Ahhhh, there you are

There comes a time when you have to let go.
There comes a day when you have to surrender.
There comes a moment when you know
deep down
that what you’ve been holding onto just doesn’t serve you anymore.

You feel it in your heart.
In your soul.
In your every cell.

You’ve got to leave (insert situation/person/way of relating to food and your body) behind and instead move towards what you’ve always known you wanted,

what you’ve tried to get with (your situation/that person/that way of relating to food and your body).

You’ve got to leave all that behind to get all that you really, really, really desire and freaking deserve.

There comes a moment when you’ve got to give in to the tug of your heart,
to the scream of your soul,
to the yearning in your gut.

No matter your many fears,
no matter the panic of gaining weight and being totally out of control
(because, let’s be honest, you know that this won’t happen, right? and if it does, what’s sooo bad about it? You are resilient, you’ve survived worse and you know you’ll learn the tools you need in order to handle this too, right? Right?),
no matter all the ties that are holding you back.

You’ve got to start with one step, get running and then take that big, courageous leap.

And you know what?

It’s going to be oh so worth it.

You may not see a net below your feet.
You may feel like you’re in free fall for months.

And it’s going to be the best, most exciting, most thrilling, and, yeha, most challenging thing you’ve ever done.

But babe, you already see yourself having leaped, don’t you?

You already KNOW how amazing your life will be once you’ve started to run full force, don’t you?

You already see it, feel it, sense it with every fiber of your being, don’t you?

And even if you don’t, but you do, you are oh so ready to take that first step and learn how to love yourself, accept your body no matter what and eat what you want when you want without fear, shame or guilt.

You are SO ready.

If you weren’t ready, you wouldn’t be reading this, you wouldn’t be feeling the desire for your constant struggle, for the terror within to be over, done, in the past.

Makes sense, doesn’t it?

Sure, you may ask yourself,

how you’ll ever be able to not eat your emotions,
how you’ll ever stop eating when you’ve had enough instead of going on until you feel sick,
how you’ll ever accept a body that you’ve been hating on for decades,
how you’ll ever let go of the diet mentality that you’ve grown up with, been fed and lived for so long,
how you’ll ever live and breathe in a way that is affirming instead of demeaning.

And, in a way, these are minor details.

You will figure those out –
either alone,
or more likely,
with the support you desire and get once you’re determined to leave all the crap behind.

How do I know you’ll figure it out?

I see my clients do it every day and you should see the sparkle in their eyes once they feel the beat of their heart for the first time ever,
once they meet their soul’s yearnings without guilt,
once they get that their lives don’t have to be
sad
tragic
hopeless.

The best thing?

They’re no different than you.
In many ways, they probably are you.

The only difference is…
they started crawling, then walking, then running, then leaping and oh how beautifully they move through the air.

So, of course, there comes a day when you’ve got to leave all the hopes of your diet ever making you happy behind.
There comes a moment when you know that shaping your body into something it’s not meant to be will not fill your soul.
There comes a time when the pain of staying stuck is just too much to take.

The cool thing is that you get to decide when this day is going to be.

Today?
Right now?

I sure hope so.