Karen Kennedy Yoga

Some places teach you what truly matters: the cemetery teaches humility, the hospital teaches gratitude, and the prison teaches the cost of one careless choice. Don’t wait for life to teach you these lessons the hard way. Live wisely, while you still can.

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Men don’t age better than women,
men age without fear,
without worry,
without judgement.
Men age secure in the knowledge that it’s as it should be,
and the fight is not theirs to take on.
Men age without prying eyes looking for lines,
looking for grey hairs or spare fat.
Men just age.
Freedom looks good on them, doesn’t it?

Women age with the eyes of the world upon them,
lest they be considered to have let themselves go,
or lost a battle in the war.

Women age with the rules and restrictions,
of dressing correctly for ‘their age’,
employing new make-up techniques to hide drooping eyelids,
and steer attention away from the wrinkles.

Women age with the burden of beauty and the expectations of society,
wearing them down and creating even more pressure than before.
Making it harder to look ‘well’.

Men don’t age better than women,
they age without guilt.
It’s worth a million new lotions, potions or pills,
promising youth.

Let’s try it and see,
if freedom looks good on us all.

Donna Ashworth
From my new book ‘LIFE’ pre-order here:

Life: Poems to help navigate life’s many twists & turns For every twist, turn and roadblock the journey has to offer, this collection provides relief to busy minds and dares us to live with a reckless abundance of joy. - 'One of today's best poets.' ***** NetGalley - 'Donna's writing conveys so beautifully what it is to be human' ***** ...

Celibacy and Sexual Wisdom 🌹

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🌑🌊 THE SHADOW SIDE OF THE FULL MOON IN PISCES 🌊🌑

Not all compassion comes from love.

Sometimes it comes from learning to abandon yourself for everyone else.

The shadow side of Pisces isn't sensitivity —
it's the wound that says “If I can understand them enough, maybe they won't hurt me.”

Many women learned early to feel the room before they felt themselves.

To notice everyone else's moods.
To excuse behavior because they understood the pain behind it.
To forgive before they were ready.
To see someone's potential instead of accepting who they were actually showing themselves to be.

So you learned to:
• absorb emotions that were never yours
• confuse empathy with responsibility
• stay because you could see the wounded person underneath the behavior
• disappear into fantasy when reality hurt too much

Not because you're naive —

but because your nervous system learned that understanding everyone else felt safer than honoring yourself.

This Full Moon in Pisces doesn't just illuminate sensitivity.

It illuminates where sensitivity has become self-abandonment.

✨ The fear of disappointing someone
✨ The fear of accepting that they may never change
✨ The fear of letting go of the dream
✨ The fear of choosing yourself and being called selfish

Pisces' shadow asks quietly:
🌊 Who are you still trying to save at the expense of yourself?
🌊 What truth have you been avoiding because the fantasy hurts less?

This is not a moon asking you to become harder.

It's asking you to learn that having a soft heart does not require having no boundaries.

Tonight, you are invited to release:
❌ responsibility for other people's healing
❌ confusing potential with reality
❌ the belief that loving someone means enduring everything

And to gently reclaim:
🌊 your emotional boundaries
🌊 your intuition
🌊 your right to leave what continually wounds you

🌕 Pisces Shadow Affirmation:
“𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. 𝘐 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺.”

You don't have to stop being soft. You don't have to stop seeing the good in people.

You just have to stop using your compassion as a reason to betray yourself. 🌊🌑

💣 Picture this: she checks her phone forty times a day, waiting for one specific name.

When he texts, she feels like she’s floating.

When he doesn’t, she spirals—replaying the last conversation, wondering what she did wrong.

She thinks:

“I’ve never felt this strongly about anyone.”

And maybe she hasn’t.

But intensity doesn’t always tell us how healthy or compatible a connection is.

Sometimes, unpredictability intensifies the craving.

A little warmth.
Then silence.

Affection.
Then distance.

Just when she starts giving up…

another message.

And suddenly, the relief of hearing from him makes his attention feel even more powerful.

This is one reason inconsistent attention can become so consuming.

You’re not only enjoying the connection anymore.

You’re anticipating the next reward.

And eventually, you may mistake how intensely you think about someone for evidence of how deeply you’re meant to be with them.

But ask yourself:

Do I actually feel loved here…
or do I spend most of my time waiting to feel loved?

Because butterflies can be attraction.

They can be excitement.

But sometimes anxiety and uncertainty are mixed in there too.

And if you spend more time analyzing the relationship than actually enjoying it, the confusion itself may be telling you something.

Healthy connection doesn’t mean you’ll never feel nervous.

But you shouldn’t need to become a detective just to figure out whether someone wants you.

📖 If you know what it’s like to become consumed by someone inconsistent, Chasing Love That Hurts goes deeper into limerence, intermittent reinforcement, emotional fixation, and breaking the cycle.

Link in bio. ❤️