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Is medical gas lighting silencing those with PMDD?
The story in the video might make you feel a few things, sadness may be one of them. For me, what captured my attention was how 1 out of 8 women suffer from this while many people have never heard of it. 1 in 3 sufferers will think about suicide. That is intense for me because I would be one of the other two who has never experienced that personally, however: being in all of the female hormonal rooms I see this type of emotion every single day from women all over the world. Not in "America" but actually globally. Her remedy was extreme and it is what drives a lot of women to removing their lady parts. SBS Australia shinning light on this is a huge incredible thing for women's health.
You can not help or shine light on things you are not acknowledging when they do exist.
The second woman her story "You're supposed to be a yummy mummy"
What makes this video most powerful is the unique solutions for each woman while the end result will be similar.
"It's our chemistry not our character"
"Track your cycle, you're not alone, don't give up"
You can not help or shine light on things you are not acknowledging when they do exist.
The second woman her story "You're supposed to be a yummy mummy"
What makes this video most powerful is the unique solutions for each woman while the end result will be similar.
"It's our chemistry not our character"
"Track your cycle, you're not alone, don't give up"
As I’ve mentioned in my previous post
I’m in year six of my own unique experience with what it means to move through the normal rite of passage called: A Woman’s Peri-meno-Post Menopausal Journey.
IN MY OWN LIFE NOW
The PMDD thing is more of a shadow in my memory, something to be mindful about and conscious of vs something I’m worried about every third week like I used to be for over thirty-four years of my own female physiological career. That is what we call it within A 𝕎𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕟’𝕤 𝔾𝕦𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕐𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕆𝕨𝕟 ℕ𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕝 ℝ𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕪𝕞𝕤
Four month journal.
It is its own internal “career.” It’s the same career mindset that any holistic or medical modality has as it relates to a woman's inner health and her well-being through all stages of her life. It's a statement that represents the complexity and oceanic internal workings within female physiology and it's intent is to take women's health and well-being seriously.
It is the why a woman’s “history” is needed within the intake process. From our first periods to our now is always the thread necessary to assess what’s possible now. Other people can minimize this aspect of female health if they want to and they usually do, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t honor our own inner careers or embrace it as such to be able to handle all of our monthly phases/stages. It’s actually wonderful for me to lean in and recognize I have been handling this PMDD thing for over 34 years. I know what I need boundary wise with others to be able to care for myself which is just as important as anything else. Diet and exercise does not have the power to eradicate PMDD. No matter what anyone says, that just isn’t the truth, it takes a lot more than that. That is the distinction between PMS and PMDD. PMS can be completely eradicated with the proper lifestyle. PMDD, not so much. It’s just not how PMDD works. It just isn’t. Not to mention the misdiagnose and double and triple misdiagnose women are labeled with is deeply concerning.
It is its own internal “career.” It’s the same career mindset that any holistic or medical modality has as it relates to a woman's inner health and her well-being through all stages of her life. It's a statement that represents the complexity and oceanic internal workings within female physiology and it's intent is to take women's health and well-being seriously.
It is the why a woman’s “history” is needed within the intake process. From our first periods to our now is always the thread necessary to assess what’s possible now. Other people can minimize this aspect of female health if they want to and they usually do, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t honor our own inner careers or embrace it as such to be able to handle all of our monthly phases/stages. It’s actually wonderful for me to lean in and recognize I have been handling this PMDD thing for over 34 years. I know what I need boundary wise with others to be able to care for myself which is just as important as anything else. Diet and exercise does not have the power to eradicate PMDD. No matter what anyone says, that just isn’t the truth, it takes a lot more than that. That is the distinction between PMS and PMDD. PMS can be completely eradicated with the proper lifestyle. PMDD, not so much. It’s just not how PMDD works. It just isn’t. Not to mention the misdiagnose and double and triple misdiagnose women are labeled with is deeply concerning.
What captured my heart with the mother in the video above from Australia combined with the science is the "Post Childbirth" on-set" piece of the PMDD pie. I felt that, my heart felt that, my life story unfolding felt that. Being the mother of my son Donovan and my son Joseph, felt that. So many parts of me felt that. I felt that even without experiencing the severity she experienced her allergy to her own hormones. I also felt that as the starting point of what caused me to create the LOVE AFFAIR WITH THY SELF MOVEMENT FROM THE START
My ultimate desire and message here is: PMDD exists, when we acknowledge it exists it doesn’t make us victims of it. Acknowledging something’s existence honors it in such a way we can work with it to find innovative new discoveries to help it so that we can move the best way we can so that we can continue to create the hopes, goals and dreams that matter the most to us.
I was thinking about....In the rooms in AA and Ala-non, when people get to a specific place you will often here them say things like: “Be glad you are an alcoholic because you can help another alcoholic like no one else can” and there are 12 steps that anyone can use for any of life’s universal starting growth. It's a way to say, keep serving others as a part of your own recovery.
Allergic to your own hormones.
Allergic to alcohol.
We are all allergic to something. That just seems true to me at this point in my life.
However, on the Ala-non side, Ala-non people live and learn you can not force anyone to get sober, and both AA and Ala-non communities absolutely know, staying sober is one thing but living an actual life of joy and freedom and a life of sobriety takes a lot of work. It takes more than the 12 steps or maybe it takes "keep coming back" to the 12 steps. I don't know all I do know is....
There are no 12 steps for PMDD because no one has believed women for centuries. However, as we have written in Expanded Family magazine with an article titled: Words of Wisdom from the 12-Step Program. Written by ML Mehan, a well respected academic teacher, you can take on these steps to soften and move things.....
I was thinking about....In the rooms in AA and Ala-non, when people get to a specific place you will often here them say things like: “Be glad you are an alcoholic because you can help another alcoholic like no one else can” and there are 12 steps that anyone can use for any of life’s universal starting growth. It's a way to say, keep serving others as a part of your own recovery.
Allergic to your own hormones.
Allergic to alcohol.
We are all allergic to something. That just seems true to me at this point in my life.
However, on the Ala-non side, Ala-non people live and learn you can not force anyone to get sober, and both AA and Ala-non communities absolutely know, staying sober is one thing but living an actual life of joy and freedom and a life of sobriety takes a lot of work. It takes more than the 12 steps or maybe it takes "keep coming back" to the 12 steps. I don't know all I do know is....
There are no 12 steps for PMDD because no one has believed women for centuries. However, as we have written in Expanded Family magazine with an article titled: Words of Wisdom from the 12-Step Program. Written by ML Mehan, a well respected academic teacher, you can take on these steps to soften and move things.....
In closing....
there are many ways to be self-loving, to take care, to reach out, to get the support and community you need.
there are many ways to be self-loving, to take care, to reach out, to get the support and community you need.
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A 𝕎𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕟’𝕤 𝔾𝕦𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕐𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕆𝕨𝕟 ℕ𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕝ℝ𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕪𝕞𝕤
This mornings journal entry.
