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Day 110 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/17/2014

Good afternoon my beautiful friends...I hope you are all doing well. Today is just a beautiful day with the sun shining and the birds are singing. As we are approaching fall it is amazing to watch all of God's creatures preparing for summer. The bees know that there is not much time until winter, so they are all busy trying to get what they need while driving us all crazy...the squirrels are all busy packing trees along with the chipmunks, and the hummingbirds are all gearing up on sugar water for their long flight to warmer weather. What at beautiful day.

It is so nice to be able to take in a deep breath and know that we are still alive and ready for new beginnings. Every breath we take allows us for new beginnings at every moment. It does not matter how your day is going or how your weeks have gone; you can always start again by taking a deep breath and appreciating you are still alive.

Have an amazing day breathing my friends...until we meet again.

With all my love...Rita

Day 106 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/13/2014

Good morning my beautiful friends...Today I want to share with you something that was an amazing acknowledgement that happened first thing at the event I am working at this weekend. I have video blogged it so I could really share my experience with all of you.

I want to thank each and every one of you...Everything happens for a reason....when it is happening we don't really understand it...but when it is revealed to us later, we then can understand. Everything has timing as well...we can't rush it; everything comes at the precise time it is needed.

Have an amazing day my friends...until we meet again.

With all my love...Rita

Day 105 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/12/2014

Good morning my friends...I can't believe it is Friday already; where does the time go?

The past few days I have been sharing with you how I battle with myself, especially when I have had some wins. I am always trying to better myself and create quite an extraordinary life. However what comes with that is a lot of challenges and obstacles.

When we make decisions to change or to make things better for ourselves; we tend to want it ASAP. We put so much pressure on ourselves, we feel like we should be moving along quicker than we are. Here's the thing, we have made the decision to change....that truly is the hard part. Putting it into action and getting over the obstacles that come with it is the journey. There is no time limit on that journey.

As I am writing this blog, I am realizing the pressure I have put upon myself. I always feel like I should be better than I am, really knocking the sox off of everyone. I put unneeded pressure on myself; I fall into the trap of "Am I Good ENOUGH"? It's so funny, my whole blog is about already being good enough and yet I fall into this crazy trap.

Here it is...I am showing you that we all fall into it, and we can all get out of it. You can't quit yourself; you have to keep going no matter what and no matter how hard you fall. I am showing you that we are all human and this will happen over and over again. We need to realize that it takes time to achieve what we have decided to do. We can expect ourselves to have everything achieved and be perfect right away...we need to learn and grow to keep what it is that we want.

We need to start giving ourselves the grace of patience. We need to start enjoying the journey and what it has to teach us.

Until we meet again my friends...

With all my love...Rita

Day 104 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/11/2014

Good afternoon my beautiful friends...I think winter is here already...it is freezing in McHenry today. The sky is grey with cold clouds, the leaves are changing and dropping; and the jacket is out. I am looking forward to the fall; I love the crisp air and beautiful colors. Good bye summer, hello autumn.

Yesterday I shared with you some pretty big stuff about the fears that hold me back. How I sabotage my own self to stay stuck. Well yesterday I took the action steps to do what I need to do for myself.

I had signed up for a class a couple weeks ago that was last night that I was debating not going. The weather had been bad all day and I told myself "I was not going to put myself at risk". I battled myself all day...but guess what I did? I went to the class I signed up for anyway. I gathered everything that I needed and I went. When it was all said and done; I was on my way home and I was so happy that I kept my word with myself. I was thinking back when I was working a crazy schedule how I would love to be able to do these classes...and I finally got to go. I acknowledge it and was pretty happy with myself. In fact I was full of energy and went to bed feeling fulfilled and full of life.

Today I got up and cleaned my chicken coop from top to bottom, kept another appointment for myself that I had made and I am now preparing for my busy weekend filled with events I am working. I am feeling FANTASTIC right now...I am feeling UNSTOPABLE!

