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2012-10-30 14.16.03

Alone

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ALONE. October 2012. Day 3 of my conference and 1 month post divorce.
Hurricane Sandy is approaching Manhattan.
The apartment I’m renting for a few days, from a friend, is downtown near Wall Street. I’m informed that I’m in the evacuation zone and I need to leave.
My flight is cancelled for tomorrow and I need to find a place to stay.
I’m literally on one of the last taxi rides out of downtown, traveling to midtown. I have the heaviest freak’n suitcases imaginable. I’m angry with myself for this choice as I am pulling it down NYC city streets during a hurricane. The irony is thick.
I get rejected four times while trying to find places to stay. People are sweet and scared. They share that their space is already full or they are trying to leave the city.
I find a friend who offers her couch and I feel so grateful for her and her roommate. I have no idea how I’m getting home to my son and where I’m staying the following night.
To say I’m vulnerable in this moment is an understatement.
The next day I find an inn {a hostel where you share a bathroom with the entire floor}. I chose it because it was a safe spot near union square and it was $139 a night. I walk a block to the only open store. I buy water. I buy some food. I buy candles. The wind blows me into the buildings as I walk back to my room.
Eventually the power is out. It’s 8pm. I’m completely alone in a hostel and I am thinking “how in the hell did I get here?”
I’m silent. I’m out of my comfort zone. I’m vulnerable. I’m scared. I’m convinced this place is haunted.
In my darkness, I am alone.
I was forced to be honest. I started to cry. I talked to the Universe. I screamed at God. I decided I needed to meditate. I punched the bed. Then I decided I needed to eat..
I ate almost all of my food. The idea of rationing was forgotten. I would have died on the deserted island if that had been the reality. (I ended up being stranded for another 4 days in NYC).
I ate my food fast and I knew I was eating for comfort. I wasn’t even hungry. I was avoiding being alone. I was avoiding the pain of having to look. at. myself. I thought the food would comfort me. I thought it would take away my feelings.
I thought it would fill the whole deep inside that was yearning to be filled.
Now the food was gone. I couldn’t see my book with candlelight anymore, it was too dark. I was forced to sit and be alone with me. I needed to see myself.
I comforted myself. I loved myself.
Then I got distracted. I hear all the families in the rooms around me. No one is speaking english. Somehow that was more soothing because I didn’t understand what they were saying. At least they have each other. At least I had them.
I began to meditate again. The wind was very strong. It kept interrupting my state. Jarring my nervous system with jolts of power.
The contrast that I am alone and I am never alone dawns on me. I begin to weep.
I am proud of myself for finding safe shelter in this storm.
I see the metaphor of this hurricane to my recent divorce. I weep some more.
I decide I need to stop surviving and start thriving.
I finally surrender to the loudness of the storm against our building. I allow it to rock me to sleep. I wake up in a wet puddle of tears on my pillow.
I plan my feet on the ground.
In my lightness, I am alone. I am safe.

Renee
#day31 #100creationsofselflove #100dayproject

I heard this woman speak last weekend. She described a regular state of anger and shame that she felt for herself. She was raw and honest.  Sometimes when we feel our worst, the last thing we want is “Happy”.  In fact, when I was in my low moments, Happy people annoyed me so much. I thought they were fake.  I bet some of them were. I assumed they were faking it. I was faking it.

And yet, there were some who were real. That’s how I figured out that I could be real and happy more often too. It would take some work.  It didn’t mean I wouldn’t have crappy days, it just meant that my overall sense of peace and joy would be my more dominate feelings.

I am closing down the registration to Happy On The Inside soon, click here to register and get access right away.

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Learning authenticity + my name change

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I want to share a bit of my personal story and the pilgrimage of learning authenticity. I hope it inspires you to live more authentic in your life. Living authentically has inspired me to change my last name for my business. My new name is Renee Jayne.   Renee Heigel no longer felt real for me.

If you want to know the why behind it all, keep reading.

My purpose here is to guide people to their own empowerment and truth of who they deserve to be. Authenticity is an important part of that empowerment and truth. So if you are someone who has areas of your life where you do not feel real or where your energy is draining, I hope this helps you today.

Authenticity teaches us to recognize and trust our feelings, all of them. The ups, downs and ugly cries in between. Being authentic shows you how to act in a way that is consistent with your values.

It’s about being real. You know, as a opposed to fake. I have lived both ways in my life and each were learned behaviors. If we can learn it, we can unlearn it.

This blog isn’t about how to learn how to understand your language of emotions, that is the work I do with my clients and it is way more than I can share here.  

So where do we begin?

We can start with giving ourselves permission to feel and be uncomfortable. We can choose to become more authentic and real in our relationships. The first step is awareness to where you are being inauthentic.

The real and authentic self is cultivated from being exposed to life’s tough and happy moments. When I learned I would become a mother in 2008, I was having a tough time in my relationship and I knew that I wanted to learn to be more emotionally connected, honest and real in my life.

Someone I was close to asked me the question, “Renee, are you happy?” Here I was, newly pregnant and enjoying it but when I answered her question, out of my mouth came these words, “No, I’m not happy.”   I was shocked by my own answer.  I was so used to hiding, putting a smile on my face, saying my affirmations and unconsciously disguising my true feelings, that I was surprised by my own truth.

It felt good to share so honestly.

I got to thinking, when did I stop being honest with my true feelings? When did I start hiding? And why did I think I had to?

The paradox of “happy” is that none of us are happy all the time. Nor would we want to be. I think our culture misleads us with this idea, especially in the United States.

When we have darker moments, they make room for the brighter ones to shine so much more.

I used to work for this company that often said the slogan, “we’re liv’n the dream”. I bought into that idea with every dollar I had in the bank and what it meant for me was that when things weren’t going well, I wasn’t worthy, good or important.  I bought into this fairytale of life where everything had to be perfect or the dream was dead. When I wrote in my journal, at the time, it was in affirmations, dreams and goals. What was missing was the real, low down dirty truth of how I was feeling.  

The reality is that life is hard at times. It throws us challenges. Most of my life has been filled with uphill climbs and massive lessons that I’ve had to grow from.  

I made a decision that I was going to be vulnerable with myself and open up. I would be honest with myself about all the feelings and emotions. I would start in my journal and would write about reality. I wanted more of this authenticity stuff and I knew I had to feel to get there.

