Our Featured Guest Writer Today is: Laurie Andreoni, President, Waking
Dream Designs
Alopecia,
or hair loss, is a chemotherapy side effect that many of us fear more than any
other aspect of treatment. With no hair and the high stress of cancer treatment
how can you maintain confidence?
Have you heard of Zumba? The hip-hop, Latin infused work-out that middle aged women like me are swarming to? I heard about it from my sister-in-law and checked out a class at the Y. In my first class, the time flew by, 60 minutes seemed like 5! I stuck around for the next class and make sure I go regularly.
Seriously, and I got to shake my old booty and for a few minutes felt hip, not that my hips were too big or I was a pretender on the dance floor. As I said to another friend, who’s a pediatric physician and professor, hey, this class is one way us menopausal girls can feel “hot” and I don’t mean from hot flashes.
I love to dance, and unfortunately, don’t have as many opportunities as I used to. It makes you feel great, lively and wakes up all those feel good endorphins. The beat of the music makes you want to move it!
I can keep up, work up a sweat and move it, shake it and bop along. If you haven’t tried Zumba, get your butt off the couch and check it out!
We are all on a journey and many of us journal to keep track, to make sense, and just to express ourselves. I love the whimsical art of Violette Clark a talented artist, who has offered to give away a copy of her newest book JOURNAL BLISS.
Starting on June 15th you can visit my other website: www.CraftForHealth.com and post your comment on her entry. That’s all you have to do! Then we’ll draw a name from everyone who commented and find the lucky winner. The winner will have a chance to send us their original art journal page and inspiring story about their own healing journey through art journaling on Craft for Health. Good Luck!
About the Book and Author:
Journal Bliss: Creative Prompts to
Unleash your Inner Eccentric By Violette Clark
“Be inspired by pages and pages of
artistic inspiration and prompts designed to embrace your inner eccentric. In
Journal Bliss, join author Violette as she shares her illustrations, fonts,
doodles, and soul-searching prompts - freeing you to start your own
visual-journal journey. Express yourself openly in a style that is uplifting
and fun!”
Violette is a Canadian
Artist born in
On May 20th, I will be interviewing Sally Field!
Wow, I am so excited and can't wait to talk with her about her work empowering and educating women about Osteoporosis.
I'll post the tape as soon as it's available.
Stay tuned for more fun!!!
This post was written in salon.com by Mary Elizabeth Williams.
Boyle reminds us that not all fortysomething women are sleek, Botoxed beauties. She has wiry, graying hair, bushy eyebrows and a few extra pounds. She is, in short, a human being, first presented to us unaffectedly munching a sandwich. And the audacity of someone like her, someone who is not 25 or beautiful, someone who has never had a professional musical career, who admits to never having even been kissed getting out there and belting one out intrigues us.
Yet when Boyle sings, our identification transfers instantly to her. She's us. A regular, imperfect, unairbrushed person, an intimate friend of rejection and loneliness and mockery and disappointment. A person who, in spite of everything, clings resolutely to the conviction that there is something inside her that's very special. A person who says "I Dreamed a Dream" but knows that dreams are very much an enduring, present-tense affair. And who longs with every ounce of that dreaming specialness to be, even for just one moment, heard.
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