Happy Friday!!! It’s the weekend! We made it through yet another week! WOOHOO!
I can’t get enough of today’s quote:
“This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way.” ― Steve Maraboli
Apparently, I’ve used Steve’s quotes several times in the past for Feel Good Fridays! What can I say? I enjoy what he writes.
I hope you have an incredible weekend and live life to the fullest!
Love, Lisa
Blogs I’ve updated this week:
Support Group – added our February 19, 2018, support group meeting
It’s Friday (already?!?). This week I am inspired by all of the uplifting and encouraging people in my life.
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” ― Albert Schweitzer
If you are feeling worn down, exhausted, defeated – try to find someone who can lift you up, ignite that spark, encourage you to keep on going. The embers are there…they just need a little encouragement to burst back into flame.
Good morning and Happy Friday! Another week has flown by…
This one goes out to my EndoSisters. All of you. But especially the ones that I get the pleasure of sitting with once a month, talking, laughing, crying, enjoying each other’s company. You truly are my heroes.
“Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.” ― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
And today’s quote is all for my Mom. I love you, woman. May you find that blurred line:
“If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it’s to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where working hard at it makes you happy, and where you’re happy to work hard at it.” ― Tom Fletcher
Happy New Year, my Readers and Friends. Looking forward to learning and growing with you in 2018.
Reach out to others in need, help when you can, and act…without expectation of reward or praise. Just do, because you can. But…don’t do it to the point of physical, mental, or monetary exhaustion, either. *wink* Moderation. In all things.
Merry Christmas, you guys. May you have a wonderful weekend.
Hi guys.
Started my period today, so I’m medicated and taking a sick day. The pain woke me up at 2:30 this morning.
So, I want you all to remember on this Feel Good Friday, that it IS okay to take time for yourself. Sometimes it’s the only thing you can do.
Love you,
Today’s lovely quote comes from Richard Simmons – he was very inspiring during this morning’s aerobics.
“It’s consistency and looking in the mirror every day and giving yourself some compliments. Being kind and non-judgmental to yourself and others. … If we did that, it’d be a better world.” ~ Richard Simmons; 2014, on CNN
I truly hope you take this quote and do it…every day. I know I will.
Happy Friday!!! I may not have had the time to finish a new blog entry for the week, but please take a look below. I’ve updated a few with new studies that have come out.
I look forward to having more available free time to dedicate to new entries (sorry…life’s been busy). Which leads me to today’s quote:
“Relax, Recharge and Reflect. Sometimes it’s OK to do nothing.” ― Izey Victoria Odiase
I need to remind myself to stop, sit, and just…relax. It’s been a go-go-go-go lifestyle for the past several months and hopefully this holiday season I can have some sit-down & do nothing” time. I’m hoping you can do the same.
Have an INCREDIBLE week.
Love, Lisa
Blogs I updated this week:
Endometriosis & the Lungs – added a case study of a 37-year-old woman with Endometriosis lesions in her pleural cavity. Published October 2017 in Radiology Case Reports.
Endometriosis on Your Skin – added a case study of a 49-year-old woman who suffered from a painful, swollen, stinky lump in her belly button for six years. Published October 2017 in EC Gynaecology.
Stress Levels May Affect Endo – added a study on how stress may stimulate Endometriosis growth. Published November 2017 in Sage Journals.
I’m pre-writing this on Wednesday since I’ll be away with friends for the Thanksgiving holiday.
I hope that you’ve had a wonderful week surrounded by friends, family, support, and love. Be thankful for the good moments…and the bad. And if you’ve had a crappy week, keep a stiff upper lip and hope next week is better. If you EVER need to talk – I’m here. ❤
Today’s quote is a doozy:
“My dearest friend Abigail, These probably could be the last words I write to you and I may not live long enough to see your response but I truly have lived long enough to live forever in the hearts of my friends. I thought a lot about what I should write to you. I thought of giving you blessings and wishes for things of great value to happen to you in future; I thought of appreciating you for being the way you are; I thought to give sweet and lovely compliments for everything about you; I thought to write something in praise of your poems and prose; and I thought of extending my gratitude for being one of the very few sincerest friends I have ever had. But that is what all friends do and they only qualify to remain as a part of the bunch of our loosely connected memories and that’s not what I can choose to be, I cannot choose to be lost somewhere in your memories. So I thought of something through which I hope you will remember me for a very long time. I decided to share some part of my story, of what led me here, the part we both have had in common. A past, which changed us and our perception of the world. A past, which shaped our future into an unknown yet exciting opportunity to revisit the lost thoughts and to break free from the libido of our lost dreams. A past, which questioned our whole past. My dear, when the moment of my past struck me, in its highest demonised form, I felt dead, like a dead-man walking in flesh without a soul, who had no reason to live any more. I no longer saw any meaning of life but then I saw no reason to die as well. I travelled to far away lands, running away from friends, family and everyone else and I confined myself to my thoughts, to my feelings and to myself. Hours, days, weeks and months passed and I waited for a moment of magic to happen, a turn of destiny, but nothing happened, nothing ever happens. I waited and I counted each moment of it, thinking about every moment of my life, the good and the bad ones. I then saw how powerful yet weak, bright yet dark, beautiful yet ugly, joyous yet grievous; is a one single moment. One moment makes the difference. Just a one moment. Such appears to be the extreme and undisputed power of a single moment. We live in a world of appearance, Abigail, where the reality lies beyond the appearances, and this is also only what appears to be such powerful when in actuality it is not. I realised that the power of the moment is not in the moment itself. The power, actually, is in us. Every single one of us has the power to make and shape our own moments. It is us who by feeling joyful, celebrate for a moment of success; and it is also us who by feeling saddened, cry and mourn over our losses. I, with all my heart and mind, now embrace this power which lies within us. I wish life offers you more time to make use of this power. Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.
Take care!
Love, Francis.
Title: Letter to Abigail Scene: “Death-bed” Chapter: The Road To Awe” ― Huseyn Raza
May we embrace the moments…and the power we wield over them.
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