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I Love My… Brave, Empowering Women!

August 31, 2010 By 3 Comments

Ladies, I’m sure most of us don’t stop by the mirror each day and say what we love about ourselves. Why not start your day saying, “I love my….” because it will make you feel good, positive and energetic for the day. This September issue these amazing women took the simple task and completed the sentence, I Love My… Let's share with women all over and help them notice their beauty and say it out loud!

Feel free to complete this sentence, I Love My… in the comment box below! Enjoy!

1. I love my passion

I Love My...: I am passionate about my career - wellness coaching. I have always believed when you take exceptionally good care of yourself you have more energy and strength to give to others, and lead a life you will love and deserve. Helping others to embrace health and wellness, and create a lifestyle plan that works for their unique circumstances, is incredibly rewarding.
Thanks to: Ellen Goldman of EnerG Coaching, LLC.

2. Crooked Teeth

I Love My...: My two front teeth look like chicklets, according to my husband. Remember those little white squares of gum - the original gum sold in cardboard container? Now squares of gum come in very fancy cardboard packaging, in all flavors. My two front teeth aren't that fancy, white, or that large. But they dip in a bit to the middle front, so the edges that should be in line with the eye teeth stick out a bit. Most people don't see this flaw because it's not that noticeable - my lips are thin so my smile is not what you first notice about my face. But it's my special 'feature' that my husband loves and always comments on. When I'm down, his goal is to make me smile and show off those chicklets. THAT is why I love my crooked teeth!
Thanks to: Renee Montgomery.

3. Brown Eyed Girl

I Love My...: I Love My Eyes because they see the world with an artists palette and are able to visualize beauty in everyone and everything.
Thanks to: Frankie Picasso of Unstoppable Frankie Picasso.

4. I Love My.......LIFE!

I Love My...: Yes I do! Sadly I haven't always... I tolerated it doing what I thought I had to do... This was until Friday... January 13th...2006.

At the age of 38 I was diagnosed with stage III (almost stage IV) breast cancer - doctors said five years if I was lucky...

It was a reality check for me...

Life... what did mine really consist of...

A month after starting chemo I was put on unpaid medical leave. Now financially struggling I sought help from well known cancer organizatioins only to learn that they did not provide financial assistance.

I couldn't believe it and decided to do something about it...

Nine months later...Bald headed with one breast removed I founded Christians Overcoming Cancer with a purpose of helping everyone succeed on their road to recovery by offering emotional support and financial relief services...

Today I absolutely love my life! Knowing I am giving hope to others motivates me daily...

Everyday I now realize what loving life really means...
Thanks to: Mary Jenkins of Christians Overcoming Cancer.

5. I love my...

I Love My...: I love my face because it radiates my happiness and calmness, which is the state in which I most like to exist. When I allow myself to experience deep happiness, my face is luminous. My facial muscles are relaxed, my skin glows and my eyes smile. Of course, my face also radiates negativity when I am angry or sad, so when I see the beautiful face from happiness it reminds me that this is how I want to be.
Thanks to: wendy knight of Knight and Day Communications.

6. Ugly Duckling No More

I Love My...: I love my head tremor because I feel as classy as Katherine Hepburn with it. I love looking into my blue eyes because I see God's love. I love the scar on my leg because it reminds me that I am a warrior woman who has triumphed over so many challenges. I love my smile which reminds me to accentuate the positive. I love the gray in my hair which reminds me I've lived life with purpose and passion. I love the scar on my shoulder because it reminds me of a surgeon's healing touch. I love my arms with their little 'flabbies' because they are able to embrace loved ones. I love the love handles on my back. I love the beauty in all of the imperfections in my body in this perfect creation of God.I love my beautiful skin with its wrinkles from smiling and worry. I am so grateful that I am able to move all parts of this magnificent body and that this beautiful body enabled me to cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon at the age of 55 years old as a polio/post polio survivor.
Thanks to: Mary McManus of New World Greeting Cards.

