Carry or Release

On healing, endurance, and the wisdom of knowing the difference.

We live in an age of healing. Access to therapy is better than it has ever been, and the conversations we are now willing to have publicly about trauma and mental health represent real, important progress.

But healing culture carries a shadow side that rarely gets examined. The implicit promise - that everything can be healed, that every wound has a protocol, that endurance is just unfinished healing - quietly strips legitimacy from something equally difficult and equally valid: the capacity to endure.

BKS Iyengar once wrote: "Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured, and endure what cannot be cured." This episode unpacks that wisdom, examines both failure modes - carrying what could be ...