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How To Get Your Body Ready For Spring

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Have you felt yourself wanting to take more action on your health, your body or your soul growth but you just haven’t stepped up in the way you want to?  It’s like that irritated and hungry bear coming out of hibernation… his joints are stiff, he’s hungry, sluggish and a little reluctant to take action.

Today I am going to share with you some tips to nourish your body and soul going into spring so you can feel that bright glow and energy that this season stands for and most importantly do it with grace, comfort and smiles.

The dominance of darkness is part of winter. We hibernate more and it’s completely natural to allow yourself to dig in to your feelings more, stay in your house, crave and eat more fatty foods. That darkness and cold weather sometimes mirrors these dark and cold emotions that pop up within us.  As the cold is wrapping up, give yourself permission to go at your pace and to follow the pace of the season as it changes.

Too often we resist the pace of our body and the season and we end up fighting against the natural rhythm. When this happens, you’ll find that you’ll be under more stress and that makes you much more likely to store fat in your cells.

In the winter, most things die and then with spring, life springs forth from that death. For you it is the same. For me, something always dies inside me during the winter and I’ve learned to embrace this and let that old pattern go that no longer serves me.

Now that spring is here, you get a chance to begin again with intense passion. Those buds that spring up from the ground this time of year or the birds that break into song despite the lower temperatures step forth regardless of how tough it is.

In Ayurveda, there are dosha’s and we tend to have excess of the kapha dosha in the winter and it’s time shed this. Kapha can make us bloated, tired, depressed, sleepy, heavier, sluggish or bring up phlegm and sinus stuff.

Take these actions today.

1) Eat lighter foods and more fermented foods right now. You must rev up your digestion and detox your body.

2) Step forward and do it anyway.  Sometimes we think that we must “feel like going to work out” but in my experience that doesn’t always happen.  I go anyway and mostly I don’t feel like it at first. So I step forward with action and then the good feelings follow later.

3) Breathing.  Most of us breathe wrong and if you knew the benefits, it would be your biggest focus. Meditation and good breathing is imperative right now. More on this in a future blog.

4) Water. I drink so much water, I almost float away sometimes and it’s key to everything working great. Be a little obsessive with your water drinking right now.

5) Clutter holds you back and you must make space for you. Look around you. What you see is a reflection of your life.

Most importantly, step into this all with ease and a goal to follow the rythm of YOU and this season. Don’t make the above actions another “to-do” that you may never get to. The key to spring is to play with the rhythm of life.

Love,
Renee

PS. I have a favor to ask! We are preparing over here for 2 launches of 2 big programs, Winning The Sugar Game and The Sensual Hippie Retreat and I would love your feedback so I can serve you best.  I have a quick survey and in exchange for your time, I’m giving away your choice of one of these free gift guides:  The Love Yourself Naked Healthy Travel Guide or Raising A Healthy Eater In 9 Easy Steps. Click here to fill out the 3 minute survey and choose your gift right here.

 

Thriving Despite A Difficult Relationship

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Renee Heigel, Love Yourself NakedWhen I write to you, I really dive deep and ask myself some questions. Is this serving the greater good? Is this sharing simply cathartic for me personally or will it inspire you in your life? Am I being narcissistic by sharing this, is this all about me?

I have a public website I share with you, I speak to and coach thousands of people regularly and share info on my personal health, life and body with the mission to be more naked each time in my relating with you. In other words, my goal is to authentically share in a way that serves you.  If I’m going to share something personal then I want to make sure I know the motive I have behind it.

Which brings me to my topic today, divorce. I was divorced over a year and half ago and I’ve very rarely spoken about it here. Prior to and after my divorce I didn’t want to share it publicly and I wanted to heal and focus on my son and the relationship I have with my son’s father.

Recently, after sharing my story with a new and trusted mentor, she expressed to me how much of a help I could be for people in their relationships and those contemplating or experiencing divorce. She mentioned to me that I really need to be in front of others speaking about all that I have learned.

