It was 20 months ago that I went to the Apothecary to find out that my caffeine intake had to cease. The doctor described my brain as consisting of wires that should be tight and well, my wires are a little wiggly and the addition of caffeine was making me crazy. My brain chemistry is not compatible with caffeine and well, I grew up in Rhode Island and instead of chocolate syrup in our milk we use coffee syrup. At this moment I guarantee you would find at least 3 half gallons of coffee ice cream in my parents freezer. I love coffee. I love the smell, the taste, the rich, dark, silky, creamy texture of a hot cup of joe. A few months after giving up coffee I had a relapse and well, needless to say I felt awful. That was November of 2006 and I have been coffee free ever since. Now, some of you may think... Lisa you only live once and why deny yourself the simple pleasures of life... I totally agree with you, but I feel so much better without caffeine that I can't imagine my obsessive thoughts returning and shaking up the wires in my brain. So long story, longer, I started drinking herbal tea. Chamomile, ginger peach, roobios, mint, anything caffeine free. I've also experimented with dandelion roots and carob roots and I can assure you that it is NOT the same and most mornings I want a creamy, brown, $5 starbucks. Every once and a while I'll do decaf, and it tears up my stomach a bit, but most mornings I drink my tea. Well this all came to me this morning when I opened a package of Yogi tea... Yogi puts quotes on their tags and at 6:15 am I read: "Share your strengths, not your weaknesses" and I got to thinking... wow, how many of us spend our whole day sharing our weaknesses with people. I know that at this very moment you can come up with at least 10 things that you hate about yourself and I bet those are what you focus on every moment of every day. I'm guilty... I don't want to be. At that very moment this morning I thought, no today I am going to share my strengths...
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