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The best relationship you can have is the one with yourself.

A year and a half ago I made a promise to myself, the most important and valuable promise in my life so far.

To be 100% in love with myself and my life before I share it with anyone else. The last 18 months have been spent free falling into a world full of freedom, love and happiness, so much so that now I am so completely in love with my life that it is far to special and precious to just let anyone in.

Whether it is right or wrong this is just how I feel, never the less it works. Someone worth giving up your time, part of your heart and life for should only enhance your happiness and love you in the same way your best friends love you. Unconditionally, infinitely, and sincerely.

The person I was from age 14 to 26 would give anyone my time and love, it seems that being single over this last 18 months is what it took for me to realise my own true worth.

I strongly advise anyone in their twenties to embark on the journey I have just had.

Now I look at myself in a completely new way, I know who I am and I embrace every part of myself as I never have before.

Everyday I wake up and thank god that I’m single, or everyday something will happen or I will see something that reminds me of how blessed I am to be on my own. Seeing couples argue, treat each other badly, break each others trust, make each other worry, reminds me of how lucky I am to be my own best friend, partner and the person that is in charge of my emotions and my own happiness.

I have always said to boyfriends in the past, ‘If you are lucky enough to have found the person you love why waste a moment of time making each other feel anything less than amazing’.

Arguments, cheating, lying; I see it everyday. I have conversations with my girlfriends or just girls I work with who tell me how miserable their partners are making them; is this really what life is about?

It’s easy to be cut throat when your not in the relationship but surely this is a bit of common sense too. If it doesn’t make you happy, if it doesn’t make you feel good…. Just leave.

You always have a choice.

So many people spend their life’s always searching for that soul mate, some people lose theirs in awful circumstances, some people lose themselves trying too hard, and others, afraid to try at all. Life is to love, if you have been blessed enough to find that person you love, why ever waste a moment of your time treating them badly.

Love each other unconditionally, treat every day as if it may be your last, don’t go to bed on an argument, don’t break each others trust, don’t damage each others self esteem in anyway, and always focus on building each other up, never breaking each other down.

People ask me all the time onboard ,“Oh my God, why are you single”? Like it’s something bad!

Being single is my choice, my blessing, everything I have ever needed and the best thing that has ever happened to me.

I adore my own company, I adore the company of others too, I take so much pleasure in the smallest things in life, I love to cook, listen to music, dance, exercise and go to bed on my own. I love my job and I love meeting new people. The bottom line is, I love and appreciate every second of my freedom.

I find that people are so scared of life on their own, I’ve met so many people that stay with their partners because they are scared of being by themselves. You don’t have to be with someone to enjoy your life. I used to feel like half a person; the second half was always made up by the person I was with. Now I realise the importance of being a whole person, you don’t need anyone to complete you. You need to be happy on your own.

In my opinion, you must be 100% happy with your life before you even think about sharing it and words cannot express how important it is to be in love with yourself.

It may sound silly or melodramatic, but I truly believe this is the be all and end all with everything; you cannot fully love another if you don’t love yourself for who you really are. You cannot accept love truly into your life until you love yourself and the most important thing is that if that love was ever removed from your life, if your relationship ends, you still need to have the love for yourself. If you have that important base, you will always have the strength to move forward; no matter how battered or broken your heart feels.

The love for yourself cannot be based on how someone else feels about you, you need to stand on your own two feet.

This post could come across as harsh and maybe offensive to those in a relationship but for me it comes truly from my heart and soul. After spending my life being constantly pushed and pulled in different directions with my relationships, from being a young girl at 14 where my first long relationship created an impression on me that I will never forget, from that first bad impression of “supposed” love, I accepted love throughout my life in that form.

I then thought that this was all I would ever have, that I simply wasn’t good enough to be loved 100% so I would take 50% or whatever else I could get.

I jumped from relationship to relationship and I suffered, and I really didn’t know any different. I still believe that it is your first experience of love, and how you see love with your parents, that will always shape your impressions of love, relationships and what you expect.