I felt immediate strong resistance. I was irritated because I knew that with so much resistance, that it likely meant that she was right… not only would it be helpful for others for me to share, but cathartic for me personally. This brought the inspiration for me to write this blog to you.

Divorce is private, personal and yet it is so common in the world around us.  In my situation, while my son’s dad and I were both mourning the breaking down of our relationship, we began to see that those around us were shocked by our decision and they were mourning in their way too.  After a while we viewed our relationship as an evolution, that it wasn’t ending but instead changing. But let’s face it, It’s also literally a death. Sometimes things need to die so other things can be birthed and we didn’t make the decision lightly.

After we parted ways, there were moments for me in the fetal position sobbing on the kitchen floor of my new home, surrounded by unpacked boxes. There were also moments of complete openness of my heart and assurance I was on the right path and so was my son as I sat in meditation and the sun hit my face. And of course, there was every possible feeling and emotion in between.  Thank God for true friends and family during these times.

Towards the end of the marriage it felt terrible that I had this conflicted relationship that wasn’t working out.  I was feeling inauthentic in so many ways, I had forgotten who I was.  I realized then that my goal was to live authentically and to be “naked” and open. It was to create a conscious “me” and to handle this parting of ways with grace and respect in a way that I don’t see often between two people who have chosen to take this path.

Before our divorce was final, we lived together for quite a few months and although the whole situation was extremely tough, we maintained our friendship, we still snuggled on the couch and at night to comfort each other at times. Maybe it helped that we both worked on ourselves in our own ways.  I think I can speak for both of us when I say that we did everything we could to be compassionate, respectful and loving.

Now, one and a half years later, we talk regularly and vulnerably. We have learned a lot about each other even after 9 years of marriage and my son’s dad is one of my great friends in life. We will be in relationship together forever because we have a son together.

It serves me well to work on this relationship because it impacts every other relationship in my life, primarily the one with my son. Just because a divorce happens, doesn’t mean you stop caring, feeling or putting in effort into the relationship, in fact it’s more important than ever. By the way, even if the other party doesn’t try, you must heal it on your end.

He is doing well, he’s happy. I am doing well and I’m happy and most importantly, our son is doing well and he’s happy. Our son has two parents who love him deeply and he knows that his parents respect each other and speak almost daily with each other.  I’m still learning so much every day, but I’m quite proud of our family and how we’ve done things so far.

I ended up leaving the family home, which really sucked but for our son and for me financially it was the best decision at the time. So I have to deal with that…   At some point, I will speak on parenting as a single mom and running a business, but not today.

Today, the message I want you to walk away with is this (wherever you are at in your relationship):

Your relationship with ONE person is a mirror reflection of what you experience with ALL others.

When you can heal the most challenging relationship, then you’ll begin to heal them all.

So who do you have the most challenging relationship with?

It’s not that person who needs to change. It’s YOU. It’s your responsibility to do the work to evolve and heal your issues so you can be in a healthy relationship with that person or at least find peace and forgiveness with the lack of relationship, etc.

A healthy relationship doesn’t include biting your tongue and not sharing because you don’t want to make waves. Or passive aggressive stuff that makes all kinds of assumptions and judgements. That’s codependent and also a topic for another blog.

Divorce unearth’s all of your “stuff” and I truly mean all of it.  I am of the opinion that you must utilize this extremely dark and heart breaking experience to open yourself up and look at all of your patterns, issues, negative beliefs and subconscious bull shit that doesn’t serve you and then grow out of it.  I joined every course I could find, read every book, hired coaches and my own personal ‘guru’ who is part therapist, part coach, part shaman.

I decided to become an expert on the subject… What I saw loud and clear was that I needed to become an expert on on the subject of ME.

What was crazy for me was that around this time, I started having clients approach me specifically for relationship coaching both individually and with couples.

I said yes to most because I knew I could help them. I then had a moment when I second guessed myself. I recall looking in the mirror in my eyes, 6 months after being divorced and I said, who am I to be coaching people on relationships, I just got divorced?

