Sweet and Savory

by | Oct 18, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  I love flipping through cookbooks to get new Ideas. “Miraval’s sweet” did just that. I have been curious about all the different types of flours for baking, almond flour, tapioca flour, and coconut flour and in this book you get different ideas in how to use...

Not So Woeful Post

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

Strengthen us O God, to relieve the oppressed, to hear the groans of poor prisoners, to reform the abuses of all professions; that many be made not poor to make a few rich, for Jesus Christ sake. Oliver Cromwell   Give me, O Lord, the courage I need in good and bad...

Being A Health Activist

by | Oct 16, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

I woke up to a surprise email from WEGO Health. Apparently I have been nominated in the Best in Show health Activist.  I never saw myself as a health activist, but someone else thought enough of Jamie Chases Butterflies to nominate me. I nominated a couple of blogs...

The Dalai Lama’s Cat

by | Oct 11, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  “The Dalai Lama’s Cat” is a joy to read. A story told from the cat’s perspective about the Dalai Lama and the relationships he encountered while in Tibet. Snow tiger’s character is a riot to me. His ferocious appetite for food and all the things he is learning...

Surgery Day 1

by | Oct 11, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

I woke from a knock on my door my neighbor Christopher was checking on me to make sure I am doing okay and if I needed anything. I am starting to realize that I am building healthy relationships with people who actually care, even men. I have had a lot of uncaring men...

13 MM

by | Oct 10, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

  October 9th, I experienced my 39th throat surgery in the last four years. This one was different, this one I have hope for living a throat healthy and happy life. While my sister in law and I had to wait a bit longer for my surgery to me it was worth. All the...

D Day!

by | Oct 8, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

I hate packing, especially when I am heading to the hospital tomorrow morning for surgery. I never know what I should bring with me. I never know how long I will be staying. Of course, I bring my lap top. Thankfully, they have internet there so I can update my blog...

Restoration

by | Oct 6, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

Restoration seems to be on this ladies mind this week. My throat is being restored to a healthy state. I never thought, yes I will admit that a part of me lost hope of ever having the ability to breathe like everyone else in this world. Yet, God is so awesome I am...

Happy Hormones!

by | Oct 5, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

A few years ago my sister Carri followed and still in some ways follows the Jorge Cruise Belly Fat Cure from several years ago. She bought me the book I just never took the time to truly follow his plan. I was in the middle of battling things with my health and...

Your Life Calling

by | Oct 4, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  Reinvention is the theme of Jane Pauley’s book “Your Life Calling”. Throughout this delightful book Pauley shares stories of those you have had to reinvent themselves. I was deeply moved and I was reminded that I am in the process of reinvention. I love...

Change Is Amazing

by | Oct 3, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

  Change has been an intricate part of my life. Change reared its ugly head when I was 13 and my mother passed away and I was left without a mother, a home, and embarking on a new journey. The journey was living with my sister and her family. I lasted there for 6...

Fatty Patty

by | Oct 2, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  I needed a fun book to read since I have a lot going on in my life right now concerning my health and it seemed like I have been focusing my reading on non-fiction and not fiction at all. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I read a fiction book. Fatty...

A New Idea

by | Oct 1, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey, Weight

One week has passed since I got the hopeful news from Otolaryngologist. I have been processing the new information and ruminating on what my future looks like. Yes, I am nervous about my upcoming surgery October 9th. I am always a bit anxious when I am facing surgery,...

Cavewomen Don’t Get Fat

by | Sep 30, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  Esther Blum’s book “Cavewomen Don’t Get Fat” explains the Paleo eating plan and what it all entails along with scientific facts. I have been reading about and hearing about the Paleo eating plan for a while and I have been curious to if it would help me with my...

Pulse

by | Sep 27, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

I love beans. I never heard it called Pulse before, but I am up to trying the interesting and new recipes that Chandler has in her cookbook. I love that she shares ideas and different ways from many different cultures, such as Indian, African, and Mediterranean. Each...

Hope Flutters

by | Sep 25, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

Hope has taken over my heart. Seeping out of my skin and shining out of my eyes and my voice when I speak reigns with hope. I haven’t felt hope in a long time.  Since I got my trach I have been living in a dark place, though it may not seem like it. Yes, I was...

My Fears

by | Sep 24, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

  “There is no fear in love dread does not exist but full-grown complete perfect love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of error! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love is...

Life In Transition

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

“Life in Transition” offers the reader a chance to dive deeper into their soul.  To dig, to prod, to ruminate on how they want their lives to be. The journal exercises and the spiritual exercises open up the heart to a new perspective, a new way of healing the pain of...

An Unimaginable Act

by | Sep 22, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

I wanted to read “An Unimaginable Act”. This book was a challenge for me to read, not because the writing was bad or that I thought Erin was full of lies, but because it resonated with the hurt little girl inside of me that was sexually abused when I was young. Though...

Life Reconnected

by | Sep 20, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  “Life Reconnected” is a book about finding one’s self after suffering a loss. I know that after friend/partner in life passed away in 2004 and then I started getting sick in 2008 loss was inevitable. I lived in denial and found anyway to mask and make the pain...

The Path

by | Sep 19, 2013 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey, Weight

I have been reading my daily devotional “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young and this particular phrase she writes hit me hard. “Though I may lead you along paths that feel alien to you, trust that I know what I am doing. If you follow Me wholeheartedly, you will discover...

Ginger For Inflammation

by | Sep 18, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

“Change is inevitable. It is sure to happen. You haven’t done anything wrong or bad or stupid. If something isn’t working in your life it is simply because you haven’t got the tools or techniques to access all that you really need to put it right.”  Penny C. McClean I...

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