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Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
This article was written by Christine Kane. I get her e-newsletter every week and always enjoy her articles. In her introduction she writes that she needed this advice herself this week! How many times do you ignore your own symptoms/signs that you are worn out and need to take some time out? Her tips for self-care are so easy, why wouldn’t we do at least one if not all 9 of them?
9 Bodacious (and Easy) Ways to Practice Self-Care
Just as there was a time when “google” was not a verb, there was also a time when “bodacious” was not a word. Bodacious is a blend of “bold” and “audacious” created in British English dialect late in the nineteenth century.
I love this word! Some days we need to be bodacious! And some days, we need to remember to apply it to our own self-care.
No matter how rewarding or noble it is to be of service to others - whether you’re a coach, in retail, or taking care of an ailing parent - you cannot leave your self-care out of the picture. If you do, you’ll soon burn-out, become ill or angry, and you’ll ultimately be serving no one.
Here are 9 bodacious ways to practice self-care:
1 - Flowers!
This is so simple – and yet so powerful. Fresh flowers beautify any space. I always have an orchid on my coffee table. I see it the minute I walk in the door, and it reminds me to take a deep breath and cherish the beauty of my life. Create a Sunday ritual of getting fresh flowers to get your week off to a bodacious start!
2 - Take a nap.
Favorite thing: I climb into bed for a nap in the middle of the day. Within minutes comes the soft ploop of cat paws on the cover. I can almost hear the cat thoughts: Hmm. The human has decided to lie quietly. I’d like to take part. Then the paws walk all around me until they find the very best spot for settling.
Cats know the truth: Naps are bodacious!
3 - Pay full price.
The amount of energy we waste on trying to get “deals” is often not worth it. If you see something you love, then get it. I’m convinced that we’d all be so much happier and wealthier if we just got exactly what we loved without looking at price tags and wasting time looking for sales. (We’d probably have much less stuff too!)
4 - Trampolines and swings.
I was at a cocktail party last year. The adults were up on the deck watching the kids jump on the trampoline. At one point, all the kids ran inside. I kicked off my shoes and ran for the trampoline. Three other women joined me. We laughed and jumped for about 15 minutes. It was the most fun I’d had all week.
Swings are fun, too. And they’re easy to find! Who cares if you look or feel stupid? Being an adult doesn’t have to mean being boring!
5 - Truncate your To-Do’s.
How many items are on your to-do list today?
32?
20?
67?
A day should have no more than two or three mission-critical priorities for completion. The rest are extra credit! Give yourself the gift of completion. It is the ultimate self-care.
6 - Order out.
I love preparing meals. But some nights, it’s just necessary to let someone else do the cooking. We have a great delivery service in our town. I don’t mind the extra expense if it allows me a night of no clean up, and a little extra time to write or just be with my husband.
7 - Take a long walk with your dog.
Are you one of those people who gets home from work and marches your dog around the block with a grim look on your face? (Another to-do item checked off the list!)
Try this: Take your dog for a long happy walk. Revel in the delight and presence of your dog. It will absolutely lift your spirits.
8 - Read for fun.
Do you relish your days on the beach because it’s the only time you’ll allow yourself the joy of a trashy novel or some “light” reading?
Why not get a little bodacious and bring the beach to your work-week? Curl up at night and get lost in some fun fiction.
9 - Step AWAY from the computer. (And the phone.)
The challenge of this internet world is that we are “plugged in” 24/7. You are reachable all the time now. No one waits for “business hours” anymore. This is not healthy for your precious creative spirit, my friend.
Take regular breaks from Facebook, blogs, texts, cell phones, and email. (Yes, even this eZine!) Don’t include your computer in any of the above activities. And turn off your phone, too! I promise, your computer and phone won’t take it personally! (Neither will this e-Zine!)
Performer, songwriter, and creativity consultant Christine Kane publishes her ‘LiveCreative’ weekly ezine with more than 11,000 subscribers. If you want to be the artist of your life and create authentic and lasting success, you can sign up for a FRE*E subscription to LiveCreative at http://www.christinekane.com/.
Tags: Christine Kane, family, fitness, minette riordan, mothers, self-care, wellness
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
If you have been reading our blog since January, you will have noticed a few posts about my husband’s and my journey to health, both physical and emotional. If not, here is a quick update. Jenny Bair and Betty Murray, are the co-founders of Living Well Dallas, a holistic collective of alternative, medical and therapeutic practitioners helping people to feel better. That’s a very brief description of what they do but I think their concept and their practice is amazing: you can read more about the Jenny, Betty and the Living Well by clicking here.
Brad and I had reached a point in our lives where nothing seemed to be working, weight kept going up, not down. Our priorities were skewed and we found ourselves putting work before our relationship with each other and our children. We felt buried under life and it’s accompanying paperwork around the house.