Then I had the ‘if you can’t beat them join them’ kind of attitude, hurt people and that bad love that I received I then gave back to others. I continued to jump from relationship to relationship from a young girl up until just recently, where I have had the best relationship I could ever wish for…

The one with myself and the beautiful world around me. Now I jump from country to country falling in love with places, cultures and people everywhere, exploring and learning more and more about myself and what I want every day.

My love for myself in the past was based on the love of whichever bad relationship I was in gave me and I looked at myself in the same way as whoever I was with did, I never knew myself at all and every time I wanted to be on my own I would always fall into another relationship. Your self-confidence should never depend on someone else.

Today love is everywhere I look and I am in love with everything other than a man, and trust me I never run out of people and things to be in love with. I’m in love with my friends and the stories they tell me, all of their fantastic attributes. I’m in love with the countries I visit, my family, music, my hobbies and most importantly, I am in love with myself.

I used to be the girl who cancelled on her friends for a man. Don’t get me wrong, I always loved my friends dearly and I’ve always been a ‘girls girl’ as I say, but I would fall into patterns of shutting myself off from them when I was in serious relationships, Now I look at my best friend when she’s telling a story or were laughing together with so much love in my heart and I think, ‘God I was so crazy to ever pick a man over times like these’. I value every second spent with my friends now more than ever.

Your twenties should be your selfish years, that you discover yourself, spend your time traveling, laughing with your friends and just generally having fun and being free. When you settle down, you settle down, that’s it, and that will be a beautiful chapter of your life too, becoming a mum is the most wonderful thing that will ever happen to most women but once that journey begins there is no time at all to be selfish.

So to wrap it all up if this post gives you anything whether you’re in a relationship, single, married or brokenhearted, consider your relationship with yourself of highest importance. It is the best one you’ll ever have.

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3 day Liquid diet and cleanse

3 Day soup Diet and cleanse

This week in Australia before I head back to Dubai and flying Im feeling the need to detox myself a bit!

Every now and again I feel like flushing my body out from food and all the nbud stuff we put into our bodys, I find liquid diets so easy and such a good way to kick start healthy eating if you’ve been bingeing a bit and fallen into bad eating habits,

3-4 days of liquids is enough to feel fabulous and shrink your stomach back to normal size,

As humans I find we really over eat a lot of the time and the best way to stop it is kick start yourself in to a healthy pattern, you realise how much your body actually needs to function fantastically which in most cases is actually half the amount we eat!

I have much more energy when I am sticking to my liquids, drinking green tea, loads of water and raw fresh unprocessed foods, everything in my life feels like it changes, Im more energetic, happier and everything just feels better!

So my advice is if you’re feeling bloated, tired, you’re craving the wrong foods or you’ve had a hectic weekend.

Go back to basics cleanse your body, stick to fruit, liquids and whole raw foods.

Every day this week I’ve had a smoothie for breakfast and that lasts me until about 1:30 when I’ll have a bowl of soup. In that time I don’t feel hungry or even think about food I’m active and I feel more energetic than I do when I eat normally,

The morning is really the only good time to eat fruit, I read a lot of books about nutrition and there is one called The Beauty Detox solution by Kimberly synder she explains how your body is like a highway and when the highway is clogged up with all the wrong food the vitamins from the good things you eat can even be absorbed by your system,

So eating fruit after a big meal is pointless your body will not reap the benefits and the vitamins in the fruits and the fruit will basically just become sugar which will become fat,

I always try and start the day with fruit as my stomach is empty and will soak in all the goodness, I don’t like to have a big breakfast really just something small and very good for me! Think Fuel! And 30 minutes before anything I will always try and have hot water and lemon to cleanse my body,

This does prove very difficult for us cabin crew as sometimes breakfast could be at 3:00am or at midnight it all depends on our roster, but it is almost impossible to keep any kind of routine or healthy diet, Our body clock is everywhere!

