Friday, February 13, 2009

L-O-V-E!

Well tomorrow is the day-Valentine's Day. We've been getting anything red, heart-shaped, chocolate, and mushy you can get your hands on. The air has a perfumey aroma to it with all the L-O-V-E in the air. Everyone is all huggy huggy, sweety sweety, kissy kissy.

BUT-there are those who feel wronged or left out on Valentine's Day. With no mushy gushy gift, sweety pie to hug, or love song to sing. This can make them sad, blue, and even angry to the point of being a little, nutty~!

Answer this-how many times do we give OURSELVES a Valentine? Why should you wait on baited breath for the gesture of love from someone else? When it boils down to it, you should have love of self before anything, right? If you don't love yourself, why would anybody else love you?

Now I'm not talking about ravishing yourself in diamonds, sending yourself to the spa, taking yourself out for dinner, or serenading oneself in the mirror. But there are many ways to show self-love without being a little overboard.

That, Ladies, is what WOW is all about-a Valentine ALL the time! The best gift you can give to yourself and the people you love is better health. Your heart will literally be beating better by enjoying that exercise from your walks or runs. And guess what else? Not only will your ticker be tapping a little more, but you will be happier because of the seratonin you release during exercise. And we all know-if the lady is happy, EVERYONE is happy!

So I wanted to take a minute to say way to go for showing care for yourself by joining this group. We are about fitness, we are about fun, and we are about friendship. But most importantly-we're about celebrating the Fantastic woman in each of us that we care about.
Happy Valentine's Day all the WOW Women!

Hope to see you on Valentine's Day for our 7am run/walk!

Teri
WOW

2 comments:

  1. the best and deepest friendships i have made have been with running buddies
    i cannot wait for my new best friends
    pat

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  2. Pat-
    From the moment I saw you run up to join our friends, I could just see your spirit-
    You have so much energy/enthsuiasm, and guidance to offer this group of women. (a Leader!)
    There is definitely a feeling that this is going to be a special thing for many of us in our community!
    Looking forward to seeing you Sunday!
    Teri
    :)

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