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Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Secret Behind Weight Loss Failure
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“I’ll call her Anna. She believes her weight gain started when she was in the fourth grade. That was the year she moved into her stepfather’s house and he began sexually abusing her. She remembers it was then because she loved the little purple flowers on the wall paper in her new bedroom. She methodically would count the purple petals hoping he would stop touching her by the time she reached one hundred. When I saw her in my office some thirty years later, she was depressed, overweight and didn’t realize her obesity had anything to do with being sexually abused. It was only when she realized that her weight gain was her incredibly resourceful way of trying to protect herself, that she understood. She then could begin to set herself free.”
If you were sexually abused as a child, and have had difficulty releasing weight and keeping it off, you are not alone. (more…)
I feel fortunate to have discovered running while in my early twenties. I had exercised sporadically at health clubs, but this was different. I loved how my body felt after a run, so invigorated and alive. It was a meditative and creative time too, solutions to problems magically appearing during those runs. I was passionate about it, running road races and eventually challenging myself to run marathons.
I love this book! Marianne Williamson’s, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever, is brilliant! To permanently release weight from your body you must change your consciousness and make a spiritual shift in how you think and connect with your body. This book is about SO much more than weight loss. I love the visualization and writing exercises as they are in alignment with the daily practices I already do myself and that I teach to my clients. They are very powerful and will help you connect to your inner Divine Love and to your Highest Self. 
“A single grateful thought raised to heaven …is the most perfect prayer.” – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“The ablity to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary
“Everything is about Law of Attraction. Not law of going out and getting it. It’s not law of deserving. It is not law of earning. It is just law of achieving vibrational harmony with that which you want, and then it cannot not come. It must come to you.”
I learned this Taoist tale several years ago:
