Anger is Poison
I had a heart wrenching email based on my post ‘What is pain?’ from a reader the other day, and it’s been on my mind since. After I first read it I had to pause. There were so many feelings racing around my body because I could have written the same email a few years ago. In fact, the writer and I share a number of characteristics: we’re both female; around the same age; with boys around the same ages; a love of working out; and a love for flowers. But her chronic pain stems
Wishful thinking - poor results.
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” ~ William Arthur Ward There’s a view out in the world that if you can imagine an outcome, feel it as though it were accomplished, see what happens in your life after it is accomplished, then you can achieve the results. I believe it, I’ve practiced it, and I wrote about it, but it wasn’t always easy. I’ve had successes, yes, but there is so much more that I’d like to do and I sure would like
Alice who?
Who is Alice Fredenahm? She is a real person - a 28 eight-year old beauty therapist - with hopes and dreams, and right now a bit of internet fame. That's how I found her. I watched a video posted of her audition for the judges of the Britain’s Got Talent television show. It moved me to tears. She was nervous and it showed, with her wringing hands and her speaking voice. Her first words in the video were, ‘hello’ when greeted and ‘scared’ when asked how she was. The video move
What is pain?
I have great friends and three in particular came to visit a couple of weeks ago. The problem with friends is that while they support you, they can also ask you some hard questions. This group is one that has always asked those questions and when my definition of pain was requested, I was stumped. I realized I hadn’t given it much thought except for the fact that I didn’t like the feeling or experience of pain. In the days and weeks following that conversation I have been
How do you define beauty?
Women are their own worst enemy when it comes to self-image. And yes, that would be me, but men are pretty good at it too. We look at the beauty we see in others far more favorably than we look at the beauty within ourselves. The people who make Dove soap have proven this quite magnificently with their latest ad and experiment in changing how women see themselves. A woman sits on the other side of a partition and describes herself to a police forensic artist who never sees he
