Jenn Hicks

Archive for the ‘Body Image’ Category

You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

On December 31, 2010, I cozied up in my hotel room in Tempe, Arizona, and wrote a year end blog post. In it, I summarized all that I felt proud of accomplishing in 2010. It was a good exercise that both motivated and inspired me to continue moving forward with my business.

On December 27, 2011, while en route to The Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, the song “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” by Bachman Turner-Overdrive came on the radio. In the split second that I heard it, I knew that would be the basis of my end of year 2011 post. Kind of a “Yeah, I’ve done a lot, but there’s more to come… just you wait and see!”

So I decided to make a video blog, one where I’m reminded of what’s really behind what I do. Fun. Joy. Experience. I plan to refer back to it throughout the year, when I need a little boost and encouragement.

So this video is my tribute to myself in 2012. Instead of making promises at the beginning of this new year, I’m setting the intention to continue along my path with JOY.

In this video, I’m just havin’ a little fun, doing what I love to do best – DANCE! It was a blast teaching myself to mix some really meaningful tunes together (next, up, DJ Jenn!). Letting my body groove, uninterrupted, without choreography, allowed me to go deep inside to my pleasure place and brought my soul out to play!

There are 2 ways to watch this video. Imma start watching it from the beginning, cause I NEED to inspire myself. But, in the interest of efficiency, I suggest you start at 3:51 where, well, I get the main point across.

Declaration of Self Esteem

Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Self Esteem Shop in Royal Oak, MI http://www.s...Image via Wikipedia
I came across this again today, and, well, it just needs to be shared!
It really helped me back when I working with how to build my self esteem and self confidence as I was recovering from anorexia.  And to this day, it helps me keep tabs on what is really important: loving and accepting myself unconditionally.

 

Declaration of Self Esteem
(author unknown)

I am me.

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me – my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all its thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they may be – anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement; my mouth, and all the words that come out of it, polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud or soft; and all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.

I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.

Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know. But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for the solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is me. This is authentic and represents where I am at that moment in time.

When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting. I can discard that which is unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting, and invent something new for that which discarded.

I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me.

I am me and I am okay.