Although I was a slim child, as soon as the hormones kicked in when I became a teenager, I was made to believe that I was fat. I have to phrase it this way because in reality, when I look back, I wasn't, but I was put on diets and inevitably I piled on the pounds after each diet failed and left me feeling more and more despaired.

It took me years to learn to love myself as I was, as me and my sister had labels that hurt us both: I was the pretty but fat, she was the slim but not so pretty...

As adults we can change all that, but I wish it hadn't taken so long. Doing ten years of psychotherapy didn't help with the weight althought there were periods in my life where I was relatively slim, I couldn't see that and always compared myself to others, and this left me feeling awful. There was a long tradition of self hate amongst the women of my family: all they could see was what was wrong with them instead of what was right and they had long life habits of dieting which they taught me from a very young age.

When I trained as a hypnotherapist, it helped me tremendously to understand how my thoughts were stopping me from being happy. I had put two stones during my pregnancy and was feeling awful. As I am only 5 feet 2, two stones (14 kgs) really show. I had a double chin and a fat tummy and all I wanted was to hide in the comfort of my own home. I had no self esteem and the stress of having to deal with my chidlren on my own (I was divorced) made it very difficult for me. I found food in comfort.

Since then, I have lost two stones and kept it off. I shifted the depression thanks to Feng Shui, crystals, reiki, emotional freedom technique, Bach Flower remedies and all the things I talked about in my book. Journaling was also an essential part because overeating is often not the real problem.

But what I offer in the book is not just one way, it's several options so that you can chose which one works for you and there are chances that you will go from one to the other and mix and match. We are all different.  

You might not understand why Feng Shui can help you on your journey, but it does. What makes the Journey of the Slim Soul so unique, is that it doesn't pretend to be the only way, it offers several ways, but the one avenue that is not part of it is dieting and eating control.  

I write more about my journey in my book and I hope my story will inspire you. What I want you to do, however, is to write your own journey and follow what will work for you.

My aim is to inspire women to follow the Journey of the Slim Soul so that they start loving themselves NOW just as they are. And it is only after you accept yourself as you are that you finally are able to let go of the heaviness in your heart.... and guess what, when this happens, the pounds go off easily and effortlessly.

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The best on your journey.

Anges de Lumiere