Things I love about my body

I have been immersed in my Love Your Body program; busily listing why you should love all the  parts of your body, creating meditations to help you love your body, recording EFT ( tapping) audios to help you love your body and researching the benefits of positive thinking and affirmations on your body.

I've been reading positive body image blogs and joining Facebook pages that promote body love.

One of those pages, The Militant Baker is holding a Body Love conference next year which will be AWESOME!! She posted a Crowdfunding video this morning ( go check it out on her page) or better yet go donate some money to get this conference happening

IT all got me thinking about my own awesome, beautiful body so I thought I would share with you some of the things that I love about my body.

(1) I love my hair.
I started going grey in when I got divorced, had a baby and met the love of my life all in the same year. Now you have to understand that I have a cow's lick and if you don't know what that is consider yourself blessed by the Hair Fairy and move on. And that is where the first few grey hairs popped up, right at the front of my hair.

So I did what any sane 30 year old does - I went straight to the hairdresser and got her to dye my hair black ( I was already dark, dark brown) , except for the piece of hair at the front, that we dyed platinum blonde. Result? Sheer awesomeness!

I only did it the once though because frankly, life is too short to sit around waiting for your hair to change color ( but that's just me).

Now my hair is a mix of grey, white and the remnants of dark brown and I still love it. My silver highlights are taking over and I'm okay with that.

(2) I love my hands.
If you know me you know that they are usually festooned with as many large rings as I can comfortably wear on them at any one time.

I'm still looking for the perfect thumb ring.

And no, you cannot have too many rings. Ever.

(3) I love my breasts, always have.

They are not as pert as they once were. I remember my sister and I worrying about the pencil test when we barely had boobs. The pencil test, for those of you that don't know, is whether you can hold a pencil under your breast, if you can your breasts are too saggy.

Mine are now at the point that I could probably hold a whole pencil case under there quite happily. And you know what? I'm okay with that too. These breasts have fed three babies, I've lost count of the times my babies fell asleep sucking and all the hours I nursed them to make them feel better or cam them down.
In the right bra they still look magnificent.

(4) I love my face.

Artist unknown but I adore this pic

Complete with eyes that shine, a mouth that smiles and the odd wrinkle to show that I have lived.

(5) I love my butt.

Curved just right, not too big and fills out my jeans just nicely thank you very much.

(6) I love my big, soft belly.

It is soft and jiggly and bears the scars of stretch-marks from my babies and surgery (so I don't have any more babies!!)

(7) I love my arms.

For all encompassing hugs and with all my soft jiggly boobs and belly, I give great hugs.

(8) I love my legs.

They reach all the way from the ground right up to the curve of my arse - perfect. I used to get teased about how skinny they were but I still loved them even then. Yes, my thighs touch but my knees are not knobbly and these legs carry me through my days.


I could go on and on because, lets face it, my body is pretty damn spectacular....... and so is yours.

If you are struggling with body issues then sign up  for my newsletter (Click the link on the sidebar at the top of the page) to find out all the details of the Love Your Body program and how you can get your hands on it.

So tell me what parts of your body do you love?

10 Random Facts about ME

I am a great fan of The Militant Baker and she just posted 10 random facts about her and I'm going to play her game and post some random facts about me.

If you have been following my blog you already know quite a bit about me; I'm married, I have three sons and four step daughters and a basquillion grandchildren ( well, it feels like it when they all come visit). So what I'm going to post now are totally random and all totally true.

(1) I've broken my left arm four times!

The first was when my sister pushed me down the stairs ( I was three). Apparently, I was in her way and wouldn't move so she pushed me. ( Funnily enough, in a totally unrelated way, I no longer speak to her). The second time I fell off a skateboard, the third was falling off a jungle gym and the fourth was a boy standing on my jandal (flipflop) while I was running away from him. For a while there all we seemed to be ding was taking me to the hospital to get my arm put in a cast. I think I was my mother's worst nightmare.
My eldest son broke his arm falling out of a tree and a tiny little bone at the base of the thumb falling off a skateboard. Anyone would think we are a family of klutzes.

(2) I never really learned to swim.

I can dog paddle and splash around a bit in the water but swimming just isn't for me although I do love playing in the pool. I don't like putting my head under water.

My Mum  took me to special swimming lessons when I was 11 but I still never got the hang of it.

(3) I don't like wearing sandals with w piece between your toes.

I was traumatized with the whole jandal-wearing-arm-breaking thing and loathe the feeling of something between my toes. ICK!

(4) Armpit hair is my friend.

I know this will gross some of you out but I don't shave under my arms. There I said it!  The sensation just makes me want to throw up. Yeah I could get them waxed but pffft I like it so, yeah it ain't going to happen. The only part of my hair that gets shaved is my legs and then only sporadically.

With the whole Brazilian-craze and total de-hairing of the body I guess I just missed the memo. And guess what? the world didn't end and I still get laid on a regular basis!!

(5) I still watch Friends.

I have watched it since it began and whenever it plays on repeat ( which it does almost continuously in NZ) I still watch it and I still laugh. A lot!.

I sing the theme song and clap at the appropriate times.  I can just about repeat what they are going to say but I still enjoy it.

Whenever I move furniture in my house I invariably go "Pivot, Pivot" at some point ( if you've ever watched Friends you will know what I mean. If not, well I just feel sad for you)

(6) I love my breasts.

Even though they are not as pert as they once were, they are still frickin' awesome! Wearing low or v-neck clothes works for me and I flaunt them as much as I can.

(7) I've been blogging on and off for about 4 years.

I've had personal blogs, business blogs and just ranty blogs. The truth is I always wanted to be a writer and now that I have found my voice I am totally loving the shit out of it.

(8) I've posed for nude photos.

Back in my skinny days a male friend asked if I would pose nude for him as he was wanting to get into nude photography. I loved all his black and white work and so I said yes. It was one of the most awesome experiences of my life.

(9) I've been a catwalk model.

When I was a teenager I always wanted to be a model but I didn't have the confidence.

A few years back a local fashion boutique in our town started running a yearly fashion show with all local ladies as models. Some of them had been models in the past. The guy organizing it wanted a diverse range of sizes and ages and asked me to model for him . I  did it for a couple of years and it was  great fun and a great confidence booster.

(10) I have been working on  the Love your Body Revolution program for far too long!!

It started out as a set of cards, like an oracle deck, but I kept putting it back in the "too hard"basket for years. Now that I have developed it into a program with all sorts of bells and whistles I am getting really excited to finish it and get it out on to the market to help women start loving their gorgeous ( whether they know it or not) bodies.