Mimi - I have never fit the cookie cutter. Goes back to childhood.

What makes me feel feminine......? A good pedicure and great toenails. Forget fingernails....I can't grow them and have never had great luck w/ the acrylic overlays from the nail salons - I guess I just live 'too hard' for them. Get in the way of doing things like, oh, opening doors.

When I got my hair cut last winter, I was talking to the stylist and I showed him how I wear my hair half the time....up in something like a twisted halo around my head....sort of like a French braid only less complicated. He looked at me as if I was unusual. Said that few people put their hair up any more - everyone has become too sloppy. Yikes! I could mousse and blowdry all day long and, two hours later, my hair would be limp again. But, when people see it up, they love it.

Not to YOU, Cindy...you are being a bit judgmental...don'tcha think..that's YOUR OPINION..


I NEED MY MASCARA!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Mimi!! Now that is TOO funny!!

Cinderella - - I've been there, too with having to make a choice between Needs and Wants. No one here is talking about those kinds of things.

For me, it's about doing something Positive for Me. Heck, there are times when I like nothing better than putting on ratty old clothes and digging around in the dirt. THAT too can make me feel like a GODDESS!!

It's not about $$, it's not about "worldy views" of what is feminine - - - - the point is that it should be about YOU and what makes YOU feel and enjoy your life as a woman!

So how about it? What gives YOU that Goddess feeling??

THAT'S PERFECT GODDESS ELIGIBILITY!!..YOU being YOU...

Bugsy...you did again..said what I said...this is BIZARRE...

Great Sheets! Good chocolate! Good posture - even when I wear my Birkenstocks!

Seriously, the underlying point of this thread is to help those battling DEPRESSION. I'm not battling DEPRESSION related to infidelity anymore but I do suffer from it..biochemically.

So I NEED..more than the BASICS in my life...check out my SIGNATURE LINE...I NEED to consciously DO things that bring ME JOY and HAPPINESS..I have to do this DAILY to fight DEPRESSION. The more PLEASURABLE ACTIVITIES that I do..the better my mood..the happier I am..I LEARNED this in PSYCHOTHERAPY...

One of the things that I personally ENJOY doing each morning is putting on my makeup. I actually start smiling at myself in the mirror! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I have to have MY CHOCOLATE each day, too!

WE LIVE

There's a cross on the side of the road
Where a mother lost a son
How could she know that the morning he left
Would be their last time she'd trade with him for a little more time
So she could say she loved him one more time
And hold him tight
But with life we never know

When we're coming up to the end of the road
So what do we do then
With tragedy around the bend?

Chorus:
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
Today we remember to live and to love
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
Today we remember to live and to love

There is a man who waits for the tests
To see if the cancer has spread yet
And now he asks, "So why did I wait to live till it was time to die?"
If I could have the time back how I'd live
Life is such a gift
So how does the story end?
Well this is your story and it all depends
So don't let it become true
Get out and do what we are meant to do

Chorus

Waking up to another dark morning
People are mourning
The weather in life outside is storming
But what would it take for the clouds to break
For us to realize each day is a gift somehow, someway
So get our heads up out of the darkness
And spark this new mindset and start to live life cuz it ain't gone yet
And tragedy is a reminder to take off the blinders
And wake up and live the life we're supposed to take up
Moving forward with all our heads up cuz life is worth living

Chorus (to fade)





by Superchick - from their "Beauty From Pain" cd

EVERYTHING GLORIOUS

The day is brighter here with You
The night is lighter than its hue
Would lead me to believe
Which leads me to believe

(chorus)
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours
What does that make me?

My eyes are small but they have seen
the beauty of enormous things
Which leads me to believe
there's light enough to see that

(chorus)
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours

From glory to glory
You are glorious You are glorious
From glory to glory
You are glorious. You are glorious
Which leads me to believe
why I can believe that


You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours

From glory to glory From glory to glory
You are glorious. You are glorious.
You are glorious. You are glorious.



by Dave Crowder Band

Well, Mimi,,,,, you beat me to the CHOCOLATE needed daily post!! he he!

Seriously, though, we are very much alike in terms of how we view the ways of a GODDESS - and for pretty much the same reason. I realized this week that I've been teetering on the edge of depression myself and a lot of it was due to not doing the things I NEED to do for myself.

