Books
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Spotting Ourselves
I am reading The Shadow Affect written by Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford and Marianne Williamson. Below is from Debbie Ford’s section. “Our projections usually shock us. When we are judging another, we never really think we are talking… Continue reading
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Universe Plan
In this month’s O Magazine, “Catherine Price took off for Tokyo with no guidebook and a wacky idea: Let strangers decide every detail of her trip. Four days, 29 brief encounters, one collapsible bicycle, eight octopus balls, 600 flesh-eating fish,… Continue reading
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The Truth of who we are.
Annihilate. destroy something: to destroy something completely, especially so that it ceases to exist. defeat somebody: to defeat somebody easily and decisively. This definition wasn’t what I expected, somehow when people spoke of being annihilated, they were speaking… Continue reading
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I Did Not Run Away!
“I did it,” I said as I completed the last pose, I did it and I felt this accomplishment deep within, I did it. The overwhelming emotional feeling of victory settled all around me as I was bathed in… Continue reading
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How I Treat My Body.
“There are many ways to deprive yourself: You can deprive yourself of cookies or you can deprive yourself of feeling well after eating them. You can deprive yourself of feeling your sadness or you can deprive yourself of the confidence… Continue reading
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Woman, Food, God
“Trust the process, trust your longing for freedom. Eventually you will stop wanting to do anything that interferes with the increasing brightness you have come to associate with being alive. And rest assured that like the butterfly that flutters its… Continue reading
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Breath to breath – (chapter 9 “Women Food God” Geneen Roth)
"Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body." I wish that was my line (but alas, it belongs to James Joyce), since it perfectly expresses the mass twenty-first-century evacuation from our bodies. We think of ourselves as walking heads… Continue reading
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Broken Thoughts….
While reading the book, “Woman Food and God” it affirms to me my life. That our imperfections make us perfect, that there is nothing to change, just more to accept. We have some how bought into the thoughts we… Continue reading
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Book
I am reading a book called, “Woman Food and God” by Geneen Roth, and in Chapter Two she opens with this. “On the first morning of my retreats, I tell my students that the greatest blessing in their lives… Continue reading
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More from Deepak Chopra….
" Children's brains have neurons that mirror the brains of adults in their surroundings. These so-called mirror neurons are responsible for the way children learn new behaviors, so the theory goes. As they develop, young children don't have to imitate… Continue reading