Use Spring Colors to Energize You!

What colors and activities do you envision when you think SPRING?

Discover simple ways to use colors, affirmations, visualizations, and journal writing to improve your sense of well-being. 

Yahoo. Spring is a fresh season, and perfect time to get together at...

Where: Seasoned Woman,in the Williams Center Plaza, 5460 E. Broadway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85711

When: Sat. March 16, 2019 From 2-3 PM

This workshop is fun, interactive, and introduces you to self-care skills featured in Colors of Joy: A Woman's Guide for Self-Discovery, Balance, and Bliss.

Order Colors of Joy Now!

Journal writing in Colors of Joy  improves your outlook and way you treat yourself and others. 

Discover how easily color-coded exercises and journal writing activities attract positive energy and helps you feel more joy each day.

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Reservations to the workshop are on a first-come first serve basis and complimentary. 

Please go to the Seasoned Woman’s Website and Click on the Link for Events to reserve your place.

For Nancy Andres’ bio, event schedule, and wellness ideas click here.


Additional Reading:

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Spring-blooms-for-wordless-wednesday


Spring Cleaning Guide


Book Review from Judee Algazi of Colors of Joy

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Before you go, please comment. 

Do you journal write to get a perspective on things you are confused about? 

Does it help to write down those things that are troubling you?

Isn't spring a wonderful season to reboot your self-care routine (a fresh start) though journal writing or other self-care practices? 

Explain whether you agree or disagree and why.

Before I sign off here's the quote for today.

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” 
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

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Share the Love

Today and every day is a wonderful time to share my love, thoughts, and feelings about you, me, and the meaning of "share the love." I'm going to do it by using original quotations I've created and present to you. Each is a gift dear reader. I've shared a few of them in blogs posts, and others are affirmations I repeat to myself. The rest are inspiring ideas I get during meditation or when I'm out living my abundant life. If any have meaning for you, please let me know.

"Love yourself through each day, even if it is challenging. Self-compassion fills each day with promise." Nancy Andres

"I nourish my mind, body, and spirit healthfully and my thoughts, feelings, and actions heal me." Nancy Andres

"Friendships are like gardens. They give us pleasure and comfort, as long as we tend them with care. Nurture your friendships and your garden will grow." Nancy Andres

"Recovery and healing are day-at-a-time processes. I am generous with myself and others and know each of us has the option of starting over any time we need to." Nancy Andres

"I keep life simple by lovingly focusing on my own business and gently releasing others to experience their own choices." Nancy Andres

"Joy is everywhere that I see it. I live life with my eyes wide open." Nancy Andres

"Be well. Live well. Lead a colorful life!" Nancy Andres

Sending Much Love to You Every Day of the Year.

P.S. Feel free to use these quotes, but please link back to my post.

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Tips to Energize Your Life!

You're Invited to a Presentation by Nancy Andres, Author of Colors of Joy: A Woman’s Guide for Self-Discovery, Balance, and Bliss. It's a fun way to “try out” Self Care Practices that increase joy in daily living.

Where: Natural Grocers, 7220 E. Broadway Blvd., corner of Broadway at Kolb, Tucson. 520-885-6000.

When: Monday, Dec. 7 between 12 noon- 1 PM

What: Interactive activities, self-development skills, and time after the workshop to see and purchase Colors of Joy, the woman’s self-care journal. Colors of Joy expands and enhances techniques you’ll learn during this workshop.

Details: The workshop is free, but seating is limited and on a first come first serve basis. Open to adults only.  www.nancyandreswriter.com.

Come on down and enjoy this fabulous self-care party. 

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Wishing all my readers a Joyous Holiday Season and Many 

Blessings in the New Year.

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The quote for today follows: "Self-care is a 

privilege only you can grant 

yourself." Nancy Andres

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4 Ways to Discover Balance and Joy This Holiday Season

Discover balance and joy this holiday season by aligning your mind, body, and spirit. If this seems like too much of a challenge to you, you’re not alone. According to a study from Weight Watchers, the average American gains around 7-10 lbs. between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.

The holiday blues and seasonal affective disorder plague others. Learn what Maude Purcell LCSW, CEAP suggests to help you outsmart the holiday blues at Beat the Holiday Blues

Are you one of the those people who have unrealistic expectations of yourself and others or a preconceived notion of how the holidays should turn out? Has entertaining, party going, gift shopping, and life on the run become a drudge or thrown you off center? There is help for you.