So we reached out to Jenny and Betty for help and it has been an amazing journey of growth, discovery, laughter and tears, not to mention sore muscles from restarting our fitness programs. I will talk more later about the success and absolute joy of working with Jenny Bair, our inner organizer who has done so much to change our relationships with ourselves and with each other. She is an amazing life coach and a deeply spiritual person who has helped us to see each other again and pay attention to what was missing.
Today, I want to talk about Betty Murray, . Betty is a nutritionist and holistic health counselor. If you read her bio online, you learn that she is committed to seeing each person as a unique individual and creating a health/eating plan unique to you. We are not all the same and not every plan works for everybody. Trust me, over the years I have tried them all. Since high school, I have been a yo-yo dieter, losing and regaining and losing the same 50 pounds. As I have gotten older it has gotten harder to lose the weight, to find the energy and focus to follow a plan for any length of time. I am too busy, too tired, too stressed, don’t care enough, you know the drill, too many excuses.
I have been working with Betty since January and not seeing a lot of success. I have been mostly faithful to the plan and made significant changes to how and what I eat. You can imagine my frustration two months later at my lack of weight loss (now granted, I totally accept responsibility for this and don’t blame Betty.) Every time I would go visit her, she would tweak my diet and exercise plan, ask me for an accounting of what I had been doing and eating and help me find the small moments to celebrate. God bless her for that or I would have quit.
I knew I was allergic to wheat but had never been formally tested and I knew that certain foods I was eating were not making me feel good. So Betty encouraged me to take a blood test to check for 93 different and common food allergies, hence the title of this blog post, what in the hell am I supposed to eat? Pardon my cursing, but that is exactly how I felt when I met with Betty last week.
Not only did I discover that I am severely allergic, not just to wheat but all gluten, which is in EVERYTHING, but I am allergic to almost everything I was eating. (At which point Betty said, this is why I like to do this testing FIRST, so that I can really help you make a difference. I had resisted taking the test, my loss!) Okay, are you ready, here is the crazy list of foods that I have to completely eliminate from diet for 12 weeks (I am on day three, so far so good.) All gluten products (so anything with wheat, rye, barley, any kind of flour, all bread, crackers, bagels, most sauces and even salad dressings, canned soups and sausage have gluten in them. Did I mention I love to eat out and it just got really hard?) Being wheat-sensitive is very different than having to live a gluten-free life. There are tons of websites full of information that I am still wading through with a sense of overwhelm and information overload.
But the gluten was just the beginning. I am also allergic to almonds, avocado (I cried about this one,) peanuts, mustard, chicken, pork, salmon, sole, eggs (both yolks ans whites) and the only HOORAY on the list: lima beans, who cares. But every single one of those other foods were ones I was eating a lot of.
So back to the question of what to eat for breakfast. Yesterday I had ground turkey and an apple. No more scrambled eggs and bacon! Basically, no more breakfast foods and I love BREAKFAST! Especially at Cafe Brazil, awesome vegie migas. I have to say goodbye to them for a while.
I am so grateful to Betty for encouraging me to figure this out. I will report back here in a week and let you know about my progress and if this will finally help that scale begin to move in the right direction.
So what happens if I eat any of these foods? I have achey joints, my whole body feels tender to the touch, my small intestine gets clogged and crampy, you don’t need all the gorey details, just suffice it to say that I don’t feel good. I don’t have my normal energy and enthusiasm.
I am ready for something different and it will be interesting to see what that looks like. So if you made it al the way to the end of this post, I would love to hear from anyone else who is suffering from food allergies and how you have managed happy eating, both at home and in restaurants.
And remember, there is a health/wellness program that is perfect for you. I chose Living Well Dallas is because they see each person as unique and create the program that will work for you, not some cookie cutter version that some super star says is sure to work for everyone. I encourage you to check them out!
Tags: Betty Murray, celiac, food allergies, gluten, Jenny Bair, Living Well Dallas
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Economic Pessimism Doesn’t Have to Depress You!
Dallas Motivational Maven says, “Ladies, Gather Your Personal Power and Snap Out of It!”
FRISCO, Texas—March 2, 2010— Move over Tony Robbins, there’s a new motivational force in town and her name is DeDe Murcer Moffett. “What if you knew that YOU were the only one standing between you and the life of your dreams!” says Murcer Moffett, a women’s motivational speaker based in Frisco, Texas.
Murcer Moffett, founder and president of The Snap Out of It Women’s Network, Snap Out of It Radio Network, and creator of the upcoming Snap Out of It Women’s Conference says “it’s time to realize that Prince Charming is not coming, the government has more to do to get things back on track, and NOW is the time for each one of us to move away from fear and hopelessness into joy and passion through realizing who we truly are.” Her relentless challenging demeanor demands that women leave their limiting beliefs at the door and step straight into empowered action.
Now, Murcer Moffett teams up with 12 other women’s empowerment dynamos to challenge women to tap into their personal power reserve and gas up for the rest of the year. The Snap Out of It Conference, May 20, 2010, unites women with power, passion and practicality. “Women have been the backbone of so many challenging economies, and together we can accomplish anything. It’s time for us to come together and move,” Murcer Moffett said.
