My Journey with Cushing’s disease
At 30 years old, I was fit, healthy and naturally a size 8–10. I knew my body well, which is why, when it started to
How do you amplify your fierce queen energy? You live in a society that bombards you with messages telling you there is something wrong with your body, so it’s a RADICAL act of rebellion at midlife to ignore these messages, and embrace and own the body you have.
Well, you have lived in your body for half your life now, and I wonder how criticizing your body is working out for you? Spending time wishing that you had a different body shape, size, or weight is a complete waste of your energy.
As you step into your fierce queen years (yes, I’m talking midlife), it’s time to take ownership of your body and embrace what you have. And hey, you may not love everything about your body, but you know this is the body you have and it’s time you committed to looking after it from the inside out.
Everything is a practice, and what you have practiced over the years is to complain, criticize, and try to manipulate the body you have into something she is not. Midlife is calling you to take a stand against the noise that pollutes your mind from magazines, social media, and celebrities, and tune inwards to your body’s powerful intelligence. So do your body a favor, do women a favor all over the world, and make a pledge to step into your FIERCE QUEEN ENERGY! Ditch the criticism, and start celebrating how amazing your body really is.
Since I hit my 20s (which was a while ago now) I have been on a quest to figure out the why’s and how’s to my various issues around my body image and eating habits. At that time I was binge eating. I would secretly squirrel away vast amounts of cake and sweets, eat them rapidly then tip-toe to the bathroom, stick my fingers down my throat and puke them all up.
The thought that I could never rid myself of was that I was never skinny enough. This is the thought that drove all of my behaviors around food and exercise.
Sometime in my late 20s, I read a book by Hirschmann and Munter, entitled When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies. At the time their approach was kind of radical, and they suggested a couple of techniques that have stayed with me. I’ll share one with you today.
The technique (which I still use today) is to stop the berating of your body. The authors invite the reader to stop putting their body down, whether it was when they looked at her in the mirror, when they dressed, or at any other time. They advise their readers to “pattern interrupt” (i.e. say STOP when those put downs came rushing in) and to continue to practice this intervention whenever the put downs popped up.
It’s been many years since I first read this book, and I can safely say this technique is firmly embedded in my psyche. I do not put my body down, neither to myself or when I am with others, and I challenge my friends when they put their body down to do the same.
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