{"id":2993,"date":"2020-02-09T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T14:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/szaszkogabriella.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2020-02-09T15:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T14:54:47","slug":"open-love-letter-to-adriene-mishler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/szaszkogabriella.com\/index.php\/en\/2020\/02\/09\/open-love-letter-to-adriene-mishler\/","title":{"rendered":"Open (love) letter to Adriene Mishler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Adriene,<\/p>\n

First, I\u2019d really like to thank you for everything you are giving to me. I literally can say that your yoga videos are one of the things that saved my life.<\/p>\n

I found your videos in 2014, when I searched for every kind of solution for my panic disorder. In 2015 I was in a really bad place. I needed to skip trips because of my anxiety attacks and the only thing I could do as an exercise were your yoga videos. I was afraid to go out alone or take out the trash all by myself, because I was obsessed with my heart rate (still am but trying my best). I can remember how hard it was to do your 30 Days of Yoga in 2015, but I tried my best. Sometimes I sat out half of the videos, but you gave me strength, because occasionally I felt I could do this. I made it through some of the videos and it was a huge accomplishment for me. That year after your 30 Days of Yoga I attended a yoga class, it wasn\u2019t a complete failure, but I felt really anxious doing it, not like with home yoga, where I could be myself and be calm all time. It\u2019s still in my bucket list to join in for some classes, I hope I can do it someday.<\/p>\n

In 2016 I did Yoga Camp as well. Yoga became my safe haven, my routine. It helped me to feel grounded after a busy day. I work from home and I am all the time on the computer, so your videos helped a lot with my backache and posture. I moved with your videos from Poland to England, in the meantime I got married. My yoga mat came with me across countries. I still use the same I got sometimes in 2016 with white butterflies on it. I did yoga in my Grandma\u2019s garden in Hungary, I did it without mat in my mother in law\u2019s hard floor, but I was consistent, I never gave up.<\/p>\n

In 2017 I did Yoga Revolution in England. That was the year of new beginnings for me. I worked on several books that time, my first book just came out, and your videos were right there with me.<\/p>\n

2018 was quite special, because my husband joined me and we did True together. We bought a second yoga mat and I nudged him in. He\u2019s not the yoga type kind of a guy, but it was really nice to share those moments.\u00a0 I hope that later I can pursue him to do more yoga together.<\/p>\n

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2019 was quite hard on me again. I started Dedicate in Hungary, finished it in the United Kingdom, but my anxiety creeped back again after a loss of beloved family member.<\/p>\n

This was my first year when I almost finished Home on time. I was just two days behind. The first time I could almost do everything in your videos. After so many years of doing yoga together, I felt that I am getting strong enough to show up for every workout.<\/p>\n

From 2015 to 2020 I came a long way with my anxiety disorder, I learned a lot from myself and my body. I am still figuring things out, the journey is not over. It definitely felt like you holding my hand in the roughest patches in those years. I am so-so grateful for it, I cannot really express. You taught a girl how to love exercise who hated it in her whole life, and now I feel I can build up more from it. Last year I started running, and I ran my first 2.5K in my life. Without you and Benji it would never happened. Thank you for everything.<\/p>\n

Lots of love,<\/p>\n

Gabi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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