Like,,,,

Using my 'good' makeup
Giving myself time for the self-pedicure every week
Cooking what I enjoy cooking
Going to church
Daily quiet time with God
Going to the gym
Using my BEST bath products
Reading for pleasure
Excelling at work

All of these things give me a boost.

Cinderlla - thanks for the reminder about the sheets! I had been looking at some a while back and haven't bought any yet. Definately putting those on my shopping list!!

Ok, Cindy..why did you put this here?

I'm missing something..

It seems DEPRESSING...

Where is the GODDESS verse?

My mother does this to me..

I'll send her a joke and she'll send me a poem about how we don't have much time left... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Cindy:

Are you saying you like MUSIC? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

...realize each day is a gift somehow, someway
So get our heads up out of the darkness
And spark this new mindset and start to live life cuz it ain't gone yet
And tragedy is a reminder to take off the blinders
And wake up and live the life we're supposed to take up
Moving forward with all our heads up cuz life is worth living

Mimi - I've been so depressed it wasn't funny. I know what it's like. But, I found something to hold onto....something that made me want to go on. That held me together. Even though my world was torn apart.

You want to feel goddessy......try the mindset that this life isn't over and all you can do is your best for that day - when you've done that (even if it means getting out of bed, brushing your teeth, climbing into sweats, and putting on your mascara and lip gloss <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) you can move forward with your head up.

Read the song for the survival in it!

Cinderella,

What I'm hearing you say is that you are at a different level of the Goddess ladder. You have graduated from the era of depression! You have won the battle with the daily Goddess activity of moving forward with your head held high!

Excellent!

You HAVE survived this horrible time of your life.

My goal at first was like yours,,,just to survive. When I realized that I'd done that I celebrated and started to feel like a Goddess. I, too, fought my way through the depression and struggled many days just to get out of bed.

Now,,,in true Goddess Like Love I have to ask - What can help take you to the next Goddess Level?

I knew that just surviving wasn't and isn't enough. It's about building my own wonderful life. The focus turning towards ME for the start of that new life. So, I needed to find myself and build my power & strength.

So, celebrate your Goddess Power in managing that survivial. Then, tell us what will help you feel like life is more than just survivial??

Lots of us are mothers. So, I will tell you a miracle moment related to that.

One morning, I was struggling to get everyone out of the house so we could get where we needed to go. It was winter and the bushes by the driveway were coated w/ ice. My daughter brought me a twig that had a couple of leaves attached and the entire thing was coated with ice. She was in awe.

I tried to hurry her into the car and then, miraculously, I stopped and looked at it.

It was beautiful. It was a miracle. And, if I had not stopped to give that child a minute of attention, I would have tarnished her day, missed a magnificent sight, and missed the lesson that I needed - to really look for beauty.

When I was so depressed I couldn't see straight, a friend told me to listen for God.

He would speak but I needed to listen.

His words might come to me from any source - sometimes they would be the words of a friend. Sometimes they would be the words of a stranger. Sometimes they might be on a sign beside the road. Listen! Watch!

Cinderlla,

I love the story about your DD and the ice. Yes, beauty is all around us if we only take the time to stop and really 'see' it.

And oh yes, He does speak to us but we have to be listening!!

All excellent Goddess activities!

So, what are you going to do this weekend to celebrate the Beautiful Goddess YOU are?

[color:"red"]Give blood! [/color]

That's what I'm going to do!

I will save a life - or 4 - because I am O+; Kell neg, Duffy A neg, Kidd B neg, and CMV neg. That means they will quad-pack my blood. I'm at something like 107 units.

Seriously, the underlying point of this thread is to help those battling DEPRESSION. I'm not battling DEPRESSION related to infidelity anymore but I do suffer from it..biochemically.

So I NEED..more than the BASICS in my life...check out my SIGNATURE LINE...I NEED to consciously DO things that bring ME JOY and HAPPINESS..I have to do this DAILY to fight DEPRESSION. The more PLEASURABLE ACTIVITIES that I do..the better my mood..the happier I am..I LEARNED this in PSYCHOTHERAPY...

One of the things that I personally ENJOY doing each morning is putting on my makeup. I actually start smiling at myself in the mirror!
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I mimi,
I am enjoying your thread.....I like what you learned in psychotherapy. i am going to remember that.

What makes me feel like a goddess?....new lingerie.
nothing over the top, just a pretty bra and panties...for some reason, when they match i feel very feminine.