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Wise Words from Coach Stephanie Wood, PCC
The dream that I champion for my clients are entrepreneurs who want to feel confident with certain skills and techniques they can rely on to make a difference in the world…
As your coach I want to create a business with your talents. I do this with my Body Knowledge System®. With my 30 years’ experience with developing entrepreneurial businesses. The women I coach want to be their own financier, make their own money, make their lifestyle exactly the way they want on their own terms as they develop their business.
How Stephanie got into coaching…
I was a professional dancer on the New York Stage, but auditioning became a drain;. So, I asked myself, ‘how can I combine my talent of movement with making money?’ I didn’t want to worry about somebody rejecting me. So that’s how I started my first business, which combined my talents of music and movement. Remember Jane Fonda when she put out her first aerobics video?
I watched that, and I said to myself, in my living room,’ I can do that!’ I can actually do that even better than her. I started my aerobics business. I went to churches and temples and VA facilities, I paid rent, I employed over 30 teachers, I created the routines that I choreographed. And I did that for a couple years. And that, combined with my talent of movement, and my essence of knowing how to make money, created a platform, which is my Coaching and the techniques of business know-how with my Body Knowledge System®.
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Body Positivity Messages with Body Shaming Messages
What’s a girl to do?
By Coach Stephanie Wood, PCC
Lisa my new client asked, ‘What should be my correct weight and body shape be? I get mixed messages from my Family and the Media.’
If I look or weigh one way, I receive body shaming or on the other hand I receive Body Positives.
What’s a girl to follow?
Coaching from Stephanie
“Have you asked your body?”
“What do you mean?”
A perfect opening to a discussion of our Body Knowledge System ®. I explained the ideal intimate friendship between a person and their body. When you end the estrangement with your body, you welcome a new best friend forever into your life. Your body supports you in many ways beyond the physical. Providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support, your body supplies reliable advice, guidance, and, most of all, love for the whole of you. (I coached Lisa with the Body Knowledge System® conversation so she experienced friendship with her body immediately).
Stephanie’s coaching challenge to Lisa to move forward
I challenged Lisa to create a phrase that will have her happy with her body image, her weight, her health and her spirit without media judgement.
Lisa’s phrase (and she can change it) ‘I love what my body can do every moment.’
Coaching Final Message
Two important Body Knowledge System® principles apply:
#1 Your body helps you reframe your life from the negative to the positive. Even when your mind is pulling you down with critical self-talk.
#2 When practicing your custom Body Knowledge System® your body supports you returning to the healthy weight for both of you.
The body positivity movement is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing since it alleviates much of the pain from harsh, and often untrue, criticism from outside and sometimes from inside sources. A curse because obesity is a national epidemic and can kill you.My clients learn to listen to their bodies’ wisdom to achieve their mutual goals. Practicing their Body Knowledge System® tunes into the messages sent by their body. The Body Knowledge System® works because it begins within your body to inspire your practice.
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Just 2 minutes take my body confidence check-in
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The Body Knowledge System® sustains you because you and your body developed your practice to address your specific wants, needs, and motivations. This new relationship with your body renews your faith in yourself and promotes your Body Confidence.Body Confidence expands as you progress on your journey to healthy fitness. When you establish the warm relationship with your body you were born with, it becomes a habit to share with each other when you make a choice, act on a decision, or plan for your future.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Hi all!
I have been interviewed by David Riklan [Founder Self Growth.com] around how my Body confidence
Tools and Techniques through my Body Knowledge System ® can enhance certain areas of your life ( I specialize with entrepreneurs) so that you make better choices.
Listen to the interview here.
Any insights or questions you may have feel free to answer in this blog
Or
Leave a message at my toll-free number 1-866-76-COACH and we can schedule
An uplifting Body confidence coaching Experience or contact me at bodyawe.com
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I am replying to your body confidence responses from my questionnaire (that you can take again or for those of you taking it for the 1st time cuz things change as you grow and learn)
As I hear from you, I want to include some observations from my one on one coaching sessions.
#2 To feel Body Confidence I need to…” I have no idea!”
This is the second question in the Body Confidence questionnaire and the answer most provided are a variation of “I have no idea!”
And this is the first challenge…it’s not about your head, your mind, your thought process, it’s always about your body.
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Time out! Engage for 2 minutes to take this questionnaire
http://www.bodyawe.com/body-confidence-check-in/
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Body Confidence is not an idea, a mental image, a thought or even a vision, it’s about a feeling. And where do your feelings live? In your body.
So, how do you find that feeling?
If your answer to the second question referred to “knowing, or thinking” any of the mental verbs, that indicates the estrangement you have from your body. To find your body confidence, refocus your attention to your body.
1. First select a feeling you are comfortable with: happy, sad, mad, or glad. Those are the four categories psychologists identify with all of our human emotions. I’d put body confidence under “glad”. So, let’s start there.
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‘Let’s engage with a coaching conversation (20 minutes, on me)’
http://www.bodyawe.com/contact-lifecoach-mentor-stephanie-wood/
Your results will take you on a new path and give you access to an uplifting body confidence coaching experience…on me or just call me now at 1-866-76-COACH/leave your cell phone number and we will connect and make a date.
