This site will help you find answers and empower you to make a change. Our lives are our own, our responsibility, and we can either sit back and let it all happen or we can actively work to create our own happiness. This site is for women who want to take control and live the life they have always dreamed of. Whether the change is personal, spiritual, emotional, physical, or mental we can find the strength to grow and change together without fear.
Taking charge of our happiness is not easy. We may have spent years in stagnated relationships, felt too afraid to try a new hobby, or spend each and every night blaming someone else for our problems. These are our problems and we must work through them in order to find fullfillment. This is not a 30 minute therapy session either. Most of us are laboring under years of mental and physical weights that hold us back and block our growth. It will take years for us to throw off our bonds and have the strength to live the lives we so ardently desire.
My name is Leah Day and I am not perfect. I am in the constant process of personal development and I ask you to join me on my path to a healthier body, a stronger mind, and a happier life. Within this blog you will find a wide range of information such as:
- Finding the strength to quit your job
- Overcoming mental barriers
- Wonderful recipes for quick, healthy meals
- Reducing stress to increase potential
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As you can see, I attempt to cover not only personal development, but individual interests and fullfillment as well. I have created this site as a labor of love, completely free to anyone who can take this information and put it to good use. If you find that a particular topic has not been covered, please let me know in an email and I will try to post on that subject soon.
Cheers!
Leah Day
December 17, 2006 at 10:42 am
Great topic! Thanks!
December 18, 2006 at 11:23 am
That makes me so happy to hear!!! Good luck
April 26, 2007 at 2:46 pm
I found your Changes in Life after Birth interesting because with my first child (a daughter) I had no fears, no qualms and was absolutely certain that what I was doing was right and there was nothing to fear. We were stationed in Germany when she was born and my nother was in California. I had girlfiriends on theri 2nd babies calling me for advice. My second child – 13 years later – (a son) was an entirely different ballgame. I existed in a state of panic for serveral months. Everything was an ordeal, firghtening, terrifying and I felt totally out of control.
There were major differences in my life but also in my children. My daughter latched on correctly at my very first attempt to nurse her and suckled vigorously. She starting sleeping a 6 hour stretch at night at 10 days and was mostly an easygoing , happy baby.
My son had some difficulty latching on correctly, slept very little (at a week he sometimes slept as much as 10 hours out of the 24) and was happy Mr. Activity. He climbed out of the crib at 9 months and was climbing the floor to ceiling bookcases at 10 months (and no he never fell) .
Looking back I think that the difference was with my daughter, I felt I was a girl so obviously I knew about raising a girl and with my son, a boy was totally foreign territory (no brothers).
The terror passes, you will gain confidence, your child will survive your inexperience and will undoubtedly grow up to be a happy, functional adult.
April 27, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Dear Mary,
Thank you for your comment. I agree that where we are at in our lives makes a big difference to how we take events in our lives. I got pregnant with James just as we were buying a new house and moving. My whole pregnancy I have felt limited physically by how much a baby takes from my body. Even now I have had to refocus my attention from my vegetable and herb gardens outside to my quilting inside just because I am so tired from breastfeeding and broken sleep at night.
The thing I keep returning to is that this is the only time James will be this small. He will only be a baby once and if I spend the whole time wishing I was doing something else or “getting things done” then I will wake up one day and he will no longer be small and I will not be able to get that time back. I guess we must be mindful of the day and thankful for what we have. It is easier said than done though!
Cheers,
Leah
June 16, 2007 at 1:54 am
yeah, i think u r great .. thanks