Bette Shaw Health Coaching

Now this post is about leaving people, as in, leaving them after being with them for a few hours or a day, or even a few moments. How do you leave the person? Besides saying goodbye and perhaps hugging and/or kissing them, how do they feel for having spent time with you? Do you leave them feeling better than when you found them? Better than when you got together with them, uplifted and encouraged, or downtrodden and drained? Do you bring refreshment and joy to those you are with or do you bring total negativity and a spirit of complaint? Is your conversation with them merely about you or do you take an active interest in them and what their interests are? Do you bore them with things they have no interest in or do you find common topics to talk about? Most of all,are your words filled with chaste, lovable, virtuous, praiseworthy, true, topics or the opposite of these? What spiritual gift do you bring to the presence of another? Is it a gift or a cursing of sorts? You alone have the pow...

"You'd be happy too if you could eat what bugs ya!" says the frog as he smiles with a fly on his outstretched tongue. (talking with his mouth full....hahaha). Is this statement true? If something is bugging us emotionally and we eat to fill it, as in, to seek "comfort", does it work? Are we happy? Is it a comfort or does it simply dull down the emotions, numb us out to them?  Only to feel it, yet again, when the next wave hits but now we have the added body burden of the food we ate, how stinkin lousy we feel,the damage we have done to our bodies and for many, the guilt that often joins hands with that. (umm let us disappear that real fast...) Why do we eat when we are under emotional duress? Well, maybe for that exact reason and more. To numb, to not feel, to FEED a need. To feed a need; that is kind of like putting on ten layers of clothes on a hot summer day when we needed to put on our bathing suit and go swimming in a cool ocean. (ok ok I tried wi...