Back to school! Yay. Although this is our last year of the traditional back to school photo, I get excited and embrace this time of the year as if it’s January 1st. Happy New Year. I … Continue reading
It’s been seven months since I have last written. Sad. I once felt inspired, there were so many thoughts coming into my psyche; feeling was easy, thinking was easy, writing was easy. If you are the creative sort you will … Continue reading
A beautiful video came across my newsfeed this morning. A video about regret. This may have been the gentle prod I needed to put some thoughts that have been stirring around in me for some time now. Regret. It … Continue reading
Eating meat is a topic that always stirs discussion. People have a lot of different opinions on the value – and values – of consuming meat. As North Americans, we have become fixated on the prime cuts of meat – … Continue reading
Dr Libby Weaver is a Holistic Nutrition Specialist. If you’ve read some of my other posts on liver health you’ll know how much I love her energy, her stance on women’s health and the simplistic manner in which she makes … Continue reading
……I still repeated this morning. A bit of a surreal moment yesterday while waiting in line at a local coffee shop to use their facilities. Fortunately there was was a community board to read while I waited. Right below the … Continue reading
Day 2 round 2……Money Love Challenge. Sure why not I thought, 2015’s journey was a huge success with me and my relationship with money. Day 2 is about recall. We are to write down our money memories “Write down … Continue reading
We are all made of energy not matter. I love the very thought that the cells of my body are alive. A recent “happening” raised my awareness as to my sensitivity, connection to energy. I have started a Monday evening … Continue reading
Fresh frozen or not, that’s our family rule when it comes to fruits and veggies. This year our goal was to take it to the next level; to only consume meats that are locally raised. What started as a decision … Continue reading
Poor Wednesday. It gets such a bad rap. Hump day! If you’ve googled it you know you can get anything from camels to images just this side of porn.
Perhaps being a middle child myself I can relate to this bad rap for Wednesday, the middle day. I find it interesting to have it said to me on several occasions “oh you’re a middle child, you don’t seem like one”. Whatever that means I guess I have managed to change the programming on that one. All the while, Wednesday continues to be stuck in the middle of the week, halfway from where people have come from (Monday morning) and still halfway to where they want to be……the weekend.
A random thought came to me this morning while I assessed my celebration of one week into Sober In October……..what if…….what if I hadn’t paid attention to some subtle signs of my body sending to me about needing a liver detox. “What if” I had stayed in that toxic relationship? “What if” I stayed at that dead end job? “What if” I skipped out on this mornings workout? I’m sure the many people of 911 ask themselves everyday…….”what if” I hadn’t slept in that morning.
“What if” can be magical. It can send you to a place of hope, a place of peace and the place where you can simply keep moving to well, the weekend, if that’s as big as your thinking can take you right now.
I say we revolutionize and free Wednesday from hump day and give it the magical strength that no other day can own……#WhatIfWednesday 
Continuing on my Sober in October. Ya know, I was home alone this evening and yes I actually entertained the idea of having a hot milk (I don’t drink dairy but we have this organic grass fed milk at the co-op that is soooooo good) and a splash of Bailey’s. 
Spending a moment thinking about the purpose of these 31 days, it not only a liver detox (I actually imagined -visualized, my liver) but as well “what do we do when nobody’s watching” thing. How many times we say “I’m trying to watch what I eat” then we have a cookie or some other “forbidden”. Then…..the slipper slope. “I’ll start again tomorrow”. It’s not the cookie or “forbidden” that is the real damage, it’s the dent in our willpower.
I had the hot milk, with a dash of cocoa and cinnamon🙂
It’s all over the news: two drinks a day is a ok. That’s if it’s alcohol cause if you’re consuming 2 fizzy drinks a day, well then, that’s a whole different story.
Then there’s the news about the value of resveratrol in wine. Well, that along with my Italian heritage was all permission I needed to justify enjoying a glass of wine (or two) an evening.
Last October I decided to go coffee free for the month. This was born out of the awareness that we have become a society where needing the jolt in the morning has become acceptable. At the same time I found I was needing more of the kick yet enjoying it less. I was the sort that a part of my night routine was to prepare my morning coffee maker. My favorite was ground freshly and the timer set to go off precisely 10 minutes before my alarm. I would lay in bed contemplate hitting a snooze button, then my senses would pick up the aroma of my fresh jolt waiting for me.
Drag myself down the stairs, barely awake, the brown liquid poured into my favorite mug. Although it seemed like in an instant when I am certain it was more a gradual process that I was unaware of, I had an epiphany that I was needing this more than enjoying it.
