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The C.S. Lewis Quote that Keeps Coming in the Cold

February 22, 2018 By Juleeta Leave a Comment

These steps lead to the quiet riverbed by my friend’s country home. In the cold, when the rains hold off, it is still and peaceful here.

A few thoughts to wrap up Step 2: We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Father, thank you for saving us from ourselves.

We are like the Israelites who have to be told, over and over, that we are not God over our lives.  We often find ourselves whirling from one thing to the next, tottering on the fine point of a spinning top, and we wonder in the too-much doing:

How can I keep going like this?

Is it safe to slow down?

Can I sit in la mezcla of my happy and my hurt, taking the time to inhale and exhale my self?

But you assert yourself, for our good.  You remind us that you have brought us out of a wilderness that leads to promise and healing. You speak into our noisy life, I am your way out of the “always winter but never Christmas” (Lewis). “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:2-3).

You promise to deliver us from how we once saw ourselves – not like-that-girl-enough, not attractive enough, not fast enough, not revered enough.

Today, we practice the art of believing — You desire to restore us to sound thinking so that we can make decisions for sound body-image seeing.

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How Does Beauty Feed Your Body? I’m thinking about what you might want for Christmas…

December 7, 2017 By Juleeta Leave a Comment

Horns blare in symphonic cadence, but all I hear is Christmas music accompanying the light show at Saks Fifth Avenue.  The constant hum of people invites us to receive. New York City is the most glamorous city I’ve ever seen.

Late Saturday evening, my husband and I arrived in New York on the last flight into LaGuardia, tucked in at the nearby Holiday Inn for a few hours, and rose early the following morning to catch a cab into New York City. [Read more…] about How Does Beauty Feed Your Body? I’m thinking about what you might want for Christmas…

Filed Under: Grateful Moments, Healthy Bodies, Uncategorized

What is Possible for Body and Beautiful?- Part 2

September 21, 2017 By Juleeta Leave a Comment


I dreamt we found each other in the dark.

Taking small, reserved steps, I heard the crumbling of soft leaves under my bare feet. [Read more…] about What is Possible for Body and Beautiful?- Part 2

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On Vogue and Sanctification

August 26, 2017 By Juleeta 1 Comment

 


My Vogue came in the mail on Tuesday.  It is a grandiose salute to all things style, and the fact that it’s the 125th Anniversary Collector’s Edition makes it special — heavy and thick, full of photos imbued with colors and patterns that capture the reader’s attention with every turn of the page.  I look at some of these models and think they are alluring, but mostly skinny.  Like scary skinny.

As the “Thou shalt not judge” voice confronts my thoughts, I realize why I battle with the images in my fashion magazine.  It is impossible to separate ourselves from our bodies?  [Read more…] about On Vogue and Sanctification

Filed Under: Healthy Bodies, Uncategorized

Dear Mrs. Swift,

August 17, 2017 By Juleeta 1 Comment


Dear Mrs. Swift,

I have been thinking a lot about you this last week.  I am one of many who have followed numerous updates detailing your daughter’s recent legal battle.  I am a mother of five young sons and do not have daughters of my own. And still I have pondered what it must be like for you, her mother, to hurt for her and empathize with her and stand strong behind her in the face of a very public court case detailing sexual assault.

As do many mothers who stand alongside me in this journey of raising children, I applaud you for being the kind of woman who has made herself available to walk intimately with her daughter.  [Read more…] about Dear Mrs. Swift,

Filed Under: Moms and Daughters, Uncategorized

My Girls Gonna Run This Town Tonight

June 28, 2017 By Juleeta Leave a Comment

I was in need of jamming to a little Jay-Z in the middle of my tired hump day routine, so with the kids down for summer pseudo-quiet time, I reached for my headphones, stretched out on my side of the bed, and indulged.

I journaled this: “Do you feel the pulse of the sound? The rhythm that compels you to nod your head and maybe even tap your foot to the bass? “Who’s Gonna Run This Town Tonight?”  There are beats that literally force our bodies to do a little bounce, and the consistency of the vibrations move us.   We can stand two-legged, bone-tired, in front of an overflowing sink full of dishes, and the right song can prompt our bodies into motion.  Today, Beyoncé’s man has the power to change my disposition from powerless to powerful. Bored to interested. Awake to the world that is swirling around me.”

Awake. Alert. Ready for Action. [Read more…] about My Girls Gonna Run This Town Tonight

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