I am 52 and this is my year to be healthy!

I recently started working day shift, I had worked nights for the past 6 years and didn't really know how much it affected my body and life. I REALLY can tell the difference. It is truly night and day. Everything seem so bright and colorful. Even the food tastes better and sweeter. I know this will help me reach my goal to be a healthy weight for me.

I work as a nurse for over 30 years. I, have 5 children (25, 25, 24, 21 and ...

I am 52 and this is my year to be healthy!

I recently started working day shift, I had worked nights for the past 6 years and didn't really know how much it affected my body and life. I REALLY can tell the difference. It is truly night and day. Everything seem so bright and colorful. Even the food tastes better and sweeter. I know this will help me reach my goal to be a healthy weight for me.

I work as a nurse for over 30 years. I, have 5 children (25, 25, 24, 21 and 12) the last 2 are at home. My eldest daughter is in the Air Force and just got married this past June. I have an angel of a husband of 13 years.

I love animals, and have 3 cats, 2 dogs and lots of fish. I am also Psychic and do readings part time. I teach Psychic Tools and meditation class at a Clairovoyant school locally.

I sew, crochet, cross stitch and almost any other craft too. I love to garden and work in the earth. I love to take pictures of my kids and nature.

I exercise as much as my schedule allows me to.

This is me below and so much more!

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OUR SEARCH FOR LOVE

Unconditional love is a popular talk-show topic, but it is little understood. All infants are biologically entitled to unconditional love and protection. It is their birthright and it is their parents' birth obligation. There is no such thing as a "good baby" or a "bad baby" which is why love and protectiveness must be unconditional for them all.

Those not given such love as children seek it throughout their adult lives--some in ways very dangerous to themselves and to others. But unconditional love can never be received by adults, it can only be given. All love between adults is conditional. It requires behavior; it must be earned and maintained.

I once represented a child who had been horribly tortured by her “mother.” On the witness stand, the abuser explained why she had burned the child by holding her little hand against a hot stove grid. “She wouldn’t leave me alone.” The child’s crime was to follow her mother around the house, attempting to wring from her the love she so desperately needed. Slaps and kicks did not stop the child’s search for love, so the “Mother” decided more extreme measures were needed to “teach her a lesson.” Too many of our children are being taught that same lesson, in a variety of hideous ways. And yet our tolerance continues.

Here is what I tell so many formerly abused children who are now adults; Look how desperately you wanted to bond with “parents” who would not love you. That is not a defect; indeed, it can be a strength, it proves that the ability to love has not been eradicated in you. But you mush choose carefully. Test, establish criteria, search – and resolve to be alone if you cannot find what you deserve. Bonding, in and out of itself, is of no value unless the current flows in both directions.

When our biological families no longer function, the only option is to create a family of choice—a family defined by shared purpose and mutual respect, not ties of blood. When as an adult, you can adopt a child-protective pack mentality, you can bond with others and have the family you need.

But that means to contribute, not to demand, You are no longer an infant, no longer entitled to the “unconditional love” of which you were robbed as a child. Yes, you were cheated, but if you devote your life to the celebration of that theft, you are doomed.

-- Author Unknown



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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross

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"Love operates in the present, and by focusing upon it in the present, you send it into the future and release it to the past."

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