07/12/2025
✨ Devotion, Not Sacrifice ✨
People often say that parenthood is a sacrifice.
But I don’t feel that word in my body.
Not when I really listen.
Sacrifice implies loss,
being stripped,
being forced to give something up.
What I have lived is different:
it is choosing to let go.
I had a year ahead of me that I worked hard for —
back-to-back retreats,
four countries,
teaching, assisting, qualifying,
a calendar filled with everything I dreamed of.
And then I became pregnant.
And in a single breath, it all shifted.
Yes, there were tears.
Yes, it hurt to release it.
Yes, it felt like watching a version of my life dissolve in real time.
But still — it did not feel like sacrifice.
I could have pushed through,
kept traveling,
kept teaching,
kept working my body past its edges.
But I didn’t.
I chose to honor the temple I was becoming.
I chose lineage.
I chose devotion.
Ta**ra taught me that surrender is not collapse,
it is conscious yielding.
Letting go not because you must,
but because love is the higher path.
And that practice continues every day:
I could go to late-night dance festivals,
concerts,
Christmas markets,
Latin nights,
lose myself in wild creativity and movement.
But I choose slow evenings with a newborn heartbeat on my chest.
I choose soft over spectacular,
presence over performance,
depth over speed.
Not because I gave up my life,
but because I am creating a new one —
with him,
through him,
as him.
This is the ta***ic path:
devotion that is not demanded,
but offered.
Surrender that is not loss,
but expansion.
Letting go not to disappear,
but to become more whole.
This is not sacrifice.
This is love, in motion.
🌿
***icmotherhood ***icpath ***iclove
