The Violet Lotus

07/09/2023

07/02/2023

My shefit review

06/25/2023

We're all beautiful in our own way. Love your body, yourself as you are.

A reminder to any woman who looks at her body and finds it flawed: these are prehistoric carvings of goddesses. These represent the epitome of feminine beauty to those we seek to emulate when we go on “paleo” diets. Not a flat tummy, thigh gap, or gravity-defying breast among them.

These are bodies that are unique to their owners, and contain stories of desire, creation, hardship, and perseverance. These are bodies that are ready to hold you as you cry. These are bodies that worked every day to provide nourishment, resources and guidance to their communities while also caring for the next generation. They supported one another in their labor, holding one another’s babies while they worked crafting tools, collecting water & singing songs to teach the young about the goddesses they so closely resembled.

And these carvings weren’t found in just one area. They’ve been discovered nearly everywhere humanity has settled and thrived. Which means there was a time when womanhood, in all her power and capacity, was revered not as merely a sexual novelty or shunned as sinful temptation, but seen as a source of inspiration to create, to connect, and to find courage.

Today, our patriarchal society reveres conformity in women over all. It demands that women strive to achieve and maintain a form that resembles an untested girl. Our bodies must look perpetually untouched, unspoiled, a blank slate for a man to claim and use and write his own story upon. Instead of worshiping women as they are, we scrutinize and discard them as never good enough. And the more we strive to conform, the more we give up control of our bodies.

So have comfort, women: with each fat roll and jiggle you gain as you move forward in time, you come closer to resembling the goddess as she originally appeared in the hearts of humanity. She lives in you and longs to be seen and revered as she was before.

And you deserve to be worshipped.

Repost—- Alaura Weaver
Via Sisterhood connecting as one.

06/25/2023

I've finally accepted my body for what it is. Food is fuel and movement is freedom.

WAVE THE WHITE FLAG

There are many choices available to us women in this life – but when it comes to your body, there are only two:

Accept it

Or don’t.

You see, if you choose to accept your body, you will soon start to love it, admire it, look after it. These things all follow in the wake of your acceptance.

When you realise that this vessel for your soul, for your spirit, is an instrument of such high design and fine tuning that it boggles the mind to even think about, you will enter into a phase which I like to call ‘peace, at last’.

You will care nothing of spare fat, grey hairs, loose skin.

You will realise, eventually, that the body’s purpose is not to look good, to attract friends, partners, successes – that it is, in fact, your spirit which does all of those things.

If you would only allow it to shine through and work its magic.

Your body, my friends, has but one job, to see you safely through this adventure of life, to allow your spirit to reach its potential.

That is it.

If you are on the path of not accepting your body – you are in for a very long battle – against an enemy you have no power to defeat. Nature, time, biology, fate…

You don’t have the weapons to fight those powers.

Wave the white flag.

Give in.

Accept.

It is then that your life will truly begin.


Donna Ashworth
From ‘To The Women: words to live by’
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Image of Feather by Natalie Grono (feather and the goddess pool)

06/22/2023

My path is never straight

06/22/2023

I love you all. Be well today. 💜

06/21/2023

My summertime vibe ... magnetic, spontaneous and adventurous. Comment below what your summertime vibe is.

06/21/2023

I'm so excited, my shefit order came today.

06/18/2023

It's all in your perception of what's important

06/17/2023

Not every thought in your head is true or real. Pause, take a breath, act, don't react.

06/15/2023

I'm so excited to be back, and with some new skills to share. I've been working on to get this out to ya'll. I'm still updating and finalizing things but check me out on yogabody.bio
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Personal trainer,Nutrition coach,Science of stretching coach,Reflexology,Yoga,Obstacle courses. I have many passions in my life fitness and nutrition and living an authentic life are just a few. I want my clients to be able to disconnect from their busy life for an hour and think they were with me f...