, Ohio, and being in a “please pinch me, because this is probably a spam message” state. If you’ve been following along on this blog, you know that I was traveling cross-country in a mini-van during the month of August. And she invited me to consider contributing my work to their platform. She let me know that they were creating a dedicated section of the app for content related to the workplace. That day, I received a message from the head of the Insight Timer publishing team. Never, that is, until August 3 of this year. In no instance of my using app (for 1,626 days over the course of about 7 years), however, did the thought cross my mind that I might one day join the ranks of its teachers. A New Phase for Me on the Insight Timer Meditation App: Teacher! Which says something both about the quality of the app, as well as my own desperate state. I had a 550+ consecutive day streak going. A sturdy, reliable lifeboat I could count on to be there for me during the rockiest of remote-schooling-hell storms. Then, when COVID struck, using this meditation app once again became an anchor for me. (More on this meditation evolution in Why This Mama Loves Insight Timer.) But not beating myself up when I fell off the wagon. I had finally developed a “mid-life maturity” with it, using it more often than not. Or while sitting on a park bench for a few minutes during my commute, before heading into my office.īy 2018, I had passed through what I described as the “adolescence and addiction” phases of using this meditation app. But I learned to use those slivers wisely, by turning on the app while doing a few yoga poses in the morning. Then, all I had were seemingly microscopic slivers of time in my day. This was a feat I found challenging, but necessary. Way back in 2014, I shared with this community my musings on attempting to start a meditation practice while also having small kids. In the early days of parenthood, when my own life felt like it was going off the rails, doing a daily meditation using the Insight Timer app steadied me. Not all of our “friends” and mentors in life are individual humans, right? Inspiring books, podcasts that help us feel seen, animals we can snuggle with, and incredibly useful apps guide us to better places, too. In my decade as a working parent, the Insight Timer meditation app has been one of my most loyal and supportive companions.
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