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


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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Radical Acceptance (3 )
As I continue connecting to the melody and notes of my own symphony (see Radical Acceptance (2) previous post) I am embracing creativity...
Noreen Richard
May 11, 20234 min read
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Radical Acceptance (2)
"Whatever is soft is strong." Being kind, gentle and compassionate like the waters surrounding the rocks on the shores of my bay on a...
Noreen Richard
May 4, 20236 min read
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Radical Acceptance
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft,...
Noreen Richard
Apr 27, 20234 min read
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Mirror, Mirror
I am 51 days into the journey of appreciating the woman in the mirror. Each day I look silently in a full-length mirror for two minutes....
Noreen Richard
Apr 20, 20234 min read
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