You Lucky Bird Holiday Shopping for Fashionistas With Great Taste!

Our 1st Holiday Pop-Up is Here!

From Friday November 25 to Sunday November 27th, YouLuckyBird will host our first holiday pop-up shop. Come out and get your vintage fix with our curated selection of sweaters, coats and dresses galore! If you're a size 8-18, this will be the ONLY place where you'll find vintage from the 60's, 70's and 80's that fits and looks fabulous.

Grab a Drink and Chill 

To mix things up, we'll be inside JangBang, one of the coolest bar east of Bathurst. Come out, grab a drink and shop till you drop. We'll have music (no cheesy carols here) spinning and the eggnog flowing. 

YOULUCKYBIRD SHOPPING PARTY
When? NOVEMBER 25 - 27TH
Where? JANG BANG
Address? 430.5 COLLEGE STREET (E. of Bathurst on the north side)

See You This Weekend!

Self Imaging Therapy ~ What is it?

Renew, Rejuvenate, and Reclaim Your Strength, Power and Worth 

Self-Imaging Therapy™ is a fresh and exciting new approach to psychotherapy that Dr. Nicola Bird pioneered.This approach:

• Liberates you from blocks and transforms you in every session.

• Empowers and opens you up to a world of renewal and possibilities and personal empowerment.

• Clears away the mental clutter that holds you back.

• Provides you with the skills to create calm, joy and fulfillment in your life.

• Rejuvenates and restores you to wholeness. 

Self-Imaging Therapy works because self-images are a powerful and helpful tool for creating self-awareness, healing and change. The mind and body don`t know the difference between a real experience and an imagined one. If you vividly imagine yourself eating a juicy fruit (e.g. mango or peach), you will salivate in the same way as you would if you were actually eating it. In the same way, your mind will register and encode the self-image transformations that you experience through the Self-Imaging Therapy process as "real". More peaceful, confident and positive self-images are developed to transform you every time. Suddenly your mind and heart open up to the positive world you always wanted to have. 

 Dr. Bird expertly guides you throughout the process. 

Self-Imaging Therapy: Unveil Your Brilliance "Self-Imaging Therapy is food for the soul. It reconnects you with your whole being. It teaches you how to transform your problems. There is a true healing of wounded parts. It is like emotional Homeopathy” -M. Bollinger, Homeopathic Doctor

 Yes, it's really true: you do have the power to change your life for the better. For the next event we will cover how will Self-Imaging Therapy benefits your business and how viewing yourself makes a difference in your life therefore help you succeed in business world. Having control, power and tools in dealing with uncertainties will help create a boundary to fears. For more information on Dr. Nicola Bird's work please refer to her website.

  Be good to yourself! 

Experiencing a better Lifestyle

I always brag about changing my life and the truth is I find it quite hard to do it at times.

I find myself to be quite the multitasker and when it comes to my own needs, I rarely follow up. I do work quite hard and being a single parent of two very small children it does have it's challenges. Although this should be of no excuse, my children ought to be more of an incentive where I become their role model to a better, healthier life.

I realized lately that I feel over stressed. I yell at everyone because of  the littlest things and my patience level is running on minimum. I try to discipline (for lack of a better word) my children and when I come up with a grounding solution it seems that it is easier, at that moment, to just let it go only because I can't stand the thought of having to raise my voice at my children once again. Yes, life would've been easier if I were to have the support needed or if I were to live in a society where we would all understand that It takes a village to raise a child , literally. I sometimes feel that everyone around me has very high expectations of me and if I ever dare to fall through the cracks once the same people seem to be quite happy to throw an "I told you so" expression in my face. And if it isn't the good old fashion "I told you so" I get the classic "Your children, not mine". Don't even get me started on the sperm donors because that's a whole other blog entry.

So how can I be everything to everyone? It is simple. I will not!