Renee is the name my father chose for me. He named me after the song, “Walk Away Renee”. Written for the band the Left Banke in 1966 and it later became a hit with the Four Tops. I always liked this name and the song. I’m grateful he chose it for me.

Renee also means “rebirth”. It’s not just the meaning I like, I believe rebirth is possible for everyone and everything. Humans are always changing.

Jane, my middle name, is my mothers first name and she gave this to me. My mother gave me the gift of life. She has taught me about human nature. Our relationship has inspired me to learn deeply about the language of emotions. The meaning of Jane is, “God is gracious”.

When I came into this world, I started out as Renee Jane Bauer. By age 5 or 6, my quiet demeanor was identified as “shy” by adults. I spent hours most days, at a table, drawing pictures, creating and building. Completely content being alone, I didn’t feel shy on the inside, I had a powerful voice and ideas in there that I could hear. Then my parents were getting a divorce and the feelings happened. Then the walls formed around me and I used my play time as a way to numb what I didn’t understand how to feel.

I believe many of us do this as children. Some trauma occurs and we stop feeling. We aren’t taught how.

As a child, I learned coping skills to shut down my feelings. Many of us learned these tools… because living a fairy tale seems easier than facing challenge, at the time. Parents don’t always want to discuss hard things with kids because they want to protect them.  Just think about it, based on your culture, upbringing or family values, you likely have all kinds of ways you’ve been taught about feeling emotions.  We are taught to stop feeling emotions or we are taught to hide them, cover them up or keep them in camouflage so we can manage in the world. We were taught that emotions are for “sissy’s” and make us weak.

Years later, I would abuse food, sugar, smoking, relationships and work to help me numb the range of emotions and feelings I had going on daily.

I believe authenticity is rooted in a language of emotions and feelings. You start to learn to trust that these will guide and take care of you.

We all have an inner genius hidden within our feelings and emotions because it is our native language. The problem is that for so many of us, including myself, we didn’t know this language existed or how to use it.

The best way to pilot our way in this world is through being honest about our emotions. The alternative, at least for me, was a belief that unless I was joyful or happy something was wrong with me and I needed to be fixed.

But we aren’t broken! We don’t need to be fixed.

As I grew into a young woman, I allowed my need to “be liked” to be stronger than my truth. I started to seek acceptance and approval from others outside of myself.

Deep down, I thought I was broken. I believed that I needed to be perfect to be accepted and loved.

I bought into the cultural ideas that “crying is for the weak”, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”, “I don’t have anything to be angry about” and “I should just be happy”.

The tough girl persona emerged. I was the girl who didn’t cry in movies or have time for all that feeling stuff. I didn’t understand that being unhappy, angry, confused or sad were normal feelings so I shamed myself for them.

As a teenager, I learned to stopped honoring my creativity and intellect. I began to distrust my instincts.

I ended up attracting a job and a new relationship soon after. This environment matched up with my current reality where I lacked of confidence and had a desire to belong. I was so gullible back then.

The new job and soon the new relationship seemed exciting. There were new friends who had goals. Looking back, it gave me a sense of security and meaning while also giving me a way to numb out the uncomfortable feelings I was having at that time.  

This created a real disconnection with my real needs.

Self-deception is the worst kind of deception because it is how we end up on a path in life that doesn’t feel authentic and real to who we are.

Now I was hiding behind my workaholism and a new man. I ended up getting married four years later.

I took his name. Further losing my identity and never once trusting the initial feelings I had to keep my own sense of self and name. I owned that new name for 9 years and another 4 after divorce. As a devoted mother and private person, I won’t share much about the dissolution of my marriage, the divorce and years that followed with exception to this:

It was the most challenging growth experience I have had to date and now that I’m on the other side, the most powerful. I learned to leave my victim identity behind and reconnect to my mission, intuition and Self. My emotions became my best teachers. I rediscovered my self esteem. I have no regrets for my son or for myself.

Manny is kind hearted, funny, tender and deep. It is important that he grows up experiencing the best version of his mother as my most empowered, empathic self. Teaching him to use his voice and how to discern and empathize in this world requires me to continue growing in my authenticity too.

During this time, my business, Love Yourself Naked®, was also birthed… I learned lessons in vulnerability, addiction, trust and honesty. Nakedness meant living in reality. I had no other choice but to live so I could speak my truth and evolve authentically. I built this entire Love Yourself Naked® business through advocacy for health: mental, physical, emotional and spiritual.

For the past couple of years, my last name has stirred up thoughts and a range of emotions that I allowed myself to process and feel.

I kept Heigel as my last name post divorce for 2 reasons. First, it was the name I build my entire business around. I had spent 7+ years putting my blood, sweat and tears into creating this coaching practice, programs and online identity with a purpose to help people get healthy. I have been known as “Renee Heigel” for so long that there are a lot of people who actually think Heigel is my maiden name. Second, my son’s last name is Heigel too. It’s been important to me that we have matching names, until now.

I’ve asked for advice from people I trust and I meditated on it. I’ve heard answers from people, usually stemming from the fear of change that I was projecting outward. They mentioned my “personal brand in business” or “my credibility” or “all my work would be lost” or “my online identity” won’t match anymore.

These were valid points. I had a decision to make: Stay with the name that I have outgrown or rename and cast aside the 7+ years of a business identity I worked hard to build.

I chose the latter.

Now that I have evolved and stripped myself naked of so many of the identities that I once carried, I know that my safety, creativity and freedom manifests from within my ability to feel it all.  

This value of learning my emotional language means knowing myself so well that I don’t need others to make me feel important or validated.

This I know to be true: People know me because of my reputation and for how I make them feel when I show up in life.

It’s also important that I identify with a surname, something that is distinctive to who I am in the world now.

I chose to use “Jayne” as my last name. It’s a combination of my middle name and I’ve added the “Y” so it’s fully mine. There is more symbolism here that I will keep to myself.

An Urban Dictionary favorite:

“Jaynes are usually wildly intelligent and crafty. Likely to take over the world using robot ninja powers and cunning. I am Jayne, ruler of the universe”

In all seriousness and in celebration, I would like to re-introduce myself to you.

My name is Renee Jayne. (It feels super weird to say at first for me too… maybe we can get used to it together and take our time with it? What do you say?)

My mission has not changed, in fact, it’s gotten stronger.