Later that day I realized something that changed everything.  I was probably the best person to help them because I knew that the way we treat ourselves and live our life with ourselves is the most important part of our relationship with others.

I had looked my biggest fears and flaws dead in the eye and said, BRING IT and I forgave me, I learned to feel my anger and love a whole other layer of ME.  (PS. This process never ends… the part of looking fear and flaws in the eye and saying BRING IT)

When you love, respect, forgive and show compassion for YOU, then you’ll be able to attract relationships where those people love, respect, forgive and show compassion for you.

But not a moment sooner.

Oh and I don’t just mean a relationship with a partner, I mean your family, your friends and co-workers too.

You must become “whole” and open your heart… opening it when it wants to close, opening it when you don’t think it’s possible… in moments when you’re on the kitchen floor crying… you make a choice to be whole and open your heart anyway.

By the way, a year after working with those clients who wanted more of my relationship coaching tools, they testify to happy relationships with others, because they love themselves more deeply than ever before and there are some really incredible stories of people meeting their ideal mates and marriages being healed. Not to mention that divorce is probably the toughest thing for your immune system and adrenal glands (I learned first hand), so nutrition guidance is imperative.

You’ll be hearing more blogs in the future from me on what I’ve coined: “The Avant-Garde Relationship”

In case you’re curious on the definition of Avant-Garde:

AVANT-GARDE: One of a kind thinking, distinctive, forward-thinking, original, enterprising.

Love,

Renee

PS. I have a favor to ask! We are preparing over here for 2 launches of 2 big programs, Winning The Sugar Game and The Sensual Hippie Retreat and I would love your feedback so I can serve you best.  I have a quick survey and in exchange for your time, I’m giving away your choice of one of these free gift guides:  The Love Yourself Naked Healthy Travel Guide or Raising A Healthy Eater In 9 Easy Steps. Click here to fill out the 3 minute survey and choose your gift right here.

Naked Nutrition – 14 Essential Lessons

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Recently, I saw this post on Facebook, it said:

Take a look…Woman practicing yoga on the beach

* at your schedule
* at your body
* at your relationships
* at your income
* at your savings
* at your peace of mind
* at the cleanliness of your surroundings
* at EVERYTHING about you…

Now smile and say “THIS is what I’ve committed my life to having!

Rewarding practice, isn’t it!

I loved this because it forces you to get NAKED with all aspects of your life. You have no choice but to look in the mirror and take responsibility for everything in your life right now. For some, that’s hard and for others, you’re ready for the challenge.. No guilt, no “I wish I would have” or feeling sorry for yourself… instead, gratitude for exactly where you are at. Like it or not, be grateful for it. You can always begin again today or up level what you already love.

“Our body is the covering made of food”

In other words, your body is a mere reflection of your life. Your health is a by-product of your environment.

Never mind the nutrition education that I’ve spent hundreds of thousands on or the thousands of hours seeing clients… this naked nutrition philosophy I’m about to share with you comes from the very close relationship I’ve developed with my own body, soul and self. I’ve failed over and over again and my history comes from being so unhealthy and sick that I had no choice but to find a new path. I hope these ideas are a catalyst for you in some way.

1. Food sensitivities are the real deal.  There are experts that estimate 20 million Americans suffer from some kind of gluten issue.  It’s not just a fad. However, this is no excuse to go into a processed gluten free frenzy at the store. Likely what you need is more of everything that does not come in a box versus another box with a gluten free label on it.

2. The truth about fat.  Stop eating low fat.  Your body needs good fat to burn fat. Eat more nuts, seeds, avocado, olive oil, coconut oil, grass fed butter, ghee.

3. I’m so sick and tired of calories, how about you?  Calories do not have anything to do with the amount of weight you lose. It’s so silly to even have the conversation and to count calories. Please stop. Your body handles processed and unprocessed foods differently and the game is about energy and nutrients and counting your calories are a not a stable measurement.

