Creative Healing Through Writing and Art
YAY!!! Me and my book were featured on a blog that belongs to my friend Deborah Bailey. Thank you Deb!
Read the interview here: http://womenentrepreneursecrets.blogspot.com/2011/11/book-q-im-more-than-just-girl.html
Buy the eBook for a young woman you know here: http://mpwru.webs.com/apps/webstore/
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If you are stuck in a career that does not bring you joy. Ask yourself some questions.
What is your passion? What makes you happy? How can I create an income working passionately and being happy?
I am not just sating this because it is a popular thing to say. I am living it.
I just published my first book, “I Am More Than Just A Girl” and it feels amazing! This book is the culmination of a project I have worked on for years. Finally I was able to n put everything together in a book. And I have even more passions that I want to share. There are more books to write, more pictures to paint, more fun to be had.
I have failed a lot, but I keep trying. I never know for sure if something is going to work out. Does anybody really? There are so many variables in life that can knock us onto a new course. I say take these challenges as they come. Some new directions you may want to try to stop and turn around. Some new directions you may want to just go with and see what happens. We are in control of how we react to life, even if it isn’t something we want.
WHAT IS YOUR PASSION? WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?
This blog hop is from 10-28 to 10-30. Come join us! Blog hops are fun becuase you meet new people and find cool new blogs. Plus, it’s just in time to spread the word about my new book for young women.
It is a book to empower and inform young women. Please check it out and share it with your friends.
Girls can read the book for free online before purchasing it. It is interactive and has lots of fun activities as well as important information they can use forever. I have been working towards this project for years. It has taken on many forms and finally found it’s rightful place as a book. Please share this book with your friends. Encourage them to share the book too so we can empower more young women.
When you share this book let people know that young women can review everything inside the book before they decide to buy, just like at a book at the store.
Thanks a bunch!
http://www.bookemon.com/read-book/150828
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YAY!! I am so excited to finally have published my first book. This journey has shown me that life is wonderful again!
The book is titled “I Am More Than Just A Girl; Empowered. Informed. Equal.” and gives young women information to make educated decisions about their lives. The book is interactive and includes topics like respect, confidence, self defense, sexual assault and domestic violence. There are fun projects, journal pages and exercises for girls to empower themselves and lean about euqality.
Preview my book here, http://www.bookemon.com/read-book/150828 and if you know any young women ages 14 or older or parents of a girl, please share the book with them.
On Saturday I had the wonderful experience of attending a rally called Occupy San Diego. There were several great speakers who touched on a myriad of topics including our current economy, war and human rights. My favorite speakers were the Veterans for Peace and a young man who spoke of how we must make changes at home before we can change the system. He met with the least applause, but he had the best message of how our current economy has a lot more to do with us, instead of just blaming the big greedy man/woman in the Manhattan penthouse who is really just giving us what we want and making billions of dollars off of what we pay to them.
BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT HOW WE SPEND(VOTE) WITH OUR DOLLARS!
I also really enjoyed all the people, the signs and the small children that were all having a great time.
LYBD, Love Your Body Day is celebrating 14 years! NOW, the National Organization for Women hosts LYBD each year to support women in loving their bodies and not feeling bad because they are not skinny enough or tall enough, or because they don’t have perfectly perky breasts or perfect skin.
So it’s that time of year to climb up the mountain (or your roof) and holler at the tops of your lungs “I LOVE MY BODY THE WAY IT IS!” If you are not interested in yelling from a roof or feel like you would attract trouble, than how about saying it while you stand naked in front of a mirror?
Why shouldn’t you love your body anyway? What’s not to love? You use it everyday, so that’s one very important reason to love your body right there.
Your body is unique and helps differentiate you from pod people. See, yet another reason to love your body!
Another reason? You only get one body, so you best start loving it before it’s gone.
You can decorate your body however you want, with tattoos, piercings, hair color and a good old dash of Vitamin D that brings a flush of color!
Oh my, so many reasons to love our bodies. I bet you can think of a reason to love your body.
Do you love your sparkling eyes, your loving smile, your feet, your nose, your knees, your strong legs, your soft arms, the shape of your face? WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR BODY?
Answer that question with one part of your wonderful body and then keep adding until you love every single tiny cell that makes your body as beautiful on the outside as your strong loving soul on the inside!
Today is the day to start loving your body for the rest of your life. This is YOUR year to love love love your body. The next time you see a advertisement of an airbrushed woman or celebrity on TV, remind yourself that you LOVE YOUR BODY the best.
I spent years hating how much taller I was than all my friends. I hated my uneven eyes, my huge feet, my chubby stomach, my frizzy uncontrollable hair, my gigantic nose, my crooked teeth, my thunder thighs, my scars. Basically I spent hours each day feeling sorry for myself and hating myself in the ultimate pity party.
Change didn’t happen over night. Eventually I got used to being tall because I went out more and met other tall people. I started enjoying life by hiking, playing tennis, riding my bike and anything fun outside. I love to move, which keeps in good shape and while my stomach is still flabby and not even close to a six pack I stopped caring. I feel healthy. I eat better. My thighs may indeed be thunderous, but I don’t really care. I have other realist issues in life to deal with like losing my best friend and figuring out how to make an income off of my art. I am no longer spending hours in front of the mirror crying about how ugly I am or wishing that I was as pretty as an actress or model. Most days I don’t even wear makeup. I prefer to enjoy my day instead of fussing over how my make up looks.