Here are 4 ways you may wander off from a healthy course and 4 remedies to fix them.

Excuse # 1: Everyone strays from their routine, especially since it’s a stressful and “so much happening” season.

Remedy #1: Talk about feelings as they come up, rather than stuff feelings with foods, over-spending, or a frenzy of activity. Limit commitments, holiday events, or preparations to things you really want to do and only add extra things if they won’t tax your sense of well-being. Choose to be with the people who matter the most to you and bow out of situations with people, functions, or customs that have less meaning for you. If you feel bent out of shape or anxious, meditate or do deep breathing exercises to bring you back to your center.

Excuse #2: I have no time or energy for exercise.

Remedy #2: Fit exercise into holiday activities, by parking your car as far away from stores as possible and use the stairs instead of escalator or elevator at the mall. When you can, walk to shops, post office, or food shopping instead of driving. Stretch at your computer, on line at the bank or farmers’ market, or in bed before you get out of it in the morning. Include the playground, park, roller or ice skating ring, biking, skiing, and walking in family fun activities for the holidays. Give exercise gifts like a spa day or gym membership to yourself or others.

Excuse #3: I’m too pooped to cook. This excuse may create a dangerous situation, because you’re likely to grab snack or junk foods instead of real food or overeat in a restaurant. Most foods sold commercially include ingredients like soy oil (unless it’s organic it’s likely to be GMO), artificial sweeteners, high sodium, and heavy sauces and dressings.

Remedy # 3: Shop for holiday presents throughout the year. That way there's no last minute rush. Cook up batches of food and freeze to use when you’re too tired to whip up something that day. If you go to a restaurant instead of cooking, make sure to eat smart when you eat out. Here’s a link to a blog post that will help you do just that. Eat Out Eat Smart

Excuse # 4: I’ll start to diet in the New Year. In days gone by, I've said this to myself in hopes that it would postpone the pain I'd feel from disciplining myself to push away from the table and stop eating unhealthful foods. I also thought stalling with a start date gave me permission to gobble down that basket of bread right now. But I did feel the pain, as I patted my middle section and felt where all that bread went. That’s not all. The day after a holiday party and three cups of Eggnog, I felt bloated, unattractive, lethargic, and cranky from sugar and simple carb overload.

Remedy # 4: Change your mindset to change your behavior around food. Look at what you eat, when you eat, why you eat, and perhaps you’ll conclude that prevention is more effective than cure. Researchers have found that it’s advantageous to make a lifestyle change the minute you realize you need to clean up your food eating act. You won’t have regrets for maintaining a bad habit or guilt from procrastinating. I have noticed when my awareness level and motivation is at a peak, the momentum keeps me going longer and stronger. Be gentle with yourself if you have a food slip, but start anew to notice what foods you crave or gorge on. Ask yourself when, where, and under what circumstances do you eat unhealthily? Set a health improvement goal rather than weight loss or gain. This way you can be a winner over and over again. 

Here are 2 Websites that address emotional eating...

Website of Debbie Danowski and Website of Geneen Roth

Keep in mind the winter holiday season coincides with cold and flu season. That’s why it's important to ward off illness and energy drain by eating nourishing foods and filling yourself up with the love, peace, brotherhood, and light that Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa holidays convey.

Be well. Live well. Lead a colorful life. Happy Holidays Everyone!

The quotation for today comes from Geneen Roth, Author of Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything. “Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.”

Don't forget to order a copy or two of my woman's self-care journal, Colors of Joy: A Woman's Guide for Self-Discovery, Balance, and Bliss. It offers many tips and ideas to help women readers feel a greater sense of well-being and joy in daily living. Colors of Joy on My Website

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Joy at the beach, celebrate the moment

This picture conveys it all. Have a joyful day and wonderful Labor Day weekend. Happy September 1st.

Here is the quote for today from Thich Nhat Hanh:

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

Do you find that this concept resonates with you? Please let me know.

In Peace and Health, Nan





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Still Here, hanging in, A Holiday Wish

Because I've had carpal tunnel symptoms, I haven't written. I'll be brief and ask you to make this an interactive posting. Visualize everything you wish to come true for yourself...but before you do, note this quote:

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis

Wishing you joy at this season and special moments of peace, abundance, love, and health throughout the years to come. In Peace & Health, Nan