4. Genes (not the skinny one’s). I like that we’ve studied a bunch about nutrigenomics in the last decade.  This science has shown us that many types of cancers, heart disease, cholesterol and other chronic diseases can be prevented and changed with diet. For many of us, we no longer are stuck with the same things our parents and grandparents had before us. We have different choices.

5. Our bodies don’t really want us to shed the weight.  You see, many of us have actually changed our hormones in our brains and the body is constantly striving for an equilibrium and after a while when our brain hormones that tell us to eat more start getting confused, so do we. There is good news, you can outsmart and heal your hormones.

6. We are eating WAY TOO MUCH sugar.  I am sad to say that most everyone I have ever worked with (including myself) has a major issue with sugar. The problem is that most of us don’t know it.  We’re walking around with dozens of symptoms and the excess sugar, carbs, soda’s and packaged foods are the root cause.  Remember the average American eats 28 teaspoons per day because the added sugars to packaged foods and condiments has increased so greatly too. Even if you don’t think you have a sugar problem, you likely do.

7. Our biggest problem is lack of energy and toxins.  Some of our cells are screaming at us… give us more oxygen and water and energy! When our cells are not flowing properly then we lack energy and many of us grab sugar, caffeine or energy drinks to get more. This is short lived thinking and fake energy. It’s also making things worse. We must open up circulation and get rid of toxins that are putting a damper on our digestion and cells.

8. We really need more Vitamin D than we’re taking. It’s pretty impossible to get enough vitamin D from foods and unless you live in a sunshine state regularly you are likely lacking. 3000-4000 IUs is what I take during winter months every single day. Pick up a dropper bottle of Carlson’s Vitamin D3.

9. Reminder about BPA, GMO, HFCS, MSG, all artificial sweeteners and any other acronym you hear or see often. A growing number of science research shows that about 93% of us has BPA in our bodies and it causes weight gain, hormonal issues and brain issues. We know GMO’s are foreign and HFCS changes our brain and, causes heart disease and makes us fat. I could go on, but it’s really quite simple.  Eat real food from real plates. Drink real water from a glass and avoid anything that comes in a box as much as you possibly can. It doesn’t serve you to live in fear about this stuff. Simply be aware and do your best.

10. Cholesterol stuff. Sugar is what increases our cholesterol most. It’s not the eggs you consume or the red meat. I’m not telling you to load on the scrambled eggs and steak but instead, I’m suggesting you go sugar free for a bit and then watch your bad cholesterol numbers shrink.

11. Receiving nutrients. So many of us live on too many supplements and meds. I think these harm us when we don’t know what we are doing. It is true, however that our soil is depleted in many areas so we aren’t getting the nutrients from foods that we require. Know this… supplements do not replace foods. Most people are sick because they are lacking in essential nutrients that we can get from eating more vegetables, healthy fats, fruits and proteins. Dehydration is a big reason why many are hospitalized these days. Nourish your body with the most amazing fuel.

12. Changing your mind.  It has been said that the underlying thought pattern of sickness is this: “I don’t deserve to be loved”.  In order to heal your body, you must heal your mind.

13. Relationship with time.  I’ve come to realize that many of us have lost respect for time. We lack boundaries and the technology culture we live in doesn’t help but it is our choice to not become slaves to it.

14. Know your addictions.  To quote Karla McLaren, “Many of us learn to press on in the face of such trouble. We find a way to cope  – not to flourish, not soar, no enjoy and embrace, just flat-out cope. Most of us turn to some form of dissociative practice, whether it’s avoidance of the trouble, distraction from the trouble or addiction to a substance that separates us from the trouble.”  I love this quote. In our culture, many of us would rather eat, drink caffeine, soda, shop till we drop, numb out to games on our phone, social media, television, computer, drugs, alcohol, work or other people than we would stand at the center of our naked selves and see, touch, listen and feel.

Some of you are asking how to work with me?

Private coaching: I have a couple spots opening up right now for serious candidates only. I will be unveiling 2 brand new programs this year so if you want the chance to work with me one on one, this would be the time.  Email Gretchen at support@reneeheigel.com to apply.

