I'm on a new journey in 2013. It's the year of "me" and I don't mean the selfish kind of me, but the sometimes you neglect yourself long enough you eventually have to pick up the pieces of who you are and focus on putting them back together and finding yourself again. Or I pretty much think it's finding myself for the first time.
In 2013 I will:
1. Be kind to myself
2. Focus on my healing
3. Enjoy life
Sounds simple enough, right? Now let's break this down into the nitty gritty of what I mean.
1. Be kind to myself
- Give myself grace when I mess up, be it eating or exercising not as I "should"
- Hey Cindy, remember you're human you make wrong choices and make mistakes remember there is always a new start at the next meal or the next moment
- Breathe
- Give up "should" or "ought to" or "have to"
- Boo hiss those words just make me want to run away and do the opposite or even absolutely nothing
- Do the little things for myself
- pedicures, nice lotions, small naps on lazy Sunday afternoons
2. Focus on my healing
- Post-operatively it means walk, walk, walk and sip, sip, sip and tracking my protein
- Do NOT stress about how much weight you loose or how fast
- Focus on enjoying the process
- Dig a little deeper into the emotional reasons I eat and don't take care of myself as well as I do others
- Jen
- A Motherless Daughter workbook
- The Courage to Heal
3. Enjoy life
- Beaches of Michigan
- Go more than once or twice this summer/fall and explore new ones
- Utah to visit the Putnam's
- Just rest in the peace and love of your beautiful friends and their adorable children
- Florida to see Chad
- 20 years is way too long
- See the Atlantic ocean
- Hang out and just be with him
- Gathering and laughing with my friends here in Michigan
- Support group moments
- Lunches or dinners
- Perhaps a 5K walk/run or two ...perhaps
- Enjoy time with friends in Iowa or SC or ??
- A Sketch a Day journal
I think this covers it ...and then some!!
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