I just completed a Mind-Body life coach training course, taught by Abigail Steidley, the Mind-Body Healthy Life Coach. Her gentle and compassionate way of teaching was phenomenal, as she led us through the mind-body tools.
Taking this course was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
It taught me that connecting to our bodies is THE WAY out of our food and body war, as well as steer us away from our pain. It’s learning to dial into radical self compassion and respect for ourselves.
I’m jazzed to share this news with my clients!
It makes me think about my own life. I’ve lived most of it caring more about my body’s outsides, than the insides! I could be so critical. My body was too heavy, too pale, too many freckles, too old; it makes me shake my head in disbelief how I treated it as if it were a necessary nuisance.
Just like so many of my clients, I too had migraine headaches and chronic IC pelvic pain, that I could find no reasons for, nor could the doctors. I would just pop whatever meds they would give me for the pain and hope for the best. It was as if my body, mind and soul weren’t even connected. I also realize that not being connected to my body is part of the reason that I lived with disordered eating. No wonder I had the war with food & my body! I didn’t want to face my feelings or even look at my body.
What I now know is that it’s okay to go with my gut feelings, actually it’s imperative! Our bodies not only keep us alive with amazing healing processes, but they inform us when our lives aren’t going in the right direction.
It’s tuning into my intuition, that I now lovingly refer to it as “my GPS system for my life”.
That migraine that comes on, it’s my body sending an SOS that my life isn’t going in the right direction. When my pelvic pain sneaks back in, it’s a huge signal of major stress! I notice that my body is signaling me “wrong direction, take another route. That clues me in that I need to ”relax, feel my feelings, breathe, and be calm.” I know that I am pushing away feelings, so I have to ask “just what is I trying not to feel and why? Why am I resisting it?” This has been life changing.
We don’t need to lose twenty pounds or look like the pictures in the magazines to find happiness. It’s within our reach right now.
It’s in learning to respect and connect to your wonderful body.
God gave us these amazing vessels for a reason. You see, no one else knows you like you! It’s just takes looking inside and getting real with you. You have what you need to steer toward whatever it is you are looking for, be it peace with your body, less stress, health, or just to get a break in life. As we learn to fine tune to that connection, magic happens
If you are interested in hearing more about mind-body coaching and how to tune into your own GPS system, you can contact me at deblynjohnson@gmail.com.