May of this year I did a 5 day detox. That in itself had a joke……”heck if I can’t have wine I may as well go to bed!” Interesting how during those 5 days I would have THE BEST SLEEP. I have done this program before and am well aware of the power of it. This time around my results were very disappointing. I was baffled and yes a tad frustrated. My one daughter made a comment about it “being my age”!!!! My age! My age! My whole life all needed to do is talk to my metabolism and it fires up! I haven’t experienced a “weight problem” for 3o years. Ah yes, I thought a bit more calmer……… my age. This is very similar to when another daughter was a preteen; I reminded her that right now as a 11 year old, she can eat ice cream every day, BUT there will come a time when that will not serve you. Between being in the process of, or right at the doorstep of menopause, there’s a lot of “stuff” going on. My liver is working pretty darn hard right now. Something needs to change!!!!
The same awareness that carried me to the doorstep of coffee free, is carrying me to Sober In October. “Sober? But mom you’re not a drunk” – 16 year old daughter. Interesting, that society says it’s acceptable to have the couple of glasses a day. WedMD says that one of the signs of alcohol abuse and/or dependency is that “You feel like you must drink just to get by”. Being honest with ourselves is a huge first step: I don’t need the glass of wine to get by BUT I do recognize that I need the glass of wine to relax.
In addition to supporting my liver with herbs and supplements, I am looking forward to input:
A recovering alcoholic to talk about dependencies.
A naturopath to share on what happens in the body (the liver) with daily exposure to alcohol
Strategies on how to relax at the end of busy days
In sharing my intention today with my naturopath, the last thing she said to me was that she was glad I was doing this.
So am I………………………………….
Second chapter in and oh boy, Darren Hardy, you know how to ask the deep questions!!! The last question you ask in Chapter 2 is up there with “what is the meaning of life”.
In receiving “The Entrepreneur Rollercoaster” I decided that I would treat this as a workbook rather than a read from front to back and then, ya right, go back and do the worksheets.
Now I can’t blame those of you who want to do the front to back thing. What can be more exciting than knowing how to conquer the rollercoaster. To know what your feeling and experiencing is “normal”. To be armed with tools and courage to just keep going is exhilarating.
I have gone through and identified “the crabs” in my life, I can clearly state the times when I have felt most successful-tangible results of success, I know what a successful day looks like. BUT, for two days I have been stuck on answering “my definition of success”.
After pondering, reflecting on the answer to this, I realize that it comes down to one thing! Feeling. Success is a feeling we get when we accomplish something/get something. What’s interesting is that I experienced some underlying guilt surface around this. Whoa, interesting that that s$#% is STILL there.
In the past I would then try to self analyse where this came from, whom to blame, what experience in life gave me this burden to carry.
This was a short lived visit to guilt this time around and I said….”screw it, success makes me feel good”
Winning Trillium awards makes me feel good
Serving in a soup kitchen makes me feel good
Driving a vehicle I’ve dreamed of makes me feel good
Buying gifts for others makes me feel good
Receiving love from meaningful relationships makes me feel good
Losing 5 pesky pounds makes me feel good
Lifting a record weight in the gym makes me feel good
Enriching conversations makes me feel
Daydreaming in nature makes me feel good
A glass of niiiice red wine makes me feel good
Burning sage makes me feel good
Hugs make me feel good
Travelling makes me feel good
Donating old clothes makes me feel good
Cooking healthy food makes me feel good
Starting and finishing something makes me feel good………..and this post was on the top of my to do list………..I……..AM……..A……..SUCCESS!
Rather than what does success look like, I ask you (as I continue to ask myself) what does success FEEL like?
Once upon a time (I really do love how my life is unfolding like a fairytale) just a few months ago…. I was the kind of woman that was so far from this as you could imagine. 
Having lived in this vehicle (my body) for 50+ years I knew something was wrong. The only thing I felt when my feet hit the floor in the morning was pain; from my toes to my ears.(fibro, fibromyalgia, adrenal fatigue, fatigue) Sleepless nights from simply rolling over and being awaken with pain. My normal Sunday evening I fell asleep in tears wondering HOW, how am I going to have the energy to get through this week. Then Monday morning hiding under the covers, dreaming that the day would just skip over me.
Graduation season has me reflecting on a story……… It’s kinda interesting the things that you NEED to know about in life aren’t taught. Has anyone here learned about business let alone money management from their parents? Then there’s the “programming“, … Continue reading
