Hi, I’m Kerri van de Loo
I am a Qualified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach, specialising in Eating Psychology, and the owner and director of Body Essence – a place I am creating to educate, inspire and ignite a passion within you to move, nourish and love your body. Within me is a burning desire to show you how to love yourself, to make you feel empowered by having a strong and fit body, to educate you on how to eat and nourish yourself in a way that your body loves, and to get you off this crazy dieting mentality that makes everyone feel like they are never good enough. I am a mum to my 4 year old daughter, Reese, and get to have the joy of my partner’s two boys in my life too. I spent most of my daughter’s life being a single mum, and know how hard life balance and self-care can often be in this busy world. Some of the journey I have walked through in this life hasn’t always been smooth and it has meant that I have had to fight incredibly hard to be able to move, nourish and love my own body. From me to you, I want you to know that I understand that life isn’t always easy. I understand that sometimes it can be just too tough to want to love yourself, to want to eat healthy and to want to exercise. I get it, I have been there, even with knowing how to do it all the way it’s meant to be. But I have figured something out, and it is that regardless of what we do or don’t do, we are always good enough. It has taken me a long time with a lot of work to come to this realisation, and I still work hard each day to maintain my self-esteem, self-belief and self-love. My deepest belief is that we all deserve to be able to accept who we are without the self-judgement and self-criticism we live with, and once we can accept ourselves, we can then learn to approve, love and respect our self on every level. It is only once this takes place that we no longer need to fight a daily battle with willpower and motivation to move and nourish our body. Because when our mind knows we are worth it, our body responds accordingly – we begin to realise what our body wants and we respect it enough to give it to it. We let go of food challenges, we let go of punishing our body with irregular and erratic exercise patterns, we let go of self-sabotaging habits, and we let go of self-punishment. The biggest thing I have realised in this whole process of self-acceptance is that I had to forgive myself. I had to forgive anyone who had treated me with disrespect, but more than that, I had to forgive myself for disrespecting my own self. I think there perhaps isn’t a person in this world that doesn’t need to forgive themselves for something. It is the most potent healer when we can no longer hold onto toxic beliefs that we have done wrong by ourselves or by others. Forgiveness is essential. I haven’t always loved myself. In fact, I still remember the pain I used to feel when I looked at myself in a mirror. I loathed everything I saw, I felt ashamed, disgusted, embarrassed and sad about who I was and had to be. The thing is though, I am still the same person, the only thing I have changed is my perspective on who I am which meant I could fall in love with myself. It took effort and work to do this, but my driving force of knowing I didn’t need to feel this way pushed me to never give up on myself. The five daily steps I have in my 28 Day Self-Love Journal is a replica of the processes I used to go from the person who loathed herself, to the person who loves, accepts and approves of herself. The only thing I changed was my mind-set. It mightn’t be easy, but start the journey of doing it, and then see what happens! http://www.bodyessence.co.nz/shop.html#!/28-Day-Self-Love-Journal-Book/p/84386272/category=0 Once you have your own Self-Love Journal, read through these pointers to help you get the best out of your 28 days: When thinking of things you love about yourself, aim to have a mix of things about who you are and the way you look. For the most powerful improvement, find the things you don’t like about yourself and turn them into a reason why you do like them. For an example, if you dislike your tummy, find a reason you love it – because it digests and processes all the food you eat to nourish your body, or because it grew and held your babies for 9 months, or because it breathes in deeply to relax and calm your body. If you don’t like your legs, find a reason why you like them – you love how they move you through life, or how they are healthy and strong to walk where ever you want to go. It’s all about perspective and gratitude. When picking your daily affirmation, select something that you know you want to improve on, and find an affirmation that reflects where you want to be, and how you want to feel. For an example, if you dislike your body shape and size, choose an affirmation such as “I love and accept my body as it is”. If you feel like you don’t think you are worth much or never feel good enough, choose an affirmation such as “I love myself and I am good enough just the way I am”. It is important to place the tense of your affirmations in a current tense of how you want to feel and with no negatives. Affirmations such as “when I lose weight I will love myself” or “I don’t hate my tummy anymore” are using the wrong tenses and the wrong positive perspective. Always use “I love” and “I am”. Go and accept the body you live in – because you are worth it! Kerri van de Loo x
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