A Place Like This

Category: The Joy Diet

  • Write Off

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Welcome to Friday,it's Joy Diet time. This week was about making connections. Throughout the course of this book Martha oftentimes catches me off guard with her innocent chapter titles. I know her premise is that by chapter nine, we are hip happening people so why not share the wealth. Maybe she is getting us ready…

  • The Blue Plate Special

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    Valarie Budayr
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    It's Friday and you know what that means……The Joy Diet. This week Martha had us laughing up to 30 times a day. "It's like a mental Drano" she says. It releases and purges our mental function. Did you know that children laugh 300 times a day?  Yep, I can believe that. I have a bunch…

  • You are what you play……

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Welcome to week 7 of The Joy Diet. This week aside from all the others has brought the most clarity. After reading the chapter and discovering what I play at best was an unveiling for me. After Martha walked us through our darkest moments and using 9/11 as an example, I've been able to see what…

  • A woman ahead of her time…….

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    Valarie Budayr
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      That woman would be me. It seems I started the self-love treat giving a week before everyone else in the Joy Diet.The idea this week is to treat yourself twice a day whether you completed anything or not to inspire good behavior and a rememberance that you can do it so get into action. The week began…

  • The Magic of doing so I can eat chocolate……..

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    Valarie Budayr
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    I would just like to say that Martha uses really big scary words like fear, scary, and risk in her chapter called "Risk". It's Friday and time for The Joy Diet. It is so hard to move forward with words like these. Which brings me to my next point which is…..we have choices. Martha is just trying to…

  • It’s in the “and”

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    Valarie Budayr
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    It's Friday, and that means it's time for another "Joy Diet" moment. This week we were working with creativity. Not in "how to be creative", but how to be creative in creating your desires. Remember last week when we were talking about desires? Part of this week's exercises was to take polar opposites and remove…

  • Desires

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Here we are week three of The Joy Diet. Wow a lot to think about in this chapter and many layers to unveil. While continuing to go through all of the exercises in this chapter the one desire that kept coming up over and over again was that of service and usefulness. Humbly and gratefully…

  • Searching for Truth

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Happy Friday everyone. It's time for the Joy Diet……as I was saying last week,…. I do not think doing "nothing" means being empty. Our journey started with our daily bit of nothingness. I chose to do "nothing" differently this week by doing a walking meditation which lasted much longer than the needed 15 minutes a…

  • Nothingness

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    Valarie Budayr
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    We join spokes together in a wheel, But it is the center hole That makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, But it is the emptiness inside That holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, But it is the inner space That makes it livable We work with being,…

  • What Brings You Joy?

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Greetings from Astrid Lindgren's house in Sweden,….. and welcome to my second post of the day. I'm so happy to have quick internet again….that's what brings me joy.Sorry I missed you here on Friday but I'm here today. Hi, I'm Valarie, creative entrepreneur who loves to read books and travel. Along with these I'm also…