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My 10,000 Steps Challenge
I’ve decided that I need to start moving more. Between the pandemic, working from home, this pre/peri menopausal middle (and thighs!) I’m starting to feel, well, downright sloth like. I do normally eat fairly healthy, I think anyway. Grain-free (or mostly), very limited dairy and sugar. I don’t consider myself a fanatic about stuff, an I’m not a nutritionist or anything. But bout 10 years ago or so I found this book and this one, and they changed my whole way of thinking about food. That summer that I followed exactly these eating guidelines I lost about 25 pounds, my skin cleared up, my body odor practically disappeared, I was sleeping better, and…
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Organize Your Things, Keep Life Calm
So, that sounds pretty simplistic, doesn’t’ it? Easier said than done, I can hear you thinking. Well, I’m right there with ya. And as someone who playfully dubs herself the “Queen of Messes,” I too have had major moan moments of, “there’s a mess again? How did this happen? Why is that stuff piling up? Again?!” Now, I’m not here to attempt to teach you how to organize your things. That’s better left to someone like Marie Kondo. And if you’re needing help getting started may I refer you to her book, or her Netflix series. She’s got a lot of tips for sorting, organizing, repurposing, etc. So, although I’m not the…
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Being Grounded Staying Grounded
Being grounded takes on a whole new meaning. It’s not just keeping centered and standing firm, but keeping yourself centered through playing in nature, running your hands through the dirt and letting it crumble through your fingers. Through listening to the waves of the ocean. Through walking barefoot in the grass and letting the individual blades tickle your toes.
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Some Quotes from Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
I find sometimes that there are quotes that just sort of jump out at you from whatever you’re reading, or watching, or even listening to. Sometimes that meaning is part of the story that’s in front of you, but I find more often than not, they’re meaningful to YOU, and whatever is going on in YOUR LIFE, right at precisely THAT MOMENT. I believe this is what some call SYNCHRONICITY. It’s like the universe is sending you a message that yes, you are on the right track. And THIS! RIGHT HERE! PAY ATTENTION TO IT! Sometimes these are not always things we want to pay attention to, but they are…
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The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
So I finished it! Only took me a year. Well, actually more like 20 years and a year. I received this book as a gift from a friend years ago. Probably for my birthday, actually our birthday, cause our birthdays were one day apart. She wrote me an encouraging inscription in the front, about inspiration and transformation and great endeavors of flight. You see even then, twenty years ago, I was trying to figure myself out, who I was, who I wanted to be, where I saw my place in this world. But my friend also drew me a picture of a Phoenix rising from the ashes. It looks a…
