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Inspiring Women Magazine May 2023

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With her husband and number one supporter, Thomas. (right)<br />

What goodbyes do you anticipate for you<br />

in the next two years? How do you feel<br />

about them?<br />

Goodbye to following diets, demanding<br />

exercises, famous models and fitness gurus.<br />

I just want to be myself: authentic, transparent,<br />

living in the present, aware of my own<br />

breathing and listening to the wisdom of my<br />

own body by spending time with myself.<br />

How do I feel? Free! Yes, free. Allowing myself<br />

to enjoy variety, colors, smells and all the<br />

abundant medicinal fruits that Mother Nature<br />

unconditionally provides to us. I want to nurture<br />

myself with self-compassion and appreciation,<br />

to value myself by accepting each part of my<br />

body as it is, including my feelings, emotions<br />

and my cravings! Goodbye to old habits of<br />

looking for external recognition, validation,<br />

appreciation and acceptance.<br />

What new beginnings do you see for yourself<br />

in the next two years? How do you feel<br />

about these?<br />

Every morning is a new beginning, an<br />

opportunity to be grateful to be alive to the<br />

miracle of being able to see, feel, move, think<br />

and to manifest creativity, giving the best to<br />

myself and to the world.<br />

I wish to continue to be surprised with simple<br />

things in life — a flower, a tree, a landscape,<br />

the rain, the sun, a hummingbird — as if I were<br />

always on vacation. That’s right, I want my life to<br />

become an endless vacation: no rush, no need<br />

to run, just be calm and joyful. I see myself<br />

enjoying life in acceptance and presence,<br />

continuing with my passion of leading corporate<br />

workshops, facilitating fasting and silent retreats,<br />

sharing knowledge for others’ self-care, personal<br />

development, self-regulation and multiplying<br />

physical, mental and emotional wellness.<br />

and lost my job, but I never lost my positive<br />

attitude. I was happy because I had made it<br />

out alive, and that allowed me to recover and<br />

move on. We humans are resilient beings.<br />

I have been thankful about everything ever<br />

since — the good stuff and also the not so<br />

good stuff — because that’s life: suffering<br />

and joyfulness, pleasure and pain, life and death,<br />

frosts and droughts. Every day is an opportunity.<br />

It is up to us to use days as trampolines for our<br />

personal evolution.<br />

Fountain where hummingbirds and other colorful birds<br />

come to play. (above)<br />

Facilitating a visualization/meditation during a silent and<br />

72 INSPIRING WOMEN fasting retreat. (right, page 73)<br />

INSPIRING WOMEN 73

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