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BLOG – GIFT DAY 135 :: 30 days of love: something so powerful it had to…

15 May

It’s DAY 5 over here of the 30 Days of Love. We’ve already had two yummy recipes and a Giveaway underway!And, my love of today is this: 
The Story of the Lovemore+Fearless TeeJust in case you didn’t already hear all about it, I want you to know where this Tee comes from because it’s pretty powerful in a change your life sort of way…
It all started with a promise.Back in 2011, I made a promise not to shop for clothes or shoes for one entire year. What? Yes…no shopping, for the things I love, mind you.Over the course of that year I made a switch — instead of spending my money on my wardrobe, I invested in my head, heart, body and soul (and blogged about it every single day!).


This promise sent me to the spa for hot rock massages, on 30-day cleanse (where I discovered I was addicted to sugar, chocolate and coffee!) and into all sort of new adventures: facials, brazilian bikini wax, green smoothies, pilates, running, and a lot of learning.

I dove into the wisdom of ancient Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic treatments, Energy Medicine and many new ways of thinking about love, life and health. I sat before some of our great wise gurus, including: Deepak Chopra, Joan Borysenko and Donna Eden.

Soon, I learned they were all teaching the same thing. There are only two forces in this world - love and fear. With this incredible insight I made my next promise, (can you guess what it was?) to LOVE more and to FEAR less.

The following year, I dove deep into my fears and embraced them with LOVE.

I swam with sharks off the coast of Burmuda, we rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon where I slept next to spiders and scorpions and all sorts of freaky looking bugs.

I traveled to Paris and threw my wedding rings from a previous marriage into the fountain of St. Sulpice. I removed the things that were holding fear inside of me.

And that’s why I created….

The LOVEMORE+FEARLESS TEE.

It came from a promise to change my life. To face my fears. To love and live with joy and abundance.

And NOW, you can win your very own LOVEMORE+FEARLESS TEE this week in my daily giveaway.

>Sign up at this link

Love on!

More tomorrow,
Lovemore (fearless),
Jamie

P.S. I still make promises, but now I am committed to helping you make promises too. Sign up for your personalized promise at http://www.thepromisedaily.com
{What are you waiting for?
Is it your chance to win?}

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BLOG – GIFT DAY 086 30-day gratitude challenge: day 10, lovemore fearless

27 Mar

Day 10 of the 30-Day Gratitude Challenge over here.

What are you grateful for today? 
What floats your boat? 
What has you singing the praises of fairy-godmothers and fabulous friends today?

Today I am grateful for: 

1) Sunshine so bright I had to wear shades.
2) Computers!
3) LOVE.

And, when I say LOVE I don’t meant the fairytale, bring me flowers and chocolates, fall head over heels LOVE.

I don’t mean the unconditional protect my tribe at all costs sort of parental LOVE.

I don’t even mean that hormonal attraction that makes your heart skip a beat brand of LOVE.

What I mean is this….
I am grateful that I have discovered LOVE.

The kind of LOVE that is the opposite of fear.
The kind of LOVE that is the glue between you and me.
The kind of LOVE that connects us all.

The LOVE that allows me to open my eyes and see things differently, as if you were me, or I were you.

The kind of LOVE that reminds me that we are all the same.
Same journey, different paths.

I am grateful to LOVE.
The kind that has been bestowed upon me.
And the kind that has been taken away from me too.

LOVE is a LESSON.
And it’s here for us to learn as we give it a go, take a leap, extend our hand and help each other along the way.LOVE is a lesson that will persistently pop up over and over again until we get it right. 

For that, I am grateful to LOVE.
And, what’s not to LOVE about that?


You can pin the above image by clicking here.

More tomorrow.
Lovemore (fearless),
Jamie

{What’s your attitude of gratitude today? Share in the comments section below.}

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GIFT DAY 044 lovemore+fearless valentine’s day

13 Feb

I looked up the best Valentine’s Day movies today and this is what I found from the Washington Times: The List: Best Valentine’s Day movies

They seem so CLASSIC but almost out of time and place.

So I made my own Valentine’s Day Movie List…
(because I’m a GIRL!).But, FIRST… I want to take you on a walk of our little beach-front neighborhood — and what it looks like today.
We surveyed the damage. Amazing that we still have a porch left once you see what is floating in the marsh… refrigerator anyone?
Justin found our stairs. They were 1/2 mile up the road. Along with someone’s chair.
The wind certainly did some damage too, which was mostly why everyone was without power for so long. Downton Trees?


