Getting back in the zone

How fitness and writing pushed me through

It’s been about 6 months since I stopped publicly writing articles. I spent majority of that time pushing through various life issues, bad relationships and deciding the direction of my life. Most of all, I had to learn (or re-learn?) how to be happy with myself. When life knocks you down, you gotta get back up.

A Death in the Family

Let’s get the biggest one out of the way. My brother passed away four days prior to new years and that set the tone for the majority of my 2019 thus far. Naturally, like any death in the family, it sucked! In the next four days leading up to 2019, I went on insane drinking binge, crashed on my homie’s couch for a few nights, and did everything possible to run away from the pain. Not my greatest moment.

However, running away and using different distractions to keep me from the reality that he was truly gone didn’t help me heal. It just made me drink harder and a bit more erratic in my behavior. That healing had to come from inside. So throughout January, I took up Hot Yoga sessions as I tried to slow down and regain some lost focus.

As it turns out, yoga is surprisingly enlightening. Hot yoga even more so. It basically works like this: walk into a room that’s hot enough to make you sweat…