My favorite yoga position is the standing bow. It was described to me as resembling balance in your life because it’s the being pulled in different directions that keeps you standing solidly. I recently tackled the subject of motherhood, balance, and fulfillment in my post at mom.me.

When I held my daughter for the first time, I experienced all the magic they said I would. She looked up at me with her eyes like blue almonds, and my whole world was undone and put back together again in an instant. Love radiated through and from me. In the months that followed her birth, I adjusted to life as a stay-at-home mom. For a year I lived and breathed all things baby: parenting books, mom blogs and my many baby-related Google searches.

I focused on my daughter’s needs and well-being, even as my own eroded and I became a haggard version of myself. Everyone said I was being a great mother, but hardly anyone asked me how I was doing. But why should they? I had a loving husband and a healthy, beautiful new baby. I wasn’t supposed to want anything more. And yet, I began to feel like a part of my life was missing. Was it me? Was I missing from my life?… You can read the rest of my article on mom.me