New name, new programs.

I guide people to their own empowerment and truth of who they deserve to be. I am an ambassador of health: mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. I am a teacher and student of exquisite self love and care. A superhero: here to help save the planet from abuse.  

My new programs and guidance are open to you now.

Click here to explore how I can help you moving forward.
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Sincerely,

Renee Jayne
PS. This is where I would love to hear from you. What is your experience with living authentically in your life? Share in the comments below. I love hearing from you.

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This should be illegal to market to children…

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Mike from our community posted something within our community forum (thank you Mike). I shared it on social media and it’s caused some conversation and reactions. I want to include you in on the conversation and give you a heads up about a free online workshop I created.

This should be illegal to market to children, what do you think? By the way 93 grams of sugar is equal to 19 teaspoons of sugar.

This should be illegal to market to children…

Notice I said “illegal to market”, not illegal to sell. Freedom to sell things is important, even if I don’t happen to like it. (wink)

If people want to do drugs or smoke cigarettes, they can have free choice to do so. There are laws so cigarette and liquor companies cannot market towards children.
 
Now sugar, that’s a different story. Sugar is 8 times more addictive than heroine or cocaine. Click here for the short version of the science behind this.
 
Why don’t we have laws in place in the United States that restrict marketing sugar and junk food to young children? I live in the states and I know there are many grass root efforts. We have what I would consider a corporate oligarchy when it comes to our food system. A handful of companies and an elite few control our food system. This makes short term change challenging.
The money spent on selling sugar in the United States in particular, is staggering. Coca Cola spent $269 million on advertising Coke in the states and Pop Tarts spent $32 million last year. Here is a quote from the article:
 
“Despite the fact that fruits and vegetables are the only foods that experts encourage us to eat with abandon, all fruits, vegetables, and nuts are considered “specialty crops” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Less than five percent of land planted with food goes to growing fruits and vegetables. More than 50 percent goes to growing soybeans and corn, to feed animals and refine into sugar.”
 
In contrast, there are over 8 countries that are taking action against junk food marketing to children.
 
How will the United States get on that new marketing train?
 
You + Me + Education.
Okay, back to this conversation I’ve been in with people on social media that I want to include you in on. We were looking at this McDonald’s advertisement for a shamrock shake that markets to children and adults alike with 93 grams of sugar!
 
Many people are chiming in and saying things like:
“yuck” or “disgusting” and some are sharing how good it tastes.
Some are sharing that this is about education and teaching people how bad this is for them.
 
I could not agree more that it is about education. Education is where it all begins.
 
Another person was sharing that she spent 25 years dieting and starving herself because of her weight. She shared that it was her biggest source of stress and angst and that the struggle ruled her life. She ended up reducing her sugar and dropped 25 pounds in 40 days. She went on to lose 85 lbs! She explained that she was eating a lot of other foods and not sugary ones and her weight came off.
I started wondering a few things…
  • Do people know how much sugar impacts brain health, hormones and the body’s ability to gain or lose weight?
  • Do children know how they are being marketed to with products that can hurt their development and brain health?
  • Do parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and caregivers know how both they are their loved ones are being targeted by marketing companies?
  • Do people realize how much the constant marketing of sugar, driven by the subsidies that we give our agricultural industry for corn, soy and refined sugar, are psychologically impacting them, their family and children?
  • Do you know about the fact that sugar hides inside 74% of our packaged foods and this makes it challenging for people to stop eating so much sugar, even though they may want to.
I am curious if people within our growing community realize the addictive dependency that sugar/fructose/artificial sweetener creates on a person’s physical, emotional and mental self.
 
Do you know how much excess sugar impacts you in your daily life?
 
These questions and so many more inspired me to create an online workshop on the topic, called:
 
The 4 Types of Sugar Addiction: How To Control Your Relationship With Food, Create Long Term Harmony and Become Truly Happy On The Inside

click here to register 

We must start with educating ourselves first. Knowledge is powerful. Learn the 4 types of addiction to sugar and which of those 4 ways is impacting you most.
 
I hope you join me and so many members of our community on this free online workshop and in the revolution to create change in our body and minds.
 
Talk with you soon,
Renee

PS. Remember, seats are limited for the online workshop, whether you’ll be with us LIVE or desire the recording make sure you register here.

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An Open Letter To The Woman Who Is Offended By “Love Yourself Naked”

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This letter is to any woman who is offended by the idea of “loving yourself naked”.

Some people may think things like…

‘Is that porn?’

‘You can’t say that name on TV…’

‘You really must change that name.’

‘You don’t have the right to talk about loving your body because you’re skinny.’

The eye roll… The energy shift… The woman taking a judgmental step back from me as I share the name “love yourself naked”.

First, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have been one of my best teachers of late.

I know the importance of communicating my message with women who don’t agree with me or understand my perspective because this is how I grow. It empowers me to understand and help even more women and men.

I’m going to get directly to the point. There is nothing wrong with the human body.

I have an attitude toward life in which the naked body should not bear reason for shame no matter what size, shape or unique qualities it has.

When you feel a particular disconnection and criticism to your body then you are setting up your body on a path towards disease and your mind toward unhappiness.  There are endless scientific articles that prove how negative emotions harm the body.

Maybe you like your body, but you just don’t want to talk about it out loud.

This word “NAKED” triggers you… you have been caught in the cultural norm that naked is directly connected to porn, sex, perfectionism or what the media portrays of women.

You are completely free to have this reaction. I do want to explain, however, what you may be doing when you have it…

You may be directly feeding into that which praises perfectionism and treats women as sexual objects…  versus taking a stand against it.

You clearly do not know what I mean by loving yourself naked.

I don’t guide women to walk down the streets and take their clothes off… Far from it.

Instead, I guide them to walk down the streets and take their masks off…

I teach them to strip down the layers of shame and fear that they have been wearing around for years.  Those emotions that keep them separate from everyone else… while they judge and criticize others as well as themselves.

People bury shame when they don’t share it and it eats them alive.

You may think that food, exercise, work, money, designer clothes, promotions, recognition and Botox will fill up what you are hungry for.  These things may work for a little while. However, the masks you wear keep you hiding, and eventually you’ll need to deal with the real issue.

I’m all for modesty and respect for women and I’m also a stand for a woman owning her femininity and her creative, authentic self.