My favourite smoothie recipe:

Per person

Roughly 6 fresh Strawberries

1 banana

2 big tablespoons of fat free organic strawberry yogurt

6 ice cubes

1 cup apple juice

Swap strawberries for raspberries, add blueberries and play around with different juices but this is the recipe I love! Simple and tastes perfect!

Lauras lovely lemon and lentil soup

You will need:

Olive oil

1 onion - chopped

2 celery sticks- sliced

2 carrots – peeled and sliced

8 cloves of garlic – chopped

1 potato- peeled and diced

1 cup of red lentils

4 cups of water with veg stock or chicken stock

2 bay leaves

1-2 lemons

Serves 3-4 (make double and freeze some I always do)

Prepare vegetables and heat a pan with olive oil,

First add onion to the pan and cook alone for 5 minutes

Then add celery, carrots, potato half the garlic and cook the mixture for a further 5 minutes until they begin to soften.

Add lentils and stock to the pan and bring to the boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.

Cut the lemons in half squeeze them in to the mixture and add the bay leaves and remaining garlic cook for a further 10 minutes

Blend with a hand blender or liquidizer

Sprinkle with some Cayenne pepper if you wish, Serve and enjoy!

Thank you Laura Hikawai for this beautiful recipe and for all the times you’ve cooked for us! You are best chef ever!

Tom Kai Gai – My favourite Thai soup!

You need:

1-2 400ml cans of Lite Coconut milk

Galangal root (optional for more authentic taste if you cant get it don’t worry too much, Cabin crew you can pick this up fresh in most asian destinations! The beauty of our jobs!)

1-2 stalks of lemongrass

Approx 3-6 Kaffir lime leaves, torn (I have made it with out these if you cant get hold of them, Just make sure you grate the lime zest in for extra flavour!)

2-3 cups chicken stock

Approx 250 gms chicken breast, cut small

Approx 4 tablespoons fish sauce, to taste (optional, however adds to salty flavour)

1 tablespoon of sugar (or palm sugar)

Button mushrooms, halved

1 lime

1 red chilli, Diced (remove seeds if you cant handle much spice)

Coriander roughly chopped

Grated ginger

Baby bok choy (chopped)

Chopped fresh tomato (skins removed) or chopped canned tomatoes

Cooking:

In a large pot put chicken stock, galangal root (if using), ginger and lemongrass. Bring to boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Take out the galangal root and lemongrass.

Add one 400ml tin of coconut milk, chicken breast, mushrooms, tomato, bok choy, kaffir lime leaves, and sugar. Cook for 20 mins.

Stir through the chopped chilli, fish sauce and another can of coconut milk if needed. Heat for another minute. Remove kaffir lime leaves and add coriander leaves. At this point you can squeeze the lime or lemon juice either into the boiling soup or into the bowls before serving the dish up! Add extra chilli flakes if not spicy enough! But remember the more the soup is left the stronger all the flavours become!

I have just finished a bowl of this soup and its to die for!

Mulligatawny Zucchini soup

3 x onions – chopped

3 x zucchini (courgettes!)

1 x potato cubed

1 x tin of tomatoes

2 breakfast spoon of lea and perrin (worcester sauce)

1 teaspoon – curry powder

6 x breakfast spoon of veg oil

1 or 2 cubes of stock and 1 pint of water

Fry onions in veg oil on medium heat for 4 minutes

Add other veg and fry for another 3 minutes

Add stock and salt and pepper

Put lid on and cook for 30 minutes until soft

Add curry powder and Worcester sauce

Leave to cool then blend!

These are all soups really that I cook when other people are eating them too as they are all really tasty, and I feel that most people may not understand the soups I actually make as I always go for goodness rather than taste!

When I do a liquid diet myself I use everything and anything that’s basically healthy, as anyone who cooks will know most soups you can just pretty much chuck anything in!

