Come to a free Shift event this Saturday, April 16th from 12-2.
This will be an event for graduation shifters from the March Shift, former shifters, and people who are interested in a shift to focus on the 9 skills. Graduates will get to look at how to take these new 9 skills and shifting abilities into their lives. Everyone will get to experience hypnosis.
RSVP required for this event and there is limited seating.
This will be an event for graduation shifters from the March Shift, former shifters, and people who are interested in a shift to focus on the 9 skills. Graduates will get to look at how to take these new 9 skills and shifting abilities into their lives. Everyone will get to experience hypnosis.
RSVP required for this event and there is limited seating.
Please let me know asap if you are planning to attend.
3815 Sawtelle Blvd
Culver City CA 90232
http://www.yelp.com/biz/fanatic-salon-culver-city
3815 Sawtelle Blvd
Culver City CA 90232
http://www.yelp.com/biz/fanatic-salon-culver-city
Shift for the Summer!
The next Shift Weight Mastery process has been rescheduled to Sunday June 12th. This will be the last Shift Process and Re-Shift until September.
Please sign up asap as places will go soon.
Shift Weekly: Passover the Easter Chocolate
Hey—don’t rabbits eat carrots? So why in the heck do we find ourselves up to our necks in bad waxy chocolate bunnies and high fructose Easter eggs as a yearly rite of passage into spring-- “What’s up doc???”
My big question to you is how are you and your inner coach strategizing to maneuver around the minefield of Cadbury Eggs and marshmallow chicks and matzo ball soup and macaroons in a way that you feeling like you can enjoy yourself both on and off the scale???
My coaching for this week is to prepare for this bombardment of sugar over the next 2 weeks in a realistically and lovingly way. Don’t assume you are going to “be good”. Have a plan. Remember what my sex-ed teacher taught me in high school—HOPE IS NOT A METHOD. Prepare to be lighter on the scale after all the sugary little beasts have escaped the store shelves and the matzo is packed away for another year (where does it go?).
April is a big month for me. My daughter and my husband’s birthday’s are this month so add that to Easter and spring break and you can see the potential for a perfect storm on the weight struggle horizon. I only allow myself cake on my family member's birthdays during the year. Cake –(really frosting, the cake is merely a delivery system for the frosting) is a trigger food of mine –so I put a boundary around it all year except for birthdays as a way to practice my skill of stimulus control. Given the number of birthdays I go to as a mom, I believe this boundary is highly responsible for my sanity and ability to consistently fit into my clothes.
As I have mentioned before-- cake is my heroin and Betty Crocker is my drug dealer. I remember coming home every day from high school and making cakes--eating the batter and getting totally stoned from it. Some kids did bongs or smoked cigarettes--what wussies!--try butter, flour and sugar--that's one wicked high, dude! Betty Crocker was my supplier and all I had to do was open the cupboard and there she was--Devils Food, Yellow or Spice--her shiny face smiling down at me--"go on Rita make me, bake me and frost me--you know you want to." And I did--I would bake away all of my adolescent woes in the certainty that the cake, when baked, would come out right. In a time in my life of uncertainty, Betty was there, and when baked at 350 for 35 minutes, the cake turned out perfectly every time. The only problem was when I tried to eat the perfection, it wasn't so nice. The sugar high followed by the crash and regret. And then the next day, squeezing into my already large pants--good thing I could sew--skirts with elastic waistbands.
Where in the hell is rehab for cake eaters? And why isn't it as glamorous as rehab for other users? Huh?
So what is my coaching? Know your Spring holiday trigger foods these next 2 hippity hoppity weeks--create loving boundaries with them, practice stimulus control, plan ahead, ask yourself what you need to do and not do in order to make this a truly Shifted passage into spring. Write your food down. Move your body and reinforce your mind with the CDs. And maybe go see the movie HOP; supposedly there is a teenage bunny who poops jelly beans—that may be enough of a turn off for all of us black jelly bean addicts…or will it hmmm.
Have a great week and Happy Easter and Passover—don’t even get me started about the macaroons!
Where in the hell is rehab for cake eaters? And why isn't it as glamorous as rehab for other users? Huh?
So what is my coaching? Know your Spring holiday trigger foods these next 2 hippity hoppity weeks--create loving boundaries with them, practice stimulus control, plan ahead, ask yourself what you need to do and not do in order to make this a truly Shifted passage into spring. Write your food down. Move your body and reinforce your mind with the CDs. And maybe go see the movie HOP; supposedly there is a teenage bunny who poops jelly beans—that may be enough of a turn off for all of us black jelly bean addicts…or will it hmmm.
Have a great week and Happy Easter and Passover—don’t even get me started about the macaroons!
xoxo Rita
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