Disqus - Latest Comments for Traci

Re: Ask the Audience...

Traci — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:50:31 -0000

I think the design you've got now is lovely. But if your heart prefers the polka dots, then I say polka dot it up! I really love the 3rd banner, for the record. And, to be blunt, I really don't like the first. Happy redesigning!

Re: To Me, From Me (37/40)

Traci — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:39:48 -0000

I buy magazines and I put my feet up and leaf through them all at once. Fasion magazines, shelter magazines, and Psychology Today. They make me feel luxurious and saturated with beauty. I'm easy!

Re: Flu Reason: (34/40)

dyanavalentine — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:55:02 -0000

Hmm, I wonder what the difference would be if I treated myself delicately--even if only on occasion. Something is definitely NOT right on the viral side. Working delicately today, thanks to you. How do you learn to listen, Traci? What are your best practices?

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 33, Slow Down!

dyanavalentine — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:53:00 -0000

Traci: I'm really admiring the work you are doing over at the Ivy&Ash project. Loving the updates. Let me know when it's public, so I can show some pride and share it. I'm still on the slowdown, apparently, even though I'm chomping at the bit. Thx for the good wishes.

Re: Flu Reason: (34/40)

Traci — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:38:37 -0000

I'm so happy you're back, and I hope you're feeling great (if not yet, then very very soon)! I think it's a delicate thing to learn how to tell your instinct (busy=best) to shut up so you can hear your intuition (hmmm...something's not quite right). I struggle with it constantly.

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 33, Slow Down!

Traci — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:09:53 -0000

Looks like we've all slowed down a little.
Hope all's well in Dyana Land!

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 31, Just Show Up

dyanavalentine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:01:48 -0000

Thanks, Traci! Appreciate the work you are doing over at Ivy & Ash! Keep up the great commitment!

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 31, Just Show Up

Traci — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:32:38 -0000

Lookin' gooood!!!

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 26, Feeling Blue

dyanavalentine — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:18:45 -0000

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 26, Feeling Blue

Traci — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:00:38 -0000

Perhaps it is in the air...I was feeling this way too yesterday. I don't know how to fix it, but I can tell you that you ARE seeing results (at least I am...you actually looked different in your HulaHoop video), you are mind-blowingly inspiring, and your readers will be here if you need a little push after your 40 days are up. We lean on you all the time...why not lean back once in a while? You could always do a weekly (heck, monthly even) check-in here if you think you need it. I'll be here. And I'm sure others will, too.

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 24, HulaHoops Save Lives!

dyanavalentine — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:18:33 -0000

Thanks, Traci--I'm having a blast. Alisa: light up hula hoops!! I must know more. It's a MUCH harder workout that I anticipated. I made it 5 minutes in one direction and 5 minutes of failed attempts in the other direction and I can FEEL it! I'm integrating it in the pre-post exercises I do on cardio days.

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 24, HulaHoops Save Lives!

Traci — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:48:17 -0000

Look at you!!!

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 4

dyanavalentine — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:47:19 -0000

Traci: thank you SO much for weighing in here. I'm actually getting to really enjoy my workouts--tho today when the heart monitor and my iPod fritzed out in the middle of a high interval, I wasn't sure I could keep going--then I saw one of my elder neighbors, with her CANE, making it up the block. I positively floated through my interval knowing I was in good company. I am feeling stronger with your support.

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 8

Traci — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:04:27 -0000

Dyana, what's your favorite pre-workout meal? Or are you a get up and go/I'll eat later sort of girl?

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 4

Traci — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:35:13 -0000

P.S. I dig my Champion sports bra, which I got on the cheap at Target. And if I'm doing something REALLY bouncy, I have a very light regular cotton bra that I wear underneath.

Re: 40 Days of My Body: Day 4

Traci — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:31:51 -0000

Dyana, this is so inspiring. Know that you're totally rocking it, even if it feels like you're not.

When I work out and hate it (and I pretty much always hate it), I have a mantra that helps me keep going. I stole it from somewhere, but maybe it will help you too... Pain is weakness leaving the body. (Maybe you could substitute "nausea" for pain sometimes...)

For me today: Swimming in the waters of Ivy & Ash in prep for our phone call.

Re: Taking Risks When It Comes To Love; Is It Always Worth It?

Traci — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:03:47 -0000

First of all, YES! Always, yes! Secondly, I don't think we have a choice. Love is inherently a risk. It is impossible to love without becoming vulnerable.

Re: What Will Be Your Indulgence Today?

Traci — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:25:49 -0000

Dessert!

Re: The Single Girl’s 4 Universal Truths of Online Dating

Traci — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:40:43 -0000

One more truth: there is hope. My husband and I met online. I was crazy about him before I met him and when I saw him in person, I knew there was no turning back.

This is great stuff, Lauren. Thanks!

Re: What Activity Sets You Free?

Traci — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:20:06 -0000

Swinging on a playground swingset. The kind that's constructed of huge, thick pipe shoved deep in the earth so I can go as high as possible and still feel grounded. I feel here and out there and grounded and free and perfect.

Re: What Song Would Best Describe Who You Are Right Now?

Traci — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:45:48 -0000

I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones.

Re: How Will You Stretch Your Mind This Year?

crichard — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:35:12 -0000

Yes, absolutely! I am going to make this my #1 priority this year as well.

Re: Waiting for the Ring: Romantic or Anti-Feminist?

Traci — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:11:00 -0000

My husband proposed to me without a ring, and I wouldn't have had it any other way. Even if he were loaded and could afford 10 carats for each finger, I'd have still preferred a ringless proposal. I don't know...something about sticking a shiny expensive thing under someone's nose when asking him/her to marry you stinks a bit of bartering.

That said, we did choose a ring together later. And oh, how I love the ring. I have no idea what that says about me.

Re: How Will You Stretch Your Mind This Year?

Traci — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:29:15 -0000

Write, write, write, and write. And when I think I'm ridiculous, keep writing. And when I have nothing to write, write some more.

Re: What Does Your Little Voice Say?

debbierodgers — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:50:14 -0000

I'm with you, Traci. You'd think that, as I got older, I would overpower my voice that says "You're ridiculous" (and worse, much worse). But it seems to have gotten louder over the years. :-( Let's kill them all, I say!