I make basic soups filled with just any vegetables I have in the fridge, often a lot of spinach (the big bags of frozen stuff are great if your in Dubai, its just as healthy as the fresh stuff!)

Some would maybe think they don’t taste that good but I think there fine and I love nothing more than knowing exactly what is in something Im eating and also knowing it is totally pure and healthy!

I Just always add garlic, and I love fresh lemon and chilli, it makes any vegetable soup taste good, spicy soups are also good to flush out the system!

I try and do a juice cleanse, lemon detox (will post about it soon) or a 3- 7 day liquid diet once a month or once every two months, I love it and I hope you will feel as good as I do when I do it!

So guys and girls I hope you enjoy the recipes and feel free to ask me any questions!

Be healthy, Eat well, Look after your body, Be happy!

Lots of love

Catriona x

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Start Every Day With a Grateful Heart

How to have a really good day:

Get up, get out of bed and think THANK GOD IM ALIVE!

Every morning I wake up and write down ten things that I am thankful for and why, Put on some good music and embrace everything in my life,

I feel like if everybody tried this it would really change your day, your life and lift your spirits!

There is always so much to be thankful for,

Good people, lovely friends, family, life’s little lessons, our jobs, the people who surround us, the nice cup of tea you just had, your new bed sheets that made you have a really good nights sleep, a glimmer of sunshine that came through the curtains this morning and woke you up, a text message, a smile from a stranger on the train or simply the shoes on our feet and the food that we eat.

If you start your day with a heart full of gratitude I can guarantee you a day full of life’s little blessings, They really are everywhere!

Your life is totally in your hands and it is what you make it!

So wherever you are reading this post, whether your on the train on the way to work, sitting at your desk or in the house, grab a pen and paper or write it in your notes on your phone (I always do!)

Just start thinking and writing down the things you have to be thankful for, the more you write the better you will feel and the more you will realise how many things there is to be thankful for even the smallest tiniest things!

So write:

With all my heart thankyou for….

Because…..

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

This exercise is from an amazing book called “The Magic”

This is an example of one of my lists I wrote when I was on holiday in Thailand

I am currently in Australia I have been grounded here unable to fly for 1 month I was on my vacation when I found out that I had a perforated ear drum and the doctors told me there was no way I could fly back until it has healed, Next week I am finally allowed to fly back to Dubai so until then I am soaking it all in and trying to write as much as possible!

Luckily I have been looked after by an angel, Auntie Lou, Who has really been the inspiration for me to finally start this blog, I have been on a bit of spiritual journey since being here and I really feel like I have been sent here for a reason, Having the time off flying has given me time to really concentrate on what I love and who I am and I feel so at peace with life.

It hasn’t been difficult to keep positive atall while being here as I have been so blessed to with my surroundings and having spiritual magical Lou by my side,

This is the view from my Auntie Lou's back garden at Sunrise. We are in Razorback, Picton just south of Sydney, I was last here 4 years ago when I lived in Australia and I call it my peaceful place and my spiritual home.

I love to be in a beautiful place put on my favourite music and just soak in the world around me and know how blessed I really am.

Cafe del mar- Northern lights is pretty much my best reflection song, its come with me everywhere I’ve been, I first watched the sunset in Ibiza to it dressed as a monarch vintage air hostess working for Hed Kandi at Savannahs.

Since then I’ve travelled the world and seen so many amazing places, always with this song in my headphones. It just does something for me! I love landing in a country Ive never been to and after working a hectic flight hearing this song fill my ears and soothe my soul, I look out the window at all the different buildings, the road signs, the sunshine, the rain or even the snow, the shops and the people, and just think Wow! Thank you for bringing me here!

I have put the video below this post it has so many gorgeous images of the world and really makes you want to see them all! Have a watch and a listen!

So guys and girls put on your favourite tune, Think happy thoughts, Embrace your surroundings and make sure this Monday is the best bloody Monday ever!

Lots of love,

Catriona x

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Cat’s Ultimate Sugar Scrub!

Hello my Darlings!

