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Guided Meditation – Awareness of What You Like About Yourself 10 minutes
I am trying something new! Let me know what you think. In this mediation we will be focusing on our body, mind and five senses to bring awareness of what we like about ourselves.
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Brene Brown’s Call to Courage
Brene Brown has a special on Netflix about vulnerability. It’s about an hour, and if you want some inspiration about courage and vulnerability I highly recommend it. I was planning on jotting down my opinions and thoughts about the special, but honestly, I found so much of it inspirational. So I’m going to put down some of her thoughts that really spoke to me, and let them (her) speak for herself. First off she has a TED talk. This is how she got her start as an inspirational speaker and author. She also references her book, Daring Greatly. I have this on my to read list. And now for some highlights from her Netflix special:…
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Fitness Update After 10,000 Steps Challenge
I realized that it’s been quite a while since I posted a fitness update. The reason being that the progress has been very slow. I’d been posting my measurements each week, and it looked like the numbers were barely moving, so I got kind of discouraged and stopped posting. But I didn’t stop exercising, I’m proud to say! Or at least walking. Walking has been the one thing I’ve been consistent with the past several months actually. If you go back and read my previous fitness posts, the 10,000 steps posts, you’ll see that I was a little bit all over the place, trying different YouTube videos, and working myself up to 10,000 steps.…
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10,000 Steps Week 4, GrowWithJo, PahlaB
Weight (lbs) Bust (inches) Waist (inches) Hips (inches) left arm (inches) right arm (inches) left thigh (inches) right thigh (inches) 12/13/21 121.80 33.25 31.00 38.00 12.50 12.00 22.50 22.50 12/20/21 120.80 33.25 30.00 36.00 12.25 11.50 22.00 21.50 12/27/21 120.80 33.00 30.00 36.50 12.00 11.25 22.00 22.00 1/3/22 120.60 33.50 30.00 37.50 12.00 11.50 21.50 21.25 1/10/22 120.80 This week it snowed, and it was really really cold. So, I didn’t get out much to walk. I tried doing videos to make up for the fact that I wasn’t getting out much. Well, really at all this week, except to shovel. I thought they would sort of counterbalance the fact…
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Morning Pages, Beneficial Even if Not Done as Prescribed?
I’ve been writing morning pages for about two years. Not so consistently at first. I had never really journaled before that point, so it was all a really new experience for me, and the consistency part wasn’t my strong suit at first. I have found them to be very helpful though in time, in much the way Julia Cameron intended them to be: they’ve helped quiet all the negative voices swirling in my head, or at least slowed the spin. They’ve helped me get more focused on things, and able to hear my inner creative voice better. They’ve given me space to vent and question, organize and strategize, and overall helped me…
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Keeping Promises to Myself
I’ve taken a bit of time off but now, I‘m back. And ready to show up. For me. Cause the first, possibly the best habit I could have is showing up for myself. Which means keeping my promises to myself. And that may all sound a bit hokey. And what I’m about to say may sound even more so, but in doing all that shadow work, (I’ll put a link to that blog post one I’m done writing it) I got in touch with my inner child. And it occurred to me that if I’m going to work on healing my inner child, then I need to think of her…
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10,000 Steps – Week Three
Date Weight (lbs) Bust (inches) Waist (inches) Hips (inches) left arm (inches) right arm (inches) left thigh (inches) right thigh (inches) 12/13/21 121.80 33.25 31.00 38.00 12.50 12.00 22.50 22.50 12/20/21 120.80 33.25 30.00 36.00 12.25 11.50 22.00 21.50 12/27/21 120.80 33.00 30.00 36.50 12.00 11.25 22.00 22.00 Above are my measurements from last week and previous. The dates listed are Mondays when I took my measurements. Not sure why I chose Mondays, but there you go. It’s rather cool to see that my arms and legs went down even though my weight stayed the same. And I was getting my period last week, actually got it on Sunday, so…
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10,000 Steps and GrowWithJo – Week Two
Did you see my stats from last week?! I’m headed in the right direction! At first this week I was going to just walk in the afternoon. A 2.5 mile walk so definitely not a stroll, but I wouldn’t have been targeting my arms or my abs. I had just about talked myself out of doing the GrowWithJo videos because I’ve just never really liked doing exercise videos, really exercising for the sake of exercising at all. And so in general, I really have to talk myself into putting them on and doing them. Also this weekend, I wasn’t really feeling like I had made a difference. I had a bit…
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10,000 Steps and #GrowWithJo – Week One
This week I decided to take a lunch break, which I haven’t been doing at all, and decided to use it for an exercise video each day, #GrowWithJo.
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Motivation – It Takes Baby Steps. And a Different Mindset
I’ve been rethinking this whole going for a walk thing. And I realize that my problem isn’t in the moving part, it’s the getting out the door part. And I’ve tried (sort of, not really) to get out. During the day is hard. And I have always liked the morning better. It’s just the getting up part. Marty is coming to stay with us for a week, and he does get me up and at ‘em early in the morning. Wait, let me back up a bit… Marty is a Labrador. When his humans go to visit grandkids, it usually involves a plane and at least a couple of weeks,…
