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Summer is the PERFECT time for Body Restoration!! Online class begins THIS TUESDAY June 18.  It’s time to finally make peace with our bodies…to stop abusing them and start honoring them as beautiful homes for our souls. We're doing this class right along with you...come join us!! Details here.

Archives for January, 2012

A little video about BODY RESTORATION online course + why I am so passionate about this class….

I am so very excited about this class…and wanted to kinda urge you to really think about joining me in the classroom if you have the same kinds of destructive messages running through your mind that so many other women do….

 I used to hear those messages in my head too.

 

Over the last few months, as I have been neck deep in writing the curriculum for this course, talking and talking and interviewing women about these issues…and doing a ton of studying….one thing keeps coming up that makes me want to gather every single woman I know to do this course, whatever it takes….that thing is this:

WE WASTE A TON OF OUR LIVES, MISS OUT ON A TON OF WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES, AND REFUSE TO DO A LOT OF THINGS WE REALLY WANT TO DO ….

…because we are too busy WORRYING, OBSESSING and PUNISHING OURSELVES OVER HOW WE LOOK.

 

After doing the SOUL RESTORATION courses last year, and really getting in touch with what my heart is saying to me….I realized that there were so many things I wanted to do with my life…and there were just as many things that I wanted to STOP doing. I worked really hard on both of those things…and suddenly, my body started to cooperate with me too. I started to explore what that correlation was, and found some really wonderful ways to work through body shame and the belief that I had to punish myself with over-exercise and severe dieting if I wanted to have the body I wanted to have. Through journaling and art-journaling exercises…..I really found a way to make peace with my body….I learned to profoundly respect and love this flesh and blood that houses my soul….and through all of that (even though the peace is the best part) I have been able to fairly effortlessly maintain a healthy weight. I want to share all of this with you….but I mostly want to teach you what I learned about how important it is to live the life you want to live RIGHT NOW, not after you are a certain weight, or a certain size….or when your skin is clear or your hair is right……..I want us all to stop waiting to REALLY LIVE.

It is amazing how your body will start to cooperate with you when you are working hard to be happy in other areas of your life. Once you start to focus on other things, you will be shocked to realize how much of your life you have been wasting on feeling destructive things about yourself.

 

Please remember that this is not a fitness or diet program…this is a companion to your own health goals (even if your goals are as simple as deciding to walk every day and drink more water).

This is a program to get to the WHY of taking care of yourself. This is a program to help you recognize what you have been doing to punish yourself, and how you can start taking care of yourself instead. This is a program that will help you become joyful partners with your body instead of enemies.

I’m so excited to do this class with you……here’s a little video to tell you a little bit more about it.

Sending you all so much love…

xoxo

Melody

Learn more about Body Restoration here.

 

Disclaimer: Friends, there are literally hundreds of thousands of books published on health and countless programs and experts and philosophies out there. It is important to know that we have no special education, degrees, formal training, or expertise. We do not give advice. We simply share powerful ideas that have worked for us (and that have been applied with enormous success in our Soul Restoration classes) in using art and other creative and enjoyable means to slow down, tap into our own intuition and our own truth, and discover some of the thinking that is causing us to abuse our bodies. Our goal is to help each of us learn to honor our beautiful, miraculous bodies as the magnificent gift they are and to live a daily life that is joyfully, peacefully congruent with that knowledge. This program is in no way a substitute for professional treatment for any diagnosed or undiagnosed illness, disease, or disorder. Our lawyers would like us to say that you should consult a physician before embarking on any health-related program. xoxo

dear amazing girl…a little butterfly told me…

Dear Amazing Girl,

When something doesn’t feel right in the very center of your heart, or in your gut….don’t ever be afraid to walk away. We have all been given a very special gift of “knowing” when something is good or right, and that knowing gets stronger and stronger with practice. When something is right, it feels peaceful and good. When something is wrong, it feels kind of dark and yucky, sometimes it feels really confusing and sometimes it just feels scary.

Please, beautiful girl, trust yourself when a feeling comes to you that tells you to walk away from something or someone. Protect your heart, protect your soul, and protect yourself. You are too important not to protect.

You will get stronger and stronger and better and better at knowing when it’s time…but always trust yourself.

You are so loved.
Now go out and live a big brave life!

xoxo

{This is an excerpt from the Brave Girls Club “a little butterfly told me – daily truth for girls & teens”. Click to read this entire truth or subscribe to receive these in your email inbox.}

Dear Fabulous Girl…a little bird told me…

Dear Fabulous Girl,
Just like every amazing, brave girl….your mind and heart are filled with lots and lots of ideas and dreams. Sometimes that puts us into a panic because we feel like we have to do it all right now or that we will run out of time, or like the window of opportunity will close.
Please remember, phenomenal friend, that there is a season for everything. You may find when you ask your heart of hearts, that you can only focus on one big thing at a time if you are to do it in the beautiful, soulful way that you love to do things…and that other things may have to wait for now. You may find that you can juggle two or three special things, but that you will have to let some other things go to be able to make that happen. What you will most likely NOT find if you are very very soulfully honest with yourself and if you listen very very closely…is that you can not do EVERYTHING you want to do at once…because sacred things will suffer….most especially, you.
So please give yourself permission to put some things on a different timetable so that you can give the best of yourself to the things that are very most important in THIS season of your life. It does not make you weak or powerless when you let things go….on the contrary, it shows your strength and commitment to all that is best for your own precious life.
You are so incredible…and so very very very loved.
xoxo

 

{This is an excerpt from the Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive DailyTruths in your email inbox.}

Dear fantastic girl…a little bird told me…

Dear Fantastic Girl,

So often there are beautiful, comforting and helpful things right in front of us…waiting for us to notice and take hold…yet for all sorts of reasons, we keep looking past those things.

