freely outside of the “shoulds” and create health on their terms.
I serve professional women who are high achieving and who may take little time for themselves.
These women are looking for a different approach with no boundaries to where they are physically located.
They desire a feeling of peace, satisfaction and acceptance in an era of being bombarded by “ideal bodies” and diet culture.
I made some spiffy new upgrades around here so I figured it was time to reintroduce myself.
About 4 years ago, my sister and I were sitting in a coffee shop talking. I knew that I wanted to be a coach, and I knew I wanted my business and services to be accessible and inclusive. I knew it would be online, but more than that, I had no idea where this would lead.
I didn’t realize it was the first baby steps to creating a community and a safe space to help women unlearn the body hatred, the expectations, and even the limitations they had on how and what healthy is.
A huge part of my vision is the accessibility piece. Jobs, child care, parent/relative care, intimidation of the gym, (you name it I have probably heard it), there are a lot of reasons why someone can’t or won’t go to a traditional gym. I understand that! It’s that feeling of having to get in shape before you are allowed to even step foot into the gym.
Most of us have spent untold years longing to look a certain way. I know you just immediately pictured an “ideal” body. It’s hard to give up that dream. It feels hard wired to our very being. The thought of just living and loving ourselves, just as we are, feels like we have given up.
Well I am here to deliver a bit of good news. It’s not! Breaking free from restrictive diets, punishing workouts, and ditching that continuous talk of self doubt in your head is maybe the dream you didn’t know you had.
I have spent the last 20 years trying and failing just about every diet imaginable. The weirder and more outlandish the claims the better. If it wasn’t going to instantly fix me then I wasn’t interested.
I finally thought I found something that worked. I was eating really “good”, in the gym nearly everyday (sometimes twice a day) and I saw my body changing. I thought I was finally on my way to my dream body and therefore my dream life.
What happened was what always happens when we grip so tightly to control everything around us. The band snaps. I found myself living for my cheat day, which then turned into cheat weekends, etc. Workouts were to make up for my slips in eating. Nothing about what I was doing felt enjoyable. The body I looked at in the mirror, the one I thought I always wanted, the one I believed that once I had, would bring me my dream life, was an illusion. There was always going to be more weight I thought I needed to lose, toned arms, a firmer butt, flatter abs. I was finally starting to see that the “ideal” wasn’t what my unique body was designed for.
I dug into Intuitive Eating and Movement. Started to confront the deeply held beliefs I had about which bodies are worthy of being celebrated (hint it’s all bodies). I started the journey to finding acceptance for my body, appreciating all it does, and working to have more days where maybe I don’t love myself but I am not actively hating myself.
The core of who I help and why has not changed. I am here to help women live their best lives. If anything, my focus has gotten sharper. I am clearer on my ultimate end goal. Helping women like you, like me find body neutrality, body acceptance and body positivity. To create a vision of health that is free from diets, movement that IS fun, to stop avoiding mirrors because you just can’t bear to look. I want you to love the skin you’re in, today.
As I started down this new path I knew I needed a visual that represents all that I want Authentic Victories and myself to strive for. I am and always will be heart centered and heart driven. I care, I care a lot. What once I saw as my biggest weakness, is what makes me such an amazing coach. We need to return to our hearts and find that place of love.
The health goals I made for myself out of love are now the ones I stick to most easily. They are the habits I am excited for because I am in tune and connected to my true self. What I do is for my highest good so that I can serve others, not because some magazine told me that my value was only in looking a certain way.
I am a guide, I can give you the map and hold the flashlight, but ultimately the hard work is yours to do. Speaking from experience, it is sooo worth it. You have chosen a path that leads to freedom. You are choosing to be heard and seen and be unapologetically you. I am here for all of it!
Let me be the first to welcome you to the start of the most amazing journey of your life! Welcome to the club!
