Comments on: When Beauty and the Beast Collide https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/ Cathy Chester, MS Advocate shares decades of wisdom Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Cathy Chester https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31852 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:46:35 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31852 In reply to Beverley Alway.

    My pleasure! I'm glad you enjoyed them. Cathy
]]> By: Beverley Alway https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31832 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:05:27 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31832 Thankyou so much for posting these absolutely beautiful orchids. You have added happiness to my dbay. Appreciated so much.

]]> By: Inara https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31391 Thu, 19 May 2022 23:32:09 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31391 WOW - your words and your photos, beautiful and inspiring!

]]> By: Barbara Delaney https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31390 Thu, 19 May 2022 20:39:07 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31390 You have such a beautiful way of putting life in perspective Cathy. I always am blessed by your writings. Hold on to what is precious and close the door to the rest. Love and Hugs, Bo

]]> By: Judy Freedman https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31389 Thu, 19 May 2022 16:17:46 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31389 Beautiful post. Glad you were able to go to the Botanical Gardens. At this age sometimes slowing down isn’t such a bad thing. In fact it may help us appreciate more. Be well. 🙏❤️🙏

]]> By: LISA https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31388 Thu, 19 May 2022 06:49:52 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31388 I’m always moved by your words….your strength…and your beautiful heart. Thank you for making my morning.

]]> By: Suellen Morgan https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31386 Thu, 19 May 2022 02:41:15 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31386 Exquisite! I could smell all the aroma of a flower garden. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Danie Botha https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31382 Wed, 18 May 2022 21:47:51 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31382 Cathy,
You never fail to inspire!
Thank you.
Your unbeatable spirit doesn't come by chance, only by intention. Kudos.
I love the glorious images of all the flowers!!! It's as if one's there ...
And Helen Keller was right about life being a succession of lessons that can only be learned through living them (tough and grand as they come.)
Take care.

]]> By: paulette edelson https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31381 Wed, 18 May 2022 19:29:39 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31381 the gorgeous flowers create a feeling of magic, however, I do think you create more magic being you

]]> By: Elizabeth https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31380 Wed, 18 May 2022 18:56:20 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31380 Beautiful post Cathy! I always sought escape into nature, and was raised on old movies too! It gets a little hard in Anaheim, with a concrete jungle surrounding me, but I find my quiet spots and listen to the birds. I really also identified with the delayed denial. I took every punch MS gave me and worked through it, any way I could. But at 38 I don’t bound back quite as well as I did in my 20s! Here’s to the search of Beauty, within and outside the Beast! (Did you ever see the black and white French version; La Belle et la Bette? I think you would really like it.) 🧡😊

]]> By: Shaun Kirsh https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31379 Wed, 18 May 2022 13:58:34 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31379 Cathy Thank you for your heartfelt words and beautiful pictures. just what i needed this morning.

]]> By: Carrie Kellenberger https://anempoweredspirit.com/ms-when-beauty-and-the-beast-collide/#comment-31378 Wed, 18 May 2022 13:55:46 +0000 https://anempoweredspirit.com/?p=27043#comment-31378 I loved this post so much and took a similar tone for my 47th in January. It's amazing how the aging process works on us with illness. Sometimes I feel like my heart is 25 and my body is 90 and everything else is where it should be, but I totally agree that none of it is linear! It's a roller coaster every day!

Lovely orchids. I LOVE Vanda Princess Orchids. Taiwan is known as The Kingdom of Orchids because they grow everywhere here.

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