6 Ways To Get Unstuck. My latest on the fabulous MindBodyGreen is live!
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xo happy tuesday, jen
Thank you Jenni Young of SimpleReminders.com for this poster!
“What is a joy list?” you may find yourself saying out loud over your morning coffee and Facebook as you read this.
Well, it’s pretty self-explanatory.
It is a list of anything and everything that brings you joy. You add to it every day of your life, if and when possible.
This is a very important thing to do, and you mustn’t forget. So, go ahead and put down the coffee, shut the Facebook down, and get a piece of paper. Here’s how to make a Joy List:
Step 1: Ask Questions.
(Ask these questions out loud if possible. Ask them to your dog or the ocean or the sun, but ask them out loud and do not wait for the reply!)
- What songs make me tap my foot, swing my hips and shake my booty?
- Who makes me want to be a better person?
- What type of pizza – although it may burn the roof of my mouth – makes me feel like I am in Naples, Italy even if I am in New Jersey at a hole in the wall in a strip mall?
- Which words make me want to capture them and put them in a bottle? My own private lightning bug words that will light me up when I forget what light feels like…
- Which friends have I lost along the way only to discover that they were there all along, stuck in a little cave-like piece of my heart that has a door which sometimes sticks but will open when pried very hard?
- What books do I want to carry with me as maps no matter how dog-eared and tattered as I roam through adulthood?
- Which memories make me smile no matter how badly my heart has been shattered? Which memories have the ability like glue to start picking the pieces of my heart off the floor and putting them back like the puzzle they are. Memories of eating pizza with my kids or playing backgammon or drinking whiskey in Paris or rolling down a hill in a white dress or the time you slept in the wrong house… those kinds of memories.
Please check out my latest on MindBodyGreen to read the rest and leave your comment there. I would love to hear what is on your own personal joy list.
Click here to add your joy list! Yay!
Love you all, jen
My latest on MindBodyGreen is up! I love being a Wellness Expert for this site!
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I talk about my love of eating, a COF (Creepy Old Fart), anorexia and why food is seen as evil sometimes.
Keep manifesting,
Jen
Surely I hope it is the latter!
Here is my latest on my beloved MindBodyGreen. As always, I appreciate your thoughts.
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-5601/Do-You-Expect-Bad-NewsOr-Miracles.html
PS, I am a former “expecter of the bad news…… of the ball to drop.. of the sh*t to hit the fan…..
What about you?
Photo by Joe Longo & Poster created by Jenni Young Creatives.. Words by me… Click picture to read my MindBodyGreen post and to tell me your thoughts.
One of mine is that when things are going well, or I am happy, that it will be taken away.
I talk about this and more in my latest MindBodyGreen post. Please click here and let me know what your greatest fear is.
The more we see how similar we all are, the less scary they feel, the less alone we feel. Incidentally, being alone seems to be a lot of folks number one fear.
As always, thank you for your support in my writings that are outside my own blog, especially. You all mean the world to me.
with mud on my face under a natural hot springs waterfall in Tuscany at my retreat. Washing away my fears! Image by Tiffany Lucero.
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Our Greatest Fear
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
My latest is up on MindBodyGreen!
Click here and let me know what your personal mantra is….
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Thank you Jenni Young for creating this poster.
My latest is up on MindBodyGreen where I am ecstatic to be a Wellness Expert!
It’s very inspiring story and I encourage you to add your excuses to the pile of dookie.
Click here to connect to the article about excuses and add yours! Are you willing?
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Eating/Food, healing, MindBodyGreen
5 Ways Yoga Helped Me Beat My Eating Disorder via MindBodyGreen.
June 25, 2012
I love being a Wellness Expert on MindBodyGreen.
Please click here to read my latest about how yoga helped me heal from my eating disorder. This is an important post for me and I would love to hear your thoughts. Please share with anyone you who who is suffering or who needs hope.
Here’s an excerpt:
For many years I hated myself. It started much earlier in my life, but, once I was 17 and I discovered the addictive drug of anorexia, my self-hatred grew and flourished like a proud peacock. It was my badge of honor.
I couldn’t be with people. Someone would be talking to be and all I would be thinking about is: What did I eat today? What did I eat that? Why am I so fat? How will I burn it off? Maybe if I exercise for 4 hours I will be ok. I am a monster. I will not eat at all the rest of the week to make up for what I ate today.
Please click here and read the rest…..
A pic of me when I was very anorexic and lived on applesauce. Click to read post.