Letter to my body

Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. - Astrid Alauda
Dear Body,
We are going to improve our communication skills.
I promise to feed you when you are hungry, using foods that satisfy us emotionally as well as physically.
I promise to give you a large variety of interesting foods and flavors.
I promise [...]

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Freedom Feelings

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein
Something is letting go inside of me. I hope it’s not [...]

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Happy Easter and some podcast links

One of my friends gave me a copy of her Easter picture to post - a Lindt take on a well-known internet cartoon.
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. - Bill Cosby
I’ve spent the first half of my long weekend nurturing myself with some spiritual support. Mostly I’ve been doing [...]

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Ask why five times

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yesterday was a great day for coping. I felt on top of the world all day, and didn’t need any throw-away therapy until nearly the end of the afternoon. Even then [...]

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One Post-It note at a time

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning - Oprah Winfrey

So I have these big goals of living a wildly happy life and losing my compulsive eating weight. But I have to [...]

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Champagne chicken is good self-care, isn’t it?

“I’ve been thinking, Hobbes…”
“On a weekend?”
“Well, it wasn’t on purpose…”
- Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

My self-care this weekend included a nice long walk. I got up at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, and walked down to the bakery and the vegetable stand at the weekmarket. Bought a lovely corn-fed chicken, a leek and some carrots. They [...]

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Good Self-care: your computer workstation

Good self-care is so much more than a cup of tea or a bubble bath. Today I gave myself good self-care by devoting time to get my computer workstation set up right.
You should read the manual HP wrote on the topic. Very easy to read and gives lots of useful suggestions, whether you’re working on [...]

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Eating to avoid real desires

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. - Leo Buscaglia
Sunday morning, I got up and did not feel like swimming. Even the best reminders of how much I [...]

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Myers-Briggs and changing my life

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland
I took a test yesterday. Actually I re-took a test. Several times I’ve taken tests modeled after Myers-Briggs, and mostly I forget what the results were. This time I remember the results from at least the last time [...]

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Cabbage and cream cheese frosting

At every meal, you are serving 2 guests: your body and your soul - Epictetus
Over the weekend I tried a new vegetable: Savoy cabbage. It’s the most beautiful cabbage, with all kinds of little folds. It has a beautiful dark green color, which gets lighter the deeper you go.
I made a casserole, by sauteeing thin [...]

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