Feeling Stuck Around Out of Control Eating?
By · CommentsWhat Are You Choosing When You Do Nothing At All?
Remember me? The one who was so good at keeping in touch every Thursday?! So many things- we saw my gorgeous brand new baby nephew Max in California, and also spent some time up the coast at El Capitan Canyon. It was blissful being away, and especially getting to be so close to nature and the ocean (and the dolphins we saw!!) I felt renewed and refreshed in every way.
Many of you have told me that you’re a little freaked out financially and that it’s not helping your efforts to bring your eating. Later this week I’ll have news for you about something that addresses both, but it will be limited to the first 10 people who sign up.
I’ve been thinking lately about the idea of what we choose, or what we don’t. One thing I know about all of us with issues around food and eating, is that we are terrified of giving anything up.
You may be afraid of change of any kind, or you may fear that if you make changes around your food, that you will face unbearable pain. So you do nothing.
What are you choosing when you do nothing?
If you are game, let yourself follow this question to some answers. If you are in pain around your food-addiction, and you continue to do whatever you have been doing, with little positive outcome, what else are you choosing?
It might be that you are choosing to live in shame. It might mean that you are living with some unwanted anxiety and stress around your health- maybe your doctor has been warning you in no uncertain terms that your weight is impeding your health. Or maybe it means that you are choosing to stay in a place of unworthiness a bit longer- that horrible feeling that nothing you want can come to you when you are in this place.
Is that what you choose? Really?
You don’t want to believe you would choose those things, and yet by doing nothing, or doing the same things over and over that aren’t helping, that is what you are choosing.
Sometimes you “choose” by not choosing because you just have no idea where to start. Or you picture the alternatives as feeling much more painful than whatever you are doing now. It feels like you are between the Devil and the “deep blue sea”- no safe place to be.
Take a deep breath or two. Think about what you would choose if you were not so fearful. What would that be? Wouldn’t you choose vitality and health? Wouldn’t you easily choose freedom and peace over guilt and shame? Of course you would. Make your own list- you need to have at least a beginning vision of what might be on the other side of food addiction for your self. You have to at least know which direction you might point your compass, if you were so inclined.
What are you choosing? This question allows you to connect with your heart whenever you ask it, about anything- relationships, finances, work, quality of life.
You get to choose
Really- this is your life. You get to choose, or else you will be choosing by default- getting what you get, by not making a real choice, by not naming what it is that you want for yourself.
Before you can take a step, you have to know where you are going. Steps can come later, if you choose! Right now, being as honest and in connection with your truth, allow your self to know what it is that you want.
I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes, written by Anais Nin.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”.
I wish you great love and every blessing,
Lisa
*new programs coming to help you get unstuck in only 4 weeks, stay tuned at http://www.IntuitiveBody.com
Willing Or Not? The Big Shift
By · CommentsSo you probably know that I am devoted to helping women and teens move beyond overeating, holistically and intuitively. I’m really good at it- for various reasons. One of which is that I have been there and done that. And paid close attention, and brought lots of good energy-techniques and spiritual perspectives to it all. It’s a good mix, and it works.
But here’s the thing that I face over and over again, that makes this work very hard sometimes. My clients come in fairly desperate- they want more than anything to be free of the obsession, the self-loathing, the self-destructive choices and the shame. Of course, who wouldn’t?
But when real help is offered, in as many “flavors” as I can creatively conjure up (and I am really creative about all this…) most of my clients will say something like, “well, I’ll try”.
Those words make me crazy. They are words of somebody who’s lost their sense of power, who tends to feel helpless and hopeless and who is going to be wasting their money more times than not. That powerlessness is more the real issue than the eating- the eating is just the storyline that goes along with feeling so disconnected from one’s real self, the true or authentic self. You know, the one that holds the “spark of the Divine” and all that good stuff.
I can come up with good ideas and creative baby-steps til the proverbial cows come home, but that doesn’t help until you’ve answered one really essential question. And this is it-
What are you willing to do? Today, what step or small action (this is very much about action- my clients are already way too good at analyzing- they analyze things into a place of paralysis most of the time) are you willing to commit to?
This sounds like a simple question but it raises great fear and resistance. My clients don’t usually want to commit. Making commitments stirs up the wish to rebel- which is a whole other topic that’s big in overeating.
Then there’s the feelings that come up around being asked to take a small specific step- which tends to bring up all or nothing and perfectionism stuff. My clients want to do it all, get all the results quickly and tend to balk at small comfortable steps. Which is what keeps them from succeeding.
But when somebody really gets it- when somebody has the willingness to find the willingness, they get a burst of clarity and excitement. They get the experience that comes from feeling a moment of power, a moment of choosing and following through. A moment of the sense of efficacy and possibilities.
It’s really beautiful when that happens. I can feel the enormity of the shift. Just one day of willingness can birth some real momentum.
I want that for you.
Love and blessings,
Lisa
Getting Unstuck Has Never Been Easier!
