Archive for Self Acceptance

VIDEO – CAN YOU LET YOURSELF BE FULLY SEEN?

Give yourself a 20 minute gift sometime this week and watch this amazing video from Brene Brown.  She shares her insights in a witty and wonderful way on embracing vulnerability as a key to overcoming shame, fear and our struggles to believe we are enough.   I LOVE this video.  After viewing, I would love to here [...]

WHAT WOULD YOUR 80 YEAR OLD AND 8 YEAR OLD SELVES REVEAL TO YOU?

In my Artist’s Way group a few weeks ago, Julia Cameron had us do a powerful letter writing exercise.  She asked us to consider what we would say to our present day self from two different perspectives – our 8 year old self, and our 80 year old self.  I can’t describe for you how profound [...]

VIDEO – HOW TO BE ALONE

  WOW.  STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND GIVE YOURSELF THIS GIFT FOR 5 MINUTES TODAY. This video took my breath away.  Its message is simple, beautiful and truthful.  Thought it provided a good follow-up to my most recent post about my third week of  TV Detox – Confronting Loneliness. It says it all.  Appreciate the [...]

Where are YOU on the daily "To Do" List?

When I was beginning my self-discovery journey I remember hearing “It’s like the old airplane adage – put your oxygen mask on first and you will have more to give others”.  Really?  I had it backwards – my motto was “take care of everyone else than crash”! Me time?  You have to be kidding!  Fast [...]

Celebrating NAPS – Three cheers for “taking to the bed”

Why does napping get such a bad rap?  I remember hearing after I had my daughter to “nap when the baby naps” – and I always did.  I had friends who said “Forget that – it’s the only time I have to get things done!”  I hear you but how does that leave you to [...]

I am taking the “chance to dance!”

Dancing has become a metaphor for unleashing the spirit trapped inside.  The first time I heard this type of analogy was from Dr. Wayne Dyer when he quoted a book (whose title now escapes me) in which he said he obtained the following quote that at age 19 changed his life “Don’t die with your music still in [...]

Why are compliments so confronting?

Yesterday, I was sitting in a coffee shop waiting for a friend when a beautiful Afro-American woman walked in.  This woman’s aura struck me.  She looked so sharp.  Short, short sleek gray haircut, sharp elegant business attire, chic, strappy ankle boots – she just looked really put together.  When I first noticed her, I thought [...]

“You’re crying for the jail cell when you’ve been let out of jail”

Why is it that it is so difficult to let go of things we KNOW are destructive to ourselves and our spirits? Why when I get the nudge from the universe to exercise after complaining for weeks on end about my lack of energy do I pray equally hard for another answer – “no not [...]