The most “naked” a woman can get is to bare her soul and get really authentic and honest with herself.  She certainly doesn’t need to take her clothes off to do that.

Oh and I know… this is scary work. It’s hard too, it’s the most challenging work I’ve ever done in my life and my clients will tell you the same but they will also tell you that their lives have been completely transformed. They will tell you that getting spiritually naked has been life changing for their relationships, their body image and their health.

Nope, not because of me, but because they have realized that the true connection to health is a path to get more naked and clean with their food choices and more naked with who they are as a woman in the body they have.

What is a woman who loves herself naked?

She is someone who has chosen the path of authenticity, and even though a challenging road at times, she’s decided to take off her masks one by one for as long as it takes to feel whole and one with her beautiful naked body.

Believe me, it’s much easier to hide “in security” behind the curtain versus step into authentically relating in the world.  It’s much easier to stick with playing it safe and choosing NOT to talk about a woman’s naked body.

But if you do that there will be shame behind your eyes when I look deeply into them. You won’t make sincere and lasting eye contact with me. You are not fully listening to me when I speak… you are somewhere else. You’re in your head. Your mind is loud.

You may see your body as just taking up space.  You may even want to be in a different body altogether.   You feel disconnected from your body because you are running it into the ground day after day.

When you don’t respect your body, your body will not respect you.

Loving yourself naked is about a deep passionate respect for your body. Women often make a huge mistake when they sacrifice passion for safety.

A deeply passionate connection with your body is the best way for another person to be deeply passionate with it too.

They cannot give you what you will not give yourself.

Naked is your courage to be vulnerable.

You have a naked body like mine and your mothers and neighbors and friends.  It’s an embracing of everything that exists in front of you and within you.

Your body is not your enemy and ignoring it isn’t the solution.

I see a lot of women taking their clothes off in the media these days and that’s a choice they make.  I’m here to tell you though, that the work begins INSIDE.

“The outward is always a reflection of the inward.”

If you are outwardly proclaiming that you don’t like these words: “love yourself naked”… then you are reflecting that you don’t like your inward self either.

There is a part of you sleeping and staying behind the curtain in your life.

I get it, you’ve reminded me that not everyone is ready to step out from behind the curtain, and that is okay.

I’ll just use it as more fuel for me to know that I am in moving in the right direction…

One where I help as many people as possible love themselves naked.

With love, Renee

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How to completely self sabotage everything you have going

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iStock_Naked WomanDo you feel like you lack the self discipline to achieve what you desire with your health, body, career or relationships?
Maybe you feel you have the discipline but not the willpower to be consistent for the long term… You need a bit more of that inner game motivation.

You get so stressed and down but you don’t necessarily even acknowledge the stress… You can’t see it or you ignore it and keep pushing through… Until everything crumbles, you get sick, things at home or work suffer and worst yet, food and drinks become you emotional teddy bear.

You begin to see that you are likely self-sabotaging yourself.

There are things that hold us back… Lack of knowledge, recipes, cooking skills, willpower and of course negative beliefs, stress and self talk.

But…

I want to share one of the biggest ideas to being wildly successful and this is the theme of the Love Yourself Naked Retreat I’m hosting for women on June 20 (it’s open now, register here!)

It’s called self-discipline (the antidote to self sabotage)

Discipline: the strength to withstand physical, emotional and mental hardships and difficulties.
“Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.    – Mark Twain

Discipline is a learned behavior, my friend.

Also, know this. You must muster up worthiness and a little love for yourself to get it going. If you are your worst friend (to yourself) these days, then you are missing the important step before you can move up the latter to self-discipline.

Starting now I want you to begin doing things that you don’t want to do… things you want to avoid. You make other plans, you procrastinate, you are afraid to speak up and use your voice. You know you need to make the salad but you skip it and put in the french fries in stead. You know you gotta do the dishes but you put them off. You know you need to move that body, but you’ll get to it later… You know you need to manage your finances, but you avoid.

STOP IT.

Follow through on the little actions in spite of your resistance.

This is about changing your subconscious. That goal you keep thinking about and wanting so badly….
Your inner game and internal self discipline happens because you overcome your subconscious resistance and negative, limiting beliefs and behaviors.

For as long as I can remember I have loved people and been fascinated by all culture and human behavior and there is no one that doesn’t have access to this.

Are you surrounding yourself with people who stretch you or people who enable you?

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts and the people directly in your life and surroundings”

I made a choice to host a live retreat this June for women because I know that teaching self-discipline is needed to be wildly successful at health, life and loving your body and others and if our women are not happy and taking care of themselves fully, no one is.

 

My commitment to you and the women attending is to deliver outstanding content, wisdom and knowledge, great food and a lot of fun. Will you choose to join us?

I hope so. It is in Michigan, so maybe it isn’t for you if you live far, but if you want to fly, you won’t be disappointed. Although we do have people traveling to be here!

From this moment forward, I want you to ask yourself a question?

Am I best friends with me?
Your body isn’t your enemy. If you know how to be a partner with that body of yours, then things evolve so beautifully for you.

Loving yourself naked is a lifestyle choice.

It isn’t some goal that is outside of you or an idea for someone else. It’s a lifestyle that ANYONE has access to.

The retreat has an fee and when you think about what you spent on dinners out in the last couple of months. Ordering a couple of glasses of wine at dinner or what you spent on the medications and supplements you had to pay for in the past year from being ill… the investment is something you are going to spend in the next couple of months anyway.

You cannot put a price tag on transforming your subconscious to work for you versus against you because it affects everything in your life moving forward.

Register for the retreat here

Okay, now go do something that you don’t feel like doing and get to work on that self-discipline. Start right now.

xo
Renee

PS. If you haven’t registered for the Love Yourself Naked Retreat yet, claim your seat and grab more details right here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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There are artificial sweeteners in your health food

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To all my healthy friends and clients: if you feel like you know lots about this, please read again because these “fake” sweeteners are disguised in more and more healthy foods every single day. You gotta stay on top of this stuff.

Before I get to this though, I gotta share this brief story where I was super judgmental. It began in Mexico with me in a chair on the beach.

First, let me say this… everyone can experience judgment… even if they tell you otherwise, they aren’t really clear on how humanity works. Humans are designed to judge.

There is an awareness though, that I personally discovered for myself and it has allowed me to back up from the critical judgement I may feel in a moment and observe the situation with compassion or curiosity or humor, etc.