Well this is my first proper blog post and I feel so strongly about this natural wonder I discovered once on holiday that I have chosen to write about:

Cat’s Ultimate Sugar Scrub!

As many of my friends know and have tried and tested this.

IT IS TRULY BLADDDY AMAZING!!!

The perfect pick me up and so cheap and easy to make!

As you know girls your skin regenerates constantly and exfoliation is important because as we age our cell turnout gets sluggish and we could use the help.

Exfoliation accomplishes a few things at once.

It decongests pores,

lightens and brightens the skin

allows other products (say your moisturizer) to penetrate more deeply, thus being more effective. It is advised to exfoliate once a week!

I personally keep a bowl of sugar in my bathroom in Dubai so it is always handy if I feel like my skin needs a pick me up!

This scrub literally leaves you feeling brand new,

So for baby bottom skin all over simply…..

Get yourself a bag of sugar

some basic moisturizer or shower gel will do!

For hands or just for a tester to see how well it works:

Use roughly one full tablespoon of sugar to one small blob of Shower gel, liquid soap or any moisturiser you have around the house.

Then in your hand and mix together to form a thick paste.

Really Massage into your hands and fingers thoroughly concentrating on any dry areas or areas with hard skin for a minute or two then rinse off and dry.

Apply any moisturiser or hand cream after and feel the difference straight away!

For the whole body:

Use a bowl and roughly cup full of sugar gradually add the shower gel or moisturizer,

mix with a spoon or your hands and make sure it forms into a very thick gritty paste.

Jump in the shower and massage into your body, legs, arms, neck and face and be revitalised, refreshed and most importantly…. Feeling goooooooooood!

This is so perfect if you have been in the sun or you are about to go on holiday and want to make sure you get the ultimate tan, or if you are peeling and need to get rid of that dead skin!

For an extra special scented scrub:

Add a few drops of your favourite oils ( I personally love eucalyptus, lavender, Rose otto or lemongrass)

Make sure you remember to moisturise afterwards!

In my photo’s I have used Bath and Bodyworks Stress Relief moisturiser with eucalyptus and spearmint (its amazing!)

And Palmolive Aroma Therapy Absolute Relax shower gel both of these work really well but honestly you can use what ever you have handy!

Enjoy Ladies, Life is about feeling good!!

Love Catriona xx

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The History of Catriona Rose

Hello Readers!

I have finally decided to start my Fashion, Beauty, Travel and Spirituality blog,

For those of you who don’t know me, My name is Catriona Rose Lennie. I grew up near to London in a town called Woking and now live in Dubai working as an air hostess. I am grateful for the many beautiful places I get to experience. As a reader, I hope you will feel inspired by my natural beauty tips, tricks, fashion advice and travel experiences and my spiritual madness and quotes !

A bit of history about me and my Business “Catriona Rose Clothing”.

I have always been into extravagant clothes and all things fashion, I earned my Fashion degree at The Arts Institute Bournemouth and in my second year aged 21, after my first season working in Ibiza, I established Catriona Rose.

My first season, I arrived at Ibiza airport with my best friend, a soul yearning for adventure and a suitcase full of hand made dresses.

We knew no one but managed to quickly make ourselves a name out there and landed our dream jobs in some of the biggest and best clubs. I worked as a dancer for many big brands such as Hed Kandi and Judgement Sundays. I had the time of my life, ended up in music videos, met amazing people and from that one season, my life changed forever.

On my nights off and at one of my jobs as a VIP hostess I always wore the dresses I had designed and made, The original Catriona Rose Scarf Dresses, and from this Catriona Rose Clothing was born!

People would chase me out of clubs and shops, stop me on the street asking where these dresses were from, I started giving out scraps of paper with www.catrionarose.com written on them.

I would tell them check this web address in a year and they will be there available to buy! I had a dream, I knew I could make it work and I was determined to make it happen!