Winning The Sugar Game – Sick of sugar controlling your life? Register for my free 4-part video series here and be the first to hear when registration for the 8-week Win Sugar Course opens back up.

18 Day Love Yourself Naked® Challenge Cleanse Course (opening soon, stay tuned!)

Sensual Hippie® Retreats (Coming Soon!) I cannot wait to share this with you, but I must get a few things in order before I spill the beans. Stay tuned.

Okay, now go get naked with your nutrition!

xo

Renee

PS. Marie Forleo just opened B-School 2014 (The business course that made an enormous impact on my business and continues to do so) and I recommend it to anyone running a business or even if you are not and you are thinking about starting one. The scoop is inside. She’ll lay out the entire curriculum so you can see for yourself exactly what you’ll learn, and what you won’t, in this 8 week training program.  It happens once per year, so I definitely want to share it with you. Details are here.

Trust issues?

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I was really thinking the other day about food and wondering when did it become the enemy? When did we begin to take this beautiful gift that sustains us and gives us life and turn it into something we often resent, abuse and disrespect.

Today I have 2 keys to teach you to trust yourself and the rule to follow so you know whether or not you can trust others. I’ll get to those keys in a minute, first, please know that this whole “trust” thing… well, it’s kind of – sort of imperative to that thing that many of us really want… A Healthy, Happy, Sensual Body.

(For the ambitious folks only: Your sensuality is key to loving yourself naked but loving yourself naked never comes before trusting yourself)

Food has mostly been something we enjoy within community and family and we have lovely memories attached to it going all the way back to childhood.  Whether most of our food issues that we’re walking around with are conscious or not… it’s time that we make some peace with our food.

Each of our journey’s to healing our relationship with food is different. Each is a very personal experience that involves something important…

Trust.

We must feel safe, comfortable and find fun and connection in a new way that we may never have experienced before. I have also found that getting our hands dirty and working hard with the food in the process can make a world of difference.

The trust that we seek is really a trusting relationship with ourself and this enemy and love-hate relationship with food and/or sugar is really about waking up to see the love-hate we may be having with ourselves.

After coaching hundreds of people and logging thousands of hours I can confidently say that most people walk around with trust issues in their relationships.

As i’m leading a group of people through Winning The Sugar Game, my new program, I’m asking people to get much more vulnerable with others about their relationship with food in our private community and I’m finding that it is different than what I’ve experienced before.

There is a different kind of courage involved with sugar and these food addiction or emotional eating topics. There is shame involved.

It’s got me thinking about my own journey and how it was close to impossible for me to be vulnerable with someone else when I was in a place where I couldn’t trust.

If we have a tough time trusting ourselves, we likely will not open up vulnerably unless we can be willing to take a chance. We can be willing to put ourselves out there.

In school, I was a cool kid. How do I know this? Well, I smoked Marlboro Lights. Didn’t all cool kids smoke?

There was something else I noticed about myself. I had friends within every clique and I spent time with people in all of them. From the “cool” to the “nerd” to the “art freak” I was a part of the crowd.

Isn’t it funny how life works with community and friends. We want to be seen and to belong and yet another part of us pulls away, rebels and wants to be the unique or odd one out.

I suppose I could say that I never quite fit in fully with any particular group but when I really get deep with myself, I know it was because I was too afraid to let anyone really see me fully. I was too afraid to open up and trust people. I feared that they might not like what they could discover… If only I knew that way back then…

Oh, and worse yet, if opened up and trusted, I might get hurt or betrayed.  So what did my cool-ass self do instead? I stayed on the outskirts and I didn’t allow people in and I went and lit up another smoke with all of the other cool people.

It’s the only thing I knew how to do back then.

Some of us are still doing this now. We are the cool kids, hanging out on the sidelines with our fears, using food to comfort us instead of our smokes and we are do afraid to open up and allow people in to see us.

It’s time to stop hiding behind the foods, sugars, drinks and smokes.

So how do you trust?

The answer is that you get really picky about who you choose to open up to at first. Not everyone is capable of holding space for your open, vulnerability when you are looking to step forward and share yourself.

