APPRECIATE
Appreciate your friends. Appreciate the time they picked you up after your operation, even when it was snowing so hard. Appreciate that they listen when you need to talk. Needed to be heard. Needed to cry. Appreciate whoever mowed your lawn the day of the funeral. Appreciate whoever found your overdue video, returned it and paid the fine. When friends are in short supply, learn to appreciate being with yourself. Appreciate having a job whre you don't have to wear a dress. Appreciate having a job where you do. Appreciate that your body can take you where you want to go. If it can't, appreciate that your mind can take you there instead. Appreciate the good men in your life. Tell them you appreciate them and appreciate that they're learning to be well just like you.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Do you have 13 minutes to spare? Very thought provoking, inspiring video.
http://www.ted.com/talks/thandie_newton_embracing_otherness_embracing_myself.html#.TjGsOcEA_OU.facebook
http://www.ted.com/talks/thandie_newton_embracing_otherness_embracing_myself.html#.TjGsOcEA_OU.facebook
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women (Day 6)
ALLOW
Allow yourself to ask for what you need. Allow yourself to need help, to need, love, to need other people. Give yourself permission to say This is what I need, to say it without shame, without guilt. Now allow yourself to receive what is offered. Allow yourself to be human. Allow yourself the luxury of screwing up now and then, of being less than perfect. Allow yourself to it all down and breathe. Now allow someone else to help you pick up the pieces. Give them permission to love you in the only way they know how. Every so often, allow yourself to forget about the bills and the phone calls and the deadlines. Allow yourself the freedom to feel exactly how you feel, to be exactly where you are in any given moment. Allow others the freedom to do the same.
Allow yourself to ask for what you need. Allow yourself to need help, to need, love, to need other people. Give yourself permission to say This is what I need, to say it without shame, without guilt. Now allow yourself to receive what is offered. Allow yourself to be human. Allow yourself the luxury of screwing up now and then, of being less than perfect. Allow yourself to it all down and breathe. Now allow someone else to help you pick up the pieces. Give them permission to love you in the only way they know how. Every so often, allow yourself to forget about the bills and the phone calls and the deadlines. Allow yourself the freedom to feel exactly how you feel, to be exactly where you are in any given moment. Allow others the freedom to do the same.
Monday, August 1, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women by Rachel Snyder (Day 5)
Day 5
ADORN
"Show the world the glorious goddess that lives within you. When everyone else is wearing shapeless T-shirts and running shoes, wear a sundress that ripples in the slightest breeze. If you like fingernail polish, wear it! Ditto for your toes. If you're the only woman on the crew, wear hot pink lipstick and thirteen earrings just to drive home the point. Take a hing from the women of India, from the Rom women of Eastern Europe, from the Native American elders and Mexican senoritas. Make every day a celebration by dressing the part. Let your body be a canvas for colorful creations. Add one bracelet this week and three the next. Wear as much makeup as you want. Get a tattoo or three or four. Wear flowers in your hair, ribbons at your throat, silk at your waist, and bells on your toes. If that's not your style, keep your adornments under wraps for select eyes only."
ADORN
"Show the world the glorious goddess that lives within you. When everyone else is wearing shapeless T-shirts and running shoes, wear a sundress that ripples in the slightest breeze. If you like fingernail polish, wear it! Ditto for your toes. If you're the only woman on the crew, wear hot pink lipstick and thirteen earrings just to drive home the point. Take a hing from the women of India, from the Rom women of Eastern Europe, from the Native American elders and Mexican senoritas. Make every day a celebration by dressing the part. Let your body be a canvas for colorful creations. Add one bracelet this week and three the next. Wear as much makeup as you want. Get a tattoo or three or four. Wear flowers in your hair, ribbons at your throat, silk at your waist, and bells on your toes. If that's not your style, keep your adornments under wraps for select eyes only."
Saturday, July 30, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women by Rachel Snyder (Day 4)
Day 4
ADMIRE
"Admire other women and let them know exactly how you feel. Admire them because they lived in the White House or because they built their won white house with their own two hands. Admire them because they danced and sang their way across Broadway or because they danced an old Irish jig every Sunday at the local nursing home. Admire a woman because she raised tow great kids single-handedly; admrire a woman who kept a marriage thriving and alive for more than fifty-two years. Admire a plain woman who turns heads with her ever-present smile. Admire the grandmother who took on a new family when her goddaughter died. Admire that woman in the newspaper for her grit and determination. Admire the woman who never got into the newspaper for her selfless devotion to the dying. Tell her I admire you. Write a note that says so. While you're at it, remember to drop yourself a postcard, too."
ADMIRE
"Admire other women and let them know exactly how you feel. Admire them because they lived in the White House or because they built their won white house with their own two hands. Admire them because they danced and sang their way across Broadway or because they danced an old Irish jig every Sunday at the local nursing home. Admire a woman because she raised tow great kids single-handedly; admrire a woman who kept a marriage thriving and alive for more than fifty-two years. Admire a plain woman who turns heads with her ever-present smile. Admire the grandmother who took on a new family when her goddaughter died. Admire that woman in the newspaper for her grit and determination. Admire the woman who never got into the newspaper for her selfless devotion to the dying. Tell her I admire you. Write a note that says so. While you're at it, remember to drop yourself a postcard, too."
Thursday, July 28, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women by Rachel Snyder (Day 3)
Day 3
ACT
When it's time, get moving.
After you've reflected and meditated, waited, prayed, and reaffirmed, act. Act on your instincts. act without delay. Send the letter. Make the call. Pack the box. Issue the invitation. Get on the plane. ACT already! Act with your own best interests at heart. Act in accordance with your most closely held values. Act mindfully. Act on behalf of the very young or the very old or the very needy. Now and then, act half your age. Act out in your own living room, act up in public. Strut around and act as thought you own the joint. Act like the woman you've always wanted to be--and don't act surprised when suddenly you are!
ACT
When it's time, get moving.
After you've reflected and meditated, waited, prayed, and reaffirmed, act. Act on your instincts. act without delay. Send the letter. Make the call. Pack the box. Issue the invitation. Get on the plane. ACT already! Act with your own best interests at heart. Act in accordance with your most closely held values. Act mindfully. Act on behalf of the very young or the very old or the very needy. Now and then, act half your age. Act out in your own living room, act up in public. Strut around and act as thought you own the joint. Act like the woman you've always wanted to be--and don't act surprised when suddenly you are!
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
365 Words of Well-Being for Women by Rachel Snyder (Day 2)
Day 2
ACHE
"Feel deep down inside the pain of missing someone or something so badly it hurts. Notice the empty spaces around your heart that need filling. Tune into other aches in your body. When your belly burns with red-hot fire, pay attention. What is the true source of your ache? What are you trying to digest that's too large, too hot, too unfamiliar to handle? Ache for the friend who died of AIDS too early. Ache for the mothering you never received, the love you had and then lost, the love you never had at all. Ache to be held, to be touched, to be adored. Ache for the sad woman down the block, the frightened child upstairs, the grieving parents around the corner. Let your heart ache and break and ache again--until it grows stronger and more able to open with ease."
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