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CRISTINA’S BLOG- BE THE BFF OF YOUR OWN STORY
It may sound so second grade that being your own BFF is the most important friend you can ever be. But sometimes it is not as easy as having a Friends Forever necklace or a secret handshake. It may seem so obvious, butterflies, but not if learning
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CRISTINA’S BLOG – BE THE OLYMPIAN OF YOUR OWN STORY
Butterflies: We don’t have to be waving to the world at the opening ceremony or powdering our hands with gym chalk to feel the electricity and imagine the nerves it would take to mount this moment you’ve worked toward your whole life. We feel this through
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YEAR OF THE BUTTERFLY –
This Week’s Archetype:
BE THE ENTERTAINER OF YOUR OWN STORY
Butterflies: Picture this if you dare: Your TV satellite goes down, the laptop crashes taking all your games and tunes out with it; there’s overwhelm on Kindle, underwhelm on the radio, nothing at the movies till nighttime and nobody around to tell a
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CRISTINA’S BLOG: BE THE STAR OF YOUR OWN STORY
“Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder who you are.” And to this timeless poem I add the words, and who you are. All of you and each and every one of us as scientists find more evidence daily of what the great cosmologist, Carl Sagan,
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CRISTINA’S BLOG – BE THE HEALER OF YOUR OWN STORY
Butterfly, heal thyself! And then, as the great Maya Angelou said, “as soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”
We can do this! Every time I look at the word “healthy”, all I see is heal- thy. I don’t take this to mean
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BE THE FASHIONISTA OF YOUR OWN STORY
My dear butterflies: The Fashionista is an archetype we can all put on but it doesn’t always fit who we are. That is until we allow ourselves to “slip into something more comfortable.” Like a larger definition of what beauty and fashion is for each of us as individuals.
Enter
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YEAR OF THE BUTTERFLY
BE THE WISE WOMAN OF YOUR STORY
Butterflies: If you are young and reading this, please do not wonder if you need to be old before your time in order to be a wise woman. Some of the wisest words I have heard have come from the mouths of my own daughter, her
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CRISTINA’S BLOG: YEAR OF THE BUTTERFLY
BE THE ARTIST OF YOUR OWN STORY
Butterflies: We don’t have to wear berets or carry a purse full of paint brushes in order to be artists. Our lives are a work of art. Each day offers a fresh canvas with new possibilities if only we can catch that vision. If
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YEAR OF THE BUTTERFLY:
BE THE STUDENT IN YOUR OWN STORY
My brilliant butterflies: Have you heard the Buddhist expression, when the student is ready the teacher appears? Now I am no Einstein and I never went to college, but maybe it is because I learned from some wonderful teachers in high school that since then I
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YEAR OF THE BUTTERFLY
BE THE EVERYDAY MYSTIC OF YOUR OWN STORY
Butterflies: Fear not that we have to leave our families, fly to the top of a mountain, retreat to a monastery or crawl into a cave in to be a mystic in our own lives. While the word has been around since the ancient Greeks,