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Posted By Erin Blakemore on June 27, 2012

I come from a huge, loud, obnoxious, awesome family. When we gather around the dinner table, it?s chaos?everyone is opinionated and eager to get their side of the story out there. Not surprisingly, I struggle with listening to myself?and it has had a real impact on my weight and health over the years.

Now that I?m an adult, I have an equally chaotic life. And more often than not, I find that my own needs get lost in the shuffle. I?ll eat later, after that conference call. I?m feeling under the weather, but I have a social engagement. My body is telling me to slow down, but I insist on picking up a heavier weight. The results are oh, so predictable. Depleted, resentful and unhealthy, it?s harder to really care for myself. So I sit back awaiting the rescue that (surprise!) never comes.

Recently, this issue has come to my attention around work. I?m a busy business owner with a full, exciting career that centers around my desk and an always-on, always-inundated computer. I used to roll out of bed, walk into the computer room, and immediately power on and plunge into work. Hours later, I?d wonder why I felt stressed and exhausted. Again, my inability to listen to my own needs was affecting my mental and physical health.

These days, I?m trying a different approach. When I wake up, I move to a transitional area (i.e. not my siren-song bed) and take a few moments to just hang out with myself. I listen. How am I feeling? What do I hope to get out of the day? What do I want?

Sometimes the answer is mundane: I want breakfast! Other days, it?s profound?I acknowledge a fear or a life goal. And every time I practice listening, I behave in other healthier ways throughout the day. It?s a small victory, but it?s a real start.

How about you? Do you take time to really listen to yourself?

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About Erin Blakemore, Best Life Community Director and Contributor

A California ex-pat with a bookish streak, Erin is a writer, editor, social media strategist, and co-owner of VOCO Creative. After retiring from the Denver Roller Dolls, she traded her skates for hiking boots in her adopted hometown of Boulder, Colorado. Erin?s debut book, The Heroine?s Bookshelf, was published by Harper in 2010, winning the Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction and garnering coverage in The New York Times, Glamour magazine, Ms. Magazine and more. Erin?s writing has been featured on NPR and in magazines like Bitch, Blackbook, and The Onion A.V. Club. Don?t worry?she won?t bust out the fluent German unless you go first.

Ex-colleagues: Morsi was conservative, open-minded

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Egyptian president-elect Mohamed Morsi spent seven years in the United States, from 1978 to 1985, as an engineering student and then assistant professor. Two professors remembered him fondly as a quiet man who was not particularly political or religious.

By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com

In the days since Mohamed Morsi was named president-elect of Egypt, two narratives have emerged about the 60-year-old engineer.

The first paints Morsi as an anti-American, anti-woman, anti-Christian and anti-Israel enforcer for the Muslim Brotherhood who will, despite his claims, turn back the clock in Egypt.

The second narrative, supported by two engineering professors from Egypt who knew Morsi when he was an engineering student and professor in California for seven years from 1978 to 1985, depicts a quiet, hardworking young man more driven by studies than politics.

Professor Nagi El Naga, who knew Morsi as an assistant professor in engineering at California State University Northridge, described his former colleague as kind, open-minded and conservative. At the time, Morsi was 30, with a wife and two young, U.S.-born children. His wife covered her hair with a veil; El Naga?s wife, a professor, did not.

?He was somewhat more conservative than me as far as religion, but there?s a difference between being conservative and being extremist,? said El Naga, who still teaches at Northridge. ?He was open-minded. We had differences but these differences never prevented us from sharing dinner and things like that.

NBC's Andrea Mitchell examines the obstacles ahead for President-elect Mohammed Morsi of Egypt.

?He was not irrational,? El Naga continued. ?He was sincere in what he believed in.?

Morsi has been described as the accidental candidate; in April, he replaced Khairat El-Shater, the Muslim Brotherhood?s more charismatic and effusive choice who was deemed ineligible to run. Morsi became the chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party, a group with ties to the Brotherhood that emerged after the 2011 revolution. He was an independent member of parliament from 2000 to 2005.

Egypt's Morsi goes from prisoner to president

He won the election with 51 percent of the vote, edging out Ahmed Shafiq, who was viewed as an extension of former President Hosni Mubarak?s regime. Mubarak resigned in February of 2011 after 30 years in control. ?

Affable, hardworking
Professor Farghalli Mohamed of University of California said he was surprised to see his former graduate student join the Muslim Brotherhood. He said Morsi prayed five times a day and observed Ramadan, but did not discuss religion or politics, nor did he grow a light beard, as did the more devout Muslim students.

Rather, Mohamed remembers Morsi as an affable, hardworking and unmarried young man who joined his family at their home and on outings to the Magic Mountain amusement park.

Beaten candidate, under graft probe, leaves Egypt

?I saw students from the Middle East at the time whose views were very conservative, who didn?t like what they saw in America in terms of social values -- they didn?t like the dress code of women,? Mohamed said. ?When you visit them in their house, they are very conservative. Usually you don?t see their wives. But Mohamed Morsi, he met with my wife, and my wife doesn?t (wear a veil).?

In 1985, Morsi traveled to Egypt and never returned to California.

El Naga and Mohamed, who have lost touch with Morsi, have?differing theories on why Egypt's president-elect joined the Brotherhood.

Mohamed believes Morsi would not have joined the Brotherhood had he returned to Cairo to teach, rather than taking a position at a small university in the more conservative northern part of Egypt.

El Naga, however, believes that Morsi joined the Brotherhood because he shared one of their values: to fight corruption in the Mubarak regime. ??

Morsi quits Muslim Brotherhood after election

When El Naga heard Morsi speak on Sunday, he said he believed the new president?s claims that he would unify the country.

?When I saw him talking it brought me back to many years back,? El Naga said. ?I felt he was the same person I was with 30 years ago.?

Mohamed was less enthusiastic.

?I feel sad for Morsi,? he said. ?He was elected as president -- that is great -- but at the moment it is vague for him. He has no constitution on which to rely on to govern the country. There is no Congress, and then the military council is still in control.?

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

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Dear Readers - It is time for me to hang up my BOOTs.

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