I am so grateful that I bare my complete soul to all of you on this blog. When I share, I have to truly look deep down inside of me and be completely honest. I love how much I have grown since starting this blog, and every day I keep getting stronger and wiser.

Today my friends fly as high as you can go. Don't let the strings of life hold you down or back. You owe it to yourself to keep going strong and when you fall get up again and start again!!!

Until we meet again my friends....

All my love...Rita

Day 103 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/10/2014

Good morning my friends...I hope you are doing well.

Today's inspiration is very conflicting for me; but I am supposed to venture and blog about it.

Exposing yourself to your most deepest fear is truly terrifying, especially if you don't really know what it is that holds you back. Although as I am writing my deepest fear is truly succeeding; I guess we do know.

The fear of success for me is a constant battle in my brain. I know where I should be and I know what I am truly capable of; however it terrifies me. It terrifies me to the point of going in hiding, filling my body with garbage and feeling sorry for myself along with picking fights that are truly not there.

WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF? That is the true question of the day. I know deep down in my soul I am that good. I know my gifts and talents help many people across the globe. Again, WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF? Well, I do this to myself because I am afraid of leaving people behind, I am afraid of moving forward and the ones I love will not follow, I am afraid of maybe hurting someone else's feelings because of where I am headed. Let's be honest; as much as we say we love change, change scares the pants off of us. Because we may find that we are going in different directions as someone else.

If I were to be truly honest with myself; I have held my own self back because of what others may think. I have had enough people in my life who say that I will never make it, that I am living in a fantasy. I have had such haters in my life because of who I am being. When I am on, I am unwavering; some people who have been around me have hated that because that is not who they are. Again, let's be honest; we say that people like that don't bother us, but little by little we allow that to chip away at ourselves. We truly do start to believe those stupid lies we keep hearing and keep telling ourselves. So we ultimately talk ourselves out of the successes we should be celebrating.

Right now I am having a Come Home to Jesus conversation with myself. I have been experiencing some wins in my life and I am feeling the pressure of myself along with some loved ones around me. Sometimes it is so much easier we think to stay back...but if you are truly supposed to be more than you are giving yourself credit, you are going to be tortured by yourself until you start honoring yourself. I truly hope this makes sense?

Today, let's take a fear that is holding us back and really do something about it. Let's really take some action and change the outcome that we are creating by holding ourselves back. Let's for once no matter what shut that little voice in our heads that are constantly picking at us to just stay stuck. Ultimately, if we are successful and our loved ones are still with us...that is fantastic. If we are successful and our loved ones are not with us...well we know that it was time to drop the dead weight.

Let's do it my friends...right now I am scaring the heck out of myself....I am taking that leap and I will report tomorrow how it all went.

Until we meet again my friends...

With all my love...Rita

Day 101 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/8/2014

Good morning my friends...I hope that your weekend was absolutely amazing. As for me, I got a lot of much needed rest.

I have to admit being away from home for so long has made it a little difficult to adjust being back. When I was away I was able to do a lot of soul searching, creating new habits and being able to see my true potential. Sometimes when you go back into your environment you go back to the old way of living. Sometimes the fight to be new takes a lot out of you and it is easier to go back to the old. This is where I have been stuck for a while. I gave up on myself and allowed my environment to take control of me.

Today I am taking myself back. I know down past my toes I deserve to be the best version of myself. I know that I deserve to be successful and not feel bad or guilty about it. I know that I deserve to give my body the best nutrition and water my body needs to succeed. Nothing can hold me back but me; not even my environment. Truth be told; my environment was an excuse...I tend to be afraid of who I am. I know that I can do anything I set my mind too. I have such a drive for what I know I can be; but I have to tell you it scares the daylights out of me.

I can no longer run from who I am truly suppose to be. I was not put on this earth to fail or relive this life because I could not get over myself. Today, right now I am declaring that I am truly blessed with gifts that are going to set so many people free. I am that girl who is going to lead by example. No matter where we come from or what we have or have not done in our life...we can always start a new any time.