Loving my body has made me happier, it has given me loads more time to do other stuff and I am constantly stopping people from berating their own looks. We are all beautiful, we don’t all need to look the same. We can be chunky, we can be skinny with no curves, we can even naturally have a “popular” body, it doesn’t matter. It’s what we do with our bodies that will create a life worth living.
Don’t sit around with friends and diss your bodies in a spirit of being equally unattractive. When you start to complain about your body stop yourself. Compliment yourself and your friends instead, even if you only whisper. If you want to change something about your body, please do your research first. Cosmetic surgery is dangerous. Putting implants in your body can cause health problems and death. Extreme unhealthy dieting will just make you sick and it probably won’t last. You and only YOU are in control of your body.
LOVE YOUR BODY TODAY AND EVERYDAY!
“This post is part of the 2011 Love Your Body Day Blog Carnival”
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These are paintings I created in September of this year.
I am on a never ending quest for knowledge because I am very curious, I enjoy learning new information and hope to better myself along the way.
I also hope to empower others so they can learn more and thus have more options in life. The world we live in is always beautiful. Look around and see flowers growing out of a gutter drain for some proof. It can also be cruel, frustrating and downright ugly at times. We must all make a choice to live a certain way and to find or create beauty. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to respect and treasure what makes our lives worth living.
I created a website to share what I have learned and to empower all people to be the best version of themselves. http://mpwru.webs.com is a combination of peaceful actions that we can take to improve quality of life for all people no matter where they were born, what they believe or what actions they have taken that brought them to their current situation. It is not useful to judge others harshly until you have walked in their shoes. Even then, we all relate to the world differently so it’s difficult to say you know how someone else feels.
What have you learned recently that helped you and can benefit others? Please leave a comment. 🙂
Wearing a Playboy bunny on your clothing or accessories does not empower you. It simply makes a statement that you think it is fine for women to pose nude so men(who have been taught females simply be nude to be sexy) can sit in the office and get off to pictures and objectify women. If it doesn’t gross you out of someone your grandpas age having sex with multiple young women whom he doesn’t care about, than how about his lack of respect for a whole gender.
Hugh Hefner is not a person who wants to empower women. In a 1967 interview,he explained the ways in which women were like rabbits. The bunny “has a sexual meaning”, he said, “because it’s a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping – sexy. First it smells you, then it escapes, then it comes back, and you feel like caressing it, playing with it. A girl resembles a bunny. Joyful, joking.” I’ve never “escaped”from a man and then ran back to him so I find the analogy to be simply continuing a patriarchal view.
Yes it is true that Hugh was a large contributor to Roe. Vs. Wade, the ruling that gave women the right to a safe legal abortion. Big deal! Of course he wants women to have the right to safe birth control and abortions. How else could he afford to pay the bills of all the women he would get pregnant.
You may defend Playboy saying that a woman runs it. Well I hate to be the bearer of more bad news, but women are not perfect. This is his daughter, Christie Hefner who is the company president. Seeing as she grew up with him as her father I wouldn’t put much stock in her choice to “empower” women. She makes a lot of money objectifying women.
We live in a world where it is the norm for women to be disrespected, used, raped, thrown away, burned, killed and hated by men simply because they have a vagina. There is inherent violence in pornography towards men and women, but generally it is women who are to be submissive. The popularity of rape fantasy should disturb all people despite gender.
So the bottom line is when you spend money on Playboy merchandise you are voting with your dollar that pornography is much needed in our world. It isn’t just bunny heads, but everything you spend YOUR money on you are voting for that organization to grow, to expand, to degrade anyone that can create more money for them. Need a more popular comparison? It is just like listening to Fox news, CNN, or any biased news source and paying their bills so they can make more money with advertisers.
It means you have the power to give life. Sure it takes a man and a woman to create life, but women are the people who are accountable for bringing a child into our world. You are a giver of life and you have the power to teach your children that they are beautiful loved and equal in your eyes. Women are more likely to stay at home and nurture a child and spend more time with them than the father. This is an inconvenient truth (Though there is no reason for men to not spend time nurturing a child after they have left the womb. In fact we need more men to nurture their children).
It means you can be raped by a man and told that it is your fault. Or maybe you are told that that person couldn’t control themselves. Well that is just not true. Rapists are not poor troubled boys or disturbed men. Rapists are people who want to control and inflict pain on another person. So it also means that you can fight back. You are NOT a victim. You deserve to be treated with respect and you have a right to say NO!
It means you are strong! You are equal to a man. You are not less, you are not better. You are equal. Perhaps your family, your religion and your culture tell you that you are less and nothing more than an object, but that is just not true. You are capable of being amazing! You can change the world or change your community. You can be a scientist, a writer, a director, a CEO, a mother. You can be whatever you want to be. Always listen to mind and never listen to a world that says you are less than equal.
It means you are beautiful. Your eyes, your hair, the color of your skin, your weight, your height. These make you beautiful and unique. You are beautiful without makeup, with frizzy hair, with freckles, with a few extra pounds or a lack of curves. You are most beautiful when you laugh and when you smile. Don’t believe the hype that you need to look plastic perfect. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!
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