TRAVEL BLOG

Just ME If I did not have a GREAT relationship with myself, I would be a complete mess.   This is just not a physical existence for me, but a very deep spiritual bond with God, and being truly content with me and my life.   The healthy lifestyle that I maintain comes from how I treat myself, how I allow others to treat me, how that is perceived, how I grow from my journey, continually being enlightened by both positive and negative experiences, setting healthy boundaries, and wrapping all that up into how I respond to life’s circumstances.     As I have journeyed through this life, I have suffered physically and emotionally and would not be honest if I did not say that I have felt the sting of both from time to time even now.   The difference in the now is my past experiences have been a life education on how to love myself enough to see things and handle things in a healthy way, and navigate through boundaries that I now have to take care of me.   A great...

Happy New Year! I live with expectations for myself, and push the word of anticipation of something to happen into making it happen.   Truly, I am responsible for my own expectations and waiting around just does not make sense.   The problem with expectations, and I have been guilty in years gone way past of this BIG NO NO…creating “unrealistic expectations”…you know…the kind that we create in our heads that say, and I will use “he” for this example, is going to surprise me with flowers, dinner, dancing and when “he” shows up offering nothing but his cute self ready to tune in to some sports event on TV, a 3-alarm fire goes off in our heads, feelings of anger and OMG…how could he let me down like that…and guess what…the night is ruined…WHY…Did he do anything…NO.   What did I do … well, I created this unrealistic expectation in my own mind…HOW CRAZY IS THAT.   Can you relate…been there and done that maybe? Or still doing that?   I stopped thinking in “Cinderella...