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by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
In recent times, there’s been a lot of column inches and TV minutes devoted to the newly thin Kareena Kapoor, one of India’s top actors. Apparently she decided she wanted to be uber slim for her action role in the movie Tashan, and she has been at pains to tell everyone that it was yoga (and nothing extreme or surgical) that was behind her ‘transformation’. Her journey to size zero has been rather too well documented by the media. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
Unpleasant, negative, unfair, bad things happen to all of us as some or other point in our lives. At times like this, it is easy to feel overwhelmed, upset, distressed and ask that perennial question, “WHY ME?!!” The fact is, it’s not just you, it’s everyone at some or other point; fact is and to coin a phrase, “SHIT HAPPENS!”
It is what you choose to do with this unwanted negativity in your life that makes the difference. Do you proclaim yourself the victim and resign yourself to your fate with whining ill grace or do you choose not to (in the words of Dylan Thomas) “go gentle into that good night” and do you “rage, rage against the dying of the light”? Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
Have you ever given a thought to what are the important numbers in your life? Which are the numbers that hold meaning, and I am not talking telephone numbers and address numbers and prosaic stuff like that. I mean other numbers that tend to exert more influence in our lives: waist size, dress size, weight or the number that comes up when you stand on the weighing machine.
Do these numbers hold you in thrall? Do they manipulate the way you behave, dictate your priorities in life? If so do you think that they should? Should they be of such consequence, of such magnitude in your life as to eclipse all the other more important numbers? Continue Reading…