I’m sure the Open House will be rescheduled for the house that this sign belongs too… hopefully the house is still in shape to sell.


It’s not this one. Which is now condemned, the house is losing a porch and a roof.


The windows didn’t fair so well on this house, along with the porch. The area where this house is located in the neighborhood definitely got hit the hardest. (It’s less than a 1/2 mile from us.)


And, our stair-less beach view. You can see the bolt that sticks out, where the stairs previously attached to the house.

We are lucky this storm wasn’t worse.
In some odd way it’s made the neighbors more friendly, more loving, more willing to pitch in and help.

And that makes me wonder — why can’t we ALWAYS care this much about each other, our neighbors, or our community? Why can’t we always have an abundance of helping hands to go around?

Lovemore+Fearless?

Good thing there is a day devoted to love, right around the corner. Like… tomorrow!

Here are my top Valentine’s Day movies!

  • Sliding Doors
  • Clueless
  • The Notebook

I would love to see yours!

More tomorrow.
Lovemore,
Jamie

{What’s your favorite Valentine’s Day movie? Share on the blog.}

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Day 308: lovemore monday :: a grocery store story

5 Nov

As you know, I entered this year determined to be fearless. But, I don’t want more fear or less in my life.  I want more love.  So I made up a new word, lovemore!   That’s why Lovemore Mondays are here.

Today’s Lovemore Monday is a love story about the grocery store.

Tonight I picked up a few vegetables and some chicken for dinner. But I received something even better from the local supermarket.

As I walked though the meat aisle with all chicken legs and turkey legs sticking up in the air waiting for a family to take them home — I passed an elderly man.

He was standing in the middle of the meat aisle, just before the frozen food section, hovering between cold and frozen foods, talking to a woman who stocked shelves.

She said, “It’s so good to see you!”

He said, “It’s good to talk to you.”

She said, “I didn’t see you yesterday and I got worried.”

He said, “I like to come here just so I have someone to talk to.”

And then my heart broke.

I listened to him tell the stock girl that he doesn’t have anyone to talk to so he comes to the grocery store everyday just to connect with people.

It made me realize how important all of our roles are, even when we think we are just stocking shelves at a grocery store.

And that’s why, on this Lovemore Monday…

I. Love. It.

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Day 305: f*ing friday :: fearlessly

2 Nov

TGIF.
Today continues the weekly series, F*ing Fridays, which will coincidentally occur on Friday. In Year One, I mentioned some of my favorite F words back on Day 5, including: Fearless, Fabulous, Fine, Fun, Faith, Freedom, Forgiveness, to name a Few.

Last week I dove into the words Fires

Today’s F*ing Friday is dedicated to the word:
Fearlessly.

As in, what an f*ing week.

But it is almost over and I hold on to my mantra, to lovemore+fearless as we all move through the current storm — the times we are living in, the upcoming election and the weather pattern sending destructive hurricanes in our path — and the ensuing aftermath.

No matter where you are tonight, here’s sending more love your way.

And, here are some helpful links I ran across that you may find useful:

1) A love letter From Marianne Williamson called “Love Letter to East Coasters“

2) The American Red Cross. You can easily donate by calling this number:  1-800-HELPNOW

3) Or text “REDCROSS” to 90999 to make an automatic $10 donation.

Love more. Be safe. Help out.
Let’s move forward.
Fearlessly.
xo~Jamie

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Day 302: the light at the end of sandy’s tunnel

30 Oct

There seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel.
At least there is a very large moon over the ocean tonight outside our front door.

My heart goes out to those in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and all the other areas who took the brunt of Sandy’s super powers. (If you’re interested, the American Red Cross is still looking for help to aid the most affected areas.)

As for us…

After spending an entire day glued to the tube far away in the suburbs, watching the newscasters report from the shore just down the beach from our house in Situate, we are home and find everything in its place.

Everything outside is of course dripping wet, but the house, windows, stairs, walls, roof are all intact. (Even the Boston Globe has a photo of Scituate on its Facebook banner!)

