Be Here with Love
It is too easy for so many of us to think we don't deserve love or that we have to earn love. We all...
Progress Not Perfection
Many of us keep aiming for perfection and beat ourselves up when we don't achieve it. Lisa Kohn has learned to appreciate her progress...
Soon the Fear Will Go Away
Lisa Kohn can get wracked with irrational fears, but she's learned to love and breathe her way through these fears.
Beauty Is All Around You—Don’t Miss It
Lisa Kohn knows that, for all of us, it's easy to see what's wrong and to feel what hurts, and yet there is beauty...
I’m Proud of Myself for Breaking the Rules
Over the years, Lisa Kohn developed very strict "rules" and guidelines to keep herself safe, but those rules and guidelines mostly get in her...
I’m Still Working on Trust
Lisa Kohn is still learning to be patient with herself. Although her first response is to make things happen and to feel guilty when...
Why I Stopped Eating
Lisa Kohn was anorexic in college. At times, she can still hear the voices that drove her to punish and starve herself. But today,...
Moving Through the Monkey Mind
Since Lisa Kohn upped her meditation practice, she's learned to be okay with the fact that sometimes her mind has different plans for her.
Because I F——g Sparkle, That’s Why
Many of us diminish ourselves and our lives, and refuse to let ourselves shine and even sparkle. We may have learned to be quiet...
What Do You Do with Body Memories?
When things happen to and around us that are too much for us to take in, we often forget them. But our bodies often...
It’s Okay to Pick the Easy Way Out…and Here’s How
Many of us, including Truthteller Lisa Kohn, have learned to take the hardest path, to hunker down and push through, to do what it...
Am I Kinda Pausing or Really Pausing?
Truthteller Lisa Kohn realized during a yoga practice that while she was "kinda" pausing in her practice and in her daily life, she wasn't...