When out with girlfriends, or in a girl group, I often inappropriately start talking about my mooncup. I LOVE IT! It has totally revolutionalised my life, and made what some women call the "monthly curse" not even a big deal! I'd even go so far to say that I welcome it!
I wish that every woman would know about the mooncup, which is part of why I inappropriately tell women about it... all the time!
I bought mine at Commonsense Organics in Wellington a few years ago - and I have never looked back! It is especially A-mazing if you are out and about, and if you are travelling... BEST FRIEND you could have.
As most of you know, I have been living in Indonesia for the past year, and I have no idea how I would have made it so long without my monthly companion. Seriously! No mess. No trash to throw away. No taking up space in my already overflowing luggage!
In addition, there are no nasty side effects (like TSS), and there isn't evidence to throw away (I was SO GLAD for no embarrassing evidence when living in a country where your rubbish gets strewn across the front of your house by the roaming dogs and other animals). There isn't bleach or other chemicals that are put into most tampons and pads... so it is a healthier option.
So, if you don't know what I'm talking about, check it out here http://www.mooncup.co.uk/ or there is a US website here http://www.mooncup.com/index.html (I am happy to answer any questions you might have).
3 Cheers for the mooncup! HiphipHOORAY! HiphipHOORAY! HiphipHOORAY!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Futureme
So, every once in awhile since... since I think I was at CU, I go onto this site, and I write a letter to myself about what is going on at the moment, and where I hope to be, and then I send it to myself; my future self.
To be honest, I probably write the emails to myself when I'm feeling low or uncertain about life... not neccessarily bad, but so that in the future I can look back and remember that "this too will pass".
It's sort of like a journal entry to yourself. But instead of having to go through your journal and see what you wrote, you get it sent right to you.
Just thought I'd share. Maybe you want to send an email to your future self?
To be honest, I probably write the emails to myself when I'm feeling low or uncertain about life... not neccessarily bad, but so that in the future I can look back and remember that "this too will pass".
It's sort of like a journal entry to yourself. But instead of having to go through your journal and see what you wrote, you get it sent right to you.
Just thought I'd share. Maybe you want to send an email to your future self?
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wellington
I know every branch, every thorn, every leaf
The contours of your roads, pavements, lanes
The skyline.
I am not from you,
But you are a part of me.
And I can breathe now that I am home.
The contours of your roads, pavements, lanes
The skyline.
I am not from you,
But you are a part of me.
And I can breathe now that I am home.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
A new idea...
I´ve had a lot of personal responses from friends and a couple of randoms (thanks everyone!) about wanting to try Beyond Intellect the same way that I use it... by asking a random question and opening up the book.
Not everyone has the book (yet!) so my mom and I were talking and perhaps there is a solution... you can privately email me that you would like a reading done for you, and then I can post what I find, using the same techniques I already use on this blog.
The magic about this is that you don´t even have to tell me what the question is. You can just email and say "Hey chica. Can you check your mum´s book?". I will open the book to wherever I open it, and read what is there. I´ll use my own intuition to identify the part that needs to be shared. I will then post the answer from the book using either your initials or a name you want me to put or something anonymous, and then you can read what it says.
If it speaks to you then it would be wonderful if you could share why it was relevant to you or what you learned.
At this point, I´m thinking of starting a new blog for this experiment... but for right now, I´ll use this site.
And, I have one to share for "UE".
Acceptance page 48...
"You can begin to increase your ability to be more flexible in your personal and professional relationships when you can recognize your own and others´ developed and under-developed traits. You can use your knowledge of the four categories of reliability, congruence, openness, and acceptance to bring about cooperation, respect for diversity, and enhanced interpersonal effectiveness.
It is particularly useful to be aware of your under-developed traits. That knowledge can be used to effectively analyze situations that are not turning out the way you hoped.
Practice performing the new behaviours you have pinpointed and you will find that interpersonal conflicts can be resolved easily and more effectively."
