: About Me

"I'm Just Beginning, The Pen's In My Hand, Ending Unplanned

Staring At The Blank Page Before You, Open Up The Dirty Window
Let The Sun Illuminate The Words That You Could Not Find
Reaching For Something In The Distance
So Close You Can Almost Taste It
Release Your Inhibitions

Feel The Rain On Your Skin
No One Else Can Feel It For You
Only You Can Let It In
No One Else, No One Else
Can Speak The Words On Your Lips
Drench Yourself In Words Unspoken
Live Your Life With Arms Wide Open
Today Is Where Your Book Begins
The Rest Is Still Unwritten

I Break Tradition, Sometimes My Tries, Are Outside The Lines
We've Been Conditioned To Not Make Mistakes, But I Can't Live That Way"

~ Natasha Bedingfield (Unwritten)

My passion is ...

anything that touches my spirit.

I know too much about ...

weight loss

My parents always told me ...

that I needed to follow my heart

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a writer (just kidding, seriously - I wanted to be a veterinarian just like all my other friends!)

My favorite memory ...

my wedding day.

Why I write ...

I write to process emotions, to learn about myself, to share my life experiences with others who may benefit, to be brutally honest about my mistakes and lessons learned, to touch my spirit.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Lately I've been knitting and watching the series Alias on DVD.

My first job ...

PETsMART, where I learned everything there is to know about cats, dogs, small animals, fish, amphibians...

My best moment ...

"Friends and Loved Ones, we now present to you Peggy and Lisa Papez"

My inspiration ...

My wife, my step-sons, the Goddess, nature...

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: How losing weight hurt my self image

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Healthier, But Not Necessarily Prettier: How Losing Weight Has Hurt My Self-Image As I grew up from a chubby child to an overweight adult, I always thought to myself... "Wow, if I could be skinny I would just be so much prettier and I would be popular and get the kind of attention I've always seen the other girls get". This thought process almost always led to a sudden burst of motivation to lose weight, to eat less. I borrowed my mother's diet kits and tried them, but living with my parents that was nearly impossible. I tried other things too, here and there. There was never any real conv...

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