Okay, the moment is here.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown.

Thanks for tuning in. If you're new,

welcome, all the rest of y'all, what's up? I'm curious, is life feeling more like a wonder or a burden today?

I imagine somewhere in between and likely difficult to distinguish between them from time to time.

But it's certainly a question worth asking.

I mean, we could try to avoid it for a time.

In fact, these days it's probably quite easy to do that.

Just plug into the metaverse, outsource our perceptive faculties to our phones,

and just avoid it all together.

I don't know, though. Eventually, you're going to have to face it.

And I've been finding that if I want to stay with joy, I'm going to have to brave the darkness.

There's certainly a lot of darkness to be brave these days, my friends. Don't let my playful vibe fool you. I don't want you to think that everything's been

going great because it's not like everything's been going great. I mean, some things are going

great, but a lot of other things are not. I've been getting a real crash course in childhood anxiety disorders and how to treat them.

Some of you know. If you want, I can give you like a little bit of an update on that, but we'll do that on the other side.

I don't want to get us sidetracked too far because I have such a special talk to share with you today. I'm excited about it. My guest is Lauren Roche.

And I really worked, I worked hard to get Lauren on the line.

And when I did, it really was so rewarding.

And it really does go to the question I was just asking about whether life feels like a wonder or a burden or our capacity to delight in what is taking

place with all of the difficulty and fear that comes with it.

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