Joanne's Blog

Welcome everyone,
I've been reading and watching all the videos of BraveHeart Women for almost a year and I've decided to join .... now this is my first blog... so please bear with me.....

I wanted to tell you the story of one of my client because I feel this happens to so many of us.

Let's call her Sophie.

So, Sophie came to see me a year ago, she had heard that with the help of a Certified Professional Coach she could maybe finally lose the weight.... She had been on lots of diets and lost but only to gain again and sometimes more than she had actully lost.

Through coaching, I started to asks questions about the kind of diets she had tried, what would be her ideal weight, how many years was she had been trying, if the extra weight was treatening her health and when had she noticed she had started to gain the weight.

This all on a period of a few months, of course some of those questions might be very personnel and so Sophie had to get to know me better and we had to develop some kind of friendship/relationship.

And that's when the cat came out of the bag, to her surprise and mine she confided that her husband had cheated on her while she was pregnant of their second child.

Unconsciously, she had told herself and her brain had registered this ...that she wasn't capable of holding a man, who cared what she looked like - she just wasn't good enough.

As she was saying the words, I could see her pain and I could feel her distress, she started shaking and crying..... She had never thought of associating her weight problems to the core of his infidelity.

Once, she processed this and accepted it, she forgave herself for treating her body so badly and we started working on her self esteem, her self image, her value system......

Sophie blossomed to be quite a woman.

I'm sharing this with you ladies because often we are so busy taking care of everyone around us that we ignore or don't listen to that little voice inside, to the signals life is trowing on our path and so, that voice is SO special....

It's the foundation of Who You Are !

Take care of yourself... Body, Mind and Soul and like Sophie I wish you all to blossom and make your dreams come true.

Love, Joanne xo