Day: March 17, 2021
Phase: Cleansing phase
(Day 3 of cleansing phase)
****Intention in Journaling during cleansing phase is to journal all that needs to be cleansed to stay on point with hopes, goals and dreams
FROM THE JOURNAL:
Menstruation Phase/ aka CLEANSING PHASE
The Journaling intention is body/mind heart cleansing. Get it all out, let it all go, feel it or speak it to disappear it. In this phase we are feeling, speaking and writing it as a practice and a process to teach us how to let go more quickly as we use our physiological cleansing days to truly cleanse-as we use the wisdom of our rhythms, giving ourselves permission to allow. In this phase you may feel more tender, more emotional, more sensitive or you may be fine. Either way, the intention is cleansing. You may discover a depth and richness that provides you with relief and self-acceptance. Letting go first thing in the morning may also help you have better days. If now, always get the help you feel you need
Day: March 17, 2021
Phase: Cleansing phase
(Day 3 of cleansing phase)
****Intention in Journaling during cleansing phase is to journal all that needs to be cleansed to stay on point with hopes, goals and dreams
FROM THE JOURNAL:
Menstruation Phase/ aka CLEANSING PHASE
The Journaling intention is body/mind heart cleansing. Get it all out, let it all go, feel it or speak it to disappear it. In this phase we are feeling, speaking and writing it as a practice and a process to teach us how to let go more quickly as we use our physiological cleansing days to truly cleanse-as we use the wisdom of our rhythms, giving ourselves permission to allow. In this phase you may feel more tender, more emotional, more sensitive or you may be fine. Either way, the intention is cleansing. You may discover a depth and richness that provides you with relief and self-acceptance. Letting go first thing in the morning may also help you have better days. If now, always get the help you feel you need
This is my personal morning journal from today
🖋✒️🖌🖍📝✏️
Christmas morning ✔️
Valentine’s Day ✔️
✔️And March 15, 2021.
Those are my mensuration dates.
Today on St Patrick’s day I woke up all sweaty, feeling puffy with that deep awareness I am bleeding.
Am I growing younger or something?
Or is this return to my previously normal schedule vaccine #1 induced.
I don’t know. Time will tell.
Keeping my data collecting on this 👇🏼
Here’s Why Women Experience Stronger Side Effects to COVID-19 Vaccines
Excerpt:
“Simply put, women in general have a stronger response to vaccines because their bodies are quicker and stronger when it comes to activating what the vaccine introduces in the body.
“Infectious diseases in general are always about the immune response and not the bug,” said Dr. Larry Schlesinger, president and chief executive officer of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio.
“In women, there is an exuberant and stronger response [to many vaccines],” he told Healthline. “There’s actually a lot of science behind this.”
In the past, Schlesinger said, a stronger response in females has been seen and studied in vaccines for yellow fever, DPT, influenza, and other illnesses.
Schlesinger said estrogen encourages the body to produce more T-cells, the reactor cells that protect us, when a vaccine is introduced.
Thus, he said, we see the quicker and stronger response many women experience.”
YOU CAN READ THE HEALTH-LINE ARTICLE BY CLICKING THIS BUTTON BELOW:
🖋✒️🖌🖍📝✏️
Christmas morning ✔️
Valentine’s Day ✔️
✔️And March 15, 2021.
Those are my mensuration dates.
Today on St Patrick’s day I woke up all sweaty, feeling puffy with that deep awareness I am bleeding.
Am I growing younger or something?
Or is this return to my previously normal schedule vaccine #1 induced.
I don’t know. Time will tell.
Keeping my data collecting on this 👇🏼
Here’s Why Women Experience Stronger Side Effects to COVID-19 Vaccines
Excerpt:
“Simply put, women in general have a stronger response to vaccines because their bodies are quicker and stronger when it comes to activating what the vaccine introduces in the body.
“Infectious diseases in general are always about the immune response and not the bug,” said Dr. Larry Schlesinger, president and chief executive officer of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio.
“In women, there is an exuberant and stronger response [to many vaccines],” he told Healthline. “There’s actually a lot of science behind this.”
In the past, Schlesinger said, a stronger response in females has been seen and studied in vaccines for yellow fever, DPT, influenza, and other illnesses.
Schlesinger said estrogen encourages the body to produce more T-cells, the reactor cells that protect us, when a vaccine is introduced.
Thus, he said, we see the quicker and stronger response many women experience.”
YOU CAN READ THE HEALTH-LINE ARTICLE BY CLICKING THIS BUTTON BELOW:
Only time will tell.
Woke up this am:
Body feels: a lot
Mind thinks: cranky
Heart is: worried.
Not “worried” about my own body, or my own mind as much as worried about others. After all, I’ve had plenty of experiences waking up in this way. It was my worried heart -not my mind or me being “oh so negative” that needed time and space to move so that I can work with my own worried heart. Not against it.
Very often with children, husbands or partners all throughout my adult life this “heart is worried thing,” is why -waking up extra early to handle this part of how my heart works was so important to me. My heart is always had the desire to love others in the way they needed to be loved. Harder to do when your heart is worried.
It’s also why waking up late, having to rush while my heart was worried caused me so much anxiety and stress.
This is also why all that “level of the mind” only stuff has never had any power to help me.
“It’s all in your head” is something others say and it might be because it’s true for them but I just want to say, that has never been helpful to my heart. All that’s ever did was get in the way of my hearts natural desire to move the way it moves.
Most. Naturally.
I can't imagine with all the newer science and much needed deeper look into all the things, that I am alone in that, you know-human being wise. In the Human design model, it is said that 51 % of people have what the call "emotional authority" as their primary gift within their own unique blueprint. This brings me all the way back to this incredible woman and the tools of awareness she gives anyone who may have emotional authority as their gift: Emotional Mastery: The Gifted Wisdom of Unpleasant feelings.
It's SO GOOD! because through her time, research and her education, she has learned that the feelings come before the thoughts and she gives people the opportunity to move the way feelings move. If this is someone's nature it would be a great tool for them.... Check it out, try it on, see what you see....
Woke up this am:
Body feels: a lot
Mind thinks: cranky
Heart is: worried.
Not “worried” about my own body, or my own mind as much as worried about others. After all, I’ve had plenty of experiences waking up in this way. It was my worried heart -not my mind or me being “oh so negative” that needed time and space to move so that I can work with my own worried heart. Not against it.
Very often with children, husbands or partners all throughout my adult life this “heart is worried thing,” is why -waking up extra early to handle this part of how my heart works was so important to me. My heart is always had the desire to love others in the way they needed to be loved. Harder to do when your heart is worried.
It’s also why waking up late, having to rush while my heart was worried caused me so much anxiety and stress.
This is also why all that “level of the mind” only stuff has never had any power to help me.
“It’s all in your head” is something others say and it might be because it’s true for them but I just want to say, that has never been helpful to my heart. All that’s ever did was get in the way of my hearts natural desire to move the way it moves.
Most. Naturally.
