My thanks go out to my fellow fierce girl Donna Wood for introducing me to a fabulous site called A Mighty Girl. A Mighty Girl bills itself as the world's largest collection of books and movies for parents, teachers, and others dedicated to raising smart, confident, and courageous girls. When I visited the site I [...]
Tag: valuing self
Rewrite…
I have dropped the ball on my new year resolution of self-love. Not that I have stopped loving myself - I have just stopped writing about it in my blog. In early January I wrote: My resolution is about recognizing and acknowledging something about myself that I love every week in 2012. 52 things I [...]
Pinball wizard
My mind is like a pinball game with a hundred different paddles and bumpers that my mental ball can ping off of at any moment. And ping it does. One never knows in which direction it will head next - from what happened on a sitcom last night to the nuances of interpersonal communication when [...]
God-given curves…
I do love Fifi, but I think that on some occasions she forgets who she is talking to. The other day she sent me an email that said in the subject line: CAROL Boyish Body? Create INSTANT Curves & SAVE! Upon opening the email I learned that Fifi was peddling a sale on her padded [...]
I crack myself up…
To wrap up my second week in the new year I have a second self love recognition to share (in line with my 2012 "resolution") - I love that I can crack myself up. My sense of humor, for better or worse, is a complete package in my nutty little head. I really need no input from others [...]
Self love…
Self love...yes, that is where I am going today. I decided that the only new year resolution that I could adopt and stick to was one of a once a week session of self love. Now, before I cause some of you to run away in horror at what I am going to write next [...]
Setting the bar…
Here is something I have learned in my life - you set the bar for how you will be treated and valued by what you expect and accept. When I was young and painfully shy, I did not even realize there was a bar to be set. Back in those days I believed that people [...]
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