Okay, back to the beach in Mexico… I could hear people all around me ordering alcoholic drinks with Splenda (artificial sweetener). It was so common, almost like a new fad or something. As i noticed my judgement build up inside, I decided to do my whole back up thing to observe… I saw that these people around me were really trying to do their best. I can only assume that they wanted to have fun, drink their drinks and feel like they were being more health conscious while doing so.

People hear in the news about how terrible “sugar” is for you so they might naturally assume that the “Splenda” or artificial sweetener option is a better one.

They assumed wrong.

Consuming with artificial sweeteners is poisonous.

The argument these manufacturers use is that you consume less calories and avoid sugar. You may avoid sugar but you end up eating something just as bad if not worse and the argument of calories is the biggest hoax. It should mean nothing to you.

I was doing some assuming of my own…  assuming that most of my newer clients know the truth about artificial sweeteners and I keep getting asked this question lately when I’m speaking too. Then I see the folks around me on vacation and I realize that there could be more awareness on the subject of how toxic artificial sweeteners are for us.

What tipped me over the edge was while I was eating my lunch outside, I saw a bird devour an entire packet of Splenda right next to me. I was yelling at the bird like an crazy lady… saying stop it, don’t eat that. It’s so bad for you. I was trying to get the bird to drop the packet. It just flew away with its Splenda drug so it could devour it in private.

The question is really who is the crazy person?

To put it simply, you are being fooled, we all are.

Food manufacturers are putting artificial sweeteners in packaged foods under different names so you don’t recognize them.  I have personally seen them in the ingredients of some oatmeals and I hear that they are hidden in fruit juices like V8 and other packaged foods. Of course, we know they are inside soda touting to be zero or lower calories.

Please become a label-reading junky and use the list I give you below!

Read what you are eating and avoid packaged foods. Some could call this negative, I don’t… I call it a reality.

Knowledge is key and I want to encourage you to be empowered to make choices that support your health. You are not powerless over the food industry and I can help you come up with a plan to guide you.

Save the list below so you can check your packaged foods for these items and avoid them:

Sweet N Low
Equal
Splenda
Saccharin
Aspartame
Sorbitol
Sucralose
Polydextrose
Hydrogenated Startch Hydrolysaates
Xylitol
Lacitol
Mannitol
Maltitol Syrups
Maltitol
Acesulfame K
Erythritol
Isomalt (Palitanat)
Tagatose
Neotame
*Data courtesy of Roberto Ferdman via Quartz. (qz.com)

xo,
Renee

Just. Let. Go. + 10 cleansing tips free PDF {gift}

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just let go cleansing

did you miss the free call? click here and scroll down to the end of the page.

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It was over a decade ago that I took on my first cleanse… an experience that I didn’t believe I could actually complete. It ended up changing my life. I’ve been cleansing ever since and I don’t just mean the food cleansing.

Little did I know that my body and mind have been doing it {cleansing} all along… I just needed to learn how to release certain things and breathe in others to take it to the next level.

The pic to your left is the “burn party” I had recently with old letters, photos and postcards I found from the 90’s!! 

Last week I wrote to you about community and the importance of cultivating it for health, weight loss and happiness. You get the picture, right?

But do you???

I think many of you are afraid of community. That’s the feedback I’ve been getting anyway. I’d love to hear more from you below in the comments on this one.

Community – You don’t have time for it; you don’t know how to create it. You fear the implications. You think it means a huge group of people. You think you have to lead and you don’t want to take on more, heck, you already have issues saying, “no”.

You don’t want to open yourself up, get too close and become vulnerable. You’re afraid to trust and open up and maybe get walked all over.

And yet, it sounds intriguing and the idea of having people around you that lift you up makes sense, right? And it feels good too, yes?

We always teach what we need to learn.

6 months ago, I began a journal entry that included some desires. For me both health and community were near the top of my list. With the community desire at one point, I felt much like you, I didn’t have time, I didn’t want to open up fully, etc.

Honestly, I didn’t know what “community” looked like; I just knew I needed strong friendships, partnerships and family around me. I new I needed a network of people to stretch me and love me.

Today, as I type this, I’m surrounded by a community of women and men both that are so incredible that I need to pinch myself.

“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”

Hebrews 10:24-25

Truth.

I want to appreciate these relationships fully and completely.

I want to nourish them so they grow and so I don’t lose them.  During insecure moments, I quietly fear I’m not worthy of such awesome relationships and second guess myself (hard to admit, but sometimes comes up for me)

I want a community like this always. I want to travel with these amazing human beings and to learn more and more. I want to do business with them. I want to spend lots of time together. I want to give back to them and for them to feel the love I have for them.

Why?

Well, first because community happens when we desire to connect intimately with other people. (I don’t necessarily mean intimately as in sex. I also mean intimately with family, friends, business and networking connections. All of these impact you deeply)

Being around others will show you how to love yourself naked.

“You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving
of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will
not find that person anywhere.  You, yourself, as much as anybody
in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

The Buddha


I write to you each week because it allows me to flex my writing muscles, reflect a bit on life’s treasures.

I also have high hopes that it impacts at least one of you reading it each week.

I desire to create a community for you to be part of.

Just. Let. Go.

We grow most from our relationships. Yes, we do.

They are all mirrors. The people who irritate you most… yep, your best teachers!

The one’s you love the most are reflections of your own beauty.

If only you would feel worthy enough to own those qualities in yourself…

Who do you surround yourself with?

They say you will become like the top 5-9 people you surround yourself with.

“What we think, we become”

The Buddha

Hmmm. Put’s it into perspective, doesn’t it.

Who’s in your circle?

This idea really shifted everything for me. I knew that I had to purposefully, sincerely and authentically seek out community to help me grow into the woman that I knew was inside of me.

I think I’ve always done this in my life. Sought out those I could learn from. I bet you have done the same.

Cleansing.

We are always cleansing.

Our bodies know how to do this naturally; it’s a beautiful thing. On the next couple of blogs I will hit on how this works.

