The Conditioning of Body Image Issues
As women, we are conditioned from a very young age to struggle with body image. We’ve hated it, wished it were different, resisted looking in the mirror, bashed it on a regular basis, pushed it to its limits, and placed a ton of pressure on ourselves. Unfortunately, self-love is not something we learn in childhood. Rather, it was my experience and that of my clients that self-love is learned later in life.
The Mindset That Keeps Us Stuck
A key mindset that prevents us from cultivating a healthy body image and self-love is at play here. It’s the belief that we will only feel good, worthy, confident, and enough once we reach a point in the future of looking a certain way.
I call this the When / Then Mentality. “When I get here, then I’ll be happy.” This mindset keeps you stuck and makes it difficult to reach your body, health, and weight goals year after year.
Shifting Your Mindset for a Healthy Body Image
Cultivating a healthy body image relies on this key mindset shift. When this mindset shift occurs, everything shifts, and your body follows. Your relationship with food becomes simple and makes sense. The stress dissolves. The guesswork disappears. The life-long struggle subsides. When this mindset shifts, so does your body image. Harmony in your body, mind & spirit is restored as she (your body) begins thanking you for listening, acting, and speaking with more kindness & love.
The Possibility of Change
This transformation becomes possible with the willingness to believe it’s possible. Followed, of course, by the right action. Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is insanity and a huge waste of energy! Let’s not waste more of our precious life force energy doing things that don’t work! There is another way to heal your body image and cultivate self-love! It’s time to do something different to achieve the results we most deeply desire.
A Comprehensive Approach to Healing
I help my clients repair their relationship with their bodies, heal their relationship with food, and see their wholeness through patience, possibility, self-acceptance, and love. My clients experience great results because of my comprehensive approach of spirituality + mindset + strategy.
The most important relationship is the one with yourself. You are in a sacred relationship with yourself. I teach my clients how to heal their body image in the following ways:
1. Changing Thoughts and Beliefs
Change what you think, say, and believe about your body. This is crucial to creating transformation at the root level. Your body hears everything your mind says. What thoughts are you having about yourself? What things are you saying aloud about yourself to others? How are you relating to your body image?
2. Attaining and Sustaining an Ideal Weight
Attaining and sustaining your ideal weight is not accomplished by counting calories, contrary to popular belief. It happens by getting out of your head and deeper into your body. This is how you find food freedom and heal your body image.
3. Deconstructing Emotional Eating
Learn how to listen, navigate & deconstruct emotional, compulsive & stress eating. Your cravings are signals from your body, and when you learn how to decipher these messages, you create an intimacy with yourself and your body. That connection has the potential to change your relationship with yourself significantly.
4. Recovering from Binges
Discover how to recover from a binge, regain control, avoid the post-binge spiral, decrease future occurrences, and move forward in a conscious, self-loving way.
5. Sustainable Self-Care Practices
Explore simple, self-love, soul-care, and self-care practices that are practical, effective, and enjoyable. This helps avoid burnout, fill your cup, and learn to put yourself first guilt-free.
Stepping Into Self-Love: Your Action Steps
May we all learn to know and love the magic that is our body. Let’s step into unwavering self-love, fierce self-confidence, and total self-acceptance. Sacred Body School is open for enrollment! Click here to learn more.
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