Monday, June 29, 2026

A friend I see once a year named the thing no one close to me had.

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A dear friend was in town last week—someone I've known 25 years and manage to see in person about once a year. Over dinner he told me, plainly and with love, that I used to be more confident, and he wasn't sure I was anymore. He was right. And the strange gift was that he named it and didn't try to fix it.

This week's reflection is about being seen clearly—why the person who only catches you once a year can see what the people closest to you can't, and what it means to be handed the truth without being handed a solution.

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Food for thought.

This week's reflection turns on Sutra 1.20—the one I've always taught as the five yogic vitamins. The first is śraddhā. Usually translated as faith, but B.K.S. Iyengar reads it as something firmer: a mental and intellectual steadiness, a trust solid enough to stand on. Everything else in practice balances on top of it.

When confidence wavers, it's often not strength or skill that's gone soft. It's that first vitamin underneath.

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A thought on coaching.

There's something a clear-eyed outside perspective can do that we can't do for ourselves: see the slow drift we've stopped noticing. Coaching is that—not someone handing you answers, but someone reflecting you back honestly and trusting you with the work. If something in this week's piece landed, that's often where the work begins.

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A breath before you go.

Wherever your confidence sits this week—steady, soft, somewhere in between—see if you can trust that the firmness underneath isn't gone. Just quiet. Breathe into it.

with love ✨, CATHERINE

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