7. Who Wants to Play?

I Love My...: I love my playful nature. Have you ever felt down and needed a lift? When life gets too serious, do you get depressed, frustrated and go within yourself? Or do you dissipate this mood with another form...HUMOR? When I get overloaded, I look in the mirror and remember my strengths: honesty, compassion and generosity. This brings me back to my balance. But it's my sense of humor; remembering that "childlike" quality in me that continues to want to "play". Life can be stressful and one of the first things to go by the wayside is our sense of fun and play. What do you do for fun or to play? Walking in the rain, WITHOUT AN UNBRELLA? PLAYING WITH PLAYDOUGH? GETTING YOUR FINGERS DIRTY, REALLY DIRTY? FACE PAINTING WITH A FRIEND? WADING IN A MUD PUDDLE? DO YOU LAUGH UNTIL YOUR STOMACH ACHES? Look in the mirror think of something you did as a child that you loved about yourself. What tickled your funny bone?
Thanks to: Sallie Felton of Sallie Felton LLC.

8. Long Eyelashes

I Love My...: I love my long eyelashes so much that I make it a point to accentuate them with mascara each day. That's enough to make me feel super confident and sexy!
Thanks to: April Bowles-Olin of Blacksburg Belle.

9. How I Roll

I Love My...: I love my rolls. Not fat rolls but wheat and carb-filled turbo energy love bombs. I do. I'm so passionate about rolls that I decided to become a professional pastry chef and spread fat and sugar on my rolls. Again, not my fat rolls. Yikes. Later when I became a mother I expanded my rolls...but this time the fat ones on my patootie. It was a little shocking how quickly they expanded. My love of pastry didn't end and as I enjoyed creating new exciting breads and blogging about bread in general, I perfected a bread painting technique. It was soon published in Australian Baking Business Magazine.I then again was shocked as my "rolls" expanded. I was invited to appear on our local Fox 10 news station as a guest chef. Before near panic set in, I came to the realization...I am all about the rolls. I love my rolls. All of them. The fat patootie ones and the bread ones. I decided I would let my love shine through. After all...it's love that makes a person beautiful...and that's how I roll.
Thanks to: Stephanie Petersen of Chef Tess Bakeresse.

10. It feels soooo! good!

I Love My...: I love myself. For many years I lived life not really knowing who I was because of an identity crises as result of childhood issues involving the absence of my dad, incest and several incidents of molestation. By the grace of God and through forgiveness I have learned that I am valuable, I have self-worth and I am the only person on the face of the earth like me. My realization of learning who I am causes me not only to love myself, but when I look in the mirror now I actually like who I am even if I have not washed my face or combed my hair. I see all of what I missed in myself as a wonderful person. Other people telling me pales in comparison to me knowing for myself. It feels soooo! good.
Thanks to: LaVerne Mitchell of LaVerne Mitchell Ministries.

11. I Love My Eyes

I Love My...: I love my eyes because they see beauty in everyone. My eyes help me to expand my vision of things greater than myself. I love my eyes because they are compassionate and soft. My eyes are blue and look like my mother's eyes. My eyes allow me to look with delight upon my family. They offer me new worlds in literature and other sources. They show me suffering and desperate need. My eyes are operated by my brain which gives vision even without sight. Where do these beautiful eyes come from? God knows...they are one of many senses available to help us decipher our world. I love my eyes.
Thanks to: Lisa Kneller of LisaKneller.com.

12. Goddess Body

I Love My...: I love my healthy, strong, flexible, resilient (now) 51 year old Goddess Body that has experienced alot of love, many wonderful adventures and anticipates more of both.
Thanks to: Edie Weinstein of By Divine Design.

13. Fantastic Toes

I Love My...: I love my toes. They are cute, beautifully shaped, perfectly positioned, and have earned me the endearing nickname “Monkey Toes” for my ability to stretch them out away from each other. No need for toe dividers for me; pedicures are a synch! (Yes, those are MY toes in the picture.)
Thanks to: Sarah Eve of TotallyHer.com.

14. Jam on your Bear buns?

I Love My...: I'm a pastry chef and mom. I got my start years ago baking bread with my mother. Every year we would make bear shaped rolls and hand them out to friends and family. I'd be the one who got to ask, "Do you want butter or jam on your bear buns." Ironically I never really wanted anyone to see my *bare* buns. I've always been exceedingly aware of my sound girth in that region. One patootie patty seems a little lop-sided. Not that I've spent a lot of time carefully measuring the circumference of each half moon. Who has? If they have, they have way too much confidence. I know the type. The ones who walk down the road shaking their region as if saying, "look at my butt." I may not be the only women in the USA who wants to love the shape of my patootie. The pressure I feel as a TV guest chef makes it seem even bigger...by 10 lbs!. Yes, here's the real me. True confession...I really would love to be able to say, "look at my bare buns!"I'll settle for showing off the bear buns instead.
Thanks to: Chef Stephanie Petersen of Chef Tess Bakeresse.

