Our bodies are our constant companions in life. We come into the world in a body, and we remain in our
bodies until we die. Our bodies undergo constant change whether we recognize it or not. There are major changes with puberty, childbirth, menopause, and aging.
If you have an adversarial relationship with your body, you may have a hard time with all these changes. Woman with food and weight issues often have control issues. Dieting can be a way to exert control over their lives and their bodies. They often objectify their
bodies as well. They see their bodies as something they must whip into submission. How they look is a major source of self-esteem.
I have always stressed to my clients that even if you get your body looking just the way you want to, it will not remain this way, as nothing with the body is permanent. Impermanence is a fact of life. Nothing stays the same.
There is nothing wrong in
wanting to look good, but feeling good in your body is even more important. It's also important to accept the life stage you're in. I'm now 66 years old. I've always been athletic and in shape, with very flat abs, but once I hit 60, I noticed some fat gathering around my middle. No amount of exercise seems to budge it.
It's not much weight, but I've accepted the fact that my flat abs are a thing of the past. Some women would probably diet
and work out like crazy, but I'm happy with my body just the way it is. I've accepted it as part of getting older. I'm still in good shape for my age but at 66, I don't expect myself to look like I did at 40 or 50.
I think that's where women get in trouble. They try to stay or go back to a certain time in their lives, when they looked a certain way. This drives women to have plastic surgery to recapture their youth. I respect it's a
woman's choice what she wants to do to her body, but too much surgery makes women look weird, not younger.
The problem here is that women don't get much support for positive aging in this society. Our world is too youth oriented. The hype and pressure to remain young looking preys on women's insecurities and makes women feel bad about growing older.
If a woman has been devoted to her
personal and spiritual growth, getting older can be the happiest time of her life. It certainly has been true for me. As women age, we often come into our full power. We let go of other people's expectations and we begin to live life on our terms. We stop the people pleasing and begin to care less what other people think of us. This allows us to become bolder. These years are all about being our authentic selves. It can be a very exciting time of life!
Positive aging requires shifting from an external focus to an internal one. It means developing a nurturing and nourishing inner life that can support you on your life's journey. It's a shift in priorities. We need to find out who we are at this stage in our lives, who we want to become, and how to fully embody that. It's about living a soulful life with purpose and passion.
People who aren't able to tap into
this internal knowing and power, will remain stuck in an earlier stage of development. They will feel lost and stagnant, wondering why their lives feel so empty and purposeless.
Many women who suffer from emotional eating, feel this way. Over the years, I have worked with hundreds of women to help restore meaning and purpose to their lives. If you are feeling lost and purposeless, I offer life coaching sessions. Together, we can work
to identify your life/soul purpose, and work out a plan to identify sources of new inspiration and meaning to reinvigorate your life.
If you're ready to experience freedom around food and weight, now is the time to take advantage of this special opportunity to work one on one with me!
I am offering $300 off my
personalized, private coaching program. This consists of 12 weekly sessions. Regularly $1200 now, until June 21st, you can purchase it for $899.00.
If you have a lot of weight to lose or need long term support to help overcome your emotional eating, I
am offering a full year of coaching for $1600. This consists of 24 half hour sessions that you can use throughout the year as you see fit. For example, I recommend you start out weekly for 12 weeks doing my personal coaching program and use the rest as needed throughout the year. This is a $2400 value!
Coaching can make the difference between success and failure.
Coaching can help you:
Let go of dieting and bingeing and become a more intuitive, mindful eater
Develop realistic weight loss goals
and a daily action plan to achieve those goals
Teach you better self-care and stress management
Reconnect with your feelings, body, hopes, and dreams
Develop a healthier relationship with food, as well as life itself
Develop more compassion and acceptance towards yourself
Eliminate black and white thinking, perfectionism, and other thinking distortions
Release self-defeating patterns around food and weight
Develop a deeper connection to your
inner wisdom
Improve your body image
I coach and mentor
people in the areas of: permanent weight loss, food addiction, compulsive, emotional overeating, binge eating recovery, intuitive and mindful eating, meditation, self care and stress management, self-esteem, and body image issues.
Note: My work is inner focused, not religious, and fits with
any belief system you may have, even agnostic. My work assumes that you have all the wisdom and answers you need inside of you. What you call this place — God, intuition, Higher Power, inner wisdom, or true self — is up to you. I am simply a guide bringing you back to the truths that are already inside of you.
The beauty of my coaching is that it is tailored to your individual needs. You are not given a “cookie cutter” commercial program, nor are you prescribed a certain diet. You are given tools and support that are appropriate to your lifestyle, personality type, life stage and needs.
The goal of my coaching is to create a lighter, balanced, healthier, nourishing and joy-filled life. You will begin to see results in all areas of your life because how you do food is how you do life!
Coaching can make the difference between success and failure.
Why Weight Loss and Emotional Eating Coaching Works
One on one weight loss and emotional eating coaching can make a big difference in getting and keeping you on track to meet your weight loss, fitness, health and life goals. Many people need the personal support to keep accountable and on track. Sometimes just a few sessions can make
a big difference in your level of motivation and focus.
A study led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center and published in The Journal Of The American Medical Association showed that the people who lost the most weight and successfully kept it off have had
regular contact with a weight loss counselor.
If you have repeatedly lost weight and regained it or have failed to lose it in the first place, it may be time to admit defeat and get some help and learn some new ways of coping with life. Coaching can make the difference
between success and failure. The reason it works is it provides support, encouragement, structure, and accountability while teaching you some new life skills and coping tools. Many of us when left to our own devices soon lapse back into old unhealthy behaviors.
Coaching
helps you to navigate the change process and stay the course so that you can integrate new behaviors that will support you for a lifetime. Clients say this is the best money they have ever spent on themselves, especially after considering the costs of failed weight loss diets, foods, programs, gyms, and therapists.
Kaiser Permanente recently released the results of a health research study, in the April edition of Journal Of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, which offers new hope for binge and emotional eaters. This study showed that 63% of the people who were offered a 12 week "guided self-help" program that included eight sessions with a weight loss coach/health educator, (not a therapist), were able to quit bingeing completely within 6
months, as compared to 27% who were offered the usual care.
This study validates and supports the way I work with my clients with binge and emotional eating issues. I also offer 12 week sessions and my program is "guided self-help" as well. Clients are taught how to
identify and deal with their eating triggers, given weekly self-care assignments and exercises to complete, and then meet with me to discuss the results and get support. I also offer additional email support between visits. Note: I am not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente in any way.
This study is great news for people who cannot afford expensive eating disorder programs or sessions with a therapist. It shows that with the right support and tools, emotional and binge eating can be cured. As a former binge eater, I am living proof of this!
If you're ready to let go of your self-defeating patterns around food and weight, I'd love to work with you individually. Sometimes
all one needs are a few sessions to get motivated, inspired, and back on track.
Most of us know by now that diets don’t work to keep the weight off long term. The number one reason diet and exercise programs fail is because they don’t address the mind and emotions and these
are what drive overeating. Weight loss begins in the mind and until you address your mindset and the real reasons you turn to food, success will continue to elude you.
The How You do Food is How You do Life Weight Loss and Emotional Eating Program® is designed to get at the core issues of what triggers overeating. It provides you with solid strategies to overcome the reasons why you turn to food. This is the key to overcoming
emotional eating and releasing the weight without dieting.