By · CommentsHappy Memorial Day! As tradition would have it, we’re having friends and family for a cookout later. Barbeques aren’t quite the same for me this year, since I took a break from meat/poultry and I have to admit it’s a little weird. I’ve found some other things I love on the grill- will share some ideas with you this week!
In the meantime, I wanted to remind you that we are only 4 days away from the start of the new series on Lightening UP With The Energies of Spring: A Breath of Fresh Air For Your Body and Soul! Class begins this Thursday, May 28th.
Do NOT miss out on this class-this is the ONLY time I’ll be teaching it.
This 4-week course begins this Thursday, May 28th!
Reserve your space in the class right here.
Here’s Your Agenda:
Week1: Making Space For Your Vision-
Any change requires a clear vision, and space to create it in. This part will inspire and excite you so that what you want can “come to you”.
Week 2: Clearing What’s Not Serving You
We easily get weighed down by relationships, habits, and overdoing/over-responsibility. Get permission and energy-clearing techniques to move them out of your space, so you can be lighter in every way.
Week 3: Filling Up With New Inspiration
This is about feeding your soul what it needs- learning to find pleasure and inspiration instead of turning to food (a poor substitute for the real deal). Bliss is better…
Week 4: Nourishing Your Commitment To Your Vision And Your Gifts
How to take it all with you and hold onto the magic that you’ve been creating.
Special Breakthrough Day: Celebrate & Integrate!
We’ll be meeting at the top of each hour from 10am-2pm Saturday morning June 20th. I’ll give you short “tasks” to go complete and then we will reconvene. This is a blast- plus you’ll get some major pieces in place and firmly plant the new lighter energies in place in some really fun and creative ways. You’ll love this!
You’re getting GREAT bonuses with this teleclass series. Some are:
(yay bonuses, everyone loves extra stuff!)
1. Weekly written materials
2. “Lighten and Love your Body” Eating Guide
3. Recordings of all our teleclasses
4. Special Membership in my online Sanctuary forum
5. My new ebook “Take Your Body Back”
6. Special Audio Guided Meditation
7. Special Report on Creating Sacred Space
These 4 weeks can launch you into a lighter body, and a lighter mind, free of the heavy thoughts and feelings that keep you stuck and weighed down.
Short and sweet, using the flow of Spring energies to propel you forward easily- it’s all good (and good for you, of course!!)
NOTE- If you want more info, you can also register today for my f.r.e.e preview-call tomorrow night, Tuesday May 26th. Sign up via info@IntuitiveBody.com to save your place!
To your lightness, with my love-
Lisa
PS Don’t keep struggling unnecessarily to do this on your own. You deserve to move through your life comfortably and feeling your very best. I’ll show you how, I promise.
Getting Big Results, In New Ways
By · CommentsIf you KNEW you could learn the MOST important thing you needed to manage your weight and your eating, would it be worth an hour of your time?
It’s so hard for me to see so many women struggling with their eating- their self-esteem in shreds because of how much this issue impacts their lives.
The most natural thing most women do when they feel out of control with food is to try to control the food.
And yet it just doesn’t work- and doesn’t work over and over.
You know you’re good at plenty of things and you know you have so much to share with the world.
Well, you really can’t get out there and share much when you feel so lousy about your body and the eating.
Not much good you can let into your life when the depression and self-loathing kick in.
So if you’re ready to really LIVE your dream, create the life that you know is yours, and want to get out of the struggle NOW.. join me!
Have you been wondering HOW it’s possible to be free from overeating, especially during these crazy times on the planet?
Preview Teleclass This Tuesday- May 26th at 7 pm eastern!
On TUESDAY’S FREE Sneak Peek Call I will share with you:
• The mindset you MUST have to stop overeating
• How “lightening up” equals “lightening up”
• Some of the ways you may be getting in your own way
• What you absolutely have to do in order to get out of the “out of control” eating
• What you must NOT do, no matter what
PLUS , I’ll be taking YOUR questions LIVE!
Reserve your spot on the call by sending an email to info(at)IntuitiveBody(dot)com and let us know you want to be on the call. I’ll be sharing lots of information that you’ll be able to use right away, promise!
Lots of love and lightness to you-
xox
Lisa
Get your spring groove on and Lighten Up All Over!
By · CommentsWe could not BE (BEE?) more in the springtime energy around here!
Andy’s bees and hives are in full swing, our first season as Bee-keepers, very cool! And the robins and cardinals are nesting in our lilacs and in the other big shrub outside our den window. The air is filled with smells of things in bloom, everything is green and we are silly- with the joy and relief of it all.Our first crop of lettuce was ready to pick and I had lots of it for lunch today.
Honestly I find this heavenly- abundance at it’s natural best. I often wonder… would spring be as over-the-top wonderful if the contrast of winter were not present?
Anyways-It’s almost here- just one week til my 4-week class begins, next Thursday May 28th. If you haven’t checked out the information go do it right now because if you really could use a dose of lightness- in your body, your thoughts, your home, your energies, your relationships- any or all of these will be addressed in this new class.
Check it out now- you only have a few more days to register so grab a spot!
Love and the glory of springtime to you-
xox
Lisa