“The conference is not just about financial success,” said Murcer Moffett. “It’s about whipping out all of your personal power in all of its forms – physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual – it’s about power and soul.”
The conference will support participants in snapping out of it by sharing:
The biggest CATALYST you can tap into in your life and business
What is REALLY holding you back and how this one awareness alone can move you toward FREEDOM
Why POSITIVE THINKING is a WASTE of TIME if you haven’t decided what to CREATE in your life
How to tap into FEARLESSNESS on a daily basis so you can move and leave worry behind
Tap into INSPIRATIONAL stories of women who have stepped into their personal power and how you can too!
“The rubber meets the road when we decide to get out of a situation that isn’t serving us,” says Murcer Moffett. “We are talking about getting honest with ourselves so that we can step into the inspirations and dreams that seem to taunt us. As one woman steps up she lights the way for hundreds more to follow. “When we come together as a group something magical and wonderful always happens. Expect it!”
The Snap Out of It Conference is a conference that any woman (and, yes, even the men who can muster up the courage to attend with all of the estrogen in the place) can access to increase their personal power and enjoy greater results than ever before in all areas of their life.
DeDe Murcer Moffett has more than 25 years experience as a business woman, entrepreneur, and performer and today she is a radio host, recording artist and consultant-coach as well. She is founder and president of The Snap Out of It Women’s Network, a Frisco, Texas-based organization that teaches hundreds of women how to eliminate limiting beliefs and plug into their personal power – both in life and business.
Snap Out of It Conference speakers include: DeDe Murcer Moffett “Wake Up, Stand Up and Snap Out of It!” http://www.dedemurcermoffett.com; Dr. Pat Baccili “Unstuckable - Your Life on a Waterslide” http://thedrpatshow.com; Tina Ferguson “Now is the Time, You are the One” http://www.tinaferguson.com; Darlene Ellison “Shattered… but Picking up the Pieces” http://www.darleneellison.com Dr. Minette Riordan “Life’s too Short to Wear Diamond Studs” http://www.minetteriordan.com”minetteriordan.com; Kathy Garland “Fearless Women Taking the Big Leap”http://www.kathygarland.com; Kathy Light “Releasing the Song in Your Heart” http://kathylight.com; Kim St. Andre “Stay True to You” http://www.mypersonalmedium.com; Bonnie Bolin Peterson “In an Abundant World, Where’s My Stuff http://www.bonniebolinpeterson.com; Bee Herz “You Don’t Have to be Psychic to be Psychic http://www.beeherz.com; Rita Reneaux “Revolutionary Relationships, Are you Ready?” http://yescompany1.vpweb.com/default.html; Michelle Barr “Healing Your Way to Prosperity” http://michellebarr.com; Kay Smith “Energy Dressing” “http://www.energydressing.com
For more information, contact DeDe Murcer Moffett at 469-358-9076 or at dede@dedemurcermoffett.com. For media inquiries, contact DeDe Murcer Moffett. Web Site: http://www.DeDeMurcerMoffett.com/Snap-Out-Of-It-Conference.html
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Vista Ridge Mall to host Open Call for models, actors, singers and dancers Tuesday, March 2 to Saturday, April 3
Free auditions for Fashion Show and Talent Show Extravaganza
LEWISVILLE, Texas. March 2, 2010. Beginning Tuesday, March 2, Vista Ridge Mall will host The American Mall Model Search Experience, which includes a Fashion Show and Talent Contest Extravaganza. Interested individuals can register at stations located throughout the shopping center beginning Tuesday, March 2. Registration will continue until Tuesday, April 13.
Boys, girls, men and women of all ages and sizes are invited to audition. From the applicants, the American Mall Model Search Experience organization will select approximately 300 local models and performers to participate in a final Fashion Show and Talent Contest on Saturdays, April 3 or May 15.
Individuals will be judged based on talent, personality, poise, appearance and self-confidence. Winners will be given a one-year contract with Model Productions of Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles and New York City and will be allowed to audition for professional modeling and acting projects.
Only a limited number of individuals will be given an audition, and selection is based on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no charge to register or to audition.
The first round of auditions are scheduled for Tuesday, March 2, with a Fashion Show and Talent Contest on Saturday, April 3. A second round of auditions will be held Tuesday, April 13 for a Fashion Show and Talent Contest on Saturday, May 15.
For more information, visit the American Mall Model Search website at www.TheAMMS.com or call 770.751.0500.
Vista Ridge Mall, featuring Dillard’s, Macy’s, JCPenney, Sears, Cinemark 15 and more than 140 specialty stores and restaurants, is at I-35E and Round Grove Road (FM 3040) in Lewisville, Texas. For information, visit www.vistaridgemall.com or call 972.315.3641.
Tags: family, fashion show, kids, model search, parents, talent show, vista ridge mall
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