As much as I wish I could take credit for this, all credit goes to my yoga instructor. One day she said something that has stayed with me ever since:
Darkness and light are not opposites.
They are companions.
And when you cannot see,
your breath is the light.
If I could wrap up our entire journey after the birth of our twins into one statement, it would be that one.
When you are suddenly thrown into a world where every expectation, hope, and belief is stripped away, you feel like you have nothing. The future you envisioned disappears and you are left in a place you never thought you would be.
In that time, I wasn’t just forced to take life one day at a time, but there were moments when it was truly one breath at a time.
My only intention was to get through a single breath.
Then the next.
And then the next.
In those moments of profound loss of control, when I felt like everything had been taken from me, I realized something quietly powerful: I still had my breath.
My breath became my prayer.
My meditation.
My affirmation.
When I had nothing else to hold onto, I had my breath.
When you find yourself in moments like this, let your breath be the light.
