The Things We Carry

[image error]Tension.  Anxiety.  Worry.  My own load is invisible, but  it's definitely been taking a toll.  This week I learned that while I've been stretching my spine in downward dog, practicing deep breathing in meditation, walking the back roads of New Hampshire with a grateful heart, I've also been clenching my jaw.  Clenching so hard and so fiercely and for so long, that I've cracked my back teeth and pushed my bite out of alignment as a result.  

It took my dad the dentist to figure it out, after I...