Practice Belonging

Day zero after a binge. Starting over.

If you are listening, email me at practicebelonging@gmail.com

My body is perfect just the way it is.

I am worthy of love and belonging.

I have not binged today. My body is perfect just the way it is.

This is the day I stopped doing a quote at the end.

"Daring is essential to solve the problems in the world that feel intractable..." - Brene Brown

"People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses." - Brene Brown

"If we're going to put ourselves out there and love with our whole hearts, we're going to experience heartbreak." - Brene Brown

"Yes, there can be no innovation, learning or creativity without failure..." - Brene Brown

"We want to be brave, and deep inside we know that being brave requires us to be vulnerable. The great news is that I think we're making serious headway..." - Brene Brown

"Both The Gifts and Daring Greatly are call to arms books. The are about having the courage to show up and be seen even if it means risking failure, hurt, shame and possibly even heartbreak..." - Brene Brown from Rising Strong

"I define wholehearted living as engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and thing: Today, no matter what gets done and what is left undone, I am enough. It's going to bed at night and thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth, that I am brave and worth of love and belonging." - Brene Brown

"Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness in our lives; it's the process that teaches us the most about who we are." - Brene Brown

"I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few." - Brene Brown

"When we are willing to make what wants to be made rather than make what we want, we become open to new directions." - Julia Cameron

From Julia Cameron's THE ARTIST'S WAY EVERYDAY: "Morning Pages remind me that while I cannot choose much of what happens to me in my life, I can choose how I respond to what happens. The trick is getting small enough to inch forward. The past is huge. The future may be huge as well. What remains for me, what is given is to do the small tasks of the day. First among those tasks is Morning Pages, teh daily writing of three pages that draws me into the life I have now, the choices I can make today to find beauty in what is given to me."

No quote today.

"I napped beneath a blanket of moss, with a fairy on dream patrol, and a flower lamp shining softly." - Sark

A Hillside ThawRobert Frost To think to know the country and not knowThe hillside on the day the sun lets goTen million silver lizards out of snow!As often as I've seen it done beforeI can't pretend to tell the way it's done.It looks as if some magic of the sunLifted the rug that bred them on the floorAnd the light breaking on them made them run.But if I thought to stop the wet stampede,And caught one silver lizard by the tail,And put my foot on one without avail,And threw myself wet-elbowed and wet-kneedIn front of twenty others' wriggling speed, --In the confusion of them all aglitter,And birds that joined in the excited fun,By doubling and redoubling song and twitter,I have no doubt I'd end by holding none.It takes the moon for this. The sun's a wizardBy all I tell; but so's the moon a witch.From the high west she makes a gentle castAnd suddenly, without a jerk or twitch,She has her spell on every single lizard.I fancied when I looked at six o'clockThe swarm still ran and scuttled just as fast.The moon was