I can't imagine with all the newer science and much needed deeper look into all the things, that I am alone in that, you know-human being wise. In the Human design model, it is said that 51 % of people have what the call "emotional authority" as their primary gift within their own unique blueprint. This brings me all the way back to this incredible woman and the tools of awareness she gives anyone who may have emotional authority as their gift: Emotional Mastery: The Gifted Wisdom of Unpleasant feelings.
It's SO GOOD! because through her time, research and her education, she has learned that the feelings come before the thoughts and she gives people the opportunity to move the way feelings move. If this is someone's nature it would be a great tool for them.... Check it out, try it on, see what you see....
Now: Back to my Peri-Meno-Postmenopausal journey morning cleanse write:
So I go for these long early morning walks until I find a place to sit and write. There is a woman here who is older than I who works in security. She’s very mellow and she’s always kind. She embodies that Aloha vibe full on. What it means to embody aloha is very different than using Aloha as a cover up for all things. I've noticed this as a distinction here. Not saying it can't grow or evolve or be cultivated but what I am saying is, it's probably a good idea to know if you are truly embodying it or if you are just using it cause you think it makes you appear cool. She is the embodiment of Aloha through and through.
Anyway....
We “talk story” for about 5 minutes each time we see one another.
When I expressed this time of life feels like the perfect time to understand the story of my own life better. Seems like my peri-menopause is the perfect time to do that. What I am actually saying is that I am listening and honoring my own natural rhythms. (For those who may be in the mood to argue with me. No need, you can focus on your own natural rhythms and what is true in your own life)
My Security friend though.......Her smile was so wide while shaking her head yes knowingly as she said “It’s like you’re cleaning things up so you can let it all go”
Totally.
I call it re-writing but it’s the same thing and I have to wonder how often we are saying the same thing but we get stuck in which words are being used.
She also said:
..... “And young people think you’re crazy. That’s just because they haven’t reached this stage of life yet.”
Wisdom.
So I go for these long early morning walks until I find a place to sit and write. There is a woman here who is older than I who works in security. She’s very mellow and she’s always kind. She embodies that Aloha vibe full on. What it means to embody aloha is very different than using Aloha as a cover up for all things. I've noticed this as a distinction here. Not saying it can't grow or evolve or be cultivated but what I am saying is, it's probably a good idea to know if you are truly embodying it or if you are just using it cause you think it makes you appear cool. She is the embodiment of Aloha through and through.
Anyway....
We “talk story” for about 5 minutes each time we see one another.
When I expressed this time of life feels like the perfect time to understand the story of my own life better. Seems like my peri-menopause is the perfect time to do that. What I am actually saying is that I am listening and honoring my own natural rhythms. (For those who may be in the mood to argue with me. No need, you can focus on your own natural rhythms and what is true in your own life)
My Security friend though.......Her smile was so wide while shaking her head yes knowingly as she said “It’s like you’re cleaning things up so you can let it all go”
Totally.
I call it re-writing but it’s the same thing and I have to wonder how often we are saying the same thing but we get stuck in which words are being used.
She also said:
..... “And young people think you’re crazy. That’s just because they haven’t reached this stage of life yet.”
Wisdom.
Yes! It is true in some moments I have to make a conscious effort primarily with my own son, remembering not that he isn’t a mini me but rather...he’s not in his fifties therefore I can not expect him to be where I am or be open to all I have to offer him all the time but that also doesn’t mean I shouldn’t speak up when my heart knows things either.
I think all parents can relate to the truth that we are always working on our communication as art and we are the artists with our children as they continue to move and grow through their own lives.
I love and will close this journal entry with these quotes
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
“When you parent, it’s crucial you realize you aren’t raising a “mini me,” but a spirit throbbing with its own signature. For this reason, it’s important to separate who you are from who each of your children is. Children aren’t ours to possess or own in any way. When we know this in the depths of our soul, we tailor our raising of them to their needs, rather than molding them to fit our needs.”
“By silently witnessing our thoughts and feelings, we learn to accept them as they are, allowing them to rise and fall within us without resisting them or reacting to them. As you learn to be with your emotions, they will no longer overwhelm you. In the full acceptance of surrender, which is of a quite different character from mere resignation, you come to see that pain is simply pain, nothing more and nothing less. Yes, pain is painful— it’s meant to be. However, when you don’t fuel your pain by either resisting or reacting, but sit with it, it transforms itself into wisdom. Your wisdom will increase in line with your capacity for embracing all of your feelings, whatever their nature. Along with increased wisdom comes a greater capacity for compassion.”
Shefali Tsabary, The Conscious Parent
Now after about an hour of morning rituals, alone time and self care.... I’m back.
Body feels: Good
Mind thinks: grateful
Heart is: clean
P.S. lately, I have noticed for me -my heart being *clean* is my newest most simplistic desire before I leave my house. It’s almost like my peri-menopausal heart likes a clean heart as it's best medicine
While I don't invite people into helping me cleanse my heart I do have an invitation for any woman who is guided by her own Natural Rhythms! If you have cleansing Tribal music you would like to add to our WOMAN'S GUIDE: CLEANSING-TRIBAL Spotify Play list...do reach out
I think all parents can relate to the truth that we are always working on our communication as art and we are the artists with our children as they continue to move and grow through their own lives.
I love and will close this journal entry with these quotes
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
“When you parent, it’s crucial you realize you aren’t raising a “mini me,” but a spirit throbbing with its own signature. For this reason, it’s important to separate who you are from who each of your children is. Children aren’t ours to possess or own in any way. When we know this in the depths of our soul, we tailor our raising of them to their needs, rather than molding them to fit our needs.”
“By silently witnessing our thoughts and feelings, we learn to accept them as they are, allowing them to rise and fall within us without resisting them or reacting to them. As you learn to be with your emotions, they will no longer overwhelm you. In the full acceptance of surrender, which is of a quite different character from mere resignation, you come to see that pain is simply pain, nothing more and nothing less. Yes, pain is painful— it’s meant to be. However, when you don’t fuel your pain by either resisting or reacting, but sit with it, it transforms itself into wisdom. Your wisdom will increase in line with your capacity for embracing all of your feelings, whatever their nature. Along with increased wisdom comes a greater capacity for compassion.”
Shefali Tsabary, The Conscious Parent
Now after about an hour of morning rituals, alone time and self care.... I’m back.
Body feels: Good
Mind thinks: grateful
Heart is: clean
P.S. lately, I have noticed for me -my heart being *clean* is my newest most simplistic desire before I leave my house. It’s almost like my peri-menopausal heart likes a clean heart as it's best medicine
While I don't invite people into helping me cleanse my heart I do have an invitation for any woman who is guided by her own Natural Rhythms! If you have cleansing Tribal music you would like to add to our WOMAN'S GUIDE: CLEANSING-TRIBAL Spotify Play list...do reach out
My Body/Mind and heart favorite this morning..... Tribal softness....
