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What Would Change if You Didn’t Have to Fight Your Body?
When was the first time you were ever told to fight your body? As a toddler? In kindergarten? Pre-School? Or long before? I bet you've had to eat up your plate even if you weren't hungry. I bet you've heard messages about having to track your calories. Maybe you've...
How Your Body Image Affects Your Life: 5 Signs to Watch For
Have you ever stopped to think about how your body image affects your life? The way you see yourself doesn’t just impact how you look in the mirror—it shapes your confidence, relationships, and the way you show up in the world. If body insecurities are holding you...
Bodies are weird
Bodies are weird. They do things we aren’t very excited about, like farting and getting sore when we’re doing fun stuff and extruding…substances. Often times, these are sources of shame and embarrassment, silly as it is. We worry about allowing people to get too...
From Overexercising to Body-Confidence
When I was a little girl I began to believe I was a klutz. My father frequently told me this, others compared me to my sister who was apparently “coordinated”, and of course, good old Ma Martin in gym class did not do much to counter my ideas about my physical...
Shift Your Sense of Body-Confidence By Slowing Down
By Sophia Holly For a majority of my childhood, I felt alive and confident in my body. I played in the woods, I biked around my cul-de-sac for the fun of it, climbed trees, and danced to the beat of my own drum. One day at recess, this aliveness turned upside down. I...
The Woman in the Window
By Lisa Newman The side street lured me with its quaint cobblestone, flickering lamps, and ancient buildings. “It’s a shortcut,” I told my teenage son, pointing to the map as I stepped forward. It was my first day in Amsterdam without a knowledgeable guide, and I was...
The Place Where the Pain Comes From
What really causes the pain, the fear, the agony? What really causes you to drop and cry? What really causes the overeating, the never-ever ending binge episodes? What really causes all this? Where does it come from? Where did it begin? Where does it end? And when? It...
Body-Love and the fear of it blowing up in your face
This is what I need to say: Body-love. Happiness. Self-acceptance. Unlimited bliss. They're not out there, flying around in the Universe, Too far to ever reach. This is what I need to say: 100 % joyful self-confidence. Boundless body-trust. The magic of the current...
I want to feel…
I want to feel free. Glorious. Freaking alive. I want to feel radiant. Abundant. Whole. I want to feel on top of the world. Full of energy. Like I can do anything I want at all times. I want to feel in flow. At peace. But driven. I want to be still and serene. But...
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? ~ Rumi The door to freedom is wide open, love. I know it doesn't feel that way. I know it feels more like the door is so tightly shut that you're suffocating; losing a little bit more air every single day. I...
That moment of paralysis
That moment when the truth surfaces but you push it back down in a hurry so that you don't have to know. That moment when it all comes together but you're terrified that nothing will ever make sense again. That moment of knowing of deep pain of inclusion met by a fire...
It’s not difficult – it’s different
The other day I caught myself telling a client that - in her situation - letting go of diet prison would be difficult. And I immediately corrected myself. As you know, our language makes our life and the more we choose to see things as hard, the harder it'll be. So,...