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Summer is the PERFECT time for Body Restoration!! 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. Registration is OPEN for the next few weeks. Jump in and join us...we welcome you!!

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Body Restoration has begun! Come see what it’s all about!!

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 year, as I have been 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 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 miraculous girl…a little bird told me…

Sometimes the best thing we can do is just get to work. When we are waiting, when we are worrying, when we are wondering — get to work. There is something very beautiful and wonderful and miraculous about the feeling that comes after finishing something that would not have been finished unless WE set out to do it…(read more)

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dear brave girl…a little bird told me…

Did you know that you have the right to make rules for your life? Did you know that you are the ONLY one who can make soul deep rules about what you want, how you want to feel, who you want to be with, what you want to spend your energy on and in what ways you want to contribute and give back to the world? Do you remember that you are the only one who can decide what YOU will tolerate and put up with? (read more)

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choose today!

Choose today to have a better day than yesterday….
Choose to make today one of the best days you have ever had….

Choose to see the sky and hear the birds and listen to your breath….
Choose to find the small things that can make turn misery to joy….

Choose to focus on your blessings….and not on your lack….
Choose to focus on others and not on yourself.

Choose to spend a few minutes working towards something that you want very much…
Choose to congratulate yourself for taking that step….

Choose to swallow bad feelings and look for good ones….
Choose to give 100% to whatever you are doing from moment to moment….

Choose to learn something useful from every person you come into contact with…
Choose to find something good in every person you come into contact with….

Choose to turn your fears into energy and momentum….
Choose to take your life back into your own hands….

 Choose to remember that only YOU can choose for yourself…
Choose to exercise the power of your choice…..

 Choose today to have a better day than yesterday….
Choose to make today one of the best days you have ever had….

You are soooo very loved.

xoxo

dear seeking girl…a little bird told me…

Everything has a place. Everything has a time. Everything has a season.

When we allow something to consume all of our thoughts, all of our vision, all of our energy, to suck up all of our joy, all of our heart, all of our goodness, we are not letting anything else in our life have its place, its time or its season….(read more)

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what’s the real price tag?

This was written several years ago and is as true today as it ever was…hope you enjoy it….

Last night I crawled into bed before 7pm and put in a movie. One by one, my kids came upstairs and crawled on to the bed or under the covers…except of course, for the big old teenager who was downstairs raiding the pantry with his buddies…

When Marq finally came to bed it was over capacity, so we carried each little bundle on to the 10 ft. long bed that I made on the floor for them. And, as so many of you know…there’s nothing like REALLY looking at your own sleeping child to pull you into all that is real and good…

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And I have been needing that pulling-back. I have been pulled and twisted and stretched and dragged and bloodied in more ways than even my artist mind could have imagined over the last month.  I have been confused with the ‘beating’ I’ve been getting lately…I know there’s a message, I just don’t know what it is…I know that my life has reached an enormous fork in the road….

…and, man, is it painful.

What I know for sure is that LIFE is asking me, at this very moment, what I am willing to do….what I am willing to pay….what I am willing to give up…and, each decision has it’s price…

and some of the decisions scream loud…saying “CHOOSE ME! CHOOSE ME! CHOOSE ME!”

and some of them whisper while they sleep on the floor at the foot of my bed…and say in their tiny voices “please choose me….”

And I know for sure, when I really think about it…that the best things in life whisper to us, and we have to get really really really quiet to even hear what they are saying…seems like the deepest truths come in the moments of the most diligent quiet.

….and the screaming choices scream at whoever will listen, they really don’t care who finally listens…they just want SOMEONE to take them…..and the whispering choices are looking us right in the eye….waiting for us to make eye contact….and they only want OUR eye contact….not just anyone….us.

And everything has a price tag…and the biggest things require sacrifice…giving up something that is important or special or valuable…but all sacrifice means is that we are giving up something good for something better….

….and sometimes, the pricetag says, OR SHOULD SAY…”today only” because the best things often don’t wait…they can’t. Those whispering things can only wait so long…those screaming things will often stay there screaming our entire lives and we can choose to pick them up when the best things are taken care of.

So, if the question was asked of you….”what are you REALLY willing to pay for that?”….what do you think you would say?

You know what? Sometimes I don’t know that we even know what we are paying for…we just run and run and run and we don’t know what we are really buying…and even worse, we don’t know what price we paid for it…and especially, what we gave up because we were giving all that we had to it…whatever IT is.

If you had only SO MUCH in your pocket, and under the cushions and in the ashtray…and that’s all you had…and no more…and both price tags for what you really wanted said “everything you’ve got…” because that’s really really honestly what it’s going to take…which one would you take?

You used all of your credit cards….you’ve figured out that it catches up with you in the end….all you’ve got is what’s in your pocket right now….but, it’s enough if you just choose one or the other…..

….life gets to that point sometimes….and it’s what become our DEFINING MOMENTS in life….which things we choose in those moments…..

Sorry I’m being so abstract….I’m just really starting to figure some things out for myself. I am really being FORCED to figure some things out right now….I am being looked right in the eye and asked….’which one do you want? Only you can choose….”And, doors are being closed and a hallway of doors stands before me….

And, I know for sure that it’s the same for you.
You are captainess of your destiny…you are the one who has to decide….

You can do it…you are sooo brave.

 

dear clever girl…a little bird told me…

Brave Girls have to pick their battles…they just do.

Sometimes we have to choose whether we want to be right or whether we want to be happy.  Sometimes we have to keep our opinions, issues, grievances and complaints to ourselves in order to love and respect others who are important to us…(read more)

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How do you spell love?

“How do you spell ‘love’?” – Piglet
“You don’t spell it…you feel it.” – Pooh”

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dear magnificent girl…a little bird told me…

Sometimes we settle for a life that is not even close to what is intended for us. Sometimes we settle for relationships, jobs, places and situations that we have the ability to change, but that we have gotten too comfortable with to change….even if those very things bring us unsettled feelings to our core….

Just pick ONE thing today to bring into alignment with what you really want out of life. Put that box in the garage that you keep walking past….clean out your purse…write that thank-you note……talk to your boss about better working hours…if you work for yourself….stop working so much. Pick a few things every week and before you know it, your whole life will start to feel “on-purpose”…(read more)

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Sing YOUR bravest song…

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

-Henry Van Dyke

PS. If you’re wondering, you can learn how to make this in Brave Girl Art School. :)