"Lauren, a Los Angeles yoga teacher, slipped in a lunge while teaching and injured her ankle. Because she's a practice-through-the-pain kind of yogi, she didn't even stop to assess the injury before continuing her class. When she finally got to the doctor, she discovered she would have to stay off the ankle for at least a month. For Lauren, this triggered a deep identity crisis."
"George has a different issue. His wife has told him she's involved with another man and wants to have an open marriage. George feels shocked, abandoned, and insecure, which leads him to thoughts like "I'm not good at relationships " and "I'm not lovable." Essentially, he feels the same disorientation that Lauren does. "I don't know who I am when the person I love doesn't want me," he says."
An ankle injury forced a Los Angeles yoga teacher to stop using her body and triggered a deep identity crisis because physical strength had defined her well-being, self-esteem, and income. A man whose wife wanted an open marriage experienced shock, abandonment, and thoughts of being unlovable, producing equivalent disorientation. Both suffered wounds to their sense of self that reopened old fissures. Psychological interpretation links their pain to childhood patterns. Yoga frames groundlessness as an invitation to investigate identity beyond body and roles and to cultivate steadiness, self-knowledge, and resilience through practice.
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