Each week for as long as I’m digging it, I’ll share my responses to the Life Organizer questions. We do this together at the Comfort Cafe every week. Join us! P.S. These are variations and additions to the Life Organizer questions in my book so if you are doing the book, don’t be confused.
What is the relationship between health and self-love for me right now?
Health and self-love are intimately intertwined; I can only get deeply healthy if I love myself, that is very clear to me, and believe in myself; I can only embrace my life if I let myself have deep self-care, feel my way into it moment by moment, make time to be me. There is time for what heals me.
How could self-kindness could help me love myself more in relationship to money?
Self-kindness will help me when I feel panicked about money and say yes to projects/ speaking gigs just for the money, instead of because it builds the life I want. No more.
What resources do I want to call in this week to embody a dream, take good care of myself, or let go of something I no longer want to do?
My Dream Team – Jesus, The Virgin of Guadalupe and my eagle. They can help me when I am afraid to begin this new creative direction that has come to me. The Dream Team visualization was a highlight of the Writer’s Retreat this year and will be part of my upcoming retreat in Seattle. Early bird savings ends August 25th. This retreat will unveil my new direction. It’s going to change lives.
What does it mean for me to be healthy?
Healthy means slowing down to choose what’s best for me rather then what I think I have time or energy for. Healthy is huge swathes of self-mercy.
I’m itching to:
Explore the new direction for my work that came on vacation. I had a huge vision on my most amazing vacation with Bob and I am trembling with excitement.
So my plan for this week is slowing down for the sake of loving myself into health and creating the foundation for my new vision.
Otherwise known as slowing down to gently see and interrupt old fear based patterns.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Vision Care Aug 24, 2009
Life slows down to the rhythms of nature and the rising and setting of the sun dictates our movements. Vision Care
2 Tisha Aug 24, 2009
Hi Jen,
I’m so excited to hear what’s percolating with you and your new creative dreams! Wish I could be at your west coast retreat to hear you share it with the world!!
Thanks too for the reminder that health and self-love go hand in hand. Rings a bell for me this morning.
Hugs to you!
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4 Cairene Aug 24, 2009
Yay! we get to do Dream Teams. Someone talked about that somewhere and I thought it was so cool. Now I get to learn it. Awesome. And there will be unveiling of new directions?! So much to look forward to! Can hardly wait.
Doing things “just for the money” so often goes awry, doesn’t it? Seems so sensible at the time, but the panic prevents us from doing the loving thing… Always important to be reminded of this. Thank you.
5 Wendy Cholbi Aug 24, 2009
I love, love, love the phrase “huge swathes of self-mercy.”
Because there is always, always, always room for more mercy. Self-mercy, too.
I’m learning this day by day, as I percolate with my own plans (congratulations on yours — the Seattle retreat does sound absolutely delicious!). Learning that my own self-expectations were so unbelievably — and unmercifully! — high that cutting them down to size is much more than a one-step process.
So much noticing. I could fill a lifetime with it. Thank you!
6 Shawna R. B. Atteberry Aug 26, 2009
I realized this morning that I don’t think I deserve to be healthy. It came out of the blue and was quite the WTF moment. I asked myself WHY I didn’t deserve to be healthy but nothing has came to me. It made me realize that self-love and self-respect are two things I need to add to my life. I need “huge swaths of self-mercy too.”
I’m itching to practice yoga and expand myself. I’m tired of being so small and scared of taking up space. I want to expand, and as Havi would say, biggify me.
Wish I could be in Seattle for the retreat, and I can’t wait to hear your new plans. Do you ever make it to Chicago?