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.

I know that we have 10 days left to this challenge, hard to believe, 3 months does fly by. All good.

I am very sentimental and will always hold this time as so special, so kind and generous and loving of you Leah. To offer it, to follow through, to be YOU!

The words of Natalie Merchant came over me today and I want to start by thanking you, today and tomorrow and everyday for what you have given me.

Thank you and love to your committment to being you, leading by example.

And thank you to all you beauties out there all over the world who are walking your talk and living your dreams. Just go for it. Why not?

I Love you, Laura

Natalie Merchant
Thank You lyrics

Lalalalalala…

You’ve been so kind and generous
I don’t know why you keep on giving
For your kindness I’m in debt to you
For your selflessness–my admiration
For everything you’ve done
You know I’m bound–I’m bound to thank you for it

Lalalalalala… 10 times

Hey, hey
You’ve been so kind and generous
I don’t know why you keep on giving
For your kindness I’m in debt to you
And I never could have gone this far without you
For everything you’ve done
You know I’m bound–I’m bound to thank you for it

Lalalalalala…

Oh I want to thank you for so many gifts
You gave me love and tenderness
I want to thank you
I want to thank you for your generosity,
The love, and the honesty that you gave to me
I want to thank you, show my gratitude,
My love and my respect for you
I want to thank you

Oh, I want to thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you.

I want to thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you…

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