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Today is Be Yourself Beautiful’s Birthday!

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  New Beginnings Actually, today is my birthday. And to celebrate my new beginnings for this next chapter of my life I am designating today the official birthday of BeYourselfBeautiful.com! This website represents for me a lifetime (so far) of accomplishment, of learning, and of the growth and discovery of me as a fully fledged human being; not unlike the [...]

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New Year, New Attitude

The New Year’s conflict:  motivation v. disappointment Every New Year I experience great conflict within myself: I feel utterly motivated to become the person I want to be and completely dejected about not having become the person I wanted to be last year. I tend to think in black and white, all or nothing, and it sets me up for [...]

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June morning

days of waking up and feeling melancholy missing the past or rather the missing of feelings I had in the past of waking up next to a lover smiling at me the sun kissing my face, eyes closed, swinging in the backyard, thinking of nothing worrying about nothing ____________________________________________________________ melancholy turning to lethargy wrench myself from the bed and sit [...]

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Skills Like This

The setup I came home tonight after an incredible yoga class with Patrick Montgomery and was hungry; hungry for food and hungry for  entertainment. (It is Friday night after all, and why not have some down-time before I hit the keyboard again?) So, I fixed myself some tasty vittles (even Megs, my daughter, thought so) that included steamed rainbow chard.  [...]

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