One Way or Another – Kara McDowell
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 100 Days of Radical Wellness – testing day 3
So here’s what I’m learning so far: It helps to encourage myself to get a variety of exercise classes so this way I do a lot of different ones over the week. Having goals also helps me plan what to do each day. So far I’ve been able to do art everyday and I’m really happy to have restarted that. it helps to have my top expect the night before. I have yet to make time for journaling for some reason I can’t seem to do it. Similarly I haven’t meditated once in the last week. The cold showers are definitely not starting yet It’s too cold to even think about them. I appear to be sleeping at least 7 hours every night. I need to come up with a plan for dinner and waste out a little bit more protein to my diet. And some variety for lunch is also really helpful. Tracking things is really helpful. So far I feel good about this project. And that’s where we are on day three. #100dayproject, #the100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness January 26, 2021 | Tags: #100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness, #the100dayproject | 100 Days of Radical Wellness | Leave a comment
  Year of Yes – 26
I know I seem to post a lot of flower photos. I am not really taking photos of anything lately except for the flowers all over my house so that’s all I have to share. This morning I woke up at 5 am and couldn’t fall back asleep but I also refused to get out of bed, so instead, I lay there in the dark and listened to a talk with Byron Katie (at 2x speed of course because I can’t handle anything else at this point.) And it reminded me of how important it is for me to keep grounding myself in teachings like hers. I signed up for a free conference early this month and I’ve been lucky enough to get to listen in on conversations with Kelly McGonigal, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, and Byron Katie amongst others. It’s been such a gift to get to remember their teachings. Years ago, I used to listen to Tara Brach daily as I did art and I learned a tremendous amount from her and felt such a sense of calm and peace from the repeated practice. Even though I keep saying I need these repeatedly in my life, I rarely make room for it. Instead, I read books, I work, I don’t make room for re-learning. After listening to Katie talk, I blissfully went back to sleep and slept until 8:30am. So grateful I chose to spend my morning this way. Yes to slowing down. Yes to learning and re-learning. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren  100 Days of Radical Wellness – trial day
Ok thoughts from trying for one day: this is encouraging me to move more and in different ways so that’s great. It also made me drink more water. Awesome. When I had small moments of free time, I looked to see what else I can check off. So far the list feels encouraging and not stifling. So let’s see what happens later this week! #100dayproject, #the100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness January 25, 2021 | Tags: #100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness, #the100dayproject | 100 Days of Radical Wellness | Leave a comment
 Year of Yes – 25
I don’t like making mistakes. Especially when my mistake results in letting people down. I really have a hard time forgiving myself and for letting it go. There was a communication mistake that I caught at work tonight and it resulted in a bunch of churn and frustration and now I am sitting here ready to jump out of my skin with frustration and disappointment. The thing is, I’ve already learned the lesson I need to and I’ve taken the steps to ensure this particular issue doesn’t happen again. Which is really all I can do right now. And if my kids came to me with all this, that’s exactly what I would tell them. That they did all they can do and now it’s time to give themselves some grace. So here I sit trying to find a way to give myself grace. Trying to say yes to feeling this but also trying to stop myself from catastrophizing it so much and learning to be more generous with grace. Yes to kindness to myself and others. It starts with me. I know it and yet it’s still hard. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes 
 100 Days of Radical Wellness – Planning
When I heard that the 100-day project was going to start in January 31 instead of April, I panicked. I had no idea what I wanted to do and I was already doing the daily yes on @karenika so I didn’t want to do something else at the same time. But then the idea of radical wellness came to me and it wouldn’t let go. What if I focused on 100 days of radical wellness. What would that look like? For me, a crucial step in the success of any project I attempt is the time I put into preparation. So I spent the last few weeks thinking about what radical wellness means to me and what would I like the parts of my journey to look like. And today, I finally put it all into a spreadsheet. I am not sure if this will work, I might be biting off way more that I can chew but it’s worth a shot. Let the experimenting begin! #100dayproject, #the100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness January 24, 2021 | Tags: #100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness, #the100dayproject | 100 Days of Radical Wellness | Leave a comment
 Year of Yes – 24 After a three-month hiatus, I drew again today and it felt magical. Sometimes starting again is the hardest thing to do. But we start and stop and pause and rewind and fast forward all the time in life. It doesn’t mean anything unless we decide it does. I’ve been anxious that I have had to take such a long break from riding the bike. I was in the middle of such a good momentum and now it’s been 25 days since I haven’t ridden and sometimes I worry I never will again. But that’s just my mind playing tricks on me. Just like how when you’re sick sometimes it feels like you’ll never be well again. But then you get better and forget all about that feeling. Today I got to draw again and soon when my sciatica is more under control I’ll get to ride again. Yes to beginning again and yes to knowing that no decision is permanent unless we say so. You get unlimited chances at life. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes 
This book was on so many of the lists I’ve seen in the last few weeks that I felt like I had to read it. It started out really fun but I started to get mixed up pretty quickly and because I was listening on audio and I was only able to listen in bits and pieces throughout the week, I lost track of the story and the characters quicker than I would have liked. I still finished it but I’m afraid I didn’t give it its due. I plan to read the next one on paper or listen to it in one sitting.
I am usually a big fan of Jackson’s novels. I find the pacing, the character development and the plot intriguing and engaging, so I was really looking forward to this one. And while I did read it all pretty quickly, this wouldn’t be at the top of my Jackson novels. It’s almost as if it’s two books. The first one is the plight of a mother whose baby is kidnapped and she’s doing what she needs to do to get her baby back and then the second book is the backstory of the kidnapper and the event that led her to it. Either story, fully fleshed out might have been interesting but together it felt disjointed. There are also several trigger warnings that go with this story, so please do look up those before you read it. I am not usually easily triggered but because the second part of the story felt so disjointed for me, I didn’t see it coming. Even with all that, I still read this story fast and wanted to keep reading to see what happened and why. As with many Jackson novels, the characters were real and the story moved at a pace that made it hard to put down. with gratitude to Harper Audio and netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review |
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