“It has now been scientifically documented that the single most effective practice for improving human health and longevity is the reduction of intake and consumption. Fasting [or cleansing] allows the digestive system, the engine of the body, to rest from the normal demands of processing and breaking down food, freeing up system resources to cleanse and purify the body of accumulated toxins, thereby allowing more effective healing and tissue repair. Fasting [or cleansing] keeps the body healthy and youthful, provided one does not overindulge when breaking fast [cleanse}.”

on Fasting during Ramadan

The body forgets how to cleanse effectively when it gets bogged down by toxic crap.

I believe there are 4 different types of toxins.

There are two types of internal toxins, which I will discuss on a future blog.

There are environmental toxins.

There are emotional toxins.

Your body is already cleansing all of these toxins right now, but I also believe that it needs a little kick-start at times.

If we don’t give it a cleansing kick-start, these toxins create disease within our bodies.

The 18 Day Love Yourself Naked Challenge Cleanse Course is currently open and it provides that kick-start, effectively.

Where do you start with cleansing?

I decided that I would gift you with a little snap shot of how you can get started right now.

My team and I have put together a sweet little get started cleansing action guide for you. 

Please print it out.

How do you use it?

Choose one only and work on it until you are doing it regularly, then add it another and then another. If you fall off track, then slow down and go back until you are consistent again. Continue through all 10 steps.

Release.

I highly recommend cleansing twice per year with a program and guide (with community)

“Your mind needs cleansing just as much as your body does.”

― Brandon A. Trean

I invite you to take these 10 Cleansing Tips and use them today.

 

Love yourself. Cleanse yourself. Transform yourself.

Love,

Renee xo

PS. The 18 Day Love Yourself Naked Challenge Course is now open and when you register, you choose when you begin. We are increasing the investment March 1st.

Curious? Details here.

PSS. Don’t forget about your free gift here. 

 

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”

-Sai Baba 

I was compulsively eating sugar

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I quit smoking by chewing watermelon bubble gum and when that hurt my jaw I had to stop… but the sugar didn’t stop.

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I was compulsively eating sugar.

I had to keep it a secret.

I had this idea that there was no one else out there like me.

No one who was doing what I was doing. I felt very alone, yet strangely comforted by the secret I kept.

I was eating healthy most of the time but in the closet with my sugar dependence.

I was shoving the kettle corn in my mouth so fast. I ate an entire {large} bag within 30 minutes. I knew it wasn’t helping me to eat it. I could feel my heart speeding up and my brain buzzing from the sugar rush. I knew it wasn’t good but I didn’t want to waste it. I didn’t want to throw away the money I spent on it.

I was feeding the addiction.

I knew that if I ate it fast enough, it would be gone and then I could be done with it. I could move on and get past this sugar thing.

I knew I would be fine if I could just get it all out of my house.

I knew I had a problem and I wanted to believe I could fix it.

I was holding my breath and drowning in a sea of sugar but I wanted to believe.

After all, I had stopped the soda years before, the cigarettes and gum chewing. I stopped the white carbs… I could do this. I had to.

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Sugar pulls us away.

Not everyone experiences sugar addiction quite as profoundly as I did. I believe that there a several ways we can experience it as human beings. Whatever way it shows up for you, the fact that sugar is highly addictive and it’s basically a legal drug is no excuse not to take action and commit to restricting the amount you have in your diet.

Sugar makes us fat.

It creates disease.

It changes hormones.

It affects your personality.

Sugar makes you a different kind of person.

Sugar pulled me away because it was easier. It was easier to use sugar to numb myself from feeling what I was too afraid to feel. It was easier to bury my head in the bag of kettle corn because I felt safe there. My sugar habit was secret and at the time, I felt safe having that secret.

It wasn’t until I became aware and chose complete truth that I could heal. I had to learn that I could feel safe without a secret.

Forgiveness.

“I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given to me.”

-A Course In Miracles

Forgiveness is one of the most important truth’s I’ve learned in my life and there have been layers to learning it. It was one of the most challenging undertakings I took on as a student. I learned to forgive myself completely and fully.

I continue to learn everyday.

Transition.

Transition is the time when we are moving away from one way and not quite on the other side of it. I believe that it’s within this “transition”… in the “waiting”, where the most profound growth occurs.

Miracles.

During transition is the time when you can connect deeply with yourself and your essence as a human soul. You learn about you.  You stop the mental chatter and this time allows you to hear a voice other than your ego. It is Divine.

Radical Self-Acceptance.

I learned Naked Awareness. I learned about the present moment and not needing things outside of myself for happiness and safety. I found the spirit within me.

“Naked awareness: not something you believe in, but something to try out for yourself.”

Strangely enough, when you are stripped of all of the stuff that is what you think you are… what is left is the real you.

It’s been pretty fun to watch HER emerge day after day.

Winning the sugar game free call info here. Join us.

xoxo

Renee

PS. See you on Wednesday. You get 2 blogs from me this week and next and then we’re back to our normal schedule of 1x per week. 

Monks, hard candy and winning

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Are there moments when you find yourself thinking only about food? You are going back and forth in your head on whether or not to eat something…

Then you move into the mindset of feeling fat or recalling the moment that you didn’t work out when you said you were going to…?

Maybe you gave into eating that special treat and now you’re feeling guilty, fat, bloated and calling yourself vicious names. The internal dialogue of nastiness has become so normal you likely don’t hear it anymore.

Sound familiar?

Are you done with the struggle?

You want life to be fun and so you give up and ignore the issue only to find the guilty, cravings and thoughts about food are still sticking around the next day.

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Last week I wrote to you about common cravings –explaining why you crave what you crave. Read that if you haven’t yet.

This cravings concept is key to get because cravings are often emotionally connected.  Without knowing the emotions, you will never know how to focus your attention so you can change the behavior.

I’m a lot like you.

I spent years craving and giving in when white carbs, sugar, coca cola, dr. pepper, chocolate bars and potato chips were in my life.

I used to think that the problems would go away if I could just lose some weight and work out more.

Loving yourself naked.

I found a solution to food addictions, emotional eating and cravings.

It’s not just about losing weight and working out to look hot.  Yeah, ultimately you want to Love Yourself Naked… you want to feel the emotional feelings of wholeness and feel wonderful about what you see in the mirror too.

When we are in craving mode we are in a constant state of need and it’s impossible to Love Yourself Naked when you feel like you need something.

Years ago, I realized that I couldn’t keep the solutions I learned to myself because sugar, specifically was so addictive and it took a lot more than a cleanse to let it go.

