As a parent of a child in eating disorder recovery, guest contributor Stephanie Affinito, struggled to know how to support her daughter without conversations ending in crying. In this moving blog, Stephanie shares how turning to reading, writing, and yoga—three practices that have served her well on her own health journey with chronic illness—became safe spaces to cultivate the support she herself needed as a caregiver. For all the caregivers out there, fiercely loving your person/people through hardship, this one is for you.

This past spring I met someone I've admired from a distance for decades. I can still hardly believe she asked me to colead a retreat with her in Tulum, Mexico in March 2017. Talk about a daydream come true! I share that story here, and I invite you to daydream about coming to Mexico with us! (You totally can, you know!)