Margaret Shrum
I – intend to love yourself now
INTENTION~ can be a powerful way to create clarity around your desires. By stating your intention, you can begin to move towards the direction of your goals. So, the I in the word diet, stands for “intend to love yourself now.” That’s right, nothing like embracing your beautiful self as you are in the present moment.
Self-love takes awareness, compassion, desire and intention. Self-love does not happen just because you want it. It takes practice, like anything worthwhile and patience for those moments when you are feeling the opposite. Begin by stating your own intention to go deeper in your own self-love. Now take a moment to read and participate in Day 8~ Worship Your Inner Goddess from the 30 Day Lingerie Diet Challenge:
Lingerie Shopping Event in NYC, Thursday May 19th, 6-8pm
It’s springtime, which means its time to replace your old, worn out, lingerie and get ready for the new season! I will be bringing a selection of the perfect high quality smooth nude bras and seamless bottoms to wear under your clothes and give you both support and confidence. Of course, I will also bring some very pretty, sexy lingerie that will get you in the mood to flirt and have fun after such a long, cold winter. All guests will get the opportunity to book a free one hour lingerie consultation with The Lingerie
A Conversation with Pamela Madsen Author of SHAMELESS
A Conversation with Pamela Madsen
Author of SHAMELESS: How I Ditched the Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure…and Somehow Got Home In Time to Cook Dinner
Intro to Lingerie U on the Circle Community
One of the pillars of the Lingerie Diet program is Lingerie Education. Lingerie U is about teaching women the basics of what quality lingerie is and why it’s important. We then help women develop an ability to be able choose what’s best for their wardrobe and personal style. That’s what we would call a personal style foundation built with confidence upon which we can continue to develop over time. So as a woman’s style evolves over time, she’ll have the tools to feel in full control of the process which describes the other pillar or what we like to call Lingerie Empowerment. A confident woman’s ability to create her personal style from the inside out and have the sophistication to express that style with educated choices of quality lingerie is a perfect example of what the goal of the program looks like.
Finding the Perfection in Gratitude
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” — Albert Schweitzer
Being grateful for what we currently have in our lives can be an incredibly grounding and powerful choice. Especially when our lives get busy and overwhelming, it’s easy to forget about all the abundance that we have right now. So to turn things around and choose gratitude, it takes awareness and practice. When you notice yourself complaining, comparing or coming from a place of scarcity, take a moment to acknowledge it. Then stop it by taking all that energy and shifting into gratitude. Now, I know that it is not as easy as that. But with practice it can be. The first time you choose gratitude may feel uncomfortable, but if you take a few deep breathes and allow yourself to feel good about all that you have, it will eventually shift into appreciation.
Slowing Down for The New Year!
I’m in Miami Beach for the New Year and one thing I know for sure is that life down here is all about s-l-o-w-i-n-g down! The city has displayed a series for giant bright pink snails around the beach to remind us all to slow down. I thought that was the perfect message to share with The Lingerie Diet. My mission is to teach women to embrace their unique beauty and celebrate their bodies by adorning themselves with beautiful lingerie daily. But this concept is absolutely about slowing down to get back in touch with yourself as a woman. To celebrate your femininity, your journey, your body, your sensuality and everything that you have created in your life.
So this New Year, I invite you all to go deeper into slowing down and to love yourself exactly as you are and where you are in your life!
Thanks so much for being a part of The Lingerie Diet Community and wishing you the Best New Year ever!
Love,
Margaret
Columnist for The Lingerie Journal
From www.thelingeriejournal.com
Margaret Shrum aka The Lingerie Goddess is a NYC-based Fine Lingerie Expert & Personal Shopper with over two decades of hands-on experience styling and fitting thousands of women in lingerie. Her compassionate and feminine approach has attracted a following of women who are also interested in embracing and owning their unique beauty with lingerie through her company www.thelingeriediet.com. She also offers women a free online Lingerie Circle Community www.thelingeriegoddess.com where women can participate in her 30 Day Lingerie Diet Challenge and purchase her Ebook, Secrets of The Lingerie Diet.
The Art of Mastering Fine Lingerie
Hi, I’m Margaret Shrum and I’ve had a lifelong love affair with fine lingerie and all things beautiful & feminine! A lover of luxury, I was fortunate to receive my Fine Lingerie PhD. from spending over a decade working specifically in lingerie at Barneys New York & briefly at La Perla
Donating to Susan G Komen for October Breast Cancer Awareness
We all know women that have had breast cancer, I’m going to share my dear Auntie Margaret’s battle that ended last year. I was named after my Aunt, for her strength as the powerful matriarch of our family. My Mom was her favorite of 5 brothers and sisters and I guess she wanted me to grow up and be like her older sister. The strange thing about growing up in a half Chinese family, was that there seemed to be a lot of shame attached to being sick. Whenever my Mom or my Aunt got sick, it was down-played and almost kept secret. So down-played that when my Mom passed away from heart failure, I was not allowed to know about it until she died. It took years of therapy to digest that experience and accept her choice to “protect” me from seeing her suffer.
A couple of years ago my Aunt Margaret was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was not told until after she had been through a double mastectomy and chemo. What
Lingerie Tour on Fashion’s Night Out NYC
Fashion’s Night Out Sept. 10 2010 NYC
I just went to fashionsnightout.com to plan MY NIGHT OUT. SO if you want to come along or check out a few of my favorite lingerie/ fashion / beauty boutiques in NYC, here it is:
3.1 Phillip Lim
115 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012
http://www.31philliplim.com
212-334-1160
3.1 phillip lim invites you to attend Fashion’s night out at our NY store Friday, September 10th 6-9pm In-store: shop with Phillip, plus special performance by My Gold Mask Outside: street party with Rag & Bone
Sharing My Lingerie Rite of Passage With ALL Women!
by Margaret Shrum – Lingerie Expert and Creator of The Lingerie Diet
Creating a new concept brand that stands for women to love themselves on a daily basis by increasing their self-care rituals and embracing their bodies by wearing beautiful lingerie everyday…now that is something that has not been done! Until I realized that it was my mission to passionately teach women how-to tap into our most feminine resources and turn ourselves on with lingerie! When we realize how essential lingerie is and how it can be used to adorn, empower and reclaim or tune-up our own sensuality, then we can have fun with it and use it for our own pleasure.
This past year has been very exciting, I wrote my first Ebook, “Secrets Of the Lingerie Diet” which is a guide to help support women on how to build their own lingerie wardrobe and actually take themselves through their own “Lingerie Rite of Passage.” I also created a private online Circle Membership Site which is interactive with 9 monthly columns that are both educational and supportive to women who wanted to learn more about lingerie and share their journey with other women on the online forum.
