A Preamble to my Life. .. I mean, this Health, Wellness & Beauty blog.

Is it awful if I start by saying I’m not too keen on the word beauty? When I hear it, the words that come to mind are: vacuous, vain, self-absorbed and makeup. Is my perception of the word meaningful? Of course not. Beauty can be anything - a raging sunset against red skies, wild white foaming waters, a smile, a touch, you, who you are, who I am and all that we’ve survived through. Beauty is not just outward appearances - it’s feelings, senses, pleasures. It’s who we are, how we got here, and the possibilities of where we can go and who we can become. 

I welcome you to take this journey with me. Together we will delve into a world of getting healthy, improving our well beings and finding our inner and outer beauties. Through this blog, I hope to engage you in discourse in all aspects of health, wellness and beauty. I will discuss why I have created this blog - I lost my mommy to breast cancer last year - and hope to raise awareness on getting healthy to try to keep cancer at bay, and well, just for the sake of having good overall physical and mental health.

I am currently growing my hair to donate to help make a wig for a cancer patient, and I’m on track to losing a bunch of weight. I hope that together we might teach, motivate, and share our stories. Let’s start exchanging stories, workouts, beauty regimens and healthy recipes. Let’s have fun! There’s no reason why we can’t be happy and have fun on the way to recovery to good health. 

See you soon! 

PS: After writing my introduction, beauty no longer seemed like a bad word! 

Here is a pic of me the day I decided to start this blog - July 4, 2014