My restaurant's called Coco Sala and our theme
is coffee, chocolate and cocktails.
It's a lot of fun, it's a lot of work though,
too.
I have two beautiful children.
Justin has high functioning autism.
By the time he was in 6th grade he was formally
diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.
He has difficulty socializing with others
and reading other people's social cues.
He doesn't have any friends.
Being a business owner you have a million
things going on in your head and then on top
of that to be a mother of two very active
children, it's a lot.
It's a lot to handle.
So I started researching about meditation
and came across Transcendental Meditation.
Within the second day of learning TM, I felt
like a completely different person.
I found myself much more focused, I found
myself procrastinating less, and I found myself
happier.
Before doing TM, my mind was always on the
go, go, go, and I did have difficulty sleeping
at night, not just falling asleep, but staying
asleep and about a month and a half after
doing TM I suddenly started sleeping through
the night and falling asleep much easier.
Justin learned how to meditate over the summer.
It had been a month he had been meditating,
and went back to school, and actually one
of his teachers remarked about how much more
relaxed he seemed, how his shoulders were
down, how he was making better eye contact.
She told me that one of the parents had even
commented and asked if Justin was on a new
medication but, he just seemed so more relaxed.
I think that it's very valuable for parents
of kids that are on the spectrum not just
for the children but for themselves.
Because when you're more relaxed you're able
to deal with whatever issues may present themselves.
Until it starts reducing itself, you don't
realize it sometimes you don't even realize
how stressed out you really are.
TM - it's the me time I'm getting for myself,
which then later on benefits everybody around
me, not just myself.
And this is for life.