I declare that I am going to give up control and go with the flow of where I am supposed to be. I am declaring that I am trusting in God that he has my best interest at heart. I am declaring that I will do the work no matter what it takes and I will never give up.

Have an amazing day my friends...until we meet again.

All my love, Rita

Day 98 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/5/2014

Good morning my friends; I love waking up to a beautiful sunny morning. It is Friday and the weekend is upon us already. I can't believe how crazy fast life goes by.

This blog is so important to me; being a part of someone's life helping them see something better for themselves is absolutely priceless. It is so important that we see ourselves as beautiful people no matter what shape or size we are. I am so grateful for who I am today; I thank God that I am healthy and alive being on this planet.

I hope that this blog helps Empower Women and Men to be Healthy and Confident in their lives. To be empowered means that there is no way you are going to settle for anything less than what you deserve. Being a Man or a Woman on this planet means that we have very special gifts to share with each other; this will make the world go round. Being Healthy means that you are taking care of your body and feeding it what it needs to be successful. Being Confident means that you know without a shadow of a doubt that you are one of the most important person on this planet. Putting all this together makes you and extraordinary person.

Being grateful for all of what you have been through and are going through makes you a very smart and successful person. You have and are gaining all the tools you need to help someone else in their struggles and their time of need. When we are looking at the world through the eyes of our soul and we see the goodness in everything and everyone...that is what makes us who we are. This is what will make the world go round.

Be grateful that you are learning to look at yourself through the eyes of your own soul and seeing the goodness in you and everything that you do. How awesome is that? When you can do that for yourself; you can do it for everyone else.

Have an amazing day my friends. Until we meet again.

Rita

Day 97.5 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/4/2014

I don't typically blog more than once a day unless I come across something that needs to be talked about. This picture was created by Meg Gaiger with Harpy Images.

Unfortunately, here it is...This little girl wanting to cut her tummy off because she does not look like the little girl in the picture. As an adult, I get we all feel this way; even the skinny girls who can't see it. What is scary is that we are raising our children to hate the bodies that God gave them.

This picture speaks volumes. Most importantly this picture is absolutely disgusting. It is disgusting because she is probably between the ages of 8-10 years old, and she has learned to hate her body. When I was 11 years old, I was very sick with asthma and I was on a high dose of steroids so I could breathe; that caused my hormones to work overtime. My breast were so big in 6th grade I hated them; I too wanted to cut them off.

This picture strikes a serious nerve for me because we are all guilty of not loving and be satisfied with our bodies. We are being taught to think that a skinny body without any kind of curve is beautiful. We are being judged by our body and not by who we truly are. WE NEED TO WAKE UP!!!

It's not just the little girls who feel this way about their bodies; it's the little boys too. We have got to start changing the way we think and see how beauty truly is. Beauty is not a size, it's not a hair color or eye color, it's not the color of your skin...beauty is inside of each and every one of us. How we are beautiful on the inside makes us beautiful on the outside. We need to stop looking at the shell and start looking at the kind of person we are and who we are raising.

I am so upset by this picture, mostly because I have not appreciated my own body until recent. We need to let our children know no matter what shape or size you are; YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! Most importantly YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IT!!! Otherwise your kids with know you are not being honest. They will know you are being honest when you start accepting yourself and loving yourself.

Lets not do this to our kids...Lets not give them the same hang-ups we have ourselves. This little girl is literally willing to cut off a part of her body to be beautiful and accepted.

Until we meet again my friends...think about this picture when you go to sleep tonight and thank God for the body that you have no matter what shape or size you are.

Rita

Day 97 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/4/2014

Good afternoon my friends...I hope you are all doing well on this quiet Thursday afternoon.

Today I woke up to a rainy cool day and feeling very somber. So I took the opportunity to get a hot bath going and put some solar salt together with some of my healing oils. I lit a white candle and took some time for myself. I said some prayers and asking God and my Angels for some guidance. Sometimes when you are constantly on the go you start to become depleted. I have been feeling emotional and just tired; not really wanting to deal with anything. This usually happens when I have a lot of myself going in different directions.

