Wow what an amazing weekend I had..I went to see Kris Carr speaking about her journey with cancer and health at the Hyatt lodge in Oak Brook yesterday.And man did she inspire me!!For you people who don't know who she is,Kris Carr is a cancer thriver,best selling author of her awesome book Crazy Sexy Diet, motivational speaker, wellness coach and she inspires people all over America to have a holistic approach to medicine and health.She has been living with a very rare form of cancer in her liver and lungs for almost 10 years know and it is stable.Doctors told her that there is not much to do besides wait and see,so she started her own journey and healed herself through a plant based way of eating and a healthy mind.She did a documentary on her journey called Crazy Sexy Cancer and has a web side with lots of information at crazysexylife.com.Kris regularly lectures at medical schools, hospitals,wellness centers,Whole Foods and Eat Right America and Harvard University.Television appearances include;
CBS Evening News,The Early Show,The Today Show and yes even the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Kris Carr
There were about 300-400 people most of them cancer survivors listening to her and 3 other great health advocates which included Julie Fulton who is a dietitian and fitness professional,Jackie Glew registered Dietitian and licensed Nutritionist and Peggy Maglaris-Kopley who is the General Manager and Co-founder of Prasino which is that great organic,vegan friendly restaurant I told you guys about.They are located in St. Charles IL, La Grange IL and are soon opening another one in our great city Chicago.
Kris was doing a little personal coaching session on some volunteers and of course I was really interested in that so I was the lucky one that got picked.We were talking about my eating habits,stress level,exercise regimen and about the way my mind is driving me crazy sometimes.She was such a sweet person and told me that I put to much pressure on me about being perfect and that I have to realize that there is no perfect...PERFECT IS BEIGE AND I AM RED HOT...those were her words!!
I think a lot of us put so much pressure on ourselves to be the perfect wife,the perfect mom,have the perfect body,eat a perfect diet,be the perfect friend,be perfect in our jobs or at school,be the perfect son or daughter and live the perfect life.Well, there is no perfect and who is the one that says what perfect is anyway?!
And if we are perfect at the end are we really happy?Isn't it so much more important to be happy and healthy,to be able to laugh and cry and help people out and be loved and give love,to feel full filled and enjoy life instead of spending every little minute of your life on trying to be perfect.When we want to be perfect most of the time we are doing it to please other people.We think if we are perfect we get more attention or more love.We think all our problems will fade away and we can finally be happy!!If we fail and we never become our perfect selfs we beat ourselves up every single day until we realize that nobody has the right to make us feel that we will never be good enough,or that we are a failure.It is not our fault that sometimes people just don't know any better.
Most of our doubts and low self esteem come from our childhood.Everything we learn,we learn when we are children..little innocent children.Our parents are our role models and everything they say or do we suck in to our little brains where the memories can get stored forever.And our parents love us and they don't mean to hurt us!!Very often that is how they have been raised and that is all they know so they continue with that kind of parenting not knowing that sometimes that child has to deal and struggle with his or her feelings way into the adult life.
When we want to beat ourselves up because we failed again we need to look at us when we were kids and be the mom or dad.Would we punish our child and give him a bottle of vodka to drink or stuff it with cookies,because he or she wasn't perfect?Would we sit him in front of the TV for the whole day and not let him get any fresh air because he didn't get an A at school?Would we lock our teenager in his room for two days because he failed on his driving test?NO NO and NO...
So why do we punish ourselves if we are not perfect?It is up to us to brake that circle and teach us and our future children better.We need to take responsibility for our own life's and realize that we are not children anymore and that we are in control of our life's.Nobody can blame or hurt us for things anymore if we don't let them.Nobody can punish us anymore or treat us bad!!We have to stop playing the victim role,grow up and forgive whoever we need to forgive...not because of them but because of us..in the end if we are mad and angry with people in our life's for what they did to us,it causes negative energy in our body's and minds.It doesn't hurt them it hurts us..You don't have to forget but you have to forgive..
