Posts Tagged ‘Lisa Crunick’

A blogger whose name I will not mention, wrote that she would find it offensive to watch the sitcom actors, Molly and Mike who met at Overeaters Anonymous kissing on TV.

Her comments were offensive and when I read it, I thought, this woman has her own body issues. And sure enough, in her apology, she admitted that she was a former anorexic.

I tell my clients to practice looking at people without commenting on their bodies. We are spiritual beings.

Every one of us is going to pass on and not one of us will take our bodies with us. It is a trap to over identify with something  impermanent, and designed to age.

Have fun in your body? Yes. Enjoy it? Yes. Appreciate it?  Yes.  Take care of it?  Yes Yes.  Be a star athlete, sex goddess whatever,  just remember, you are having an experience in it.  It is not who you are.

I have heard clients say that they feel that thin people assume they are some how superior.

We are bombarded with before and after images of people who have made it. Whether they are starving, living on drinking shakes, or taking drugs is secondary. They are not fat.

On Tweet Deck, you can search a word, and when anyone  uses that word, it will come up in your feed. After following the word obese for a few months, there are two kinds of tweets. People make rude remarks about strangers they see in public places, and young girls talk about how much they ate, and how they are going to be obese. (That is a whole other subject for another article.)

Interestingly, when the blog with the offensive comments surfaced, this tweet stream totally changed. The author was called pricelessly insensitive, a body  Nazi, insane, and she should be fired immediately. Wow!

The tweets may go back to the former trend.

You, however, CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND!

Practice seeing people for who they really are.

You will find that they are kinder to you and you will feel more peaceful thoughts about yourself.

If you waste your precious thoughts on feeling bad about your body, please stop that!

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EFT and Hypnosis for Releasing Trauma

Let me give you some examples, and you can come up with your own reasons to call me.

A client came back in, because after successfully losing bothersome middle-age weight, she was again struggling to stay out of the cookie jar.  With a little probing, I discovered that her young adult-child had been in a serious car accident. Delving into the cookies often happened when he was out.

We flattened the traumatic memory from the accident, and her fear of what could happen when he wasn’t home. Her inner cookie monster disappeared.

Another woman came in because she was afraid of elevators and flying. She could force herself to do both, but not without extreme anxiety.

I discovered that once upon a time she received a phone call that changed everything about her life, and THEN she boarded a plane for a two hour flight. We flattened (in one session) every emotional aspect of this memory. She was pleasantly surprised that she was immediately able to ride in an elevator, and fly, without fear.

A young man came in looking for relief from anxiety headaches. All medical reasons had been ruled out. As a small child he and his brother and mother escaped their country. We spent a whole session on a train trip he had little conscious memory of, and his headaches immediately decreased.

Last year I got a call from a young woman who was driving her distraught roommate, who had just found out her boyfriend had committed suicide, home to be with her family. I did not know the girl and I did not know any of the circumstances.

In crises we are in an altered state and words take on increased meaning. I talked her through some EFT tapping points while saying these words, “Even though something horribly confusing has just happened, I will recover and feel better than I do right now very soon.” Over the phone I heard deep sighs (always a good sign in this kind of work!).

The woman driving called me later to say that the difference between her roommate before and after the call was remarkable.

We are taught to suck it up, and just get over it. That can be useful, but our bodies, our minds, our cells, do remember, and sucking it up can suck!

I love to help you get to the bottom of it!  Be well. Take care of yourself!

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I love to play games with perspective.

At the beginning of February, I decided  to counter all the gloom and doom reports by perceiving every present I received, as a symbol of good things to come.

Boy, did I get tested. It took three service calls to convince my furnace that it wasn't an air conditioner. With that out of the way, I discovered that my name and some Chinese characters clicked through to some pretty disgusting pornography. Wow. Do I have to call that a present?

Got that out of the way, and my laptop crashed. I immediately carried my little baby out the door, to the local Tech guy, who immediately recognized me. Two hundred dollars later, I was back in the saddle.

Three days later, on a Sunday afternoon, someone broke into my home and stole my laptop off of my dining room table. Keep on playing.

So, let's get to the presents. I got so many in February, it is crazy….wonderfully crazy. My dear friend of many years brought me a beautiful box from Vietnam.  We have years of shared memories, but presents…..

I returned from lunch and outside my door was a beautiful bouquet from a colleague, left as a thank you, and a complete surprise.

A client sent me a text: I have presents for you: she brought me a beautiful, pashmina scarf, and earrings.  Really, my birthday is not in February.

Next came the unexpected money.

Then I received a case of red grapefruit mixed with honey tangerines and blood oranges. Now this is how to make the juicer in me happy!

An old friend called, out of the blue, and offered right on buying advice for a new laptop.

My nineteen year old daughter slipped into my car and handed me a paper Valentine she had made for me with the kindergartners in her life.  She reported they asked her incredulously, "YOU have a MOM?".

There is more, there is always more……………………… My life is just like yours.  Stuff is happening all of the time.

Now that it has been proven, yes proven, that your thoughts change your brain, you, we, all of us have no reason not to get busy training our thoughts.

I know I just said a MINDFUL, and I am bursting to share everything I have learned in the last few days, but it is going to have to wait.

For now I am passing on a recipe for getting excited about food that is  carotene rich, really good for your brain, and so delicious. Moroccan Stew

She is beautiful, gracious, insightful, accomplished; the list goes on….

And she comes to see me because she has one hundred extra pounds.

She wants to give it away.

She knows a lot about nutrition.

She knows a lot about a lot of things.

She is fascinating and fascinated as she pulls up the gnarly roots of unwanted behaviors.

Sometimes we can laugh and “ah ah” over what has been hidden.

She goes back into her life, joyously sleuthing for more roots, and what feels like the bloom of power.

As her mind changes, life feels a little easier.

Her heart grows lighter as she fills it with hope.

She says one day, “I am not comfortable in my own kitchen.I have worked so hard to create home and comfort and I realize I sneak in there like a thief, taking things. I don’t feel at home.”

The history of how this came to be unfolds before her like a new sheet. When she realizes that she has no pleasant kitchen memories,we draw mental pictures for growing loving connections in her kitchen.

She came back and is happy at how she stood in her kitchen and cooked for people she loved, and allowed them to be right next to her.

She decided to paint her kitchen a soft color. She called her sisters and discovered they had similar feelings.

She called her mother.

She learned more as she looked back another generation.

She calls it her love room as she is begins to own it as a warm, sunny studio for her creative, nurturing spirit.

Ah, this is much better than the guilt of being a thief. Remember that the answer is not in the kitchen, but underneath why YOU are in the kitchen.

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Thank you for your outstanding generosity to Tent City. WOW! I made my first delivery and yes,I will go back. The person who offered a truck for the delivery, thanked me for the experience.   It is particularly cold, so I know the charcoal is especially appreciated. I am still collecting, so please give me a shout if you would like to contribute.