Let’s hear what you have found out about yourself, then contact me (Stephanie) to get you where you want to be. I encourage you Resume the Relationship with your body through your personal Body Knowledge System®.
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2. Take a moment and locate that feeling within your body. The specific location is not important, just the realization that your body is the home to your familiar feelings of “glad.” Try answering the second question with “I need to feel glad.”
Bring back the memory of the feeling glad and the experience that created that feeling. Hearing from an old friend, seeing a video of healthy puppies or kittens, feeling good after completing something you’ve been avoiding for too long, are just a few instances that summon up the “glad” emotion from your body.
Once you recognize that feeling, identifying it, it’s a very short step to re-discovering your body confidence, also resident in your body.
Ending the estrangement…
Those who practice their Body Knowledge System® are well on their way to recovering their birthright, the body confidence.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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“I have never felt body confidence.” is the most common answer to the first question with my body confidence check in questionnaire.
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Time out! Engage for 2 minutes to take this questionnaire
http://www.bodyawe.com/body-confidence-check-in/
Your results will take you on a new path and give you access to a uplifting body confidence coaching experience…on me or just call me now at 1-866-76-COACH/leave your cell phone number and we will connect and make a date
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Did you know that body confidence begins in our body, and we are all born with it, even men? Males’ body confidence lasts a lifetime. Not so for women, as we mature physically, we may lose our body confidence birthright.
Inside the Image
In the 21st Century we have the tools to level the body confidence playing field. It is no longer about image or appearance, it’s about our connection with the location of our body confidence: our body.Body Confidence never left our body. Our awareness of it has lessened to the point of invisibility, and if we want body confidence we need to get out of our heads and resume our relationship with our body.First
Identify the Feeling
The Body Knowledge System® is the efficient, effective way to re-connect with your body to answer the first question in the Body Confidence check in questionnaire with a specific age, date, or event. Once you identify the feeling of confidence located in your body with all of your other feelings, the next step becomes possible.
Next Experience the Feeling
There’s no need to “fake it until you make it” with your personalized body knowledge system as soon as you re-establish your relationship with your BFF, your body.
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Time out! Engage for 2 minutes to take this questionnaire
http://www.bodyawe.com/body-confidence-check-in/
Your results will take you on a new path and give you access to a uplifting body confidence coaching experience…on me or just call me now at 1-866-76-COACH/leave your cell phone number and we will connect and make a date.
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Let’s see what you have found out about yourself, then contact me (Stephanie) to get you where you want to be. Resume the Relationship with your body through your personal Body Knowledge System®.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Listen to my client’s journey with her renewed Body Confidence
I was coaching the other day with a client named Madge who had had the coolest breakthrough. She watches her three-year-old granddaughter pretty often and she noticed that when her granddaughter is well rested and well fed, she is typically in much better spirits and calmer.
“It hit me,” Madge said, “that our minds, emotions, and bodies are truly connected.”
My client felt motivated to reconnect with her body, in hopes that she could get out of a rut of feeling like she has plateaued at work. Deep down, she felt that her struggle to advance was rooted in low self-esteem, and she was hopeful that body confidence could help her.
Another thing Madge noticed with her granddaughter is that she would sometimes resist the very thing she needed. “I could tell we needed to get out of the house,” she said,” but my granddaughter kept refusing. Finally, I just had to make the call and do what was best. We ended up having a wonderful time on an outing. It was just what we both needed.
In the same way, Madge noticed that her body would nudge her towards movement. “Whether parking farther away at the grocery store to get a few steps in or dancing with my granddaughter, I would notice my body craving movement and then make excuses for
not doing it. I realized that just like my granddaughter needs me to take over and meet her needs, I need to let my body choose what we’re doing.
Now that Madge has given her body a voice, she feels a difference! “I’m not so afraid that I’m quiet in meetings any more. Instead, I feel clear headed and happy.”
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Moral of the story: Sometimes, the simplest example, can help us make some pretty helpful changes.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Do your wear Flats or Heels?
by Coach Stephanie Wood, PCC
Lisa, my client, wanted to discuss her teenage daughter in our last session, “In my generation, 5’9″ was considered tall for a woman, so I entered junior high already slumping through the halls, looking down at the shorter six grade boys—Now my daughter, Zoe, measures 5’11” as she enters High School and I can’t remember the last time I saw her stand up straight! Plus, there is not one pair of heels in her closet—only the thinnest of flats!”
Since I’m 5’3″, at a young age I hoped for a few more inches so I would become a New York City Ballet dancer on the world stage. It never occurred to me that my girlfriends might resent the inches they have as much as I resented the inches I didn’t have.
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High Heels to my rescue
When I discovered the empowerment of high heels to my 5’3” height, a new world opened up for me. I felt a new sense of perception and carried my body with more confidence. Honestly, I think we all want what we do not have therefore sacrificing body confidence. Ridiculous! Yes?