There's also an Opportunity with the more modern playlist too. If you have music that moves you and helps you cleanse what needs to be cleansed in tribal or modern ways....Do reach out
My Favorite Modern choice this am.......
Stay Tuned....
Hi! I’m Christina Marie
I’m in year six of my own unique experience with what it means to move through the normal rite of passage called: A Woman’s Peri-meno-Post Menopausal Journey
While this post isn’t about the complexity of my entire story up to this point, I invite you to read Love Affair With Thy Self Movement which will explain a bit of it, including why a woman and mother with a Natural Rhythm of her own is following this path.
I’m in year six of my own unique experience with what it means to move through the normal rite of passage called: A Woman’s Peri-meno-Post Menopausal Journey
While this post isn’t about the complexity of my entire story up to this point, I invite you to read Love Affair With Thy Self Movement which will explain a bit of it, including why a woman and mother with a Natural Rhythm of her own is following this path.
NOW BACK TO MY CURRENT JOURNEY
As an essential worker who works with seniors, I’ve begun my Vaccination Journey. It is my intention, desire and my commitment to move through my own Woman’s Peri-meno-post menopausal journey safely. I’ve noticed, the more I take care of myself, the more I have to give the people and places in my own life. I prefer giving via my own fullness because I’ve noticed, the more I do that the more value I can add or sprinkle on others. We all set our own bars on the life we wish to live and the love we wish to give, don’t we?
I live in Hawaii. There are very clear indicators as it relates to the Vaccination role out and what it means to be an essential worker. Phase A1 and Phase B1. Here, you have to have documentation to prove you fit in either category. I had to have a letter from the non-profit, a collection of pay stubs, and a formal ID. All things need to be in complete alignment and on the up and up. It’s amazing to witness how important the people who are collecting this information make sure everything aligns. The letterhead needs to match the who is paying you -pay stubs. Your ID as well.
From A Woman’s Peri-meno-post menopausal journey lens: There are distinctions and differences in these three seemingly similar yet very different phases. Being inside Peri-menopause while having PMDD since my first period as a teenager does mean I do have to be careful, mindful, cautious as it relates to my own immunity. Compromised, yet, while there is no cure for PMDD, Menopause is the cure. (I will give you a minute to digest that!
You may be asking yourself, what is PMDD? I will create a blog on that later. For now, here's a graph I designed a few years ago based on the science and an accidental gene mutation discovered a few years back:
From A Woman’s Peri-meno-post menopausal journey lens: There are distinctions and differences in these three seemingly similar yet very different phases. Being inside Peri-menopause while having PMDD since my first period as a teenager does mean I do have to be careful, mindful, cautious as it relates to my own immunity. Compromised, yet, while there is no cure for PMDD, Menopause is the cure. (I will give you a minute to digest that!
You may be asking yourself, what is PMDD? I will create a blog on that later. For now, here's a graph I designed a few years ago based on the science and an accidental gene mutation discovered a few years back:
HERE IS A VACCINATION TIME - LINE IN MY OWN WORLD
In June of 2020, I was bitten by a centipede. Hawaiian Style (That is it’s own unique thing) Therefore, I went to the doctors to get my Tdap (Teanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis) immunization shot. That went into my right arm. While I was there, I was also encouraged to get a flu shot and the PPSV23 (Pneumococcal-polysaccharide) shot. Instinctively I thought about how I only have two arms and three vaccinations might be one too many for my peri-menopausal body already being in a significant transformational place to handle all that. I opted to say no to the flu shot and yes to the PPSV23. With the world being the way it was, that vaccine was my way of protecting myself and I recall how good, healthy and full of myself I felt when leaving the doctor’s office after making these individualised Yes/No decisions for my own health-well-being. That was day one, yet for several weeks both my arms hurt in a way, just lifting them felt like a chore. Then they seemed to take turns. It was this entire thing. Therefore, having that self knowledge and experience caused me to be more mindful prior to the newest vaccines emergence. I began doing some arm exercises a few months ago with the idea in my head that I didn’t want to experience that again!
That’s the thing about connecting to our own natural rhythms while honoring our phases, stages and our own experiences. It allows us to be proactive in the realm of strategizing based on our own phases, stages, our individual and collective stories combined and a lot more. Like many women with strong hormones (or women allergic to their own hormones) I like to take care of what I call my own HAZARD ZONES:
In June of 2020, I was bitten by a centipede. Hawaiian Style (That is it’s own unique thing) Therefore, I went to the doctors to get my Tdap (Teanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis) immunization shot. That went into my right arm. While I was there, I was also encouraged to get a flu shot and the PPSV23 (Pneumococcal-polysaccharide) shot. Instinctively I thought about how I only have two arms and three vaccinations might be one too many for my peri-menopausal body already being in a significant transformational place to handle all that. I opted to say no to the flu shot and yes to the PPSV23. With the world being the way it was, that vaccine was my way of protecting myself and I recall how good, healthy and full of myself I felt when leaving the doctor’s office after making these individualised Yes/No decisions for my own health-well-being. That was day one, yet for several weeks both my arms hurt in a way, just lifting them felt like a chore. Then they seemed to take turns. It was this entire thing. Therefore, having that self knowledge and experience caused me to be more mindful prior to the newest vaccines emergence. I began doing some arm exercises a few months ago with the idea in my head that I didn’t want to experience that again!
That’s the thing about connecting to our own natural rhythms while honoring our phases, stages and our own experiences. It allows us to be proactive in the realm of strategizing based on our own phases, stages, our individual and collective stories combined and a lot more. Like many women with strong hormones (or women allergic to their own hormones) I like to take care of what I call my own HAZARD ZONES:
FAST FORWARD TO MARCH 2021
The mRNA, Pfizer-BioNTech was chosen for me. Just like many things in mid-life and for many people on the planet right now, I am living in the space in between. Add on being a middle-child (and the only girl) and I really have to confess, I am good, accustomed to living in that place in- between space on a lot of layers and a lot of levels!
I can’t tell anyone what their experience is or isn’t going to be. All I can do is share my own experience in hopes that other women who are in touch with their own natures at this time, this stage and this phase (And those with PMDD) are able to take what they want, what helps them and use it to their advantage. In my world, the seniors are extremely happy that I am on their path, only slightly behind because many of them are done with their second vaccine and they are doing good.
The mRNA, Pfizer-BioNTech was chosen for me. Just like many things in mid-life and for many people on the planet right now, I am living in the space in between. Add on being a middle-child (and the only girl) and I really have to confess, I am good, accustomed to living in that place in- between space on a lot of layers and a lot of levels!
I can’t tell anyone what their experience is or isn’t going to be. All I can do is share my own experience in hopes that other women who are in touch with their own natures at this time, this stage and this phase (And those with PMDD) are able to take what they want, what helps them and use it to their advantage. In my world, the seniors are extremely happy that I am on their path, only slightly behind because many of them are done with their second vaccine and they are doing good.
Day one was good to go.
