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Today - One Day at a Time

12/27/2015

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I love the 12 steps. I keep a copy of them in my appointment book and I read them every day. Here's my short version:

1. Admit my wounds are unmanageable.
2. A Higher Power is necessary.
3. Surrender to my Higher Power/Holy Spirit.
4. Search my heart daily.
5. Confess/own my junk. All of it.
6. Become ready to invite healing.
7. Humbly ask for miraculous healing.
8. Own how I've hurt others.
9. Apologize and forgive.
10. Continue to confess/own my junk daily.
11. Meditate/pray to stay connected to Holy Spirit.
12. Practice daily and share spiritual experience.

Many times during coaching sessions, we'll start by talking about food or exercise. Where did you get stuck. Where are you struggling? Inevitably, though, we end up talking about daily practices. Daily spiritual practices. Because as Einstein famously said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

Compulsive eating, chronic inactivity, or any other iteration of knowing what to do but not doing it, is an inside job. If you know your nutrition is poor, but you make those choices anyway, you can't keep focusing on the food. You have to have a chat with your choice maker. If you know you need exercise, but you keep finding excuses, you don't need a new piece of exercise equipment, a new gym membership or to schedule more workouts. You need to have a chat with your choice maker.

Who is making your choices? Your wounded self? The place in you that has given up? That no longer cares?
Or your highest self? Your authentic self? The place in you that always believes? That knows your worth?

We can't connect to our highest self by measuring food or drinking shakes. Our light doesn't continually shine bright because we shame ourselves into eating less or exercising more. Our light shines bright when we take time to nurture our heart, our soul, our authentic self; our choice maker!

If you keep telling yourself to eat better or exercise more, but you aren't doing it, look within. She's trying to tell you something. Knowing what to do, but not doing it, then beating yourself up for it, is a cry for help from deep inside. Things start to change when, instead of ignoring, escaping and finding another way to try to manage it all, you slow way down and listen.

Sometimes all we need to heal is to be authentically heard. It's one of the miracles of this process. Tell your story. Gather your courage and allow yourself to be vulnerable. Work the steps and heal from the inside out, one day at a time. Not only will you heal your food and exercise issues, your entire life will change. That's what shining your brightest light will do.

Shine on, sisters.

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Piano Recital

12/21/2015

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This weekend, I went to my niece and nephew's Christmas piano recital. I enjoyed it so much! All the kids are so talented. I noticed some really cool things about their performances.

They miss notes.
All of them do. I don't think there was a single perfect performance, but every song was magnificent.

Reminder: I don't have to be perfect to be magnificent.

They get lost.
One young man who was playing a very intricate piece got lost and sat there for a few silent seconds, hands hovering above the keys. You could sense the wheels turning in his mind. He didn't panic or start berating himself. He found his place and jumped right back in where he left off. By the end, it was like he'd never paused.
Reminder: It is OK if I get lost. Don't berate myself. Just start right back up.

They bow.
After every performance, each child stands up from the piano bench and takes a bow. There was something really special about that. No matter how the performance went, each child took a moment to be proud of what they had done.
Reminder: I can be proud of the work I put in. I don't have to compare to others, score higher than someone else, or be without mistakes. I can celebrate my victories and accomplishments.

They get in the picture.
After the performances, all 12 kids lined up for a group photo and boy, do they smile! No one runs to the back to hide. No one stands there melting down because they aren't good enough to be photographed. They smiled so big, their little cheeks were sore after all the cameras were done.
Reminder: Get in the picture and smile, just the way I am.

They move on.
Walking out to the car, there wasn't a play by play of every note and how it went. No dissection of mistakes. No regret of song choice. There were too many other exciting things to talk about. An upcoming birthday party, Christmas Eve family get-together, Aunt Sue day, and over two weeks off school!
Reminder: Don't dwell on any experience. Enjoy it. Be present in that moment. But when it is over, move forward.

There are many other songs to play. Bows to take. Pictures to be in. Don't miss the next experience by staying stuck in the last one. It's time to pick a new song and get practicing!


Merry Christmas.
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Showing Up

12/13/2015

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So sorry about missing last week's newsletter. I was exhausted! I've been writing this blog every Sunday for over six years, and when I miss one, it always feels strange. I have to remind myself that it is my personal goal to write it, but that doesn't make it a failure if I don't. It is self-imposed! Something I want to do. I don't ever want to turn it into the stick I use to beat myself up with.
 
I know how busy you all are. I will keep these next few blog posts short and sweet. I have so much to tell you, so it will be difficult to wait. But I will wait, so you get a chance to hear how my half marathon a month goal ended up. It's such an interesting story and I learned so much! And how the 100 mile challenge is going. I just love hearing from everyone who is participating. Keep going! And what's going on in Tread. Really great stuff happening on those nine treadmills.
 
I want to share this one quick story. A client stopped me after class this week to tell me her blood sugar levels were reversing. REVERSING. As in changing direction. Healing!! Listen, I love hearing stories of weight loss and fitting into jeans and all of that. But as someone with a chronic illness myself (I have kidney disease), I know what it's like to live with something going wrong health-wise. And I know what it's like to have fitness change the direction of the numbers. It is one of the most radically empowering feelings in the world.
 
That is what fitness is about.
Healing.
Radical empowerment.
Knowing what to do, and doing it.
Changing the direction of your health.
Feeling good about your choices.
Becoming a good choice maker!
Showing up time after time.
Doing the work.
Trusting the process.
Believing.

"The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time." - Brene Brown
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