Some interesting facts about height and our body confidence
After our coaching session ended, I did a little research on the subject of body confidence and tall women and was shocked to discover: for every inch over the national average of 5’9″ considered “tall” for a woman, their body confidence fell proportionally. Perhaps that’s the reason shoe manufacturers sell more flats to tall rather than shorter women.
In a recent article by Lorra Garrick, “Self-body Shaming: When Very Tall Women Wear Flats”, she asserts that choice indicates the wearer lacks the self-confidence that accompanies the same height on a man. “What a shame. Why would any woman want to look UP to the men in a room?”
Lorra’s short cut for “Susceptible to Negative Opinions of Other People?” applies to all of us whenever our body confidence suffers an assault as a reaction to a perceived slight, a disappointment, or simply looking into the mirror and frown rather than smile at the image looking back at you.
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“You belong on a Pedestal”
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Zoe’s mother’s efforts to build her daughter’s confidence by encouraging her to stand up straight was good for her posture but did little to tap into her body confidence.
Coaching visualization with Zoe for Lisa
“I encourage you to have a conversation with Zoe so that she can envision herself on a pedestal like all the beautiful women over the years, whether the pedestal is as thin as a piece of paper or four inches of spiked loveliness.”
The message for all of us is:
When looking in the mirror or walking into a room, isn’t it glorious to feel the strength within your body as you decide what height you feel most comfortable in [real height does not even matter anymore]. –this is body confidence–
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Enjoy taking a very brief Body Confidence 5 Questions check-in
Take the Body Confidence Check-in Quiz
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To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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‘Life’s Toughest Relationship’ is with yourself. Your inner critic undermines every thought, action, choice you make, and her solution is to love yourself.
So How do you do this?
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Debra’s Dilemma
My client Debra called with a simple ask, “All the media advice givers tell us to ‘love yourself’, but they don’t tell us how!”
I asked her to walk the phone over to a mirror, preferably a full-length mirror, and tell me what she saw.“YUCK!” she exclaimed. “Please don’t ask me to do that ever again!”
Her loud denial of appreciation for her own image, her body’s reflection told me all I needed to know.
I asked her, how would you love yourself and your body without the mirror?
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Personal and lifestyle coaching practices are full of clients who are not willing or able to give themselves the gift of love they provide others in their lives.
The Body Knowledge System® addresses ‘Life’s Toughest Relationship’ in the most direct way.
Begin with the body…
My body knowledge system begins with our original relationship: the one we have with our bodies. Step one is always acceptance, leading to respect, and finally affection. The affection we feel for our BFF, our Best Friend Forever because that’s exactly who she is!
End with Confidence, Body Confidence.
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Empowerment means accepting responsibility for your choices, communications and actions. With your BFF by your side, your body knowledge system practice as the only resource you need, you are free to share your special self with the rest of the world.
Debra’s Delight…
So, we began with her body, her BFF. She needed to reframe her resentment to her physical self into the appreciation her body deserves. Using her custom body knowledge system practice, her paradigm shifted beyond appreciation into adoration for the body that had attracted her husband of 25 years, produced three healthy children, gave her a five handicap on the golf course, and the energy to create, manage, and succeed in her new real estate business.
I love happy endings, don’t you?
Coach Stephanie
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Your Body Knowledge System is the key to unlocking
Your personal Body Confidence
Open the lock and release your Body Confidence forever.
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Here is what I want for you to better understand
Client story to better understand the body knowledge concept
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My client, Sara, was gob-smacked at what she realized was a thinly veiled insult by her step-mother about her weight. The fact that Sara had just given birth to her fourth child found the woman’s comment extremely hurtful.
Instead, she called me for a refresher Body Knowledge System® coaching session.
Sara’s challenge
“What has taken me so long to re-connect?” Sara asked. “After every birth I call you as soon as I put the baby down for a long nap.
“Yes, my personal Body Knowledge System® refreshes more than my body confidence, it always lifts my baby blues and gets reminds me of the awesome body I have!”
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My coaching observation with Sara’s challenge
With Sara it is about renewing the relationship between her and her body. Recognizing her body’s identity and recognizing her body’s attributes (as she would do with a friend or spouse).
Allow me to help you create your perfect and appropriate response to any put down, insult, or snarky remark.
Let’s begin, together accessing your body confidence when you practice your Body Knowledge System®!
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When in (Body Confidence) Doubt, DANCE!
Where does body confidence begin?
Within your body.
Where does your dance begin?
Within your body.
Where does your doubt begin?
Within your mind.
Doubt is fear. Fear begins in your mind and is never present in your body unless your mind places it there. Rather than trying to change your mind, move your body and allow her to change your mind into one of confidence, optimism, and positivity.
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Your dance is a pure manifestation of your body’s knowledge—about you! Your body was born with body confidence, and your body maintains that level of certitude through out your life. It’s your mind that gets influenced by negative, judgmental, critical comparisons to others that diminishes your self-assurance.
How to get your Body Confidence back when in doubt
Your body is your coaching tool to correct the imbalance between those outside influences and what you and your BFF know to be true about yourself.
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