Single Mom Shares How To Find Inner Peace, Self Esteem & Confidence. Transform Your Life!

Blog

  • Time for Transformation

    Caterpillar in My Garden April 19, 2009
    Caterpillar in My Garden April 19, 2009

    Since I am talking about my brother being bipolar, I want to first say that I love him very much. I don’t know all the medical terminology or current ways of dealing with bi-polar. I just know what it is to have a family member live with this. I suppose one day he will write his story. He is only one year apart from me and is turning 50 next week. So the story is long and also inspiring.

    His life took a bad turn while he was in high school during the ’80’s when he indulged in many kinds of drugs. After many years of treatment in hospitals, he found a new path through meditating. He was able to be without Lithium for the past  20 years. It was a remarkable turnaround with no drugs or alcohol. He became a total vegetarian and even stopped dating for many years. He almost lived like a monk, except that he is not a recluse. On the contrary, he is very extroverted and is Mr. Communicator and knows many people in the community and in all kinds of social media. (more…)

  • Keeping Calm During New Challenges

    sparky-april-19I just took this picture a few minutes ago after yelling at Sparky to stop  chewing on his bandage. Since my last post I have had a few stressful incidents. On Thursday, Sparky tore off his whole splint while I was away for a few hours. I bandaged it in a hurry hoping that the last 10 days of healing were not a waste. 

    After taking him to the vet the next day, he gave him a sedative to help this out of control behavior. He said to use it as needed. As soon as we got home, Sparky went after the bandage. I popped the sedative right away, though his stomach couldn’t handle it.  Things have been calm for the past three days until a few minutes ago when I snapped this picture. (more…)

  • Video of Rainy Beach Day

  • A Rainy Vacation Day…The Towel Helped

    towel-rain-at-the-beachI googled where the term “throw in the towel” came from.  On Wiki answers it says:  “…an image from the sport of boxing, to give up the struggle to quit the fight.” In Urban Dictionary it also says that it comes from boxing: “When a boxer is too beat up to continue, his coach throws a towel into the ring to signal that the fight is over.”

    It also says here that it could be in origin of throwing up the white flag, which means surrender. I had been very busy laying much groundwork for two businesses, my REO business. It is still realty work, but different. And also I have been attempting to publish a new book. I am still not fully established in either business even though a lot of legwork has been done. When I decided to take the towel to the beach  and relax, I ended up finding two new clients to work with.

    (more…)

  • Sparky is Finally Healing

    sparky-april-14-2009-change-of-bandageFinally! What a relief!. The drama is almost over even though the vet said it will take a while to get better. I took Sparky, my beautiful labrador, for a follow up visit for a change of bandage and the vet said it is healing! He said it is bleeding which is a sign that it is healing. Sparky kept licking the wound for six months so it wouldn’t bleed. But now with a thick splint as hard as a cast, there is no way that he can take it off.

    The vet said for the next month the bandage has to be changed every five days as new skin starts to form on the wound, he will be scraping off the old skin. And as time goes by, the time in between to change the bandage will be lessened.

    I have been talking a lot about our inner wounds in the last six months in this blog as a mirror of the financial meltdown. It made me think of what the vet said today: “It needs to bleed to heal.” Ironic right? This financial meltdown for some of us who lost major income during this time felt like a bleeding to death. I really have never experienced anything like this.  So now the pain is lessened  and I am moving forward. I have gone through the worst part. (more…)

  • Happy Easter..What is the Meaning of Resurrection?

    easter-sunrise1I went this morning to see a beautiful sunrise with my son. Now I am home to make sure Sparky is OK. It has been almost one week since he went to the vet and the cast is still one. Amazing! Today is Easter and the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus. This morning before going to see the sunrise I went on the computer to find the meaning of resurrection and printed this out. I will attempt to go more in depth with this later because I have to go celebrate with my family. There are many definitions of Resurrection, some literal and some symbolic. (more…)