People ask me all the time, why did you name your company/community/brand OnePinky?

I love to tell the story of how I learned to appreciate my body for what it does, not what it looks like, starting with my pinky finger.

A wise young woman (who was around my age at the time, mid twenties), named Mary who I met back when I was releasing my weight inspired this in me. She said out loud one day, “I know what is it  like to hate my body. And yet, it is hard to make my fingers and toes wrong. They are just being fingers and toes and yet they are so important to how we move and get through our lives. She went on to say, try not having some fingers and toes and I bet life would feel a bit more challenging.”

These comments inspired me to appreciate my body for what it did, rather than how it looked. Because at the time I was obese, miserable and I could not find one thing to like about my body.

She and I ended up making  a pinky promise with one another to make baby steps to loving our bodies starting with our pinky’s.

Twenty three years later, I think about that experience daily and I hope that wherever she is, she is at peace with her body, as I am with mine.

I invite you to join me on my campaign to create more appreciation and love and respect for our bodies, starting with our pinky’s.

Loving your body can be as simple as loving a single finger on your hand. When I began my personal self love journey and could find nothing about myself to love, a friend suggested I  try just one pinky. “You have to start somewhere,”  Nearly 23 years later, the loving remark has stayed with me and I have since discovered the joys of loving my entire body. Could you start today by loving just one little pinky?

What does OnePinky mean to you?

Here is a place to start. Play with some acronyms, such as….

One

New

Experience

Promises

Insights,

Nourishment, and

Kindness to

Yourself

OR

O  Openness
N  Nurturing
E  Educational

P  Powerful
I   Intuitive
N  Now
K  Kindness
Y  Yes

I would love to see what you come up with.

Blessings,

Chief Pinky

P.S. Take this in.  Begin wtth Pinky steps. Prior to teaching a baby how to walk- it is critical that he or she begins to crawl- everyone can attest to that.  If you do too many things all at once, your body will go into a state of relapse. Let your body ease in to. Feed it one step at a time. Alot of small steps lead to great things.

This is my favorite month of the year. July is the half way mark. It is the month I reflect on my yearly goals and take a closer look at what is working and what is not.  I give birth to a new year of life every July and I use it to go deeper into my process and get clearer about what I want to create in the world.

I welcome you to relish in this month and this time of year.

Enjoy each moment.

Rejoice, renew, refresh, restart, rethink, revolve, reinvent, recommit to your process and your life.

I invite you all to take a few more moments to listen to my message below and know that you and your body are worthy of love.

Blessings and Love to you!

Hope your first week of this New Year was fantastic. I would love to hear how it is going for you so far.

And watch here how mine started. :):):). All good.

Happy 2010, I got Pooped On….

Blessings and Love, XO

Laura

P.S. Please join nutritionist and Ayurveda Healer Myra Lewin and I this Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at Noon PT for what we both know will be a life changing call. One small pinky step at a time, some small behavior can be impacted that can and will improve your health and well being.

Please sign up here.

http://onepinky.com/myralewin.html

I got Pooped On

You are so much more than you think you are…”

-Laura

For today, get quiet and play with me here….for the sake of self love and inner peace…

Please get quiet and reflect upon this idea even if for a minute or two.  Imagine this light of love and inclusion going before you preparing the way.  Imagine the activities of the day ahead and imagine yourself as this light of Oneness and say YES to being it. Even if your mind travels or wanders to “where you need to be” or your mind says, “how silly this is”…be with all the thoughts, welcome them all and go back to the light and breathe into it, imagining that we are all ONE and you are a huge part of this universal oneness.

You really are so much more than you believe yourself to be.  You are perfect, beautiful, the best idea of God … exactly as you are!

I invite you to prove it by practicing this quiet time as often as you can remember.

Blessings to you and Love, XO

Laura

I can never speak too often or to frequently of the importance of Gratitude. Welcome the time this moment, this minute, this hour, this day,  this week, this month, this year to practice Gratitude….never put off Gratitude until tomorrow. What you are Grateful for in this moment will come back to you three-fold in the next.

Ok Leah,

Every day I read your blogs and have the same feeling….

I say to myself or sometimes I just say it out loud, “this one is my favorite”, “no, this one is my favorite, “this is my favorite” and it goes on and on…..

Bottom line, they are all my favorites.

The depth, richness of what comes out, from your heart is amazing…

Wow….loved the post I read this morning at about 6am PT.

And I am so incredibly grateful that you feel safe to share your truth out loud.

Others need to see what is possible.

When I am having a bad day, been a bunch lately, especially with the flu and still all is good…

I grab for my finger puppets and play out the madness in my mind. I have these two little finger puppets on my desk and I just keep letting them argue with one another.

Our minds can go a little kooky on us at times, so why not use children’s toys to play out the frustration. As I shared, we are all big little girls anyway.

I hope that my silliness gets a giggle or two out…maybe a smile…

Sending you an immense amount of Gratitude, Appreciation and Love Leah!

And sending warm hugs and love to all of you who are reading this.

Your light leads the way Leah and the OnePinky community to learning, letting go and loving….yourself from the inside out so you can light the way for others who do not see the path.

Blessings and Love, XO :):)

Laura