b'SELF-LOVE &SELF-ACCEPTANCETransform your relationship with yourselfIand healing.Ridding ourselves of our limiting beliefs is waved my 4-year-old son off to his Dads for the weekend, closedwhere our healing truly begins.the door and the loneliness andSocietal, familial and even ancestral conditioning results in long-held beliefs in women of low self-worth and the pain I had come to know so wellneed to please others. Women have been taught for flooded in and washed over me yetcenturies that they are lovable only when they meet a again.I cracked open a bottle ofsocially acceptable body image and are of service to others. This results in beliefs such as Im not lovable Im gin.It was 10.30am. not enough and, ultimately, Im not worthy.Four years of single motherhood and juggling aMany women put their needs at the bottom of the pile corporate job I was no longer enjoying, commuting 3and get stuck deeply in comparison and shame.This hours a day and a son who had not slept a whole nightresults in using things such as food, shopping, unhealthy for four years had taken its toll. relationships and alcohol to fill the void.That might have all been more manageable if it had notThe true goal is not weight loss but self-love and been laid over the top of a deep lack of self-worth, zeroacceptance. Many women want to lose weight as an sense of purpose and a deeply resentful relationshipexternal desire but ultimately their journey is one of with myself.I was using food, alcohol and whateverself-love. The weight is merely a symptom of something else I could to fill an empty void inside me. deeper.But something deep stirred within me on that day. Dieting is one of the most deeply damaging things As I muted the pain yet again, a little voice that said,a woman can do. It perpetuates the belief of I am Why are you doing this when you have so much morenot enough and creates a deeply shameful and to share with the world? disconnected relationship between a woman and her In that moment, I was called to make a change. I tookbody.Most women I work with are unable to look in the back control, left my job and invested in a franchisemirror and hate photos of themselves. teaching yoga to women and began a profound journeyThey diet to overcome this, the of self-discovery.cycle continues, and the void Through spiritual practice, coaching, therapydeepens.When the intention and deep self-care I learned to transform mybehind health comes from relationship with myself, my health and ultimately,a place of self-love and my life. nourishment, then true health is easier to obtain. Through my own healing I came to see how manyNo amount of weight loss will other women were also sufferingstuck in trauma,create any more inherent worth limiting beliefs and unhealthy patterns which are deeplythan you already possess.entrenched in our modern society.It became my mission to help guide women on their own transformative journey of self-discovery, health 12'