Rock the Damn Boat

I was digging through some childhood mementos and found a Senior English essay on The Awakening by Kate Chopin. I was in awe of this book and its author because both were more progressive than their time permitted.

The book was banned for several decades and Chopin barely wrote after its scathing reviews. A half century later, the book was praised for its scenery and characters. Both the author and her main character were ahead...

Welcome to Rock the Damn Boat — a podcast for women who’ve spent their lives keeping the peace, playing it safe, and putting everyone else first. I’m Christy Hughes — recovering people-pleaser, yoga teacher, and believer in doing the inner work that lets us live with more freedom and truth.

Around here, we talk about the things we’ve been taught to avoid — boundaries, guilt, burnout, self-worth — and how to find your voice again, ev...

As a teenager of the 90's living a sheltered life, movies were an escape for me. Christian Slater's character in Pump Up the Volume represented exactly how I felt, shy and quiet to most, desperate to speak my truth. Watching that movie as an adult revealed a plot with more holes than Swiss cheese, but it did make me proud of how far I've come in breaking out of my shell.

I also rewatched Fried Green Tomatoes recentl...

What motivated me to open a yoga studio in a conservative rural Texas town? I suppose the same thing that motivated Patrick Swayze to sashay through a small town in the movie To Wong Foo. Maybe not quite the same gumption, but the inner rebel in me didn't care that yoga might not be maintstream in Hamilton County.

After years of attending online yoga classes, I was ready to return to that sense of community that can only be found in...

I launched a podcast first, introduced myself second. I am a campaigner for bravery and kindness, courage and compassion. I'm rocking the boat after a half century of playing it small and living by "good girl" ideals.

I am a yoga instructor, a Sales Director, an author, a retreat host, a sober creative and so much more. I have been expanding my comfort zone for nearly a decade and want every wallflower in the world to...

Between people pleasing and perfectionism, I have waged war on my body in more ways than I can count. As a naturally skinny teen, I gained the freshman 15 and then some in college. And the battles commenced:

• Weight Watchers in my twenties with a vicious cycle of bank the points, drink the points
• Macro Counting and a small notion of bodybuilding competitions, resulting in an indescribable shame cycle
• Intuitive Eating, which doe...