Making Peace With the ME I AM TODAY :-)
So, I have been meditating on a few things. The 8 hr round trip drive to Charlotte gives you time to meditate. I have decided I need to love the me I am now! I have been focused so much on what I'll look like and feel like post op, that I sometimes I forget I'm here NOW! And, I have the right to love me just as I am, fat rolls and all. I don't have to wait to get to my goal weight.
I have been so obsessed with finding protein shakes, scheduling pre-op testing, figuring out Cigna, finances, worrying about post op pain, loose skin, DYING!!! You know the food dreams have not helped either. Well, I have neglected to have my ME TIME. You know the time you do your nails, get a pedicure, do the at home facial, bubble baths, etc.
I have come to the conclusion I need to love the NOW me, because she will be disappearing soon, and I'll never have the change to commune with her again.
I reflected back on some info I gathered from a life coach years ago, and this poem came to mind. It helps that this poem is shaped like me. I hope it inspires you to love the NOW you too. Whether you're pre or post op, have already had reconstructive surgery, or your belly and boobs hang to your knees, YOU ARE OK!
My Declaration of Self-Esteem
by Virginia Satir
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me
Everything that comes out of me is authentically me
Because I alone chose it - I own everything about me
My body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
Whether they be to others or to myself - I own my fantasies,
My dreams, my hopes, my fears - I own all my triumphs and
Successes, all my failures and mistakes Because I own all of
Me, I can become intimately acquainted with me - by so doing
I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts - I know
There are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other
Aspects that I do not know - but as long as I am
Friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously
And hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles
And for ways to find out more about me - However I
Look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever
I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically
Me - If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought
And felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is
Unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that
Which I discarded - I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do-
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be
Productive to make sense and order out of the world of
People and things outside of me - I own me, and
therefore I can engineer me - I am me and
I AM OKAY
**** I AM AN OH SUPPORT GROUP LEADER ****
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there were three other people. ~Orson Wells
Hello Sweetie,
I just wanted to let you know that I think that you are a wonderful person. You have come a long way and I'm one that is really proud of all that you have sone.
I'm sorry that you are feeing so BLUE today. I'm here if you need me.
Hug's
Jeannie
I just wanted to let you know that I think that you are a wonderful person. You have come a long way and I'm one that is really proud of all that you have sone.
I'm sorry that you are feeing so BLUE today. I'm here if you need me.
Hug's
Jeannie
Jeannie Armstrong 
OH Support Group Leader
RNY 07/27/06
sw358/ cw 175/ qw 175 to 160
I have been blessed with God's Help!
For those in GEORGIA come and join us at PEDMONT HENRY MEDICAL CENTER in the EDUCATIONAL BUILDING in Foundation Board room the 4th TUESDAY of each month at 6:30pm.
http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/jeannie4759_group/tab,0/page,1/#my_groups_main:1
OH Support Group Leader
RNY 07/27/06
sw358/ cw 175/ qw 175 to 160
I have been blessed with God's Help!
For those in GEORGIA come and join us at PEDMONT HENRY MEDICAL CENTER in the EDUCATIONAL BUILDING in Foundation Board room the 4th TUESDAY of each month at 6:30pm.
http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/jeannie4759_group/tab,0/page,1/#my_groups_main:1
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