Love your Body. Love yourSelf. Love your Life.: Love your Life.

Love Your Life.  Do you love your life?  Do you even know what that means?  Do you know what that means for you?  It is literally different for everyone.  As different as each of our Bodies are, as different as each of our Authentic Selves are, it is different.

Now, my question is:  Is it truly possible to love your life if you are not comfortable and confident in your body and in your authentic self?  In my opinion, NO.   I have so many women come to meet with me and I have them really drop in and find what they want for themselves in their lives.  I would say close to 100% of them start to tell me what they want in their bodies:  to be stronger, to change their sugar addiction, to have less pain in their bodies, to feel like they CAN do the activities they want to do in their lives.  Our bodies are our vehicles for how our souls show up in our lives.  Period.  It is what we are physically put on this earth in and the Body, Mind and Soul/Authentic Self are absolutely co-existent, they cannot be separated, period.  Movement, posture, how we take care of our bodies, etc., is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves. 

What do you really want in your life?  The fastest path to a great life is through your body.  Change your relationship to your body, change your life.  Get down to the CORE of all of you:  Body, Mind, Soul and HAVE it all for yourself! 

We have to have self-love and self-acceptance for our bodies and our authentic selves to have that down to our core, in every cell, every part of us...every part of our life. Self-love and self-acceptance looks and feels different for everyone.  Choosing in every second, every instance, every piece of our lives what is best for us in that particular situation can change and very often SHOULD.  Staying fluid, staying open, listening, sensing, being vulnerable and absolutely being fierce with our needs and wants is crucial to the journey and into truly loving our lives...bodies...authentic selves...

What do you want?  Do you know?  I would be honored to help you on your journey to finding it and even more so to witness you stepping into EMBODYING and LIVING it! 

Love your Body. Love yourSelf. Love your Life.: Love yourSelf.

I feel like there is so much misunderstanding around what it is to really love and take care of yourself.

Loving yourself is and respecting and honoring yourself.  Definition of Respecting:  Feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities or achievements.
Definition of Honoring:  Regard with great respect.  Fulfilling an obligation or keeping an agreement. 

1)  Do you respect yourself?  Do you have deep admiration for yourself?  Do you recognize your awesome abilities, qualities or achievements?  We all have things that are fundamental gifts for us to share with the world.  Have you recognized yours for your own amazingness to give to the world?  Have you seen and witnessed your own unique qualities that make you you?  We are all way too hard on ourselves and other people will often see our amazingness and give us so much credit but we don't give it to ourselves at all!  Can you sit down and recognize your achievements or is it challenging for you to even look past your criticism of yourself to see the beauty in you life and yourself?  Think about these things...tell yourself the truth and start to really move into the respect and love of yourself...

2)  Do you Honor yourself?  Do you regard and TREAT yourself with great respect?  Do you have deep admiration for yourself, just for being yourself?  If not, why not?  You deserve it!  You are amazing and beautiful, just as you are!  Know it, own it, love it!  Do you fulfill obligations and agreements that you have made for yourself with yourself?  Do you plan to go do something for you and then you back out and do something for someone else instead?  Why?  Don't you matter just as much as they do?  Maybe more...also...keeping agreements with yourself makes you more in integrity and more reliable energetically, which is really what we all want to portray in the world when we go help them anyway...

Love yourSelf.  Take care of your Spirit and Soul.  Take care of your Body, what our Souls show up in in this life and how we express ourselves and what we feel and think about ourselves in this life...Love all of you:  "the good, the bad and the ugly".  We all come into this life with gifts and challenges and most often, our biggest challenges are are our biggest gifts...Love it all, own it all, BE it all!  You already are anyway, so embrace it and wear it proudly!  Embodied Confidence!  You CAN do it!  Know you can!  Let me know if I can help you.  I am here to serve...

Love your Body. Love yourSelf. Love your Life.: Love your Body.

Love your Body.   Love yourSelf.  Love your Life.

I have been developing and refining my business and my own stand alone brand for the last 3 years. I can tell you, it is quite a journey and it's not for the faint of heart. There are many many times along the way that I wanted to give up...I wanted a break...I wanted some help...I didn't want to do it any more, in any way shape or form, any-more. Having and developing ones own business and personality brand is a 24/7 job and one doesn't get a break.

It's a constant: refining of my message (within myself and in the world at large), learning of new things that I had no idea how to do previously, pushing of my edges, continuous noticing of what I'm doing...all of my interactions with people...how I can improve personally and professionally...what I need to shift and what's really not mine to begin with...an unending challenging of my comfort zones and rewiring of long entrenched beliefs and old stuff in my way.

Along the way, I have learned literally countless things.

One big learning and embodying I've gained is the understanding of one of my Tag lines: Love your Body. Love yourSelf. Love your Life. I have come to understand that there is this absolute delicate balance with this piece for all of us. Let's take each piece of this statement and explore...

Love your Body. I feel there is a big disconnect with what this means for many many people. I have noticed the association with this reference is to just let ones body be, no matter how healthy and fit it is in general. NOW, my evolved understanding of this is that while it is not necessarily about the size or weight of someone's body, it is absolutely the journey and self-expression of what makes one feel great in one's body.

1) It is imperative that we exercise and move our bodies to be healthy. For some people, this is cross-fit...for some it is dancing...for some running marathons...for some it is pilates. Learning what is best for you is loving YOUR body.

2) It is imperative that we find what works best for us in our eating choices. for some people this is Paleo...for some it is whole grains and lots of veggies...for some it is doing a diet and body cleanse whenever they are feeling that they need to. There is no one way for everyBody and intuitively finding what your body craves to be at it's optimum best is you loving YOUR body.

3) It is imperative that you come to know when u need a break and when other people are projecting their beliefs about you and how you do your life (which are actually a direct reflection of their own beliefs about themselves in some way) onto you. (believe me, I have gotten really really good at this one! If I can help you discover this for yourself, please let me know!). Get really good at listening to your own knowing about when you just need to stop...when u need to slow down...when u need to go full on in every way...and if maybe in general, you and your body can just go and have more of a capacity for everything and lots of energy than someone else does...Or maybe you have less...

In conclusion, it's all about you becoming clear in listening to your Body. Become confident that it will not lie to you or steer you wrong if you listen and trust. The path to Embodied Confidence is getting really clear on knowing that you know: body, mind and soul.

Next week we will play with what it is to "Love yourSelf." Have fun developing what your own "Love your Body." is!