HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thanks so much, Kiki :)

I hope others also post here their hopes and salutations for the New Year - it’s been a bit of a WW tradition for a few years now. Actually, Alemama had the lovely idea a couple of years ago of lighting a candle on New Years day for all of us and for women everywhere. My candle will be burning.

Since I choose to do no advertising on wholewoman.com, my entire income has to come from whatever I can create and sell. I’ve given myself this challenge because I love researching, writing about important issues, and making a difference in people’s lives.

So, my hope for the New Year is that I can create a documentary like none other...one that will wake women up to the connections between food, responsibility, and health. My resolution is to become more organized so we can get this show on the road!

Happy New Year!

Love to All!!

Christine

I am so struck by the difference between last New Year's Eve and this one for me. It takes my breath away. Last year, I could only look at 2009 with a deep dread, so unsure of what my life would become, how I would be altered. It was a dark and awful time. I felt so horrible in so many ways. But this year, I am truly celebrating! I feel so empowered, so strong and sure and capable. Last year I could see my cystocele with a mirror even while lying down. Just taking a shower made things depressingly low! Well, I just looked and it's not there! Not after a day of chasing a toddler, three loads of laundry, sweeping and mopping, cooking for guests, some overindulgence in food and wine, and a four mile hike in the snow carrying two bags of groceries. Wow. I cannot wait to see what 2010 holds!

I have tried to type out my gratitude for Christine and the other Whole Women here several times, but nothing sounds right. So, to put it simply but sincerely, *thank you*. Thank you so much.

Happy Happy New Year.

Oh Bad_Mirror! I am so glad to hear it!
We are busy building our family traditions here- and last night we listed our high points from 2009 and our wishes for 2010. It was fun to look over the year- my high point being the birth of baby #4. Which, of course, I don't know that I would have been brave enough to do with out women like Granolamom and Fullofgrace and all you other inspiring women going before me.
So on to a new decade- I can't wait to be looking back at 2019!
My wish for Wholewoman, well, just that women will come here, learn about the strength of their design and return at a later date to tell us how wonderful life is!
and it wouldn't hurt for me to bump into a random woman - compliment her on her posture and have her tell ME about wholewoman!

Happy New Year Christine and Lanny and Nikelle, who do all the WW and other stuff at your end. Lanny and Nikelle, thanks for looking after Christine, and thanks for all your hard work for the women of the world.

New Year certainly is a time to pause and have a look at what you have just experienced, and what is ahead. I have been brought up with a couple of recent jolts concerning our lack of preparedness for fire after the loss of 39 houses and thousands of hectares of bushland and farm infrastructure in two major bushfires in Western Australia in the last few days, and a separate one close to us which was controlled very well by remaining local farmer firefighters, when most of the local brigades had gone to Toodyay to fight that firestorm.

Also, my Mum had a nasty experience at her nursing home which highlighted the helplessness of old people when the system goes awry and their needs are not paramount.

This year is going to be one of speaking up and acting on really important issues. One letter of complaint written, and one still to go. Then I will be waiting for the fallout, and hopefully some positive responses from those who wield power and respsonsibility. Hopefully I will emerge on 31st December without too many scars, and with some wrongs righted.

Hopefully it will also be a year of getting Wholewoman out there into the community, and get women visiting the website. I will have a little packet of Bookmarks in my bag and will leave them strategically where I know women congregate. I recently had about ten of them picked up from the women's bathroom blocks at the caravan park we recently stayed at. They progressively disappeared over a few days. It was so exciting. I felt like the Tooth Fairy! Obviously, the cleaner was female, and didn't bin them! Yesss!!! There are lots of little ways we can all help.

L

Dear all,

Thank you once again for all the sharing, all the support, especially that of Christine and her never ending search to help us.

Keep up with the exercises and enjoy the natural world that surrounds you.

Oceanblue ♥♥♥

Dear good WW fellow friends,

Thank you for sharing, thank you for advising, thank you for your kindnesses over these past months.

Thank you Louise, for writing The Two Doors.

Thank you Nikelle, for playing such beautiful music.

A very special thank you for Christine Kent, who has educated so many, that there is an alternative, for me, the only alternative.

May you all have the best of health in 2010.

Oceanblue, who loves you ♥♥♥

Thank you all for being here for me another year. Even though prolapse is not new to me, I still have my days when I get anxious thinking about it. If not for christine and everyone else here, I honestly don't know where I'd be.
wishing you all a year full of life's blessings

love
granolamom