Arm soreness within an hour. Nothing Ibuprofen didn’t fix.
This was an extreme win for me!
Day two tired by 9 am. Nothing a good early nap couldn’t fix.
Day two evening. Felt like I was coming down with something. Nothing my homemade chicken noodle soup couldn’t only fix but gosh I slept so incredible that evening.
Day three lymphatic system *swelling in that *subtle way vs anything too uncomfortable but then as the day progressed I got this wildly painful pimple underneath the same arm where I got the shot.
(There are more than 20 lymph nodes (small lumps of tissue that are part of the body's lymphatic system, which helps fight infection) in the armpit.)
My arm was not sore but gosh that little pimple had way too much ouch power for my liking, however I didn’t want to do anything to disrupt the process of allowing my body to handle that whole thing and..... it did.
Day three evening I slept so amazingly that night too.
Day four-I experienced this wonderful full on
Body feels clean
Mind is nothingness
Heart is clean.
All days after that: I was noticing I am releasing induced inflammation slowly and naturally.
Arm soreness within an hour. Nothing Ibuprofen didn’t fix.
This was an extreme win for me!
Day two tired by 9 am. Nothing a good early nap couldn’t fix.
Day two evening. Felt like I was coming down with something. Nothing my homemade chicken noodle soup couldn’t only fix but gosh I slept so incredible that evening.
Day three lymphatic system *swelling in that *subtle way vs anything too uncomfortable but then as the day progressed I got this wildly painful pimple underneath the same arm where I got the shot.
(There are more than 20 lymph nodes (small lumps of tissue that are part of the body's lymphatic system, which helps fight infection) in the armpit.)
My arm was not sore but gosh that little pimple had way too much ouch power for my liking, however I didn’t want to do anything to disrupt the process of allowing my body to handle that whole thing and..... it did.
Day three evening I slept so amazingly that night too.
Day four-I experienced this wonderful full on
Body feels clean
Mind is nothingness
Heart is clean.
All days after that: I was noticing I am releasing induced inflammation slowly and naturally.
AFTER ALL WAS SAID AND DONE
What I’ve also noticed about this journey process as it relates to my own. Having people to care about in the community is very encouraging in the realm of wearing masks and continuing to do what is right. By right I mean right for safety and ethics. That doesn’t always make people happy but when you are given a place in a community and you are responsible and accountable for many things-it does make it easier to re-commit when it’s dreadfully long and then it’s dreadfully too long and then it’s a year later. I miss things, like everyone else does however, it helps me to focus on myself in this stage and phase so that I may serve the best I can (which trust me, is rarely perfect!) It is my experience these past 6 years that this initiation into this rite of passage, there are a lot of unknowns with uncharted territories with continuous shifting, it seems like there is something new sometimes month to month, then year after year but it depends on a lot of factors.
For me, I am so looking forward to the Menopausal Cure after a long journey with PMDD! Not every woman is going to be that excited about menopause.
Hence why it is my on going, getting stronger every day belief: Our best medicine as women, is often.....to learn from one another where and when we can.
That reminds me. These Ted Talks are so lovely
For me, I am so looking forward to the Menopausal Cure after a long journey with PMDD! Not every woman is going to be that excited about menopause.
Hence why it is my on going, getting stronger every day belief: Our best medicine as women, is often.....to learn from one another where and when we can.
That reminds me. These Ted Talks are so lovely
Within this generation, an extra 30 years have been added to our life expectancy -- and these years aren't just a footnote or a pathology. At TEDxWomen, Jane Fonda asks how we can think about this new phase of our lives.
This Ted talk is 9 years old. 9 years ago I wasn’t living inside the space of perimenopause. Therefore, this had no appeal to me. It does now
This falls under new science, being open to learning what is true and new in “our now” as people on the planet, changing the conversation/narrative regarding what it means to move through our rites of passages. Jane Fonda speaks life into the reality, not the romanized fu-fu version but allowing us to understand what our options truly are.
It’s not experience, it’s reflecting on our experiences…. Who can relate to this after the year we just had? I’d say alot of us! (I’m just guessing)
Stay tuned....
"Okay, I'll be the Needless Robot you want me to be.."
"They wanted the outcome and the fruit of my trait, but they didn't want my trait"
ALANIS MORISSETTE: overstimulation, misperception and challenges of being a highly sensitive person
And there it is AGAIN..............
The Too Much Woman
There she is. . . the “too much” woman. The one who loves too hard, feels too deeply, asks too often, desires too much.
There she is taking up too much space, with her laughter, her curves, her honesty, her sexuality. Her presence is as tall as a tree, as wide as a mountain. Her energy occupies every crevice of the room. Too much space she takes.
There she is causing a ruckus with her persistent wanting, too much wanting. She desires a lot, wants everything—too much happiness, too much alone time, too much pleasure. She’ll go through brimstone, murky river, and hellfire to get it. She’ll risk all to quell the longings of her heart and body. This makes her dangerous.
She is dangerous.
And there she goes, that “too much” woman, making people think too much, feel too much, swoon too much. She with her authentic prose and a self-assuredness in the way she carries herself. She with her belly laughs and her insatiable appetite and her proneness to fiery passion. All eyes on her, thinking she’s hot shit.
Oh, that “too much” woman. . . too loud, too vibrant, too honest, too emotional, too smart, too intense, too pretty, too difficult, too sensitive, too wild, too intimidating, too successful, too fat, too strong, too political, too joyous, too needy—too much.
She should simmer down a bit, be taken down a couple notches. Someone should put her back in a more respectable place. Someone should tell her.
Here I am. . . the Too Much Woman, with my too-tender heart and my too-much emotions.
A hedonist, feminist, pleasure seeker, empath. I want a lot—justice, sincerity, spaciousness, ease, intimacy, actualization, respect, to be seen, to be understood, your undivided attention, and all of your promises to be kept.
I’ve been called high maintenance because I want what I want, and intimidating because of the space I occupy. I’ve been called selfish because I am self-loving. I’ve been called a witch because I know how to heal myself.
And still. . . I rise. Still, I want and feel and ask and risk and take up space.
I must.
Us Too Much Women have been facing extermination for centuries—we are so afraid of her, terrified of her big presence, of the way she commands respect and wields the truth of her feelings. We’ve been trying to stifle the Too Much Woman for ions—in our sisters, in our wives, in our daughters. And even now, even today, we shame the Too Much Woman for her bigness, for her wanting, for her passionate nature.
And still. . . she thrives.
If you’ve ever been called “too much,” or “overly emotional,” or “bitchy,” or “stuck up,” you are likely a Too Much Woman. And if you are. . . I implore you to embrace all that you are—all of your depth, all of your vastness; to not hold yourself in, and to never abandon yourself, your bigness, your radiance.
Forget everything you’ve heard—your too much-ness is a gift; oh yes, one that can heal, incite, liberate, and cut straight to the heart of things.
Do not be afraid of this gift, and let no one shy you away from it. Your too much-ness is magic, is medicine. It can change the world.
