Love the skin I am in

What if you could love the skin you are in?  I mean, love all aspects of self?
Being loving to self can be a challenge.  We are human.  We have emotions.
We learn through criticism in our childhood and learn what is right and wrong.  We often carry this fear of criticism into adulthood as we learned to mask parts of who we are so we could be accepted.

This is a bigger part of what I do in my work and I have masked parts of me from you for fear you would not understand or think I am weird.  I am weird and will be to some, yet totally on the mark and relatable for others.
If you have been following me for a few years, or just joined us recently, you may have seen my tagline change from Real athletes, Real food, Real results to Fueling athletes fun and fulfillment by balancing body, mind, spirit and sport.  And now, Transforming athletes to love the skin they are in by harmonizing body, mind, spirit and sport.

Change is normal.  Change is part of life.  We can either accept it and flow with it, or we can brace and fight it.  Change will happen either way, either smoothly or via a bumpy route.

I work with the whole body which includes the physical body but also the emotional, mental and spiritual aspects.  Yes, i address everything related to how you eat, move and sleep.  Yet I also address triggers that derail or aggravate us, plus how we view ourselves or how we talk to ourselves.
Often, we are not that nice to ourselves and berate ourselves.
I have noticed, it is all related to this childhood criticisms that need healing.

This unresolved childhood issue will create physical issues in the adult body.  This tension stays in the body’s energy field until we release it.

The physical imbalances can be corrected with nutrition, lifestyle modifications and sometimes supplements or essential oils.
We help you undo the damaging effects of stress to your physical body.
We help you move through these physical issues with compassion, love and understanding.  Sometimes it is the childhood issues we need to help heal.

What I have learned, is that there is an emotional, mental and spiritual component to whole body health and well-being.  If I only address the physical, then the first emotional trigger that comes along, you fall off your plan, you eat poor quality foods, lots of sugar and a lot of foods to soothe the emotions….yet these foods make you feel terrible, depressed and sluggish most of the time.  Then you berate yourself for eating so poorly, and the cycle starts over.

Often, learning to understand and heal the emotional trigger with loving and compassion causes the trigger to subside.  So you choose better options naturally.

For over 8 years, I have been offering emotional release techniques or energy work with The Path To Heal system.  It is a system that helps identify subconscious emotions and energetic block in your body’s energy field (yes, we are all energy).  This causes stress and can contribute to the physical issues especially pain, erratic eating and GI distress.  It can be the cause of anxiety for some because the fear of criticism.

I have been a bit of a closet healer, keeping this safely tucked away for certain clients.  I would pick and choose which I thought would get it…and which would not based on my assumptions and fear of not being understood.

Sometimes, we choose food for comfort and it makes us feel safe.  For my one athlete who was training for an Ironman, raising a 7 year old as a single mom and moving created a lot of stress.  They started eating a lot of Twizzlers.   We discovered the pain of the new increased schedule of training and work was comforted with the Twizzlers.  Why?  It helped them be a ‘good girl’ and be silent – like they were taught when they were 7.
Be quiet and eat your Twizzlers basically.
After our energetic release session, they stopped eating Twizzlers!  They were replaced by better food choices naturally.
That is the beauty of this work – we release the energy that drives you to hurt yourself both physically and mentally.

A few weeks later, they came in and training has increased again, and so has the stress.  The balance is off again and now there are GI issues and an increase in sugar intake.  Again, the triggers were children were being disrepectful – Cow tails and Peppermint Patties to the rescue!
Once we addressed and healed this trigger which was related to a childhood event of criticism, they were able to choose differently.

For years, I refrained from offering this emotional release techniques or as I was scared my athletes would not understand this protocol.  For me, this also triggered my hip pain.  Although on an anti-inflammatory plan, I still had my hip pain.  My fear of criticism was pretty high even though I may seem confident.

I saw a functional physical therapist.  He diagnosed the issue perfectly, gave me some corrective exercises and , 3-4 weeks later it felt better.  I saw my chiro, I saw another therapist and the hip got better.

As I was walking through my house with my new neutral hip position…and I could stand tall.  Yes, stand tall.
My body was reflecting my fear more than my confidence.
My hip was reflecting my business.  It was constricted and so the foundation of my business was also restricted.  What I thought was safe, my body was saying the opposite….like a tiny annoying voice saying “Go embrace your inner healer!!”  with the other voice of fear asking “but what if they don’t get it?”
And with that inner mind battle, my hip got better, but then worse.  Until I started really working on those criticisms and fears which started in childhood.

My gifts are to find the real cause of your physical symptoms.
If I hide one of my greatest tools, my intuition and this energetic work, then I am not giving you the help you need to re-balance body, mind, spirit and sport.  Here is where I wrote about my challenge with this merging of the nutrition therapy with energy work.

I have seen some amazing results with clients who come in with weird conditions and doctors have no answers.  Yet we find the solution and give them back a life of vitality, joy and adventure.

Recently, I had a client who came in for my Be Whole program.  I ask the challenging questions to find out ‘When did this start?” and usually it starts with stress.
And that is usually emotional stress in addition to the physical stress.

My clients leave the sessions feeling calm, relieved and rejuvenated.
They have a renewed sense of self and how to honor their own needs and make them a priority without over-giving to everyone else.  Their compulsions with foods also disappear.  The judgements against themselves and their food change.

If I can do it, you can do it.   Ask me how you can love the skin you are in…and consider the Be Whole program, a session or the Path emotional release technique work.  It is a process of compassion, loving and understanding so you can just be who you already are.  No fear of criticism, no fear of unloveability.  Just joyful expression of you.