It’s going to be scary and you must commit to doing it, but not until you find the right person or community.

Opening your heart and letting others see you is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself and for healing your food and body issues.

You lose weight when you care more about your health and self love than you do the scale and outer appearance.

That kind of trust and heart opening can truly be a miracle.

There is something that Brene Brown said once that really stuck with me… “people have to earn the right to see your heart and they have to know when they’re seeing it that it’s an absolute honor and privilege for you to have let them in.”

If someone is judging you, they try to change you, they are talking about you behind your back the moment you walk away or they are not capable of expressing compassion or empathy when you share,  then they are not someone you can trust right now. They are not capable of holding space for you at this point.  It’s time to move on and find someone else.

There are two steps to learning to trust yourself and others that I want you to take right now.

Share with someone that can “hold space for you” something that scares you or that you are ashamed of right now.   Be patient and choose the right community or the right person (The Love Yourself Naked Private community is INCREDIBLE at this). It’s almost like you need to prove to yourself that “other people” really do want to help you… no strings attached, no ulterior motives. They simply want to be there because they can.

Follow through on doing what you say you are going to do for the next 48 hours. You have likely been making promises to yourself for years or decades that you haven’t kept and guess what… you have learned to not trust yourself.  You have taught yourself, “I don’t follow through on what i say” and because of it, you are likely angry at yourself for this and have no idea.  Forgive you. Then, for 48-hours, follow through on everything you say you are going to do. If 48 hours is too long. How about starting with the next 5 hours…?

What’s your trust story? How has it been holding you back? Please share with us below. I’d love to hear your story.

Trust trees rock,

Renee

PS. “Trust Trees” are a reference from Frank in the movie “Old School”, in case you were wondering.  Oh and leave me a comment below and share what holds you back from hitting your goals.

PPS. Have you checked out the free video series I created for you yet on how to increase energy, burn fat and win at sugar cravings? Click this link here.

I was hit in the face. hard.

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Stanzi, Renee and Maureen

I am a writer, but now I have a loss for the right words, so this is pretty raw.

Here is my story.

My man showed up to my home (we live in different states) in major pain this past week. He’s a cancer survivor so although it looks as though his pain was a kidney infection, I was scared… terrified of cancer coming back. To be honest, I’m completely in love with him and he is also completely addicted to sugar… Sugar feeds cancer… not a good combo.

The next day, I showed up to my video shoot for my new up and coming program, Winning The Sugar Game… enthusiastic and well-prepared to shoot the remaining videos. Moments after I arrived and we were testing the lighting, the camera man tripped on a large light that wasn’t strapped down properly and it fell right into my face.

On my face, I ended up with a huge cut that needed to be glued back together, a large bump the size of a golf ball, 2 semi bruised eyes and a concussion. AND… no videos…

And then 10 hours later I found out that my friend, Stanzi Allan Pouthier died, she was diagnosed with cancer about a year ago. She is the beauty on the left side above, along with me and our friend Maureen.

I feel shaken up and wrung out.

I feel broken and yet opened.

I feel angry and yet grateful.

I feel like crying. Wait, I am crying…

I am smiling because I know an angel has kissed me with blessings.

It took me a bit to see the blessings part… Tears, anger, depressed moments, more anger. 

Stanzi was someone I would go to if I had nutrition questions. She was incredibly wise.  I was asking myself, how in the hell can someone so healthy get cancer?

Then I remembered a conversation with Stanzi where she told me that she knows now that she wasn’t feeling her feelings fully, she had forgot about herself, her creativity and passions. She forgot how to be in her body. That this cancer was a wake up call for her. It was a call to action. She said to me, “now I see what all of this Love Yourself Naked stuff is that you keep talking about, Renee.”

There was this moment when I thought that I couldn’t write about Stanzi, the emotions of my week and promote my cleanse to you at the same time…  I was scared of being judged by you.

Yeah… this message was supposed to be about my cleansing journey as the program opens on Sunday.

