Welcome to La La Land
Welcome to La La Land WRITTEN BY: CHRISTINA VERHAGEN Have you ever found yourself drifting off into La La Land? It’s honestly a beautiful place sometimes. No airfare required. No checked baggage. No TSA line. No replaying the sting of your mother’s latest comment about your body, your choices, or your life. Just static. Softness. Escape. A mental hammock suspended somewhere between fantasy and emotional exhaustion. But the longer we stay there, the more it quietly costs us. It costs us presence. It costs us the moments happening right in front of us. The exciting story our spouse was trying to tell us. The text message we forgot to answer. The business opportunity we missed because we were mentally buffering like an old desktop computer from 2003. Even something as simple as taking one deep breath all the way down into our body. Growing up, my mom used to tease me constantly for “going into La La Land.” “There goes Christina again…” she’d say. What ...