"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain...To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life not to deny my humanity but embrace it." Kevyn AucoinToday, I decide to choose joy. 2020 …
Working Virtually in Community
"People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible." - Tom Vilsack It is a scary world out there for me right now. Partially, because I live with anxiety on a regular basis. Add on to that, the fact that I live with asthma and …
Going Inward to Find Ease
“To return to the root is to find peace. To find peace is to fulfill one’s destiny.” — Tao Te Ching Choosing ease and actually finding it are two entirely different things. In my last post, I wrote about a practice that I do every new year of choosing a word to focus on for …
Choosing Ease for 2020
"My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that which misses me was never meant for me." - Iman Al-Shafi'i Every year, I start out with a word that I choose to guide my life for that year. I think of things that I wish for that …
Finding the Answers in Nature
"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." - John Muir It has been a bit of a crazy week so this is more of a rambling about my time indoors due to not so nice weather here in Alberta Canada. I am someone who needs time outside to feel …
Recognize the Magic in the Mundane
"Those who don't believe in magic, will never find it." - Roald Dahl I'm putting out my post today on a Monday. Since I started An Undefined Life a year and a half ago, I have always posted on Fridays. Due to my changing schedule and energy levels, I have decided to switch to Mondays. Hopefully …
How I’m feeling today after my ocrevus infusion…
You Don’t Have to be an Expert
Girl Within There is a child within me. An innocent with a hunger to learn. Although I have not bore children of my own, I nurture the young girl inside of me. Who loves to please everyone. Who finds joy in singing too loudly not caring if she is off-key. She looks in the mirror …
Live Your Truth
I intend to live life, not just exist. - George Takei One of the things I love the most about aging is how much better you learn to know yourself and not care as much about how you are perceived by others. That might sound a bit harsh, but to not be preoccupied about whether …
My Gratitude for 2018
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. - Hal Borland As 2018 comes to a close, I decided to look back over all the things that have happened and changed in my life. I always like to utilize this practice …