Turn Fear & Worry Upside Down

Gratitude and “The Color of Truth”

Nov 252012
 
Gratitude and "The Color of Truth"

Expressing Gratitude I love the gratitude that is expressed at Thanksgiving.  All of the earnest offerings of Giving Thanks, spoken aloud around dinner tables across the US.  The thousands of Facebook posts, where friends declare publicly what they’re most thankful for. I, like many of you, am grateful for my health.  When I stop to monitor my unencumbered breath in, breath out, I can’t help but be reminded that I indeed have my health to be grateful for: cancer-free.  The gratitude I have around my health is as vibrant, loud, and enormous, as any hot air balloon would be to Continue reading >>

 November 25, 2012  Posted by at 1:53 AM No Responses »

How To Stop Feeling Annoyed

Jun 062012
 
How To Stop Feeling Annoyed

Oh, How This Synchronicity Wowed Me! Do you ever have days when you just feel IRRITATED — BY — EVERYTHING?  Like everyone on the planet is conspiring to annoy you? You go, sit with your cuppa tea, dog at your feet, and breathe.  (Not that this is me I’m writing about — heavens no!) But the cuppa doesn’t help.  The breathing doesn’t help.  Okay, stroking the dog gently with my foot does help….  So I stroke some more.  I feel her warmth.  Her peace.  I rest my foot lightly on her torso, observing the rise and fall with each inhale Continue reading >>

 June 6, 2012  Posted by at 6:51 AM 6 Responses »

Being Wrong Ain’t Always Bad

Jan 112012
 
Being Wrong Ain't Always Bad

Doctors, Doctors, and More Doctors Between my older son and I, we have almost every ~ologist, as he calls them, that you can imagine. Endocrinologist, nephrologist, radiologist, neurologist, pediatric ophthalmologist, dermatologist, gynecologist, audiologist, and now, an oncologist.  Then there are the non-ologists: ENT, geneticist, breast surgeon, and a few others I’ve probably forgotten, but these are the regulars. Although I never dreamed our family would have the need for a pediatric endocrinologist (to monitor a completely non-functioning thyroid in my son), two nephrologists (kidney doctors), a geneticist (to tie this lovely mess together for me), or many of the other Continue reading >>

 January 11, 2012  Posted by at 12:02 AM No Responses »

Grateful: The Big, The Small (and PLENTY in-between)

Dec 282011
 
Grateful: The Big, The Small (and PLENTY in-between)

What do getting rid of Spanx, dog walking, hair, breathing, and Trust all have in common? Based on today’s title, if you guessed: Things Leslie is Grateful For, you’d be 100% correct!   I was released yesterday by my plastic surgeon to: begin light weight bearing exercise (up to 5 pounds) – yes walk the dog – Yes! ditch my Spanx – YES!! For those who are unfamiliar with the lovely world of Spanx, I wouldn’t mention this to its founder, but I see them as a glorified girdle.  Although not keen on the idea of wiggling into this compression Continue reading >>

 December 28, 2011  Posted by at 12:34 AM 8 Responses »

Joy or Breath… Which Came First?

Dec 122011
 

I awoke from surgery very groggy, as one would expect.  As I write, an undercurrent of lethargy still exists with every breath I take.  While the anesthesia wears off, I feel a mixture of that same lethargy, combined with increasing soreness. Yet through the many feelings I’m experiencing, the one that stands out and trumps all others is the feeling of Joy. From the moment I became aware I was out of surgery, although I hadn’t yet opened my eyes, I felt joy.  Not happiness, not contentment, but the joy of knowing: It’s Over. The realization that that Joy existed Continue reading >>

 December 12, 2011  Posted by at 12:28 AM 3 Responses »
 Older Entries