So please, Too Much Woman: Ask. Seek. Desire. Expand. Move. Feel. Be. Make your waves, fan your flames, give us chills.
Please, rise.
We need you.
-- Ev’Yan Whitney
There she is taking up too much space, with her laughter, her curves, her honesty, her sexuality. Her presence is as tall as a tree, as wide as a mountain. Her energy occupies every crevice of the room. Too much space she takes.
There she is causing a ruckus with her persistent wanting, too much wanting. She desires a lot, wants everything—too much happiness, too much alone time, too much pleasure. She’ll go through brimstone, murky river, and hellfire to get it. She’ll risk all to quell the longings of her heart and body. This makes her dangerous.
She is dangerous.
And there she goes, that “too much” woman, making people think too much, feel too much, swoon too much. She with her authentic prose and a self-assuredness in the way she carries herself. She with her belly laughs and her insatiable appetite and her proneness to fiery passion. All eyes on her, thinking she’s hot shit.
Oh, that “too much” woman. . . too loud, too vibrant, too honest, too emotional, too smart, too intense, too pretty, too difficult, too sensitive, too wild, too intimidating, too successful, too fat, too strong, too political, too joyous, too needy—too much.
She should simmer down a bit, be taken down a couple notches. Someone should put her back in a more respectable place. Someone should tell her.
Here I am. . . the Too Much Woman, with my too-tender heart and my too-much emotions.
A hedonist, feminist, pleasure seeker, empath. I want a lot—justice, sincerity, spaciousness, ease, intimacy, actualization, respect, to be seen, to be understood, your undivided attention, and all of your promises to be kept.
I’ve been called high maintenance because I want what I want, and intimidating because of the space I occupy. I’ve been called selfish because I am self-loving. I’ve been called a witch because I know how to heal myself.
And still. . . I rise. Still, I want and feel and ask and risk and take up space.
I must.
Us Too Much Women have been facing extermination for centuries—we are so afraid of her, terrified of her big presence, of the way she commands respect and wields the truth of her feelings. We’ve been trying to stifle the Too Much Woman for ions—in our sisters, in our wives, in our daughters. And even now, even today, we shame the Too Much Woman for her bigness, for her wanting, for her passionate nature.
And still. . . she thrives.
If you’ve ever been called “too much,” or “overly emotional,” or “bitchy,” or “stuck up,” you are likely a Too Much Woman. And if you are. . . I implore you to embrace all that you are—all of your depth, all of your vastness; to not hold yourself in, and to never abandon yourself, your bigness, your radiance.
Forget everything you’ve heard—your too much-ness is a gift; oh yes, one that can heal, incite, liberate, and cut straight to the heart of things.
Do not be afraid of this gift, and let no one shy you away from it. Your too much-ness is magic, is medicine. It can change the world.
So please, Too Much Woman: Ask. Seek. Desire. Expand. Move. Feel. Be. Make your waves, fan your flames, give us chills.
Please, rise.
We need you.
-- Ev’Yan Whitney
Thank U
Hi Christina,
First I want to tell you that I'm thinking of you and all the compassionate people who spend their days helping others and trying to make our world a better place. I hope you and your loved ones are safe.
I also wanted to send you a short note to tell you two things, in case you're interested:
1) Today I started a Caring Safely blog and my first post is: Stay Safe While Advocating for Anti-Racist Policies
2) A reminder that the live stream Trauma-Informed Practice training starts tomorrow CLICK HERE to learn more.
If you have any questions, please reply to this email.
Sending you good energy!
Charlene
Charlene Richard, B.S.W., M.S.W., RSW
Social Worker. University Instructor.
Founder of Caring Safely
First I want to tell you that I'm thinking of you and all the compassionate people who spend their days helping others and trying to make our world a better place. I hope you and your loved ones are safe.
I also wanted to send you a short note to tell you two things, in case you're interested:
1) Today I started a Caring Safely blog and my first post is: Stay Safe While Advocating for Anti-Racist Policies
2) A reminder that the live stream Trauma-Informed Practice training starts tomorrow CLICK HERE to learn more.
If you have any questions, please reply to this email.
Sending you good energy!
Charlene
Charlene Richard, B.S.W., M.S.W., RSW
Social Worker. University Instructor.
Founder of Caring Safely
In my research and while talking to some most well respected social justice advocates (the white ones) I discovered, like most things- many people need to see it to believe it exists and it is through their *Shock* of actually seeing racism without anything getting in the middle...that examining happens. So here we are, in the middle of a pandemic seeing it....
Madam Toni Morrison, her moral superiority runs supreme. She has what people spend decades trying to get. She has a level of compassion and you can hear it. In this video, she corrects Charlie, letting him know he's asking the wrong question. The right question is: How do you feel? She distinguishes between the white person who doesn't understand and the white person who is examining. She isn't speaking to the white person who is examining. She's speaking into those who feel they don't have anything to examine.
In terms of expanded consciousness, my own examining and my deep commitment to women and women's health issues. Her words resonate with me. There is a softness in the space between me and younger men as they know they are safe to share their relationship woos with me... I will come back to racism..... just hold on please....
THE WILLINGNESS TO EXAMINE
As I take my time to move slowly through the book "Women Who Run With The Wolves," I had a conversation with a very sweet young man in his twenties and an older man who has taken him under his wing to help him make the journey, holding him in his rite of passage toward basically, learning to hold his own shape and own his own space with dignity and respect. Much of the time, the beauty in my life right now is many people refer to me as some kind of relationship guru (which I am not) and other expressions. As I was listening to this young man go on and on regarding this woman whom he was in a deep connection with and she rocked his world, turning him inside out and upside down, he mentioned "I never know a woman could be so mentally ill, so devious, so malicious. It was almost as if he was completely traumatized and it was the most adorable thing I have witnessed in a very long time. His shock and dismay was visible. As the conversation progressed when I said "Well YOU are one of those mixed messages dudes, you are causing your own problems!" This young man busted out in laughter as the older man shook his head and said "His mother told him the same thing." In the conversation he mentioned his desire is to be seen and known and loved because he has never had that before. Yet, what he really means is...because he has had that with his mother......he wants to be fully seen, known and loved by a woman who is not his mother. In this beautiful space....he's just a young man who is just now examining who he is and what he wants and through it..he's growing organically, being held by an older, wiser man who wants to see this young man shine. Shining through the doorway of seeing himself clearly, waking up, being accountable, recognizing...he's not nearly as perfect as he thinks he is. This means he is being held by an elder in a very real way. He can barely tolerate learning the fullness of a woman. When we talked about the book I am currently reading, I commented "This book is not for you, you wouldn't be able to handle it" and he really wouldn't. He's not ready and he's not alone by any stretch of the imagination. Madam Toni Morrison is speaking into that exact knowing. There is nothing inside of me that wishes to beat that young man up for where he is in his development. What we want is for him to remain inside of examining so he may get to a place where he can have what he wants without all those man games that do not and will not serve him in any way, shape or form. His kindness and his softness has a lot of hidden control and is loaded with tremendous levels of mixed messages. Yet his shock and his focus on her behavior is blowing his mind. We don't have to worry about him because he has an elder who will hold him to account while also holding his greatness with patience and awareness that he is on the path.....