The sand is super smooth on the beach, as if someone took a lawn mower to it and trimmed it all down to the same height, not even one footprint left.  Rocks dot the landscape.  And, everything is absolutely dripping wet — did I already say that?

If Sandy was the some sort of welcoming committee, I guess we should consider ourselves officially acclimated to the South Shore.

But we are thankful.  And lucky.

Just for the record, while my theme this year is to live fearlessly, this was NOT what I asked for: not for me, not for you and not for anyone else either.

The good news is that most of us are still standing.

Let’s hope all those buried in snow or sand, holding roofs together with shoe strings or waiting for the water to dry up are on their way to seeing the light soon.

Sending you love.

More and more love.
Love, more and more.

xo~Jamie

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Day 290: fears and tears, tears for fears

18 Oct

I am notorious for messing up song lyrics. 

I unapologetically sing the wrong words to the right songs at the top of my lungs, while driving my car listening to the radio. (All. The. Time.).

It’s kind of a funny inside joke between Justin and I. Although, now, I suppose it’s a public outside joke. You’re now in on my secret.

So today, I wasn’t shocked at all that I realized, while belting out the word TEARS to a song that was really saying FEARS, that I was in the wrong.

It struck me as quite ironic.

Don’t most tears come from fears?

Something to ponder…

Lovemore….
Tearless?

 

 

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Day 286: i killed a spider

14 Oct

We were so late today, because of me. 

I had many, many items pile up today which made our plans totally late, late, late to meet friends for the Patriots game.

I made us late.

And then we hit traffic.

And then I hit a spider.

I couldn’t help it.

It was crawling across the dashboard right in front of me.  We were trapped in the car. It was not enormous but it was not small either. It was practically dangling its life in front of me.

I picked up a magazine that was conveniently stuffed between the front seats, rolled it up and then smacked it upside the head. Splat!

Poor spider. Sacrificed in my frustration of being late.

The good news is, I didn’t scream. I didn’t shriek. I didn’t beg Justin to pull the car over so I could run away. (There was a time when I would have done all three in one breath.)

So I know my fearlessness is paying off.
I suppose I just need to focus more on the lovemore part.

Poor spider. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Day 281: love. more.

8 Oct

Look what crept into my email box today:

“When all your desires are distilled

You will cast just two votes:

To love more,

And be Happy.”

~Hafiz 

There it is again.
Love+More

The question is, just how to do that?
Well, good thing this quote was also in my email box today:

Make the best of it. When you make the best of whatever you’re focused upon, your future will be better than your now. If each moment you’re making the best of what-is, no matter what it is, you make the best of it; make the best of it; make the best of it—your future just gets better and better and better, and better.— Abraham

And, there you have it.
All cleared up now, isn’t it?

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Day 205: the world’s hottest pepper and our healthcare crisis

24 Jul

I’m a pepper.

At least my tongue feels like one — the hottest pepper in the entire universe which I just swallowed at dinner.

I think it was a habanero chili pepper and somebody slipped it onto my plate while I wasn’t looking.

It was hidden in my fish taco and went directly into my taste buds.

Oooooouch.
My tongue throbbed with pain as I soaked it, gulping down ice water as fast as my straw would allow.

Which only made it worse.

I dipped my fork in ketchup and salved it all over the tip of my burning tongue.

As my eyes started to tear the only option left was a dollop of sour cream sitting on my plate.

I. Hate. Sour. Cream.
But, I swallowed it anyway in my one fearless act of the day.

It didn’t help.

So I ordered a bowl of ice cream just to coat my tongue in something. Anything to take the burn away.

I haven’t had ice cream in so long, not the real dairy-full kind, that I can’t even remember my last bout with the creamy stuff.

But, tonight, I downed the entire heaping bowl of chocolate ice cream in practically one bite, dabbing the cold stuff all over my tongue and around the sides and tips of my taste buds.

It seemed to work.
The ice cream finally started to coat and numb my tongue.

Now, after taking a bath, I am propped up in bed, with a numb tongue, bloated, burping and belching myself to sleep with a belly ache.

It occurs to me, that THIS is exactly what is wrong with our health care system.  

You could give me a pill for my stomach ache and numb tongue, but really, neither are the cause of my problems.

Sugar coating it is, of course, not the cure.
Getting down to root, and understanding the “pepper” of it all, is our only hope.

That alone, would be a fearless act if you ask me. 
Burp.

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