Yes With Joy

Valentine’s Day is a day of love. Usually, people think of loving their kids or that special someone. But what if that special someone was you? What if you took this day to truly love everything about yourself?

I challenge you to spend an hour today looking at yourself in the mirror and thinking about all the things you love about yourself. To make this even stronger, write down what you are saying so that you can remind yourself later what you love about yourself.

Too often we get caught up in judgment, which is usually negative. The more negative we think and feel, the worse we feel about ourselves. And the worse we feel about ourselves, the worse we do in life. The trick is to input more positive comments than negative ones, and since we have a lifetime of negative comments, we have some catching up to do. So, spend sometime today loving yourself.

And then follow it up with a positive action…something that will demonstrate to the universe that you really do love yourself.

Update:  I did this exercise myself today and do you know what?  It shifted my energy and I feel even better than I did when I woke up.  All I did was recognize what was already there.  Now to put it in action…I think a nice walk is in order.  Or maybe something silly like putting on lipstick and kissing the mirror so that whenever I look in the mirror and see all those kisses, I’m reminded that I love me.  Just thinking about this makes me giggle.

Ladies’ Night In was last night. Each month, I invite a few female friends to get together and chat at my home. In October, we had a bonfire. November was busy and I was out of town more than I was in (or so it seemed), so we skipped November. December’s Ladies’ Night In was a bust. Only two people could come. But as the date neared, we decided to go to downtown Chicago and ended up with five of us. Two friends from downtown could now join us. We had a great time, but at 11:45 I was yawning and had to call it quits. It was still an hour before I got home and slipped into bed. Read the rest of this entry »

I have just had the most amazing week in Tucson, Arizona participating in a healing retreat with Integrative Touch for Kids (ITK).  The purpose of this great organization is to provide a healing environment for special needs kids and their families.  This year, there were seven families and over 150 volunteers. This sounds like a lot — and it is, but with about 35 different people in these families, various healing practitioners, medical staff, buddies for each of the kids (including siblings), and various Read the rest of this entry »