Category: self-esteem
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Mojo Monday ~ My Body Is Magic
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“I like my body because it’s magic.” – 5-year-old Sofia (aka Lola) Interrupt Magazine published an article that caught my attention. Writer Marie C. begins by sharing a startling statistic. “By the age of 13, 53 percent of girls say they are unhappy with their bodies. When were they happy?”In order to find out, Marie C. photographed…
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Mojo Monday ~ Am I Pretty
My most recent article in the Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine is called Am I Pretty? One of the quotes I ask readers to contemplate is from Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD: “Destroying a woman’s instinctive affiliation with her natural body cheats her of confidence. It causes her to perseverate about…
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Mojo Monday ~ Mental Freedom
“Because you don’t have time…you’re on this earth for a dash of time really, and then that’s it. And for some reason that reality and knowing that, it just changed everything.” ~ Viola Davis Viola Davis played the role of Aibileen Clark in the film The Help. Davis won numerous award nominations for the role including a Golden…
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Mojo Monday ~ Loving Yourself
Dr. Margaret Paul holds a Ph.D. in psychology and is a relationship expert, public speaker, seminar leader, consultant, facilitator, and artist. She has appeared on many radio and TV shows, including the Oprah show. She has successfully worked with thousands of individuals, couples and business relationships and taught classes and seminars for over 42 years.…
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Mojo Monday ~ Freeing Your Spirit and Dancing with Life
A melancholy feeling had overtaken me. My most recent music mix even took on a slightly gray hue of sadness. I knew it was bad when spending some time in my artist room playing with paints and glue and glitter could not pull me out of my funk. In fact the funk grew deeper as…
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The Chocolate Cabinet by Geneen Roth
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The Chocolate Cabinet by Geneen Roth A mother of an 8-year-old was desperate. “My daughter is gaining weight by the second,” she told me. “I am so afraid that I have passed on my troubles with food to her, and I don’t know whether to remove all candy from the house, take her to a…
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Mojo Monday ~ Belonging
This weekend I found myself contemplating belonging. The subject came about from a personal experience where I felt completely out of place and also from a post made by a friend on Facebook about seeking the approval of others. Wikipedia describes “Belongingness” in this way. “It is the human emotional need to be an accepted member of a group. Whether…
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The Looking Glass
Just some food for thought that I offer up today… Excerpt from Sacred Circles: A Guide to Creating Your Own Women’s Spirituality Group “There could hardly be a hotter topic for a group of women then beauty. most of us are obsessed with how we look and how far we deviate from how we think…
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Fat Cow
Fat cow. I would say that most of the people I know wouldn’t dream of calling someone a fat cow. Saying something mean and hurtful like that just wouldn’t happen. While I don’t know Oprah Winfrey personally I would hedge a bet that she also wouldn’t dream of calling someone a fat cow. She is…
We Are All Meant to Shine! 