My life changing experience starts NOW and the solution is simple. I will follow the blog entries of Coverground.ca to help me in making the lifestyle changes I need to help me better my life. In addition, I will make a commitment to exercise my favorite workout  at least three times a week to start with, which will also help me rid of stress. Nutrition will also be a big part of this transformation helping me to a healthier success where I will start by eliminating the toxic food and replacing it with healthier alternatives. And to make it more official, follow my blog to make sure I keep my word and to give me a push if and when I need it.

Cheers.

D.

Resolutions

2010 had been a year that I will never forget. Many ups and downs that I have had to deal with, many friendships made and some lost and the power of moving forward that I have come to own.

The ups and downs were just things that I have dealt with whether they were new things or things that I had to finalize and move away from. I have to say that although it had been hard, I am proud of what I have accomplished this year and one thing in particular is my "finding" of myself that I can honestly say I am happy with...myself.

Let me talk a little bit about the friendships and when it comes to the ones that I have lost, well they are lost for a good reason...expiration date had been long gone but I had forgotten to discard the people that were somewhat poison in my life. When people do not contribute to my growing I have learned that it is better to let them go and move on. I don't mean to sound cruel but if I do not take care of myself no one else is. Everyone is out there taking care of themselves and here I was taking care of everyone else but me. It is time I raise my hand and stand up. My time has come to grow. And that I will be doing.

Moving forward comes hand in hand with the issues above and also with the fact that I have learned to deal with those things first hand.

Resolutions for the new year are just a continuum of the last year's resolutions and that is for me to be ME and  have the power to know the difference.

Peace and Love.

D.

In MY perfect world

Many times I look around me and by seeing how the world functions all I feel its sadness.If I would have the power I would make the world a perfect place by making everyone well, most everyone, happy by providing  a little more than the basic essentials such as food, shelter, clothing, health care and create space for self care. Self care does not have to be something we are afraid of or feel that we do not deserve. 

Everyone needs self care in whichever the format may come be it as simple as a bubble bath or just having a conversation with friends to going somewhere in a vacation either by themselves or with a bunch of friends. Whatever the case may be in MY perfect world people will have room for self care. Personally I deprive myself of luxurious self care methods simply because I cannot afford it. My best self care practice is getting a pedicure late at night in the comfort of my own home. It may sound unusual to some and many have asked me why I'm not going to a parlor and get it done as it shall be less work for me since someone else will be working on my feet giving me a chance to relax. I don't see it that way. Besides the fact that I could go home with Lord knows what from the other person before me that the utensils had been used on and not properly cleaned (Yuck), I get a chance to look at my feet, to caress my sole and my toes and massage them as they really deserve it. My feet take me places and carry my body (my temple) where I need to go and they get to be looking pretty especially during the summer when I have to wear an open toe shoe. Yes, I love my feet and I feel that they deserve the best and the most suitable candidate of providing the best IS me. I also feel that by getting a chance to touch them its a good way to reflect on where my feet had taken me (the beach, school, job interviews, work, outdoors, dates, weddings, restaurants, hospitals, funerals, happy and sad places) and what I have accomplished by me getting there. It gives me a chance to thank them for providing the ability to move me places, to take me away from the ordinary, to help me escape situations where I had to run to be safe or to just take me places where I needed to be at that particular moment. When I am home and its all quiet I feel my feet thanking me while they rest in warm water mixed with Epsom salts and tea tree oil. While I get to clean them I feel them getting lighter and while I massage them I feel their ability to "breathe" easily and "thanking" me for taking care of them. And the funnest part, when I apply red nail polish (always red for me),  I feel my feet "smiling" and "giggling" as I make them feel special ~ the same special feeling they give me when I accomplished my goals because they have carried me places.

Yes, taking care of Self should not be a chore but a chance to get to know Self better and to take the time to say "Thank You!" to ourselves for the great accomplishments we have achieved. After all if we do not do it, how can we expect someone else to and expect them to do it perfectly? And although I may not change the world by taking care of my feet, I damn sure will be more prepared for whatever life will throw at me if I am more capable to STAND UP! I know that my feet is MY self care but I encourage you to find yours and don't forget to Thank Yourself Now! Your Mind, Body and Soul will Thank You After! 

Love!

D.