Today I am grateful for all the craft materials I have in my home!
I have oodles of supplies to keep me busy for a while! I have beads, yarn, thread, fabric and I am sure I am forgetting something!! Paint!! I have lots of great acrylic paint colours!! I have Jewellery wire for putting pieces together. I am good to go for a while.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Gratitude for 4-26-2013 and Craft Potentials
Today I am grateful for all the potential Crocheting and all the crafts I make contain.
It never fails to amaze me how an individual can take a pile of materials and turn it into something beautiful and useful! You get to pick out the colours, the texture and the outcome you want! I think it is amazing!!
Everyone has different tastes, different perspectives, different takes on any given thing. And not everyone is crafty but absolutely Everyone has qualities and characteristics that they are good at!
What are you good at? What do you love to do more than anything you have ever done?
It never fails to amaze me how an individual can take a pile of materials and turn it into something beautiful and useful! You get to pick out the colours, the texture and the outcome you want! I think it is amazing!!
Everyone has different tastes, different perspectives, different takes on any given thing. And not everyone is crafty but absolutely Everyone has qualities and characteristics that they are good at!
What are you good at? What do you love to do more than anything you have ever done?
Gratitude for 4-15-2013 and Understanding How My Behaviour Feeds My Being Overweight
I brain-farted on this, so here is Gratitude for 4-15:::
Today I am grateful that I have realized that one of the reasons I am so overweight is because I am ignorant about the different foods and recipes that are available!
I have realized that I snack throughout the day instead of preparing better choices for myself. So NOT doing that any more!! I am learning how to cook healthy meals for myself so I can get this extra weight off and so I can finally KEEP it OFF!!
I am eating oodles of veggies, fresh fruits, grains and less sweets. As of 4-22-2013, I was down to 255 from 259 which is what I weighed in at when I went to my first T.O.P.S. meeting as a member. I get to weigh in again tonight. The scale I have here at home incorrectly showed me at 250 when I weighed 259. Hopefully as I get more weight off I will be able to use it. At any rate, my focus is on preparing healthy meals and getting my weight to a manageable number.
Today I am grateful that I have realized that one of the reasons I am so overweight is because I am ignorant about the different foods and recipes that are available!
I have realized that I snack throughout the day instead of preparing better choices for myself. So NOT doing that any more!! I am learning how to cook healthy meals for myself so I can get this extra weight off and so I can finally KEEP it OFF!!
I am eating oodles of veggies, fresh fruits, grains and less sweets. As of 4-22-2013, I was down to 255 from 259 which is what I weighed in at when I went to my first T.O.P.S. meeting as a member. I get to weigh in again tonight. The scale I have here at home incorrectly showed me at 250 when I weighed 259. Hopefully as I get more weight off I will be able to use it. At any rate, my focus is on preparing healthy meals and getting my weight to a manageable number.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Gratitude for 4-27-2013 and Feeling Better About Myself
Today I am grateful for the fact that over all I am feeling much better about myself.
I feel like dressing better, standing straighter, making jewellery. I really enjoy feeling better about myself and I know that my crafting has a direct and strong bearing on that. I live to be creative, without it, I shrivel up and get very depressed. My crafting truly feeds my soul. And when I get my soul fed, my life seems to fall into place very nicely. And when I can gift my work to someone because of a kindness they gifted me with or even for charity reasons, or I provide one of my handcrafted custom pieces to a customer and I get to witness their joy firsthand, I feel like I am soaring.
I feel like dressing better, standing straighter, making jewellery. I really enjoy feeling better about myself and I know that my crafting has a direct and strong bearing on that. I live to be creative, without it, I shrivel up and get very depressed. My crafting truly feeds my soul. And when I get my soul fed, my life seems to fall into place very nicely. And when I can gift my work to someone because of a kindness they gifted me with or even for charity reasons, or I provide one of my handcrafted custom pieces to a customer and I get to witness their joy firsthand, I feel like I am soaring.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Gratitude for 4-25-2013 and Improving Coping Skills
Before, this was almost a monster in my life! I would completely avoid people or situations that intimidated me. Now I am learning patience, coping, lowering my expectations to be more realistic.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Gratitude for 4-24-2013 and Getting My Needs Met Daily
Today I am grateful that my needs get met every single day of my life!!
I have a solid roof over my head, I have plenty to eat, I have clothing I can fit in, LOL I get to go to weight loss meetings ( T.O.P.S.) and through that I have new new friends and weight loss support, I go to a church that I enjoy with good friends that I love very much!!
Do I have more wants outside of this? You bet I do and the day will come that those needs will be met too, I am steadily moving in that direction!!
I have a solid roof over my head, I have plenty to eat, I have clothing I can fit in, LOL I get to go to weight loss meetings ( T.O.P.S.) and through that I have new new friends and weight loss support, I go to a church that I enjoy with good friends that I love very much!!
Do I have more wants outside of this? You bet I do and the day will come that those needs will be met too, I am steadily moving in that direction!!
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Gratitude for 4-23-2013 and Cherished Friends
I am grateful for the loving friends I have around me and for how they make me feel loved every single day of my life!
Back when I was drinking, I hung out with other alcoholics and it was a very crazy life. They were not nurturing, solid people and neither was I. My life felt empty and I drank to excess trying to fill the voids I could not escape.
Now I have over 5 years of sobriety and have been in psychotherapy long enough to get to the root of what has ailed me for so many years. The friends I have today, the people I am the closest to enrich my life simply by showing up. I have dear friends who have similar interests to mine and they are loving and nurturing people. I am a novice at crocheting and they applaud my small achievements and encourage me to do more. They love everything I create craft wise and rally behind me to support me in my weight loss journey. I would be very sad, lonely and depressed with out them!
Back when I was drinking, I hung out with other alcoholics and it was a very crazy life. They were not nurturing, solid people and neither was I. My life felt empty and I drank to excess trying to fill the voids I could not escape.
Now I have over 5 years of sobriety and have been in psychotherapy long enough to get to the root of what has ailed me for so many years. The friends I have today, the people I am the closest to enrich my life simply by showing up. I have dear friends who have similar interests to mine and they are loving and nurturing people. I am a novice at crocheting and they applaud my small achievements and encourage me to do more. They love everything I create craft wise and rally behind me to support me in my weight loss journey. I would be very sad, lonely and depressed with out them!
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