This Thursday, July 24th will be my 48th birthday. I'm excited about it because I like patterns and 48 is twice 24. I'm also partial to multiples of 12 and have been waiting for this birthday ever since I turned 36. (Anyone familiar with the Chinese Zodiac knows that...
novia de Frankenstein If I wash my hair and go to bed with it wet, I kind of have Bride of Frankenstein hair in the morning. Not only does it stand up in an inverted cone shape, but I've even got the streaks of gray. A friend asked why I'd want a photo of myself like...
Today I fit into my size 14 blouse again, with no dieting! Using Dr. Joe Dispenza's meditation technique, I'm just not as hungry. Being able to do a full yoga plow pose is now closer. It's stunning to me that I haven't restricted food or increased exercise, but...
April 17, 2014 I go back and forth with hair length. In my blogger.com profile photo you can see me with long hair (that photo's from January 2013). In this recent photo you can see the mop I've now chopped off. I haven't had my hair this short since 1984. It's the...
Dr. Joe Dispenza's You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter was released today. I pre-ordered it, but since it was just downloaded to my Kindle this morning, I haven't started it yet. I'm excited because in this book Dr. Dispenza continues presenting...
In my little run of flash posts, here's a photo of me meditating. Can you tell what colors are my favorite?
Joe Dispenza's book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One has been instrumental to me. I've been using his accompanying recorded guided meditation to clear decades-long self-hatred, old resentment and anger towards my mother...
Today marks the beginning of the Chinese lunar year and this year it's the year of the horse. I happen to be a horse, so I'm excited about it. It feels like excellent timing for this to be my Chinese year because this is the year I get divorced, launch an Arbonne...
This NPR story completely supports what I know about the power of changing the story you tell yourself. Listen to Editing Your Life Stories Can Create Happier Endings. Changing the endings of some of my worst childhood memories is exactly what I did with Carol Moss,...
Let's say I have a little coping mechanism game: on days when I'm feeling down, I cheer myself up by pretending it's my birthday. I tell myself "How bad can things be? It's my birthday!" and immediately the day brightens. Let's say that no matter what's going on,...
Addendum to my previous post (Not the marrying kind): this comes from a woman who did not initiate her divorce and who would have stayed married for years yet. I liked being married, but I think I simply prefer being single. From the many years I spent as a spinster...
Previous post on weight & health: Fatness equals happiness? Yesterday I saw my doctor for a regular exam. I hadn't seen her since last fall or maybe it was summer. I was looking forward to the weigh-in because I've gained so much weight and I wanted to see...
Visiting with a friend's dogs on Christmas Eve This post is specifically for women "of a certain age," although young women might also find it interesting. For me the best part of being middle-aged and overweight is not having to waste time and energy playing the "is...
People think they're being nice when they try to tell me I'm not middle-aged, but I think they're really trying to tell me they're not middle-aged. People in their 40s and up often protest when I define the 40s as middle-aged, but twenty-six-year-olds don't. They know...
I've just about had it with wearing a bra. Years ago I posted that I was going to stop wearing them, but that only lasted a few months (back then my restaurant uniform included a full apron that allowed me to go bra-less without anyone noticing at all). In the past...