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Let’s say you have an (imaginary) daughter.
Imagine that from the day she was born, you taught her that she couldn’t trust her body.
Every single day you would tell her she couldn’t possibly know when she was hungry or full, or how to move her body that feels good.
You would tell her that she needed to follow someone else’s plan because they knew better what she needed. And if she deviated from the plan she was a bad girl.
And then suddenly, on her 10th birthday, you would tell her you were just joking and that she really can trust her body and move with confidence.
How long would it take for her to actually believe it?
How long would it take for her to truly trust her body’s hunger and fullness cues?
When would she finally feel free to exercise and move her body with joy?
It would take a very long time for her to believe she could trust her body.
What I’m trying to demonstrate here is that building a better relationship with your body and food takes a long time to master.
Especially if you had a troubled relationship with food and your body for most of your life.
Diet culture has told you that your body can’t be trusted, and you’ve believed it. And it’s not just about food.
On the contrary, fitness and exercise were just as shame-filled as eating.
There are so many contradicting opinions about what you should — or shouldn’t — do. But these opinions just trigger waves of guilt and shame in you because none of them worked for you.
Many people who struggle with their weight eat healthily the majority of the time. They often know a lot more about nutrition than most people because they’ve been on every diet known to man.
The so-called principles of weight loss really aren’t that complicated.
What makes it hard is working through a lot of emotional baggage, stress, childhood and diet culture conditioning that bring you down and make you overeat. Working on accepting your body and taking better care of yourself is the challenge. Feeling your emotions instead of avoiding them is difficult but necessary.
Self-work, the inner stuff that nobody sees, is harder than just following someone’s eating or fitness plan.
But it’s needed and it’s the only way you can have permanent long-term results.
You’ve tried many diets already. They probably worked for a while and you lost some weight. But because you didn’t do the inner work, the results didn’t last.
If you want to have a real transformation, you need to learn to listen to your body’s signals, work on your mindset and update your beliefs.
A big portion of this inner self-work involves positive affirmations.
You use these affirmations like personal mantras. Every time you notice a negative thought emerge about your body, your eating, or your life (that normally would make you feel bad and drive you to comfort yourself with food), you replace those thoughts with affirmations you purposefully chose for those situations.
Instead of going through each day on autopilot and thinking about food, movement, and your body as you’ve done for decades, you’ll remind yourself that you’re changing your mindset now.
It takes time to finally start believing more positive thoughts about yourself and override the lessons learned in your youth. It takes time to overcome the fear or shame instilled in you by misguided people.
To be honest, it takes a great deal of effort to change your mind after following diet culture rules for such a long time. You need to train your brain like you train your muscles.
The good news is that it’s completely worth it.
I specifically designed this collection of affirmations to reprogram your mind around food, your body and your life. They are the antidotes to the most common negative beliefs and thoughts about body image, weight loss and habit changes.
My clients absolutely love these affirmations. I make personalized affirmations videos and audio recordings for my private clients to reprogram their thoughts and beliefs that are holding them back.
Now you can have a taste of these for a fraction of the price.
These affirmations can really help you change the script. The beliefs we cling to and the stories we tell ourselves really matter.
What we tell ourselves shapes and creates our life.
Fortunately, what we tell ourselves also happens to be one of the things that we can actually change!
You can find inspiration in these nearly 400 affirmations to change the script running in your head.
You will find 1 video, 2 audio recordings and more than 300 written affirmations beautifully formatted on printable pages so you can either listen to or read these mantras every day to reprogram your unconscious mind. This way the hard inner work becomes much easier and the desired results come faster.
Your beliefs affect everything you do, say and feel. If you want to make long-lasting changes in your life, you need to start with what’s going on inside first.
Let’s say you can’t seem to shed those extra pounds. It could be that you have a deep-seated belief that “I’ll always be overweight”.
As a consequence losing weight creates tension between your reality (you lost weight) and beliefs (you’ll always be overweight), leaving you feeling stressed out without even understanding why.
At this point you basically have two choices: either alter your thinking or your reality.
Since we don’t generally recognize our beliefs, it’s more likely for us to subconsciously ‘self-sabotage’ and change our reality to be in alignment with our beliefs, ie. put the weight back on.
Can you see how your beliefs are connected to overeating and your weight?
Your beliefs, which you’re often not even aware of, make you feel anxious or uncomfortable so you
eat to feel better. You might even eat enough to gain weight.
You then use the weight gain and the fact that you cannot fit into your clothes as further proof that you “will always be overweight”.
But it doesn’t make it true!
Just because you have found a way to prove to yourself that you cannot lose weight permanently doesn’t
mean it’s true.
It just means your belief system is being well-fed, instead of evaluated and starved of proof.
It is important that you discover and acknowledge these disempowering negative beliefs about yourself and replace them with positive, empowering beliefs.
As long as you believe something, your brain automatically searches for references to validate your belief and filters everything out that would question it.
I help my private clients find their limiting beliefs and rewrite them to be in alignment with their goals, and then I make audio recordings of their new beliefs for them to reprogram their minds.
It’s important to choose the right beliefs that are efficient AND believable.
My clients absolutely love these reprogramming audios.
Now you can have a taste of them for a fraction of the price.
As I don’t know your personal beliefs, I can only show you the positive beliefs counteracting some of the most common negative beliefs around eating, weight loss and body image.
(If you would like to work with me to uncover your own beliefs check out my 1 on 1 coaching package here.)
The weight loss industry convinced you that it’s all about willpower and discipline.
Did you know that you use your conscious mind to exert willpower and discipline?
But guess what – your unconscious mind is actually responsible for up to 95% of all the habits in your life.
This is why weight loss feels so difficult sometimes – the conscious mind alone isn’t enough to carry you through it.
Have you ever jumped in your car and realized at the end of your drive home that you don’t remember much of the ride itself?
That’s because your conscious mind was thinking about your day while your unconscious drove you right home!
That’s why we need to access your unconscious.
Imagine if you used that side of your brain as guidance to change your eating habits and the way you think about your body.
Well, imagine no more! If you reprogramme your unconscious correctly, suddenly you can focus on other parts of life while your unconscious helps you reach your body goals naturally.
These 3 audios and the over 300 written affirmations are practically a gift from me for this price.
I’m making them available for a very special price on this page.
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