Lots of love,
Sara
Not everyone has the book (yet!) so my mom and I were talking and perhaps there is a solution... you can privately email me that you would like a reading done for you, and then I can post what I find, using the same techniques I already use on this blog.
The magic about this is that you don´t even have to tell me what the question is. You can just email and say "Hey chica. Can you check your mum´s book?". I will open the book to wherever I open it, and read what is there. I´ll use my own intuition to identify the part that needs to be shared. I will then post the answer from the book using either your initials or a name you want me to put or something anonymous, and then you can read what it says.
If it speaks to you then it would be wonderful if you could share why it was relevant to you or what you learned.
At this point, I´m thinking of starting a new blog for this experiment... but for right now, I´ll use this site.
And, I have one to share for "UE".
Acceptance page 48...
"You can begin to increase your ability to be more flexible in your personal and professional relationships when you can recognize your own and others´ developed and under-developed traits. You can use your knowledge of the four categories of reliability, congruence, openness, and acceptance to bring about cooperation, respect for diversity, and enhanced interpersonal effectiveness.
It is particularly useful to be aware of your under-developed traits. That knowledge can be used to effectively analyze situations that are not turning out the way you hoped.
Practice performing the new behaviours you have pinpointed and you will find that interpersonal conflicts can be resolved easily and more effectively."
Lots of love,
Sara
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Your Happiness Quotient
As I´m still working on courting my "masculine" energy (and finding a balance with my feminine energy) I decided to just open up Beyond Intellect and see what it says.
It is REALLY good.
I think everyone would find a different meaning to the biography that Susan has cleverly shared about Happiness.
Page 158 is where it is at my friends. How does it speak to you?
xxoo
Monday, July 25, 2011
Yup. My masculine energy is revved up (because my feminine energy feels totally misunderstood)
So, I decided that I was going to embrace my "masculine" energy this week, and see what happened.
So, these are some of the things that I did:
So, these are some of the things that I did:
- On Friday, I dyed my hair a darker colour because I was feeling like my hair was too light at the bottom and too dark at the top and I wanted a same consistency so that I would stand out. I´m sort of against hair dye because I think it´s bad for you, but I told myself "NO MORE WALLFLOWER Sara!"
- On Friday, I told everyone at a party what my opinion is (and internally told myself that I make no apologies).
- On Saturday, I felt like the biggest loud mouth in the world and wished to god that I would have kept all my thoughts to myself.
- Lots of emails to friends and for work over the past week, and then about an hour later thinking that perhaps my friends and colleagues were offended by what I said because maybe what I said sounded heartless or wasn´t written in a pleasant enough way.
So, all in all, I think it has been a successful week of courting my "masculine" energy and feeling TOTALLY UNCOMFORTABLE... so I know my "feminine" energy is still in the driver´s seat.
I suppose this will be a work in progress as I haven´t quite found the balance I am after.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
"Mutual Respect" page 152
Bonjour!
This evening I decided to open the book and see what it says. No thinking about what I´m thinking about and then asking for an answer, just letting the answer come... and then I´ll find out what the question was!
Well. I just read it, and for me, I took it as a reminder that I need to up my masculine energy. Lately I have been feeling like I´m the smallest mouse in the room with the tiniest voice. People interrupt me mid-sentence all the time, or something happens just as I get to something important to say, and so the conversation is cut short.
I´m feeling a bit of a wall flower lately and I want to shine dagnabbit!
So... this week will be about courting my masculine energy. Let´s see what happens...
This evening I decided to open the book and see what it says. No thinking about what I´m thinking about and then asking for an answer, just letting the answer come... and then I´ll find out what the question was!
Well. I just read it, and for me, I took it as a reminder that I need to up my masculine energy. Lately I have been feeling like I´m the smallest mouse in the room with the tiniest voice. People interrupt me mid-sentence all the time, or something happens just as I get to something important to say, and so the conversation is cut short.
I´m feeling a bit of a wall flower lately and I want to shine dagnabbit!
So... this week will be about courting my masculine energy. Let´s see what happens...
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