I like to get feedback from my clients. Yesterday, I found this waiting in my inbox. I have the best clients in the whole wide world. I currently have a couple open slots for distance coaching (Skype!). Together, we can have the same results as far as your satisfaction but totally different because you are a different person with your own unique life.
“Thursday 1:00 pm. Every week for 3 months, I would rush to my computer for my precious Coaching appointment. This week, instead, I’m having lunch : carrot soup cooked with homemade broth, coconut milk and cultured butter, plantain chips, cooked in palm oil and no chemicals added, and trying cod liver. I am also admiring the beautiful yellow flower that blossomed this morning in my room, close to my bed.
It started in my backyard. We were seating on a colorful warm blanket, on the grass. I was asked to briefly connect with my 5 senses. Then, we moved to skype appointments to shorten the distance.
My feedback: Life changing and down-to-earth. Health and Connection. Empowering, personalized, logical. Really Nourishing Freedom !!!
I come from 20 more years of therapy, coaching and personal development workshops. Anorexia, anxiety, depression, burn-outs, workaholism, perfectionism, control, isolation….are all in my resume. And all the professionals that I had paid before had told me that the real remedy is to “practice self-love, connect with my inner child and take care of my self”. Okay, I always responded. But in my head the question remained “HOW do I f….g do that” ?
It is so concrete, simple and natural!!!! Sleep well, eat well, have fun, breathe, relax, spend time with people that you love or that you can have fun with, spend time outside close to trees, water, the sky and the sun. Yes, that is Self-Love-inner-child-care. Taking care of my physical body, of my real needs as an animal-human-being.
And that answer to me IS life changing. Nobody had taught me that before Nourishing Freedom. And nobody had taught me the concepts of Freedom, Connection and Power in a way that I could understand and experience.
So, I learned the abc’s of sleep. Quantity and quality. Then, to eat for nourishment and pleasure. To know what my body likes and doesn’t. Sugar makes me tired and depressed, gluten or corn make be bloated, red clover flowers ease my PMS symptoms, broth-soup comforts and nourishes me. We, focussed on specific herbs and tools to heal the symptoms of chronic stress and to break free from stressful lifestyle habits. I went from workaholism to working part-time as an aerobic teacher in outside parks. Gettingg paid to have Fun! Nature! and more time with my kids !
My kids ? The greatest bonus of it all. Their health was transformed throughout my nourishing freedom journey. They went from candy eaters to loving eggs, bacon, meat, soups, vegetables, almond butter. As a result, these cranky-pale kids turned into joyful, energetic thick-colored-skin children.
The greatest transformation for me ? Besides my eating habits which do change EVERYTHING (my thoughts, my mood, how I love my kids) was discovering my connection with nature and the deep impact on myself. Walking barefoot in the wild, spending even 20 minutes lying on the grass or working along the river, feeling safe in the middle of nowhere in the mountains …is for me ABUNDANCE. The real gift of being alive.
Am I now a 24-hour happy and perfect person? NO. Do I now everything about health ? NO. Is the sexual abused part of me healed forever? NO. I am still this “special-needs-kid” who will always need to take care of herself and make choices to avoid certain uncomfortable symptoms and stay healthy. I will still go through the gray clouds of life, the storms, rains, earthquakes, ….as well as the sunny days and full moon nights. The difference lies in the sensation of freedom, connection and power. Having the tools to take care of my REAL self = my body. Being able to enjoy this variety of experiences.
Concretely, I am still focussing on decreasing anxiety, building a solid community, playing and nourishing myself every day. But, now I have enough knowledge to continue the journey by myself. Some wisdom to choose what I read, to stop believing most of the things people say and to instead trust everything my body says.
I also know that I can contact my favorite inspired Health and Lifestyle Coach if I need to.” -Larissa G.
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