Know this, letting go of cravings will help you lose weight… no doubt about that. It will also help you to really Love Yourself.

It takes a bit more than a perfect bicep curl, 50 deep squats, killer abs and drinking lots of green juice. You can do all of those things, have a kick’n body but still be a food addict who craves in an unhealthy way.

There were quite a few big paradigm shifts that woke me up to my cravings.  Today I share the first with my sugar cravings, which emotionally was an indication that I desperately needed some more purpose and sweetness in my life…

Story.

I’m a passenger in a huge van on a skinny road going up hill with hairpin turns and curves climbing to the top of the summit of Montserrat.  There are people who are car sick around me and I’m chomping away on my Big Red gum to avoid the altitude pops in my ears. I’m near Barcelona, Spain, where I’m staying and today was the day to go visit a Benedictine monastery called Montserrat.  It’s 2002 and at that time it is the home of about seventy monks.

At that time in my life, I am just waking up to the relationship I have with food and I’m at the height of my sugar addiction.  I likely spent the night before overindulging in countless glasses of sangria and I’m a little annoyed to be going to a monastery. Although Spain is pretty sweet, I can’t understand what all the fuss is about with this place, not to mention I realize at the time I have a judgment on monks.

There I said it.

At that time, I was just discovering what spirituality meant to me personally and my judgments were completely due to being naïve and not understanding. I couldn’t grasp how a monk could stay up on this mountain and not interact with others, avoid having relationships with the opposite sex and eat restrictive diets. None of it made any sense to me at the time…

This trip up to the top of this 4000-foot mountain of Montserrat turned out to be very spiritual for me and I would later realize life changing in terms of understanding my cravings and habits. I remember these moments like they were yesterday as I write this now a decade later.

2 specific moments.

First, I went into the Basilica, which is the home of the La Moreneta (Black Virgin Madonna) and I saw her holding Jesus on her lap. I remember feeling the anticipatory energy of the room while we were waiting to see Her (The Black Madonna) and I remember not feeling worthy since I never considered myself very religious. I decided to appreciate the experience anyway and to act as if, so to speak as I moved my way up the line.

I was taken aback by what I saw and as I walked up to Her. She was behind glass and her hand was sticking out through a little hole in the glass. I was told that I could kiss her hand and it was a tradition. So I did… I leaned down and kissed her hand and I recall three things that happened to me.

I became really emotional out of nowhere, completely overcome with deep sentiment and I got chills. I then immediate became aware of the candy I had put in my mouth a few minutes prior (I was always sucking on hard candy). Something inside me at that moment as I walked away from the Black Madonna told me to spit it out. I kept turning back to look at her as I walked away carrying a sticky candy in my hand.

The second moment was sitting in the abbey listening to the monks and boys choir of Montserrat sing.

I have never in my life heard something so beautiful in my ears. It is beyond words and impacting me on such a deep level. In this moment I am overcome with tears and feelings that I don’t understand. I sink back into my seat and I realized I had judged so harshly of this place, these monks, this experience. I feel remorse and I forgive myself for I see it differently now. I feel myself open up with appreciation and awe.

The music fills my soul. It was in this moment that my husband, at the time, leans over to me and recommends that I spit out the gum I am chomping away on. {He later told me that he learned that it was a sign of disrespect to chew gum in a church}

I spit it out and I was slightly annoyed at this idea and being called out but I couldn’t deny that I immediately saw a pattern as I was thinking of spitting out my candy out of the blue in front of the Black Madonna earlier that day.

I became aware of my NEED to mask my ‘use’ the candy and gum constantly.  For the remaining time, I sat there {without sugar} and I took in the sounds within that abbey and I felt pure peace.  I knew in that moment that I didn’t need the gum and candy to make me happy anymore and most importantly I was beginnig to see a belief I had created around those substances.

At the time I couldn’t have put it into words fully, but I knew enough to stop eating the candy and gum continuously for the rest of my trip throughout Spain. I decided in Spain, to figure out what it would feel like to not have those little sweet treats to rely on for my happiness.

I learned to step back and see the bigger picture of life after leaving that mountain.

I learned I could take those feelings I had captured there everywhere I went in life and that they would fulfill me far more than my Big Red gum.

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Honesty.

There is said to be a biological and psychological reason for every food we crave so the key is to pin point the emotion.

If you want to feel a certain way, you may begin to crave a food that you think will get you to that state of being. I’m here to tell you that you don’t need the food to get there. {This is assuming you’ve eaten a well balanced diet that day}

Gum and hard candy was what I was ‘using’ to try to bring more pleasure, satisfaction, connection and purpose into my life. I was really craving a connection to my body and to a power greater than myself. I was craving love, fun and pure sweetness.

I trained myself that the gum and candy provided those desired feelings.

The good news is you can un-train ourself, just like I did.

Without the cravings we can still find the connection, pleasure, passion, love, spirit connection, fun and satisfaction and in a much more rewarding, life-changing way.

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Feel it all. 

The problem we encounter is that we have become so accustom to ignoring how we are feeling that we don’t even know where to begin. We are like these cute little mice running around our lives craving something and then gobbling it right up without stopping to consider the feeling we are having first.

I have the opportunity to work with a colleague who is a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and it’s quite amazing to see the links between ancient Chinese medicine theories about cravings and the energy of food, appetites and cravings we experience today. Nothing has really changed.

Cravings are emotional and until we stop blaming the craving on the food and make a choice to understand the emotion, we won’t be able to change the habit.

“The temptation to quit will always be the greatest right before you’re about to succeed.”  ~Chinese Proverb

I want to understand your cravings with you. Share what you are craving in the comments below and any discovery’s you’ve made about them.

Oh yeah, I’m the hostess to a really hot call on sugar cravings after the New Year and it’s complimentary.

Lots of sweet goodies that you’ll love that will fill you up much more than food will. We are going to have fun, promise! At the end, I’m going to share the details of my program called Winning The Sugar Game too.

Register here to join me and everyone else who desires to win at sugar.

Devoted to your love yourself naked journey,

Renee

xo

Why do I crave you?

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Dearest chocolate,

Why do I crave you so?

There are times in my life when I think of you day and night. I’m like a ravenous lioness that just found her prey and there is nothing that will distract me from devouring every bite of you.