But then, I realized that cancer was a SMACK in Stanzi’s face and she showed up with grace, determination and immense courage in spite of it all.

I am so incredibly inspired by her.

Here is the thing though, do we all have to be HIT in the face or HIT with cancer to wake up to BEING IN OUR BODIES?

We don’t have to wait until we are incredible pain before we do something.

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And then I had an epiphany. … you know, Renee, you might need to do your own Love Yourself Naked Challenge! Clearly, I created this cleanse. It is transformational. I’ve done my own cleanse so many times before…

But I had to listen to the universe… the impact from me being literally hit in the face was a SCREAM… it said WAKE UP Renee!

What are the areas where you need to peel back more veils to love yourself naked even more deeply. How can you be nourishing yourself even more? How are you expressing your creativity. How are you loving yourself right now?

I also saw so clearly that I can celebrate Stanzi and I can honor her LEGACY by living my life within my body fully.  It’s the only way I know how to cope with the loss of a friend in this moment… to learn from her and let her inspire me.

Allowing me to open up even deeper within relationship to myself… and even more so with my son, Manny, my man and my family, friends and you, .

So I decided to be fully ALL-IN and cleanse right along with my cleansers this time. It’s not that I don’t cleanse, but this time around feels so different… it’s inspired by Stanzi’s vitality. It’s for life and love.  It’s for ME. I choose me.

My man is participating too. He is ready to repent against his sugar addiction and I’m so proud of him.

And I’m inspired by some other actions as well. My Love Yourself Naked journey is always evolving.  I wrote below  about those evolutions and I also included a quote from Stanzi.

I hope they inspire you in your life.

If you want to cleanse with us, I’ve discounted the 18 Day Love Yourself Naked Challenge Cleanse to only $97 (normally $247).

Register here.

We begin on Sunday with the Challenge and the cleanse begins 5 days in, so you’ll have plenty of time to prepare. Details are here.

An ode to Nakedness and Vitality.

  • When you meet someone for the first time, it is sacred. Hug them like you’ve never hugged another human being before.

  • Life is meant to be LIVED fully and completely.  Look for beauty in everything, all the time.

  • Be present with my son, Manny. Look him deeply in the eye. See him, play with him, love him, hug him, kiss him.

  • Feelings are meant to be felt deeply. Take time to feel them. No pushing them away.

  • Body’s are meant to thrive and breathe. Celebrate your body, make time for creativity and passion.

  • Breathe and exercise. Spend time outdoors as often as possible.

  • We were born to love. Find reasons to love and forgive. Love does set you free.

  • Eat meals that give you vitality and healing.

  • We were given these beautiful mouths to not only eat but to smile and to speak our truths. Express what you want and feel.  Make it your goal to smile at those you see before you.

 Here is a little something Stanzi wrote before she moved on to rest her soul.

“…..But the call this morning was my wake up call. I want to stick around in this body for quite a while, so I’d better get healing instead of wasting away. I’m afraid of suffering, but isn’t that what I’m doing??? I’m suffering!!! Its time to turn the volume up again. Its time to turn it up REALLY high!

So I picked myself up, looked in the mirror and realized that this is my pivotal moment. Right now. The only one who can help me get better…is me. While the medicines and therapies are there to assist me in healing, I know the healing comes from a much deeper place. I’ve got to WANT to heal. I’ve got to WANT to get up in the mornings and live each day, not just look out the window to see what a beautiful day it is outside.

I’ve got to LIVE. I’ve got to fully LOVE my life. I’ve been sitting here in my bed waiting. Waiting for life to begin…or end…I’m not even sure which. But now its time to fall in love. With myself, my husband, my children, my life. Because Love feels so damn good. And Love feels so right. Love feels magical. Love heals.

I bow to you in grace and divine love.” -Stanzi

xo

Renee

P.S. Will you join me and my man in the journey to Love Yourself Naked?

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P.P.S. I will be donating a portion of proceeds from this cleanse to Team Stanzi to help out financially with her medical expenses and in the full time nanny care needed for her two young boys.