In Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert says… When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it… Welcome to the human experience… Never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. If […]
Category Archives: Be kind to yourself
Not getting the desired result might be ok
So it was Australia Day end of January. I was having a quiet one at home for my week of no drinking, no TV, meditating and yoga. There was a free fair/concert up the road. So I walked 3km to Enmore Park to see Diesel. He was going to be on 7.45pm to 8.30pm and […]
January progress for the magic happiness weapon (the whiteboard)
Hello fabulous one!!!!! Welcome to February. How was January? Interestingly if you were to ask me, I’d say pretty good. Yet when I look at my whiteboard, I realise the real answer is January was AMAZING. This the power I get from my whiteboard. A constant reminder of all the great things I have done. […]
My challenging week helped me to shine bright
My weekly challenge last week was …well… challenging actually. Duh. Isn’t that how it’s meant to be????!!!!??? In this case it’s a timing thing because it wasn’t meant to be hard. I gave up alcohol for 7 days, and wanted to do meditation and yoga every day. For some reason a couple of days into it I […]
An important plea to myself about resting
Dear Wendy You are ALLOWED to rest and relax and do nothing. This is not a crime. Today you did take some books back because you had been overcharged (usually you would just let it go), you did sleep in, you did eat fairly healthy food, you did go alcohol free, you did manage to […]
Loving or loathing lists
Do you love a list – writing it, ticking things off and feeling a huge sense of achievement? Do you hate a list – having to write it, not ticking everything off and then feeling like you have failed? Do you resent a list – don’t tell me what to do little piece of paper […]
The anguish of striving for perfection
Do many of us still suffer from this? Are we still totally focussed on having the perfect body, the perfect relationship, the perfect career, the perfect family, the perfect house and the perfect balance in life? We are striving for something that doesn’t exist. Oh no, you say? That’s not you. Do you see yourself as […]
Getting that tingly feeling
I just had that sudden tingly feeling in my body when you realise you have achieved something great. Do you know what I’m talking about? I think it’s probably a lot to do with pride. I just realised that after immersing myself in language changes over the last 6 weeks I think some have finally embedded […]
A moment of sheer bliss every day
What’s your special heart warming treat every day? Every day you say? “You can’t have a special treat every day Wendy. That’s not possible. You are crazy.” But what if it is? You are going to think I’m a crazy Nanna but my sheer bliss every day is a cup of tea. And the funny […]
How do you treat your magnificent body?
Do you do these things to your body: Survive on minimal sleep Criticise its imperfections Constantly judge it Drown it with alcohol Overload it with sugar Starve it on new diets Compare it to other bodies Place never ending emotional stress on it Fill it with junk food and processed food with no nutritional content […]