By elizabeth patch, on April 1st, 2012
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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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By elizabeth patch, on March 25th, 2012
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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By elizabeth patch, on February 5th, 2012
It was Friday and I was exhausted from the usual week of…
well, you know, “lady stuff” like family and home and a job and relationships and etc.
So I thought I would have some “girly down time” with a glass of wine and a fashion magazine. But as I flipped through
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By elizabeth patch, on January 21st, 2012
I often find myself dreaming
of the perfect, simple, quiet, beautiful life
free of drama and stress…
It involves long, unbroken stretches of quiet time where I can write and draw and paint and garden.
In this dream world, I take long walks in picturesque and unspoiled countryside.
I am in great physical condition from
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By elizabeth patch, on January 8th, 2012
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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By elizabeth patch, on December 11th, 2011
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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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By elizabeth patch, on December 2nd, 2011
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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By elizabeth patch, on November 25th, 2011
I ate like a pig.
Now I feel like a whale.
Or maybe a hippo,
or an elephant or a blubbery walrus.
I am a disgusting, worthless big fat ugly cow…
A “food hangover” is a very real
physical feeling:
Your belly is bloated and your clothes feel
uncomfortably tight around the waist.
Maybe you are also gassy,
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By elizabeth patch, on November 5th, 2011
The 3rd Annual Lady Land Holiday Insanity illustration is here!
The holidays can be an enormously stressful
time of year.
There’s pressure to spend money you may not have,
pressure to shop for gifts out of obligation rather than need,
and the added pressure to bake, decorate and entertain around your already busy life.
And
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By elizabeth patch, on August 6th, 2011
Girl Talk
Imagine the day when we laugh with our friends…
And never once,
not once,
mention diets !
©elizabeth patch, More to Love
I’m so fat.
I hate my thighs.
I really shouldn’t eat this.
I need to lose some weight.
I need to get some exercise.
How many calories are in this?
Diet, diet, diet,
blah, blah, blah…
Many of us have
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