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The End of My Creative Day!

Good evening!

Thursdays have become my FAVORITE day of the week!! I am SOOOO IN LOVE with belly dancing!!! Each week the moves I had learned the previous weeks get easier and easier and the new moves we learn each night are just challenging enough to make the class fun!!

I know I must sound like a broken record, but I am telling you there is something so AMAZINGLY EMPOWERING about teaching your body to do moves it had never known it could do before. Being in a 300 + pound body, you reach a certain level of acceptence that there are some physical things in life that are just not for you!

WHAT A CROCK OF CRAP!!!

WHO DOLES OUT THAT MISINFORMATION?!?!?!?


NO, I am not a slim chicky! No, getting my junk to jiggle isn’t as difficult as it is for the other girls in the class (Hah!!!), but am getting out there and getting my groove on, having a blast, and feeling FABULOUS for all of my efforts!! I will never need anti-depression medication if I just belly dance with friends! It is THE ULTIMATE mood lifter!!!

Tonight I was also very excited to go out and be a photographer for the evening. The first and most important rule of being a photographer, I have learned this evening is…

MAKE SURE YOUR BLINKIN’ BATTERY IS CHARGED!!!

UGH!!

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Not only was my battery dead, but so was my back up! How is that for well prepared??? LOL!! I did manage to get a few pics in, but I was heartsick, when at the end of our class this evening, the more advanced class did an impromptu dance for us! It was beautiful, and sensual, and awe-inspiring! and unfortunately, my camera was dead! DAMN!! One of the advanced dancers even had this UNBELIEVABLE henna tattoo up one side of her abdomen!! It was STUNNING!!! I will have to do that when I get brave enough to perform, which I will do, just for the record!!! LOL!!! 😉

All of the pics that are posted throughout this blog tonight, are pics of the dance studio’s bathroom! It was tres chic, and I didn’t feel like I had to chicken out to take pictures in there!! HAHAHA!! I know, I can be such a Dork with a capital D!

Have a FABULOUS evening!!! 😉

Please note: To those of you whose pictures I have ever used on this blog without permission, or without giving credit where credit was due, I apologize! I have been naive, but am naive no longer. I am vowing to use my own photographs from now on, or to make sure that all pics that are not mine, will be credited to their rightful owners. It is what I would want from others, and it is the right thing to do.

A Day of New Labels!

Good evening!

I tried posting this morning, but alas, my other PC was misbehaving!! So, let’s try this again!

This morning after doing my morning pages, I realized that I live my life with all of these labels all over myself that I either have given to myself, or I have let other people put on me. Labels like nerd, dork, chicken, unworthy, fat, etc.

So, today I decided to create new labels for myself. Empowering labels like,

  • Spiritual
  • Creative
  • Healthy
  • Photographer
  • Writer
  • Traveler
  • Entrepreneur

When I hear these new labels they get me excited about the possibilities of what can be, and they feel like they are true to the authentic me. I think that is a HUGE step in my journey to create myself, and all that “Self” entails!!!

What labels have you given yourself? What labels have you let others give you? If you can re-label yourself with any labels you wanted what would they be. Please let me know in the comment section above, I would love to hear your thoughts!!

Have a FABULOUS evening!!

A Night of Empowerment!!

Good evening!

You know what? This may TOTALLY JUST BE MY RAGING HORMONES SPEAKING, but…

I usually take a lot of crap in my daily life and normally that is ok with me! There are a lot of perks to the life that I have created for myself, but tonight I have just HAD IT!!!

I AM SO SICK OF PEOPLE TAKING PIECES OF MY POWER!!
MY JOY!!! MY BLISS!!!

Tonight, even if it is for just one night only – I am TAKING MY POWER BACK!!! I will let all of you who need some of it borrow it tomorrow, but tonight IT IS MINE!!!

I am not your mother,
your slave,
your lackey,
your sugar momma,
your door mat,
your alarm clock,
your personal secretary,
your gofer-girl,
your Prozac, I’m not!
So get your crap together
and get outta my way honey!!
Because tonight, I am SOOOOOO TAKING THE NIGHT OFF!!!
I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR!!!!

WHEW!! Ok, thanks, I just REALLY had to get that out of my system!!! but I feel much better now!!! Sorry, I know that that rant may have seemed to come out of left field, but I have been letting my power be spread a little too thin amongst my circle, and it is leaving me unhappy, and angry – but REALLY??? It is my own fault, I am the one who lets my power be “loaned” out, and I haven’t been doing too much to make sure that it comes back to me! I am going to have to seriously work on that!!!

So all of you out there, you know who you are – I love you, but tonight I am taking care of MYSELF!!! Trust me, tomorrow I am sure you will thank me for it!!!!

Have a FABULOUS evening! 🙂