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26 Apr 2024 Leave a comment

by Katz in Daily writing prompts, Rants and Raves Tags: # somethingaboutme #sharingideas, # whatIliketalkingabout, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1920

What topics do you like to discuss?

Well I was born with what they call the gift “the gift of gab”, as mother would fondly say.

I enjoy talking about many different topics, however at the top of my list would be my work.

I love my work! I work in the social service sector and it’s a very interesting job. I find my job rewarding and challenging, and a great topic of conversation as most circles that I run in are with like minded individuals and colleagues expressing the same types of stories.

I love to talk about animals. I especially love cats, dogs, donkeys , goats and chickens. My dream is one day to move out of the city into a small little town where I may retire with a small little farm of sorts; the kind of farm where the animals are the non-eating kind. As a vegetarian most of my life, I respect animals and love their humor, their souls and their eyes, and I respect their flesh on their bones.

I also love to talk about tarot cards and medium ship. I’ve been recently self-learning tarot and have been practicing as best I can with some of my friends as I learn a little bit more about how to read energy. For many years, my youngest son at the age of two began seeing ghosts and talked about these spirits that were in our house. Only once did I personally see a shadow, which frightened the crap right out of me , and to this day I believe my son’s hauntings and always will.

I love to talk about books and self-development, how to better myself. I’m constantly trying to self-reflect so I can determine how I can improve my life, I like to read a lot of self-help books. Currently I’m working on several books, and I also have the book on the Shadow Self which I would highly recommend to those on self discovery.

I love to talk about sound therapy and music. I like to sing . I love all sorts of music, I even sang with a band in Dec 2022; of late I’ve been recently leaning into learning some jazz songs. I’ve had a passion for singing for many years but only sang out loud starting in my late 40s (never will I quit my day job and I’m certainly not a professional, but I can sing a few notes), and as often as I can sing at home, I do. I also have a karaoke machine that allows me to boom my voice into my neighbor’s walls ( sorry neighbours) which I don’t know if they appreciate it or not, however I do love singing and talking about where to go to sing. Recently I also started teaching myself how to play the tongue drum which is a beautiful instrument.

I really enjoy talking about spirituality, Jesus and religion. I respect everybody’s journey with regards to this fact and find it very interesting to learn about how or which inspiration people use to climb up this ” proverbial mountain”, or so I say. Really there is no one wrong way to climb the mountain, we all get there in our own time and on our own values with or without spirituality.

I’m sure there’s so much more because I honestly can’t stop thinking or talking. :).

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Corrina

Social Media

20 Apr 2024 Leave a comment

by Katz in Affirmations Tags: # positivethoughts, #covidkaraoke, #isolation, #karaoke, #singingathome, #socialmedia, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1914

How do you use social media?

I like to use social media to share my life, my poetry & stories ; to share my keto and weight loss / health journey, and of course to connect with my family.

I also like to sing.

During Covid, I, like many other karaoke 🎤 loving peeps out there , were forced out of our small neighborhood pubs into our homes , isolated.

There is when I began singing on social media. As a means of continuing my karaoke journey and new energy outlet, I jumped on board to the Facebook karaoke groups and leaned into this new part of our Covid online world.

No regrets!

In the privacy of my home I allowed myself to attempt other songs, songs I probably never would have thought about.

I found most people were kind with their online comments as I began to feel good singing at 🏡 home . Having regular followers/ people that wanted to listen to me sing, really encouraged me and made me feel good about myself and my voice. While I’m not a professional singer, I love to sing and can carry a note here and there.

Prior to Covid, I had just begun singing outside of my shower. I hated that I would’ve had to give up this new love as I felt such joy in singing. So with my little karaoke machine and a microphone, I began singing on various social media platforms.

Using YouTube to find karaoke songs became a rabbit hole of endless karaoke possibilities. Singing with lyrics, without lyrics and so many options that I rarely ever go to the pub to sing anymore. I now still sing at home. It’s cheaper!

I’ll never give up my day job of course 😏 but I still enjoy the social media opportunities that developed during isolation.

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Corrina

Good question❓

13 Apr 2024 Leave a comment

by Katz in Daily writing prompts, Rants and Raves Tags: #aging #myfears #retirement #notreadytoage, #dailyprompt-1907, dailyprompt

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

This question is a little bit scary for me as I struggle with where I will be in 10 years. As I watch my life in real time, I realize that I’m starting to age rapidly. And no it’s not in my mind , it’s actually happening, chronologically that is.

While I’m referring to my chronological age , of course it’s not really moving any faster than it has in the past, yet somehow in my mind it seems to be rapidly spinning me forward. I see my smile lines turn from once fine lines now deeper, as my skin loses that glow & my future demise now more likely nearer, more eminent , closer than ever , as I watch the inevitable end close in.

These past couple of years, I have lost a lot of people. My friends and family members from the previous generation, many crossing over to the other side, even friends of my age, cousins other people I’m hearing about passing and leaving this world.

These concerns about the next 10 years were never really there before the age of 55; and now it seems it’s all I think about! Yet at the same time , my psychological age pulls me backwards as I feel younger in some ways, having gained some sense of control over my direction of life. I recently released myself and was able to get out of my morbidly obese body and be more in control of myself, I’ve regained a zest for life. I’ve become more emotionally available and in some ways more settled with myself. So while I’m not really having a Benjamin button moment, boy do I wish I could.

It seems the last couple years my stress has increased as my outer shell and inner self screams “oh my God how do I stop this aging from happening?” And my young inner self is trying to be cool and do the right thing , you know just lean into aging and accept the fact that I should accept my fate & grow old gracefully “kind of dealio”.