15. Keep smiling

I Love My...: I love my smile. It brightens up my face and my entire mood. People always tell me that my smile is contagious.
Thanks to: Vida Ghaffari.

Jennifer Malocha of Wuhoo Fitness

16. Smile it's Contagious!

I Love My...: I love my playful spirit, accepting heart, laughing eyes and warm welcoming smile. I love my ability to believe in you until you can believe in yourself. I love my courage to say yes to opportunities and my strength to say no when I need to. I love my HUGE open heart that\'s filled with love. I love discovering the wonder of who you are. I love who I am. I love what I do. I LOVE the people in my life. I love discovering God\'s plan for me. I love this journey that is my life. I love being able to help people discover and see how AMAZING they really are. I love life. I love being tall and strong and capable. I love being a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend. I love being ME!
Thanks to: Jennifer Malocha of Wuhoo Fitness.

17. I Envision Beauty!

I Love My...: I Love My... large, almond-shaped eyes mainly because they see through the lens of my heart. Having these gorgeous eyes with the acuity to perceive extraordinary inward beauty is my greatest gift.

As I envision and exemplify the splendor that exists within the human spirit an atmosphere in harmony with the Universe's abundance emerges.

My eyes...exotic, engaging and essential actually facilitate the beautified vision, insight and foresight that empowers others to more clearly see their own beauty and potential.

Such a beautiful sight! ♥ ♥

Thanks to: Val McLeod of Conversations with V!.

18. My Beautiful Brown

I Love My...: I Love My.... Beautiful, beautiful brown...brown skin that is! I love the hue, smooth and dark like a Hershey's Kiss...glowing under the love and care of coconut oil and shea butter! Soft and sweet, I now understand what I did not know as a child...this is GOD's gift to me... and I am made exactly as I am suppose to be. I embrace the power of its strength and the sweetness of its vulnerability, it reminds me of the beauty in my heart, the love of my life and that GOD loves me just as I am. My beautiful Brown Skin...I love it every single day!
Thanks to: Tracey Cobb of Living Authentically YOU!.

19. Make life Work

I Love My...: I love myself. I am free of limitation. My life is filled with endless possibilities. I am more than enough.
Thanks to: Judi Moreo of Turning Point International.

20. Smiling for Emphasis :)

I Love My...: I love my eye wrinkles...because they remind me of how many times the people I love have made me smile and laugh!
Thanks to: Michele Howe of Burdens Do a Body Good.

21. Believe in Yourself!

I Love My...: I love my knowledge that I have full control over how my life looks. That our lives are not dependent on external factors, but on our own inner self-confidence and self-esteem. That we can develop and maintain a positive attitude which can bring us life-altering, confidence-building,goosebumps!

It is all possible, if you truly Believe in Yourself!!
Thanks to: Mary Jones of WDRC-AM Hartford, CT.

22. Have a love affair with life.

I Love My...: I love my home, smile, opportunity to change other peoples lives.
Thanks to: Marlene Waldock of 1st Impression Communication.

23. I love my eyes and my smile

I Love My...: I love my eyes and my smile, but most of all, I love myself. I am far from perfect, but I love who I have become and keep developing into.
Thanks to: Roberta Perry of Scrubz Body Scrub, Inc.

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Comments

  1. Barbara Schmitt says:
    September 10, 2010 at 10:13 PM

    I love my kind, accepting and encouraging nature. I love to make people smile, especially those who find it difficult to do so. I love to see in others the beauty they might not see in themselves.
    I love my family with all my heart and am joyful when they freely share their love with me. I love that three generations of my family choose to enjoy so many moment together. I love how the synergy of our relationships makes each of us invincible!

  2. Lauren M says:
    January 21, 2011 at 3:35 PM

     I  love my attitude towards life. That I can look at life and appreciate all it has to offer. Even though every day may not be perfect, I am able to reflect and realize what I am great full for. That life is too short, that every moment is precious, and I have been given an awesome gift!  

  3. Susan says:
    January 21, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    Lauren! LOVE IT! YOU win!! Not only because you are the only one who participated, but this is perfect!

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