I am very positive person and have always read books by Wayne Dyer and Louise Hay and The Magic and I truly believe that if you have a dream and you can see it and believe it you can make anything happen,

Sure enough the following year I had finished my degree, my website was live, I had been to India to buy fabrics made my money back within a month with all the dresses I had sold, and was on my way back to Ibiza with a car full of dresses!

What happened next was really quite spectacular....

I started picturing everything I wanted to happen to with me and my new business,

One moment I specifically remember was in the car driving to Ibiza in 2009 and I was listening to my favourite music, driving through Spain in the beautiful sunshine and all I was thinking about was what I wanted.

I was imagining myself in all the best magazines, visualising exactly what it would be like with a picture of me wearing my dresses, I was vividly imagining it like it had already happened. My phone had run out of battery but when I arrived at the ferry port I charged it and there was a message waiting for me.

It was from company magazine.

“Catriona we have heard about your dresses and we would like you to be our Ibiza Fashionista! We will be sending out a photographer next month to shoot you wearing your dresses at the Hippie market!

I was over the moon and I believed that now more than ever I could do anything.

Catriona Rose Clothing went from strength to strength and soon I was appearing in all the best UK fashion magazines, Newspapers and also other world wide magazines too. Including Till late, Look Magazine, Harpers Bazaar and Cosmopolitan.

In Ibiza it was now rare to go to a club or a party and not see someone wearing one of my dresses, I held weekly dress parties in boutique bars and the website was booming with orders weekly from the UK and all around the world, The website was getting 1000’s of hits a day.

I still worked with as a dancer and actually was promoted to manage the Hed Kandi girls and also Pukka Up dancers. I always had a catalogue and selection of dresses with me in my car and soon all the dancers were spreading the word.

I left that season so proud of all I had achieved and decided I would move to Australia and launch over there for 7 months. I did Sydney,Glebe and Bondi markets weekly and sold all of my stock and made friends for life along the way.

On the way back from my Sydney adventure I stopped in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka and Thailand. In Australia I had watched a documentary that had really touched me, “Katie Piper, My beautiful face”.

Katie is a young girl who was a model and an actress her ex boyfriend viciously attacked her and then paid some one to throw acid in her face. She was horrifically burnt and lost her eye sight in one eye,

Read her story here www.thekatiepiperfoundation.org.uk She is truly incredible. An inspiration to so many!

I had decided I would launch a swimwear collection and also get a collection of t-shirts made to raise money for her charity. So I found a factory in Bangkok which I wont elaborate much about except to say that my collection was meant to be ready for the upcoming summer for Ibiza. It never arrived and as time went on, I realised that this company had basically screwed me over for everything I had.

They took more and more money from me until I had nothing left to give and it was absolutely everything I had earned from my successful first year.

When the stock finally all arrived in England a year later I was still hopeful I could turn it all around until I opened the boxes to find it was pretty much all faulty and not what I had orders at all, Over 70% of the charity t-shirts were all stuck together from the screen printing damage and spelling errors, which just about finished me off. Most of it was completely unsellable.

Someone earlier that year had told me that it was my astrology year 4 which wasn’t a good sign and a lot of things would go wrong for me. So I should be very careful! This unfortunately was true!!!

I am not bitter about this atall anymore and it has made me a much stronger and determined person!

Every successful millionaire has lost everything once! Steve Jobs, Richard Branson all the best ones!

I have carried on with Catriona Rose Clothing but on a smaller scale and I have recently taken a side step ,made a career change and I am now an air hostess!

I travel the world! One day I’m in New York and the next I’m in Rio and I LOVE IT !

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON!

I am so grateful for the experiences and lessons I have learned along my journey through life, I am truly blessed.

All these years later I am still a bit of a business woman, I have set up a charity, raised a lot of money to help others, I love travel, fashion, natural beauty remedies, make up, positivity ,peace and spiritual answers to everything!

This is what I want to share with all of you!!!

I really hope you will enjoy reading my Blog and Thankyou for looking!

Lots of love,

Catriona x

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