I even tried to allow myself a moment of leaning into my age gracefully with an attempt to grow out my grey hair ; which actually ended up causing me more emotional distress than anything, so I just dyed it again as I was not ready for this change.

So in 10 years, yes just 10 years from now I will be 65!!! I can not imagine being ready to retire. Certainly if that includes me winning the lottery and becoming overnight filthy rich, then yes, perhaps I would retire right now. However, that’s not what I’m relating to when I think about retirement . I sadly think about poverty. I think about lack. I think about being alone, disconnected and even unhealthy. I think about a society that at times rejects those that age and I think about anti-agism. I don’t even like imagining my life as a senior person forced out of the workplace + forced into a slow down part of my life, especially if I’m not ready financially. And unfortunately I’m not one of those people that was lucky enough to be saving for my retirement. My whole life I’ve struggled financially. And while I now have a pension at my new job, this new job will only carry me until I retire, which is 10 years from now.

And the worst part I find about aging is my brain ..it’s still 25!! I still see myself as so young!!! ( Insert cartwheels here) . Yes I still want to live a full life !!! I want to enjoy life! I just want more life! I want to take back the last 10 years. I want to take back the last 20 years. It seems at times I don’t want to look forward at all, instead I try to practice mindfulness and stay in the now.

In the past few years, I was able to release myself from a larger version of myself, as I had been trapped with a weight issue for many years, unable to enjoy life because I was so unhappy for so many reasons. Society shames fat people, and let’s not even go about the ways that I shamed myself. And now that I have lost weight and have some of my health back, I want to get back those years that my younger self lost. I want to stay more energetic, I want to continue to be healthier, despite my knee problem, that may need surgery and replacement. I want so much that this idea , the idea of my life moving into a likely retirement in the next 10 years is actually terrifying.

I worry about the next 10 years more now than I ever have before in my life.

I understand the rules on this earth, you can’t change anything by worrying about it, yet here I am, worrying about it.

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Corrina

Happiness is:

12 Apr 2024 Leave a comment

by Katz in Daily writing prompts Tags: # positivethoughts, #attitudeofgratitude, blessings, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1906

What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

First waking up healthy without pain or illness …. I’m always very happy about that.

I’m also grateful for my children and the family I created … Where my greatest happiness lies 💖

I’m happy to wake up to amazing sunrises

I’m happy to wake up with my beautiful fur babies cuddling me and letting me know how much unconditional love they have for me.

I am so so happy to have love… great extended family of friends and all the love that is given to me.

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Corrina

Something I learned in high school

11 Apr 2024 Leave a comment

by Katz in Daily writing prompts Tags: # whatIlearnedinhighschool, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1905

“By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man/person but I knew how to try to become one.” – Clifton Fadiman

In high school, I learned that I can be independent and I can take care of myself by making choices that reflect forward movement for me.

In high school I learned that while I may have also been bullied; other people who were also bullied reached out and wanted to be my friend despite my social situation.

In high school I learned that high school was just a box that we were all put in, and in order to get out of that box, we needed to complete high school.

In high school, I learned that we are not all treated equally.

In high school I began to grow up.

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Corrina

One positive change I’ve made in my life

10 Apr 2024 Leave a comment

by Katz in Fasting Keto & Health Chatter Tags: # positivethoughts, #dietdoctor, #drfung, #extremeweoghtloss' #extremeweight lossmaintenance, #lumen, #meganramos, #weightloss #keto, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1904

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” William Arthur Ward

I can’t believe it’s almost been 8 years since I started my journey of Keto, low carb, alternate day fasting extended fasting and now recently adding in the Lumen device: which early stages appear to assist with managing and viewing my metabolic flexibility.

I will never be more thankful or grateful for the words of the famous #DrFung and the article that I read at work that one fine day in Toronto… A captivating article that 100% drew me in “Dr. In Toronto finds cure for obesity “; which of course led me to the first book that he wrote which was “#theobesitycode”; a game changer for me, the book that saved my life, the doctor that saved my life.

I can’t even say enough about how thrilled I am and how at times I still can’t believe that this actually happened…. What is that? Well it is extreme weight loss and maintenance that’s what it is!

Basically what I also believe is that this whole thing was a wee miracle being gifted to me after a prayer to ask for help with finding a cure for weight loss and health management. For those of you that keep a prayer journal then maybe you’ve heard of this sort of thing before. But this was my first experience and my first request in my prayer journal was to help me find a cure for my

Can’t believe it’s almost been 8 years since I began this journey; my prayers answered just one week after I penciled it into my prayers journal. But that’s a whole other story of miracles and help from the other side that I may come back to about another time. I will never be more thankful or grateful to find that article that day

This past year I put on a few pounds and now “unfortunately” I am still am struggling with a gain that has gradually reached a point of a full 20 lb but by bit adding since July 2023.

As a post menopausal over 55 female, I’m disappointed yet proud of myself to maintain at 158 lb loss and as disappointed as this 20lb gain is, I can still be proud of myself and should be still proud of myself. Yet there’s days that I’m beating myself up and saying the most terrible things about myself that I would not say to anybody else ever. So here’s some self-love and acknowledgment :).

Way to go!!! What you have done is no less than an absolutely, amazing accomplishment! With just some small direction from Dr. Fung’s amazing clinician Megan #meganramos, you manage this and did it all on your own. You just followed some guidelines and online groups ..you didn’t do what they told you to do ( the medical community ) which was to get a surgery for big gals like you…no I knew there had to be something else. I’m so damn proud of myself!