~Courage To Be Yourself!~

csp

have the courage to . . .
Embrace your strengths - Get excited about life - Enjoy giving and receiving love - Face and transform your fears - Ask for help and support when you need it - Spring free of the Superwoman Trap - Trust yourself.

Make your own decisions and choices - Befriend yourself - Complete unfinished business - Realize that you have emotional and practical rights.

Talk as nicely to yourself as you do to your plants - Communicate lovingly with understanding as your goal - Honor your own needs - Give yourself credit for your accomplishments.

Love the little girl within you - Overcome your addiction to approval - Grant yourself permission to play - Quit being a Responsibility Sponge.

Feel all of your feelings and act on them appropriately - Nurture others because you want to, not because you have to - Choose what is right for you.

Insist on being paid fairly for what you do - Set limits and boundaries and stick by them - Say "yes" only when you really mean it - Have realistic expectations.

Take risks and accept change - Grow through challenges - Be totally honest with yourself - Correct erroneous beliefs and assumptions.

Respect your vulnerabilities - Heal old and current wounds - Favor the mystery of Spirit - Wave good-bye to guilt.

Plant "flower," not "weed" thoughts in your mind - Treat yourself with respect and teach others to do the same - Fill your own cup first, then nourish others from the overflow - Own your own excellence.

Plan for the future, but live in the present - Value your intuition and wisdom - Know that you are lovable - Celebrate the differences between men and women.

Develop healthy, supportive relationships - Make forgiveness a priority - Accept yourself just as you are now - And be proud of yourself for doing it "your Way"

- Sue Patton Thoele -
Author of the book "The Courage to be Yourself"


Hugs,
Carrie

Deese

Love this Carrie.

Denise

Anonymous

I agree Denise. Doesn't she always just find the "right" things to share? Thanks Carrie!!!

PuppyFive

SHE must have been or is, a very strong lady. I ENVY HER! debbyfive

cowgirl

I love this painting too Maxine Parrish is soooo ethereal!

PuppyFive

PLEASE GOD , let me be who i used to be. debbyfive

csp

Warriors~



You join an army of wounded women, who wear pretty clothes that conceal the scars and the pain and summon brave smiles to camouflage anxiety. Each share a touching, intimate memory of a day that changed our lives forever.

A memory of a morning shower when we touched our breasts and cried. A long last look in the mirror, as we said good-bye. Good-bye to vanity. Good-bye to self pity. We haven't the time. We measure life in moments, and momentum.

We are the meaning of lifelong friends. Bosom buddies gathering strength from one another. We are courageous. We are proud. A circle of women we span the globe, and we have touched eternity. There is a word that strikes fear in our hearts--the word is recurrence. We try endlessly to search the reason. We valiantly fight to find the cure. We do so for daughters, granddaughters and for friends and ourselves. We do so for the women who have gone before us.

With each loss we feel tremendous anger. We rage. We taste fear. But each loss our capacity to love deepens. It grows, it ripens, it blooms.

Each precious moment on this earth is a gift. We will not leave this gift unopened. We will not leave one smile undone. We will not leave one hug forgotten. We will not miss one opportunity to make a difference.

We are women warriors. Our causalities are high. The women who have gone before us have lost a battle with breast cancer, but they haven't lost the war. We honor these women, we feel them, we remember them. We carry them with us, and we made each one a promise. A promise to never again look the other way.

We have breast cancer. We are alive.

By Ruth


Hugs,
Carrie

PuppyFive

thank you carrie, this message touched my heart, and WILL, give me stregth to go on. with the help of ALL,of our sisters courage, we will gain the capacity to fight our battles within our self. debbyfive

Anonymous

~ bump ~

because it's lovely.

Anonymous

bumping for some friends