And we have to realize what a huge impact our mind and thoughts have on our life and well being.A healthy diet and exercise is never enough if we have poisened thoughts.We can be whoever and whatever we want to be no matter what has happend to us in the past...prayers,meditation and counseling can move mountains.You just have to believe that PERFECT IS BEIGE AND YOU ARE RED HOT!!!
love and hugs
Jennifer
CBS Evening News,The Early Show,The Today Show and yes even the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Kris Carr
There were about 300-400 people most of them cancer survivors listening to her and 3 other great health advocates which included Julie Fulton who is a dietitian and fitness professional,Jackie Glew registered Dietitian and licensed Nutritionist and Peggy Maglaris-Kopley who is the General Manager and Co-founder of Prasino which is that great organic,vegan friendly restaurant I told you guys about.They are located in St. Charles IL, La Grange IL and are soon opening another one in our great city Chicago.
Kris was doing a little personal coaching session on some volunteers and of course I was really interested in that so I was the lucky one that got picked.We were talking about my eating habits,stress level,exercise regimen and about the way my mind is driving me crazy sometimes.She was such a sweet person and told me that I put to much pressure on me about being perfect and that I have to realize that there is no perfect...PERFECT IS BEIGE AND I AM RED HOT...those were her words!!
I think a lot of us put so much pressure on ourselves to be the perfect wife,the perfect mom,have the perfect body,eat a perfect diet,be the perfect friend,be perfect in our jobs or at school,be the perfect son or daughter and live the perfect life.Well, there is no perfect and who is the one that says what perfect is anyway?!
And if we are perfect at the end are we really happy?Isn't it so much more important to be happy and healthy,to be able to laugh and cry and help people out and be loved and give love,to feel full filled and enjoy life instead of spending every little minute of your life on trying to be perfect.When we want to be perfect most of the time we are doing it to please other people.We think if we are perfect we get more attention or more love.We think all our problems will fade away and we can finally be happy!!If we fail and we never become our perfect selfs we beat ourselves up every single day until we realize that nobody has the right to make us feel that we will never be good enough,or that we are a failure.It is not our fault that sometimes people just don't know any better.
Most of our doubts and low self esteem come from our childhood.Everything we learn,we learn when we are children..little innocent children.Our parents are our role models and everything they say or do we suck in to our little brains where the memories can get stored forever.And our parents love us and they don't mean to hurt us!!Very often that is how they have been raised and that is all they know so they continue with that kind of parenting not knowing that sometimes that child has to deal and struggle with his or her feelings way into the adult life.
When we want to beat ourselves up because we failed again we need to look at us when we were kids and be the mom or dad.Would we punish our child and give him a bottle of vodka to drink or stuff it with cookies,because he or she wasn't perfect?Would we sit him in front of the TV for the whole day and not let him get any fresh air because he didn't get an A at school?Would we lock our teenager in his room for two days because he failed on his driving test?NO NO and NO...
So why do we punish ourselves if we are not perfect?It is up to us to brake that circle and teach us and our future children better.We need to take responsibility for our own life's and realize that we are not children anymore and that we are in control of our life's.Nobody can blame or hurt us for things anymore if we don't let them.Nobody can punish us anymore or treat us bad!!We have to stop playing the victim role,grow up and forgive whoever we need to forgive...not because of them but because of us..in the end if we are mad and angry with people in our life's for what they did to us,it causes negative energy in our body's and minds.It doesn't hurt them it hurts us..You don't have to forget but you have to forgive..
And we have to realize what a huge impact our mind and thoughts have on our life and well being.A healthy diet and exercise is never enough if we have poisened thoughts.We can be whoever and whatever we want to be no matter what has happend to us in the past...prayers,meditation and counseling can move mountains.You just have to believe that PERFECT IS BEIGE AND YOU ARE RED HOT!!!
love and hugs
Jennifer
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