NEW BLOG UP AND RUNNING!

For those who have sent me notes with comments and questions about how I lost 100 lbs (see the YouTube link below), I have started another BLOG devoted (almost exclusively) to stuff related to weight loss. You can link to it from "View My Complete Profile," right there>>>> under that Contemplative-Writer-Type picture of Yours Truly. Or you can do it the old fashioned way by copying and pasting this:

dancepartyforone.blogspot.com

I am very excited and encouraged by everyone's interest and support! Can't wait to see where my new blog takes me and how it helps and inspires others...because THAT is my hope!

I will still be here, blogging on Truth Time

as I have in the past

reflecting on the things in life

that are teaching me

more and more

about myself

The response to my weight loss story

has been a shining light to me....

that people, mostly women,

need to hear each others stories.

And we need to be told those stories with

honesty

openness

and above all,

vulnerability

That's what I've been hearing

That's what your notes have been saying to me

Thank you for sharing openly

Thank you for putting to words, what I feel

I needed hope

I needed someone to understand

I need someone to help show me the way

More than ever,

I want to be open

I want to peel back the layers and let my heart

OUT

I want to examine my life and share the results

without all the filters

and pretense

and insincerity

and falsehood

I am prone to use to cloak the real, faltering, genuine Me.

I want to be more transparent

because I am finding

the more I reveal about myself,

the more my fears of rejection and judgement

diminish,

because each time I come clean,

about the truth

about ME,

I am met with friendship, community and acceptance.

And it fills me up.

So here's to emptying myself out

and finding myself refreshed, renewed

and content

and in very Good Company