When Dieting and Weight Loss Feels Safe, How Can I Leave it Behind?

Dieting and weight loss plans have their appeal.

They feel safe. It’s “easy” to have rules. You don’t need to think about what you’re eating or doing - it’s all planned out for you. There’s no risk of “screwing up” because all you need to do is stay within the lines.

As much as those boundaries can feel safe, they also become a prison. And when you’re locked in a prison, it’s hard to thrive.

But leaving that prison can be scary. Without the “rules” how do you know what to eat? Are you making the “right” choices? Won’t you just go off the deep end eating chips and ice cream forever, never leaving the couch?

That’s what the mind will tell you, and it’s this fear that has most people running back to the safety of the diet prison, and throwing away the key.

“It’s for your own good!” the mind will say. And it can be pretty convincing, especially when you have experienced the backlash binge eating and rejection of working out after coming off a restrictive weight loss plan.

But that feeling of being “out of control”, of feeling unmoored, can only continue if you are untethered to the deeper place within you that is always stable and wise…

That place is your deeper self.

Your deeper self - your soul, your higher-self, I also call Inner Wisdom. It’s the build in guide that we came into this world with but have been conditioned out of listening to.

When you re-learn how to connect with your Inner Wisdom and let it be your guide, you no longer feel the need to stay in the prison for safety. You can finally live free.

So come join me for a NEW webinar: Connecting to Your Inner Wisdom: Trust Yourself to Be Your Best Guide. Learn how to feel safe without the need for a diet.

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