This morning I created a podcast:
http://mindfulcoachingandtherapy.podomatic.com/entry/2014-02-18T09_37_37-08_00
I do hope you click the link and listen in.
I'm talking about negative energy and the power it has to zap and affect your mood. Are you feeling grumpy or constantly in a nasty mood? I challenge you to get rid of that negativity. We are going to be affected by negative energy at some point, but how do we get rid of it and move on?
Celebrating my mom
This is my family on New Year's Eve, minus me.
This next week will be my mother's 80th birthday and I keep thinking about how all her children will be there to celebrate this day with her. I also think about how she raised me and my siblings. We had both my parents, my father never left my mom or his family. Both people were very strong willed and at the same time, pretty level headed.
My mom and my father were the disciplinarians in the home, they didn't advocate the rule to either one. They both ruled together and they were united. But there was something about my mom, like most mothers, I'm sure that really set her apart. Recently, I heard my oldest sister telling my mom that she appreciated her and how she was the best mom for us kids. That is so true. She went on to explain to my mom that she never made us feel like we were worthless or that we weren't going to amount to much in life. She has always been supportive and encouraging. I didn't have the best relationship with my mom growing up, but, I'd have to agree with my sister, my mom never treated me poorly. She did her best coming to a country that was foreign and tried to raise her daughter the way her mother would have raised her and her siblings, yet, that was a different custom. Two very different cultures, and what I am sure must of felt like worlds apart.
When I think about my empowerment, I think about my mom. I think of how she met a man, a total stranger and after several failed proposals (on his part) he was able to get her to marry him and bring her to a country she knew so little about and how she made a life for herself here with no friends and definitely no family. Everything she knew she left in her home country. Talk about power and empowerment. She was brave and courageous and a real risk taker. That just amazes me.
I don't know what your relationship was like with your mother, or if she was there for you when you were growing up and in my practice I teach women who feel they didn't get all they needed from their mothers, that they need to give themselves what they believe is missing. You do have the power to be strong and courageous. You can be the risk taker and the adventurer. You are empowered, you aren't the victim of your circumstances, you can make those changes and face all the challenges life throws at you. You have the power and its in them shoes.
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