It takes effort to be present Every day of my birthday month, September, I photographed something beautiful around me that made me feel happy and for which I’m grateful. I only used my iPhone 11 camera and didn’t use any filters. It was an exercise in consciousness and discipline. Making sure that I posted something…
Tag: self – motivation
My take on those ‘Before’ photos
Society’s morbid fascination with ‘before’ Society can often have a morbid fascination with whatever physical acceptability or perfection is perceived to be. We hear of body-shaming stories all the time. These can be directed at us from others, or even worse, at us from ourselves … It’s not what you say to everyone else that…
The journey to healthy weight loss starts with ‘Why’
When ‘What’ comes before ‘Why’ How many times when weight loss crops up in a conversation, is the first question often asked, “So what are you allowed to eat?” After which we start listing the items that ‘The Diet’ prescribes we should eat – as well as when, and how much … This drives me…
Thriving or surviving?
Yesterday I spotted the first rose of summer in my garden. A soft pink bloom on a bush that I bought and planted only one year ago. This will be its first settled season. This morning I went out for a closer inspection and on one floribunda bush only – counted 65 buds waiting to…
A Rose-Scented Life 