Elizabeth Patch's More to Love Blog » Inspiration http://elizabethpatch.com Art & Inspiration for All Sizes! Sun, 20 May 2012 20:47:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 I Hate My Face http://elizabethpatch.com/2012/04/i-hate-my-face.html http://elizabethpatch.com/2012/04/i-hate-my-face.html#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:30:28 +0000 elizabeth patch http://elizabethpatch.com/?p=6737

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How many times have you had (or overheard) this conversation: “I hate my hips, my boobs, my thighs, my butt” ? I’ve lost count… May women (regardless of size) fight an almost daily battle to learn to live in our bodies with confidence and positive attitude.

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The seeds of change I plant today become the garden of my dreams.

No, I’m not just speaking of plants… Whether it’s achieving a long term goal or carrying on with a long term project, tiny seeds sometimes take a very long time to flower and bear fruit.

The big dreams in anyone’s garden take time. A beautiful

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Healthy Attitude

Lose weight? Maybe. Maybe Not.

I exercise for strength, for health, for  fun, for me!

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Do you think of exercise only for the purpose of weight loss?

Is the joy of walking through a park in springtime measured by how many calories you burn?

Does the feeling of power you get when

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It can be very inspiring to admire and emulate those who are the best in their fields: athletes, artists, masters of anything from cooking to dancing to fashion design. But it can also be very disheartening: No matter how much I try, or how how I work at it I’ll never be as good as  (name

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]]> http://elizabethpatch.com/2012/01/practice-makes-imperfect.html/feed 8 2012: Live a Large Life! http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/12/2012-live-a-large-life.html http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/12/2012-live-a-large-life.html#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:24:47 +0000 elizabeth patch http://elizabethpatch.com/?p=6438 In 2012: Live a large life, whatever size you wear!

The interwebs are full of good ideas for New Year’s Resolutions (and lots of reasons why they fail!) so I’ll just give you one simple sentence to start the New Year off on a positive note: I live a large life whatever size I wear!

2011 New Year’s

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So very much of our lives as women are colored by feelings that everything must be “perfect”: the perfect body, the perfect face, the perfect hair, the perfect home, the perfect clothes and the perfect holidays.

Must buy the perfect gift! Must bake the perfect cookies! Must have the

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I never let my size determine the shape of my dreams!

Go get a piece of paper. Make a list of every single thing that you wanted to be when you were a kid. Yes, even rockstar!

Get another piece of paper. Make a list of every single thing that you would love to be now, as

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Thanksgiving brings it’s own unique stresses. whether you are cooking at home or traveling as a guest. Preparing for a feast with dozens of traditional dishes and a houseful of guests requires major planning and hours of work. Being stuck in traffic for hours, or delayed/overbooked flights is no

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I just Googled “real woman” and got over 4,000,000 results.

Sometimes “real woman” is a scientific description of chromosomes and hormonal levels, sometimes it refers to religious or cultural ideas about how women should behave, sometimes its about being trans-gender. But more often than not the term “real woman” is a reference to a women whose body

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