Marsia's Diary
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I've been waking up early to write 3 pages of free writing, just to jump start my creativity, and it's been really wonderful, but means I have that much less time to journal here. When school starts in a few days, I am going to wake up extra early and get all my exercise, writing, and online stuff done first thing and really try to maximize the day. It's so hard figuring out how to take care of the house, your kid, and your body on top of everything else! This mom thing never gets easy, but it's also my favorite part of my life!!
Petal001
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Marsia be careful you don't over it . I had plans to walk 20 mins this morn but I'm just so tired I may leave it until later . I have burnt myself out in the past so be mindful to take some time. Good on you writing .
Thanks Cate and Petal! Good point about just doing what you can and building up to where I want to be. The writing is very energizing. I had no idea it would make me so enthused to just free write each day. I guess when you find some thing that clicks for you, that's what happens! Hope you both get good rest and are having a great day!!
Hi Petal! I've just been hand writing, as the exercise specified that, but I prefer typing. I don't think I am ready to write a book, lol, but I did write a little song about a favorite painting that I am going to give to my kid to write a melody for. So it's fun as well as cathartic!
Northern_Dreamer
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I'm a writer too. I like writing historical fiction.
I would love to do that. I visited a small town in Washington State where the Northwest Mystic Art movement started, and would have loved to have stayed there and written a book about the place. It was a little fishing town on a river delta with a Native American reservation across the river, and the Native Americans had a good relationship both with the town and with the artists. It was a beautiful place with lovely wild rivers, beautiful farms, and many bird refuges with incredible estuaries. The artists were really interested in Eastern art and ideas, and the whole place seemed so steeped in another time and place where music, poetry, art, and crafts were celebrated as part of everyone's life. I would move there if my husband weren't a city person!
What sorts of topics have you written about?
Northern_Dreamer
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I like Canadian history so much of my writing is set there, with much of it set on the rural prairies where I grew up.
Wow, sounds wonderful and beautiful!
Cate
Long term member
YAY!!!! Well done, Marsia! xoxo
Petal001
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Marsia well done on keeping thst weight off . Think we about same weight loss to go lol .
You doing really well . Congratulations to you
I can see why you write. When you describe places i can really visualise it . Have you ever published anything ? That town in Washington state sounds truly amazing .
You doing really well . Congratulations to you
I can see why you write. When you describe places i can really visualise it . Have you ever published anything ? That town in Washington state sounds truly amazing .
Hi Petal! Thanks for all the nice compliments! I think a bunch of things came together for me psychologically that help to not gain the weight back (immediately at least) that I am losing. One is that I got this huge yearning for how I felt when I was skinny, and there is this particular pair of flowered jeans I picture myself in that I loved, and that I always felt totally me and happy when I wore. They aren't anything special, they just sort of symbolize how I want to feel about my body again. So when I open the fridge door and start to look at what I can graze on, the picture of me being happy in those jeans pops up, and I remember what I really want from this experience. I want my healthy body back!!!
Another thing that has happened, is that the more I take care of myself, the more I like myself (which I already talked about, but I really feel this deeply.) So liking myself means really watching what I am actually doing, so when I go unconscious and reach for something that isn't healthy, I now pause and see how I am feeling emotionally. What emotion am I avoiding that I automatically reach for food as entertainment to avoid that emotion or thought? And this is often boredom or anxiety that I am not measuring up in some way. So I just feel that emotion, and usually it resolves itself and I don't need to fight cravings as hard, because I am not feeding the emotional repression monster.
So those are my 2 new secret weapons against overeating. They don't always work, but they are definitely helping!
I haven't published anything, but my mom used to write an alumni newspaper for a college, and I used to help by editing the back pages. I also edit tech patents my husband writes for businesses in Silicon Valley, so I get really good exposure to interesting uses of language and all sorts of new words that are being added to the English language now.