Often we feel like we have to do more to “earn” help or comfort or blessings. Often we want to struggle through to prove that we can do it on our own and we run ourselves into the ground before we ask for help. Often we are so busy with our heads down, plowing through and suffering…that we simply fail to notice things that would ease our pain that are right in front of us, and often have been there all along.

Take some time, sweet friend, to look around and see what is there to make things better. Notice good books, helpful people, generous offers and random acts of grace. When something shows up, open yourself up to it…simply saying thank-you is enough…you don’t have to earn it, you don’t have to do anything to “deserve” it.

You are worthy of comfort, blessings and help.
You are so very very very loved.
xoxo

 

{This is an excerpt from the Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive DailyTruths in your email inbox.}

dear lovely, amazing girl…a little butterfly told me…

today’s words of truth for girls and teens…

Dear Lovely, Amazing Girl,

Life is sometimes confusing, isn’t it? Life is sometimes hard, too, isn’t it? Someday, dear girl, you will be able to understand why things are the way they are…why things happened the way that they happened, and how almost everything that ever happens in your life can be turned into something wonderful and can help you to become stronger, braver and more full of knowledge that will help you to live a beautiful happy life.

When you have hard days or sad days…remember that if you didn’t have days like that, you wouldn’t know how to be brave, or strong. Sometimes the only way to learn the most important things we need to learn is to go through experiences that teach us those things. Remember too, that bad days always get better.

You are so loved, sweet girl.

Now go out and have a beautiful day!

xoxo

Body Restoration Winners!!

WOW!!! We have been overwhelmed with all of your Comments…thank you to every single one of you who left your heartfelt comments. We have read every one of them.

We have randomly chosen 5 winners from the Awesome Things Challenge comments and 5 winners from the Body Restoration comments.

(We don’t have complete contact information for most of the winners, so we are adding clues to help you identify yourself if you are a winner. Please contact jeff@bravegirlsclub.com and let him know you are a winner — he will get you registered for Body Restoration which begins in 1 week on January 10!)

Congratulations to these winners from the Awesome Things Challenge comments!

Jeanne (bostongirlontheverge)

Kylie-Jo Barker

Johanna (posted 12-14-11)

Lagene Sands (posted 12-7-11)

Delyne (posted 12-18-11)

 

Congratulations to these winners from the Body Restoration comments!

Jacq (jsjenit)

Katie Letcher

Sarah (s.m.kelley89)

Allison (stubby5803)

Julianne Wiley

We are so happy for you girls! Be sure to contact Jeff right away (jeff@bravegirlsclub.com) to claim your Body Restoration prize!!

Thanks again for all of you who participated. You are amazing and wonderful and we are SO happy you are here!!!!

love,

kathy and melody

dear honorable girl…a little bird told me…

Dear Honorable Girl,

It seems like no matter how much planning we do, no matter how careful we are, no matter how much we study and save and sacrifice….there are still big disappointments that come into our lives and knock the wind out of us.

Please remember, phenomenal girl, that so many times when we didn’t get what we wanted……it ended up being one of the BEST things that ever happened to us. Sometimes NOT getting what we thought we wanted was the greatest, most miraculous blessing that we can ever count in our lives….it saved us from so much heartache, and it kept us on the exact path we were meant to be on…..or even led us to the right path.

It is difficult to do….but please just trust. Trust that we will all end up exactly where we are supposed to be, to learn exactly what we are supposed to learn and to become exactly who we are meant to become.

Everything always works out somehow, doesn’t it? Cry a few tears over the disappointment, friend…then step into the warm, sunny light of your beautiful future. It is gonna be SO GOOD.

You are so very loved.
xoxo

{This is an excerpt from the Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive Daily Truths in your email inbox.}

We’re giving away 10 Body Restoration tuitions!

Brave Girls Club - Body Restoration

This week we are putting the final touches on our amazing new online class called “Body Restoration” (Jan 10 thru Feb 20), and to kick off this week, we’re giving away 10 free spots!! There are two ways you can be eligible:

1. We will be drawing 5 names from those who left Awesome Things comments in our series of posts from the days leading up to Christmas. Thank you to every single one of you who inspired and uplifted all of us with your comments. We love you!

2. We’ll be drawing an additional 5 names from comments to THIS POST!  To enter: just leave a comment below telling us why you would like to participate in our Body Restoration class.

We’ll post all 10 winners at noon (Mtn) on Tuesday, January 3, so don’t wait! 

love, kathy

PS. If you’re wondering what Body Restoration is all about, CLICK HERE

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