How Yoga Changed My Life

What if resilience isn’t about bouncing back?

What if it’s about refusing to stay down?

In this episode of We Didn’t Plan for This, Adrienne and Nora sit down with Paralympic medalist, World Champion, Army veteran, and self-proclaimed rebel, Lia Coryell.

As one of eight children growing up in extreme poverty, Lia learned early that waiting for life to hand you an opportunity wasn’t a strategy. In kindergarten, Lia Coryell decided she wasn’t going to be the “leftover kid.” She was going to learn everything she possibly could.

That determination led her to the military, which she saw as her path out of poverty. Even after breaking her leg during basic training, she kept moving forward.

And that theme would continue throughout her life.

Throughout this conversation, one message rises above everything else: Be rebellious. But be rebellious successfully.

Lia reminds us that resilience isn’t something we’re born with. It’s something we build through curiosity, advocacy, hard work, and the willingness to keep showing up when life doesn’t go according to plan.

And in true We Didn’t Plan for This fashion, she leaves us with a choice we’ll never forget: You can become bitter. Or you can become better.

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We all carry things we were never meant to hold forever.

Stress. Grief. Expectations. Worry. Regret.

In this guided meditation led by Mia, you’ll imagine carrying a heavy sandbag filled with everything that’s weighing you down. But as the practice unfolds, something begins to change.

A small hole appears.

Then, grain by grain, the sand begins to fall away.

With each breath, the burden becomes a little lighter. The weight shifts. Your shoulders soften. The things you’ve been holding so tightly begin to loosen their grip.

You don’t have to drop everything all at once.

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Inspired by the August 12th Solar Eclipse, this guided meditation is about the moments when something moves between you and the light. 

Whether it’s fear, grief, change or uncertainty that causes the shadows to form, the light hasn’t disappeared just because we can’t see it.

Take a few moments to ground yourself, breathe, and remember that you don’t have to see the entire path forward.

Sometimes a sliver of light is enough.

When you can’t see the light, press play.

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Join Jo Stewart for her Introduction to Meditation. This guided practice offers an approach to begin and strengthen your meditation practice.

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Arrive Before the Day

Before your phone gets the chance to dictate your mood, take a few moments to decide how you want to meet the day.

Every morning offers a small window to choose intention over urgency. In this guided meditation, Adrienne shares a simple ritual that helps her begin each day grounded - before emails, texts to-do lists and responsibilities take over. 

Whether your place is the edge of your bed, your favorite chair or a parked car before work, this meditation is an invitation to come home to yourself before heading out into the world. 

Before you scroll and your phone decides your mood, press play. 

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When your inner critic won’t stop hogging the microphone, press play.

Self-doubt has a funny way of showing up uninvited and acting like it pays rent.

Before you know it, it’s questioning your decisions, your abilities, and whether you should’ve sent that text three days ago.

This short guided meditation will help you take the microphone back, quiet the noise, and reconnect with the version of yourself that existed long before all the second-guessing moved in.

Today’s meditation is a chance to interrupt that conversation.

To breathe.

And to remember that self-doubt is just a feeling—it’s far from the truth.

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After losing her husband, Brian, Adrienne expected grief. What she didn’t expect was how grief would slowly disconnect her from the people she loves.

In this solo episode of We Didn’t Plan for This, Adrienne shares the invisible weight of living in limbo—waiting on probate, facing financial uncertainty, carrying responsibilities that once belonged to two people, and waking up each day with more questions than answers. 

Every phone call becomes another reminder of what hasn’t been resolved, making it harder and harder to reach out to the people who matter most.

This isn’t just a conversation about losing a spouse. It’s about losing pieces of yourself along the way. The version of yourself who you were. 

If you’ve ever felt stuck in the waiting, overwhelmed by life’s logistics, or quietly disappeared because you simply didn’t have anything left to give, this episode is a reminder that you’re not alone.

If this episode resonates, please share it with someone who might need to hear it. And if you’re enjoying We Didn’t Plan for This, follow the show, leave a review, and help us reach someone who needs the reminder that they don’t have to carry it all alone.

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Rethinking Yoga: Accessibility, Neurodivergence & the Aerial Hammock

What if yoga wasn’t about fitting your body into a pose—but adapting the practice to fit your body?

In this episode of How Yoga Changed My Life, we sit down with yoga educator, author, and aerial yoga specialist Jo Stewart to explore what accessible yoga really means.

Together, we talk about creating welcoming spaces for every body, supporting neurodivergent students, and how aerial yoga can become a powerful tool for accessibility, confidence, and nervous system regulation—not just impressive tricks.

Whether you’re a yoga teacher, a lifelong student, newly diagnosed as neurodivergent, or simply curious about making movement more inclusive, this conversation will challenge the way you think about yoga and remind you that the practice belongs to everyone.

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In almost every class Adrienne teaches, she tells her students that struggling is inevitable, but suffering is optional. She doesn’t mean we get to choose whether difficult things happen to us or not. But sometimes we add another layer by fighting what we’re already feeling. 

We tell ourselves we shouldn’t be sad, shouldn’t be anxious, shouldn’t be angry, or that we should be farther along than we are. That struggle can create even more suffering.

Today’s meditation is simply an invitation to set that extra layer down, even if it’s only for a few minutes.

Sometimes we come to meditation because we want to become calmer, happier, more enlightened, or more awake. But if we look closely, that can become just another form of striving. Just another way of trying to be someone other than who we are in this moment.

What if, instead, you didn’t have to become anything? What if there was nothing to fix?

When you forget there’s nothing to fix, press play.

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The theme music for this episode, “Cenote Angelita”, was written and produced by Mar Abajo Rio AKA MAR Yoga Music. Dive deeper into this and other orig...