When I was done with my bath I just sat in peace and wondering what it would look like if I started to put a little make-up on to get ready for the fall season. Today I am starting to feel my age of 46 and wanted to do something nice for me. I always tell my beautiful friends to love every bit of yourself no matter what. So I took my own advice; instead of criticizing myself, I loved myself and took the time for me.

Last night I watch a reality show called Girlfriends Intervention; I absolutely loved it. It is about white women who don't have the confidence in themselves so they stop being who they really are. These four beautiful black women have interventions with white women so that they can see the beauty in themselves. You have to watch it! Who these black women are for the white women took my breath away. Everyone says how much we are all so divided, and I loved watching women of all color helping each other. This is what this blog is all about. Finding yourself and loving your true self for all that you are.

I think that waking up the way I did was a direct reflection of the show that I watched last night. I took the time to find myself this morning and do something nice. I took a picture of myself and I was surprised to see I did not look 46 in the picture. I feel like my youth and who I am being is shining through.

Today my friends truly do something amazing for yourself. Take the time to really love and honor who you are. Until we meet again my friends...

Rita

Day 96 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!

9/3/2014

Good morning my beautiful friends out there. No matter where you are at in your life or what you are doing with your life; you are all so beautiful to me.

Always speak beauty into everyone you come across, especially yourself. Truly this is one of the most important things you can do in your lifetime. No matter what someone looks like or is acting like; see the beauty in them.

One thing I have discovered and is a fact, none of us are perfect...we all live in glass houses. So why would we throw stones? If we throw a stone at someone, they will throw stones back; where would we live then? It truly is something to think about.

The past few days my energy has been low. I am not sure why...I am feeling very somber and quiet. This summer has been filled with a lot of emotion, work and patience. It has been the kind of summer that was jam packed with a lot of adult stuff to deal with and it went by so quickly. When I look back, I realized how much it took out of me to be the best version of myself every day. I was being the change I want to see in this world, and it truly does take work. Sometimes, you need to recharge to continue to be that person.

Everyday this summer I was being my true self; I have been home about two weeks and it is truly hard to keep who I was being alive. Sometimes we live in a life that is not perfect. Sometimes we live with people who are not totally on the same page but they are trying. Sometimes who we are truly being scares the people around us, and they want us to go backwards instead of forwards. Sometimes it is hard for the people around us to deal with change in us or in themselves....Here it is...You have to keep being the true self you are. It is as simple as that, however to do that takes some work. It's the kind of work that you can do and you love doing.

One of the biggest things that you have to do is to speak love and kindness into the people around you. Sometimes you will find it hard, but when you realize what is truly happening you will see the love and kindness in them, they are just scared.  They are scared of the not knowing what is happening.  They are scared of the changes that are being made and they are scared of themselves wondering if they are not able to change.

I was away from my family for over a month and a lot has happened. Who I was being while I was away was amazing, I didn't even recognize my own self, but I knew I loved her.  When I came home little by little I have been chiseled at to have the old me home, and I have been fighting that. I have fallen in that trap....but now I have recognized it and I am getting the new me to step forward. We have to keep moving forward and creating a new...if we don't we will stay stuck. We can't stay stuck for someone else...allow them their time but keep discovering your full potential. You have so much to offer the world you cannot be stifled!

Until we meet again my friends...

Rita

Rita OWEN

I have been through a lot in my life just as everyone else; I have found that what I have gone through has always been for my highest good. There is not a thing that I would change in my life; I would keep the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Sharing my lessons with you helps me to be the best version of myself. What I have learned, I share so you are the best version of yourself.

When we stand together we are strong and tall making a more confident and loving world. We are forgiving our past and embracing all that is learned. We then are teaching our children to be human and the best version of themselves.

Rita Owen

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