There was a moment between the younger man and his elder brother. The younger man was caught in that men against women thing, he reached out to his elder to get that manly high five. The elder man shook his head "No, I am not giving you a high five for that."
In certain locker room cultures, this man's "no" would be deemed him being a coward and going against the man code, causing the young man supposed "humiliation" but the truth is, his willingness to want more for this young man than to promote him hating women and therefore creating a harder life for himself, is what I would call a much bigger love than anything taught in the locker rooms.
His mother "You are sending mixed messages" His elder brother who wants more for him "No, I am not giving you a high five for that" This young man is being well held. His growth is supported full out.
There was a moment between the younger man and his elder brother. The younger man was caught in that men against women thing, he reached out to his elder to get that manly high five. The elder man shook his head "No, I am not giving you a high five for that."
In certain locker room cultures, this man's "no" would be deemed him being a coward and going against the man code, causing the young man supposed "humiliation" but the truth is, his willingness to want more for this young man than to promote him hating women and therefore creating a harder life for himself, is what I would call a much bigger love than anything taught in the locker rooms.
His mother "You are sending mixed messages" His elder brother who wants more for him "No, I am not giving you a high five for that" This young man is being well held. His growth is supported full out.
Now back to Racism and accepting the invitation that Madam Morrison is offering white people which is a level of generosity that only those who have supreme moral authority have the power to offer.....The invitation is to examine....
DIGGING DEEPER and not being afraid of the harder things
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Let the examining begin. To help....Here is a wonderful Ted Talk that allows those harder most unpleasant feelings room to breath so we can examine.....
As a member of the Association of Transformational Leaders, she has been recognized for her thought leadership and influence in personal development. Dr. Rosenberg has been featured in the documentaries “I Am”, “Pursuing Happiness”, & “The Hidden Epidemic” w Dr. Daniel Amen. She’s been seen on CNN’s American Morning, the OWN network, and PBS, as well as appearances and radio interviews in all of the major metropolitan media markets. A California-licensed psychologist, Dr. Rosenberg speaks on how to build confidence, high self-esteem, core emotional strength, and resilience; achieving emotional, conversational, and relational mastery; integrating neuroscience, psychotherapy, and supervision; and suicide prevention. An Air Force veteran, she is a professor of graduate psychology at Pepperdine.
"STAY PRESENT, STAY FULLY PRESENT, YOU CAN DO IT, WE CAN ALL DO IT" (and she gives people an actual workable formula!!!!!!!!!)
Now that there is no shaming for being wherever we are and allowing those unpleasant feelings to move us into freedom.....It changes the game.
Looking within, my own story, my own history....babies, boys to men and a moment with my own son.......
“Mom, I can’t breath”
When a football player punched him in his throat during a football game. He couldn’t breath and I could see that he couldn’t breath from a distance
If you know the rules of football, there is no such thing as throat punching. It's not hockey.
And all the men said to me “don’t do it, DO NOT go out there...don’t “humiliate him” Gosh how horrifying for his MOTHER to run out on the field. WE NEED HIM TO LOOK GOOD. Worst thing in the world you could do is care about your own son.
And everything inside of me said...
I'm going... My son can't breath, I'm going.
So that’s what I did.
My son was not at all humiliated.
He was genuinely scared. The look in his eyes, how he reached for me. The whisper/tone of his voice “Mom, I can’t breath” I can’t even imagine not being there for him in that moment. Like you want me to not show up?
To just sit on the sidelines and oh well, at least I didn’t humiliate him.
To cause the illusion that I, his mother would humiliate my own son...and I should just sit back and allow him to "man up" this moment came up for me very vividly when I witnessed the video of George Floyd as we can see, hear and absolutely feel it when he speaks up "I can't breath"
Accepting the invitation to examine.....
When a football player punched him in his throat during a football game. He couldn’t breath and I could see that he couldn’t breath from a distance
If you know the rules of football, there is no such thing as throat punching. It's not hockey.
And all the men said to me “don’t do it, DO NOT go out there...don’t “humiliate him” Gosh how horrifying for his MOTHER to run out on the field. WE NEED HIM TO LOOK GOOD. Worst thing in the world you could do is care about your own son.
And everything inside of me said...
I'm going... My son can't breath, I'm going.
So that’s what I did.
My son was not at all humiliated.
He was genuinely scared. The look in his eyes, how he reached for me. The whisper/tone of his voice “Mom, I can’t breath” I can’t even imagine not being there for him in that moment. Like you want me to not show up?
To just sit on the sidelines and oh well, at least I didn’t humiliate him.
To cause the illusion that I, his mother would humiliate my own son...and I should just sit back and allow him to "man up" this moment came up for me very vividly when I witnessed the video of George Floyd as we can see, hear and absolutely feel it when he speaks up "I can't breath"
Accepting the invitation to examine.....
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Allowing the elders to heal you, even if you are an elder......it's never too late.....
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Another way to heal would be to use this Pandemic time to watch one of the most beloved T.V. shows: THIS IS US. Let Jack heal you as he has been healing many old school, old time fathers move into seeing their son's fatherhood as "better than theirs."
POWERFUL SIBLING SHUT DOWN FOR NATURAL GIFTS THAT SHOULD NOT BE SHUT DOWN FOR ANY REASON
Shinning light takes guts, it takes humility, it takes being willing to be in those hard moments, hear the feed back and move UP
Let those uncomfortable feelings help you create a better life for yourself.....
Just a suggestion,,,
Intentional Self Care
Cleanse
Clarity
Innovation
Repeat.... see what you see, know what you know from the place of your own body, mind and heart....
LOVE AFFAIR WITH THY SELF: THE MOVEMENT
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
DO YOU REMEMBER HOW YOUR VERY FIRST BRASS BRASSIERE DEVELOPED? I DO
I put on my very first brassiere when I was 13 years old. Under the umbrella of being the highly daughter after babysitter on our street. I was always babysitting!!! And when the children were supposed to be sleeping...they would do all these things to not sleep. I took my role as babysitter very seriously and in not wanting their parents to come home and see that I didn’t have what it took to put their children to sleep at the time they instructed me, I would say all the time “Don’t come back down stairs unless it’s an emergency” and I would give them emergency examples. Because there was this one little boy named Bobby, gosh he was always finding creative fake emergencies just to get my attention.
Unless your sick or dying, you must sleep.
And that is the story of my very first brass brassiere as it developed. Parents were not going to trust me with their little humans if I wasn’t able to do something as simple as hold sleep time. (Per my 13 year old brain) 🧠
Here is a passage/Book excerpt from Women Who Run With Wolves:
Unless your sick or dying, you must sleep.
