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LIVING FREELY THROUGH THE LENS OF LOVE
Transformation, Poetry, Reflective Writing


Weight to go
In the WW world weighing on a scale daily, weekly or monthly is a technique that connects many people to their weight watchers journey. ...
Noreen Richard
Feb 62 min read
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From Plan to Plate
What is on your plate? As I ponder from plan to plate I know that I have juggled many different plates in my life. These days I am...
Noreen Richard
Jan 292 min read
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The Great Tracking Debate
I love Spreadsheets! A friend of mine in the WW world gifted me with this mug. She heard me talk about my love of spreadsheets over the...
Noreen Richard
Jan 243 min read
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Love Live Laugh
I have decided 2025 will be shaped by love, live and laugh. As I was participating in my WW (Weight Watchers) meetings last week we...
Noreen Richard
Jan 142 min read
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Inhale Courage Exhale Fear
I was privileged to be invited to a wonderful women's conference during the first weekend in February. I spoke at the conference to 60+...
Noreen Richard
Feb 15, 202411 min read
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Surprise Gift Well Received
Wow, wow, wow....what a beautiful Christmas I had this year with family. Planning that special gift for my sister was so much fun and...
Noreen Richard
Jan 1, 20241 min read
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24 days before Christmas
To celebrate Advent this year. I got the idea to write a poem. It was my WW (weight watchers) meeting that sparked the idea and I...
Noreen Richard
Dec 31, 20232 min read
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The Anticipation is killing me
As I sit at my sisters in these early mornings leading up to Christmas, I am so excited to share the gifts I have dreamed up for her. ...
Noreen Richard
Dec 23, 20232 min read
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Love and Suffering
As I follow my heart this week, I want to explore the relationship between love and suffering. It has been a trying year of loss. Loss...
Noreen Richard
Dec 1, 20233 min read
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Attitude of Gratitude
Image of my mom and dad and I celebrating my launch to university August 1979 In 1979, when I learned my mom was dying and that I was...
Noreen Richard
Nov 17, 20234 min read
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Follow-Through
I have been on a wonderful journey called life and I have been engaged in my journey on deeper and deeper levels over the past 10 years. ...
Noreen Richard
Nov 4, 20234 min read
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Grace
What is grace? One meaning I found in my search was: "do honour or credit to (someone or something) by one's presence. I also found that...
Noreen Richard
Oct 19, 20233 min read
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Time
I have been thinking of time and how it is so concrete and elusive at the same time. For instance, there are 60 seconds in a minute and...
Noreen Richard
Oct 5, 20235 min read
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Mindset (part 5) Play
As I sit upon a star, way up high looking down at the me who is engaged in play, I am offered a perspective of knowing the freedom that...
Noreen Richard
Jun 29, 20234 min read
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Mindset (part 4) Fast Forwarding My Tape
In my WW (Weight Watchers) world we did a week on rewinding the tape to look at what we did in the previous week and what we might want...
Noreen Richard
Jun 22, 20234 min read
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Mindset (part 3) Roadblocks to Pathways
Life has offered me many opportunities to turn roadblocks into new pathways. As I make my way down the highway of my life I must shift...
Noreen Richard
Jun 15, 20235 min read
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Mindset (part 2) Feeling the Fear and Doing it Anyway
There have been many times in my life where I have felt fear and I have put one foot in front of the other and got things done. ...
Noreen Richard
Jun 8, 20235 min read
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Mindset (part 1) I can do hard things!
Lunges have always been difficult for me. There have been many times in my life when I was not able to do lunges. Today I am capable. ...
Noreen Richard
Jun 1, 20235 min read
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Routines, Habits, and Daily Living
I am a person of routine. I am also a person who embraces flexibility. Transitions to new routines are often challenging in the moment....
Noreen Richard
May 25, 20235 min read
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Functional Fitness
I am on a journey to live my best life. I have been on this journey for some time. I am on a mission of preparing my body to move in...
Noreen Richard
May 18, 20234 min read
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