I try to ignore you, I do. I block you out of my life with distractions but you keep coming back to haunt me dear chocolate. You are there in my psyche waiting around as I do everything I can to be present in my moments and you are tapping on my taste buds with a flirty laugh.

I think you know that I will give into you. I do eventually. It takes every ounce of my willpower to walk away from you after one taste.  I let go to my craving and let your sweetness in and it’s all over for me. 

I crave you chocolate and I do feel that I love you. Sometimes I feel that I cannot live without you. This scares me. As much as I love you chocolate, I know in my heart that it doesn’t feel healthy to need you and give into you the way that I do.  I’m torn chocolate and I really love to hate you sometimes.

Love,

Renee

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Truth.

{First, that was fun to write a love letter to my dark chocolate bar. I really need to do that more often!} 

I’m going to give you a list of why we crave what we crave below and in another post I’m going to dive in deeper into the psyche and psychology of craving. Then we’ll talk about how to break the habits that you desire to break…

I’ve also heard from a lot of you that you do too.

If you haven’t heard a bit of my story, I’m a former sugar addict. It is one of my passions to help people heal from sugar addiction because I know what gifts can come from the healing now.

It’s divine and oh…the chocolate that I still crave doesn’t include sugar.

The key. 

What you crave is like this perfect key that unlocks the messages of what is going on throughout your body.

What if I don’t crave anything?

I don’t think you are listening all the time then. You may not crave stuff every day and that is a good thing. There will be times when you do and it’s important to listen in those moments. Be aware of anytime you say, I never have this happen to me because likely you are in denial of your craving.

Sometimes it’s good to give into a craving. Sometimes it’s not.

Cravings are sometimes emotionally related.

Cravings are often based on acquired habits.

Cravings can come from childhood, conditioning or cultural upbringing.

Cravings can be clues into internal distress.

Cravings can be our best teachers to understand the nutrients we need.

Cravings teach us about the balance of our body.

Cravings can teach us about our sensuality.

Cravings can clue us into blocks in our energy and creativity.

The craving journey.

I realized that this topic is so broad that I couldn’t do it in just one post and keep your attention.

Thanks for being along for the ride this month while we chat about cravings. Inspired by my sister who just gave birth to Emma a few months ago (my adorable niece). Sara noticed a strange craving. Thank you Sara for being one of my best coaching clients.

So your mission should you choose to accept it is as follows…

Decide to get into alignment with what your body is telling you.

Notice what you are wanting and craving to eat.

Listen to the emotional stuff that is going on with you when you are craving.

Keep this list handy so you can use it as your guide.

Write to me in the comments below so we can chat about your cravings.

One more thing.

Before we travel this road to the center of your cravings together, there is something you may want to know.

It’s not hopeless. You don’t have to ignore cravings or simply cave to them. There are other options available that don’t include depriving yourself or giving in all the time. 

You do not have to feel needy, uncontrollable or obsessive about your cravings any more. 

I’ll clue you in that it has a lot more to do with you creating a desire to change your habits than it does your taste buds.

Caffeine.

This craving often means you are in need of a painkiller. It could be both emotional and physical.  A common migraine medicine includes caffeine for a reason. Caffeine is a stimulant and it is said to decrease mild depression. So as you reach for that cup of coffee know that it is in many ways deadening some pain.  Withdraw from caffeine is super tough as it will cause headaches, sometimes cold sweats or body pain at first.  Bottom line is that caffeine, although addictive is more about the habit and looking forward to the feeling that it gives you. You crave the consistency of the feeling.

Chocolate.

You crave chocolate to get high. Yes, it’s a little safe drug that makes you feel blissful.  I’ve read that there is over 380 chemicals in chocolate that all contribute to the trigger of this high feeling. To be blunt, it’s the drug of choice for most people and it tastes damn good.

Salt.

This often means you are dehydrated so go drink some water first.  It might also clue you in to look at your adrenal glands or thyroid.  You might need iodine from other sources. We might crave salt more in the fall or winter and when we are living in colder climates. It’s not bad to crave salt but it’s important to use it as insight into learning why you are. Sitting around each day devouring the pickle and olive jar isn’t going to help you if you don’t get to the root cause.

Sugar.

You are likely craving sugar because your body is in withdrawal. Sugar is highly addictive, as much as cocaine. That is a fact. Both white powders and both just as addictive and not to be taken likely (even though it is legal). It’s found in everything from ketchup to cereal.  You also might be craving it because you haven’t eaten enough food that day so your body is needing that glucose to get you going (processed sugar is not the way to do it either).  You also might be thirsty. Try drinking a tall class of water first and have some fruit.  There is also a chance you are not getting enough protein in your diet if you are vegetarian.

Milk, cheese, breads, fast food, peanut butter.

You need to eat more throughout the day. You are likely not eating enough at your meals and you need good healthy fats in your diet. You’ve been depriving yourself throughout the day likely, missing meals or eating on the run and your body is becoming ravenous for something to fill the calorie void.  You can go through dairy withdrawal as well. Also, sometimes you might need more good healthy fats, but often you need consistent and nourishing meals 3 times per day.

Protein.

Simple, eat more protein. This isn’t the case for the average American who usually gets too much protein. Hard boiled eggs, nuts, seeds, greens and some veggies are all examples of additional protein. It doesn’t mean you necessarily have to have a steak.

Ice.

You might be low in iron if you crave this constant cold and ice.  Room temperature water is best for you on average and if you can only tolerate ice cold then you might want to get your iron checked and begin adding in more dark green leafy veggies and a green powder to your beverages.

Comfort food.

It’s emotional. Something psychological is coming up for you. No right or wrong, it just is. It also might be the time of year and a cultural habit that you’ve come to expect. You must be really careful with these because this is when emotional eating can get out of control and we regret it big time later. It also contributes to really poor relationships with food in general.

Spicy.

This tells you that you have more heat than you might need in your body. Maybe you are in a warm climate or maybe there is something internal that is going on that is causing too much heat. Craving spicy tells you that you need to cool down.  Think about it, the spicy makes you sweat and the sweat actually cools down your body.  If this is a constant, I would look to flushing out the lymphatic system, supporting digestion and helping to heal the liver.

Remember to leave a comment below on your cravings. 

I’ll see you next week to dive in deeper into cravings.

My goal is to offer you some tools to help you shift habits and heal some stuff that is holding you back on this topic. No better time to notice these things than around the holidays!

xo

Renee

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