...dating as far back as high school. Fast forward to me entering the fitness world as a professional athlete and nutrition field as a nutrition consultant and boy was the pressure REAL to have the perfect diet and the perfect body. (Because the perfect body = happiness, confidence, no problems, success, people will love me, right?)
I was imprisoned by my own 24-7 exhaustive restrictive dieting, bingeing, and toxic body image beliefs, regardless of how much I intellectually knew about health and nutrition.
This time of year during the holidays always reminds me of the dark times in my relationship with food, wanting to avoid every party so I wasn't triggered to think about food, and wow...how deathly fearful I was of gaining weight. The distrust, the guilt and shame, the obnoxious disconnect from the true powerful me.
It also reminds me of how far I've come...
Today as a wounded healer I am blessed to have taken my own pain, suffering, and challenges of my own dysfunctional relationship with food and use it to help men and women over the last 12 years escape their own life-long food and weight struggles.
I've had the privilege to work with so many, but unfortunately not everyone, regardless of how much I truly want to, and regardless of how much my potential client wants to because (just being transparent) not everyone is able to afford my personal coaching services. If there's any down side to owning your own business, it's this.
I've actually tossed and turned about this at night for a long time, it really bothered me, but honestly I just didn't know what to do.
Ironically over the last few months I've been getting more and more emails from individuals asking me,