And that is the story of my very first brass brassiere as it developed. Parents were not going to trust me with their little humans if I wasn’t able to do something as simple as hold sleep time. (Per my 13 year old brain) 🧠
Here is a passage/Book excerpt from Women Who Run With Wolves:
“The aggravated theft of the sealskin also occurs far more subtly through the theft of a woman’s resources and of her time......
The world is lonely for comfort, and for the hips and breasts of women.
It calls out in a thousand-handed, million-voiced way, waving to us, plucking and pulling at us, asking for our attention.
Sometimes, it seems that everywhere we turn: there is someone or a something of the world that needs....wants.....or wishes.
DEVELOPING THIS NEXT AWARENESS AND CULTIVATING SELF CARE AS AN ENERGETIC REMEDY IS WHERE WOMAN'S GUIDE COMES IN HANDY:
Though we may see that the skin can be lost through a devastating and wrong love, it may also be lost in a right and deepest love.
It is not exactly the rightness of a person or thing or it’s wrongness that causes the theft of our soul skins, It is the cost of these things to us.
It is what it costs us in time, energy, observation, attention, hovering, prompting, instructing, teaching, training.
Don't be afraid to put on, add, handcraft, or to make your own
BRASS BRASSIERES
To be able to give those people, places and things you love- your fullness without being drained, requires a few things
BOUNDARIES WITH BRENE BROWN
BOUNDARIES WITH BRENE BROWN
MUCH LOVE AND SELF REFLECTION FROM ME AND MY PANDEMIC CUDDLE BUDDY "TED"
LOVE AFFAIR WITH THY SELF: THE MOVEMENT
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
LOVE AFFAIR WITH THY SELF: THE MOVEMENT
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
Christina's Second Spring: 3 to 5 Varieties of spices: is the spice of LIFE spice simplistic theory
5/14/2020
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Natural Rhythms weekly phases and stages... It's just me, therefore I don't have the need or the thrill of adding spices to add to what others may or may not like. One week it could be all about the 5 Chinese Spice combo of
cinnamon, cloves, fennel seed, star anise & Orange Peel
(for me)
cinnamon, cloves, fennel seed, star anise & Orange Peel
(for me)
Right now... it's all about
Coriander Seeds
According to a research done by the California University of Ayurveda, coriander seeds are quite effective in curing different skin ailments like eczema, itchy skin, rashes and inflammation as they have antiseptic properties. They are known to cure mouth ulcers and sores as well.
Black Pepper
It helps the free flow of oxygen to the brain, helps enhance digestion and circulation, stimulates the appetite, and helps maintain respiratory system health and the health of the joints. Black pepper is a warming spice and contributes the pungent taste.
Rosemary
known for its medicinal properties and can be used to alleviate pain, boost immunity, improve memory and even promote hair growth.
Now I have this combo for anything...including a wonderfully bold flavored cup of tea....
Coriander Seeds
According to a research done by the California University of Ayurveda, coriander seeds are quite effective in curing different skin ailments like eczema, itchy skin, rashes and inflammation as they have antiseptic properties. They are known to cure mouth ulcers and sores as well.
Black Pepper
It helps the free flow of oxygen to the brain, helps enhance digestion and circulation, stimulates the appetite, and helps maintain respiratory system health and the health of the joints. Black pepper is a warming spice and contributes the pungent taste.
Rosemary
known for its medicinal properties and can be used to alleviate pain, boost immunity, improve memory and even promote hair growth.
Now I have this combo for anything...including a wonderfully bold flavored cup of tea....
TODAY'S FRIENDLY REMINDER......
LOVE AFFAIR WITH THY SELF: THE MOVEMENT
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
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Split mung beans, the orange ones-you do not have to soak over night like the whole green mung bean.
I just use a half a cup of Mung beans in 3/4’s cup of water and blend and you just make it as if you are making a pancake.
Once your mung bean pancake is cooked. That is your crust.
You can add any spices you want to the blend.
Whatever pizza top choices that work for you is good.
I like the cheese and honey blend. Organic raw honey is best for me
This pizza caused me to have to blow my nose. What that means is...it got the toxins out before the toxins got me. I really love that about this pizza.
I just use a half a cup of Mung beans in 3/4’s cup of water and blend and you just make it as if you are making a pancake.
Once your mung bean pancake is cooked. That is your crust.
You can add any spices you want to the blend.
Whatever pizza top choices that work for you is good.
I like the cheese and honey blend. Organic raw honey is best for me
This pizza caused me to have to blow my nose. What that means is...it got the toxins out before the toxins got me. I really love that about this pizza.
Today's Friendly Reminder
LOVE AFFAIR WITH THY SELF: THE MOVEMENT
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
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Coriander Seeds
MEDICAL DAILY REPORTS:
The seeds have properties that regulate the function of endocrine glands and facilitate the release of hormones. Apart from ensuring the regular flow of the menstrual cycle, coriander seeds also reduce the effects of bloating, cramps and period pain.
It also has that healthy body mind thing going on.....
The seeds have properties that regulate the function of endocrine glands and facilitate the release of hormones. Apart from ensuring the regular flow of the menstrual cycle, coriander seeds also reduce the effects of bloating, cramps and period pain.
It also has that healthy body mind thing going on.....
Asparagus
In it for the B1 benefits aka Thiamin
Also some good ole fashioned body/mind and heart benefits:
helps prevent complications in the nervous system, brain, muscles, heart, stomach, and intestines. It is also involved in the flow of electrolytes into and out of muscle and nerve cells.
Also some good ole fashioned body/mind and heart benefits:
helps prevent complications in the nervous system, brain, muscles, heart, stomach, and intestines. It is also involved in the flow of electrolytes into and out of muscle and nerve cells.
INGREDIENT #1
YOUR BROTH OF YOUR FAVORITE CHOICE FOR YOUR STAGE OR PHASE
FOR ME IT'S A CONTINUATION OF:
YOUR BROTH OF YOUR FAVORITE CHOICE FOR YOUR STAGE OR PHASE
FOR ME IT'S A CONTINUATION OF:
Minus the things...just the left over broth
INGREDIENT # 2
Coriander Seeds
You can have them "pop" in the pan to start or you can grind them in the coffee grinder...
INGREDIENT # 2
Coriander Seeds
You can have them "pop" in the pan to start or you can grind them in the coffee grinder...
FOR CREAMY VERSION AND ADDED FAT CONTENT all you need is a blender and a teaspoon or a tablespoon of the secret fat sauce and you got yourself a winner
LOVE AFFAIR WITH THY SELF: THE MOVEMENT
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
HOME: IN MY OWN SKIN
BODY: I LOVE THEE
MIND: SET!
SPIRIT: MOVING THROUGH ME
“AYURVEDA TEACHES US TO LOVE "AS IS" - NOT AS WE THINK PEOPLE "SHOULD BE.”
― LISSA COFFEY
Author
Christina Marie
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