Have you noticed how much “body shaming” is happening in our culture lately?
It is not OK to Body Shame!
Social Media promotes Body Bullying!
To stop Body Shaming…Begin with your body!
While the rise of social media has had damaging effects, it has also empowered many women (and men!) to stand up against the bullies.
Alone, we are a single voice of protest.
Together, we are a chorus of positive energy pushing back against the attempted tyranny of the body bullies!
So, what are the next steps?
As the founder of the Body Knowledge System®, I’m here to help restore our integrity as we move from body shame to body awe*! My website guides women who want to progress from Body Shame to Body Awe through the successful application of my body knowledge system.
*Body Awe means respect filled with wonder when considering our body.
“AWESOME” Current culture uses “awesome” to describe the very best of the best. Notice the “we” in that word.
And even more practically . . . what are the practices you can incorporate into your everyday life to make this a reality?
Learn how Body Shaming can be erased forever with the Body Knowledge System® with Coach Stephanie Wood, PCC.
Contact me for a FREE CONSULTATION!
Body Shame → Body Acceptance → Body Confidence →
Body Awe!
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I invite you to listen to myself with my favorite colleague Barry Shore where I coach him around the idea of Branding.
It is a topic I explore in my new book “The Body Knowledge Entrepreneur How to navigate your Unique Style for Business Success.”
| Footnote from Stephanie: Watch and listen how I Coach Barry with a practice from my Body Knowledge Entrepreneur playbook. Barry’s challenge today is understanding how to coach his clients better around creating their Brand. Now Barry is a seasoned Coach himself and will interject his coaching philosophies as we move through our time together. My intention is to showcase both of our coaching styles. So, enjoy and take from our coaching conversation whatever suits you. |
After Listening
I invite you to participate with my OASIS Entrepreneurial Style Assessment (takes 7 minutes, not even).
Let us talk about how this all applies to you!
Take the assessment then Book a conversation with me at: bodyawe.setmore.com
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Entrepreneurial Success Through Mind-Body Connection
Stephanie emphasizes the body-mind connection
What can this possibly have to do with me being an entrepreneur?
Let’s find out
One of the most exciting aspects of the Body Knowledge Dance is its focus on stress reduction and clear thinking, which is perfect for the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship you’re in. You know that stress can be a constant challenge on this journey, but through the dance’s mindful and meditative qualities, you’ll find a space for inner peace and rejuvenation. Release that physical tension as you focus on being present in the moment, calming your mind and reducing anxiety like never before.
Coaching with Stephanie
With Stephanie’s coaching, her client rediscovers her body and invites her back in
Client: Back in December, I went to the Emergency Room for chest pains. All my tests came back normal and the doctor there diagnosed me as having a panic attack. He had me follow up with a cardiologist and that doctor came to the same conclusion. None of my friends or family were surprised.
The thing is, I felt like the stress was fueling me to do my job well. It was like a high. Sure, I crash every so often, but I thought it was working. Now, for my health’s sake, I’m trying to work from a calmer and more regulated place. That’s my intention, but when I think about making it happen, I just feel lost.
Client Challenge and ‘Ha-Ha!’(Revelation)
Stephanie: You got so accustomed to the dance of stress and anxiety, you’ve forgotten your body’s dance all together! Never fear – we will recover your steps together. How can we best create a connection between your body and your state of mind?
Client: I usually visualize my intention.
Stephanie: Wonderful. Let’s visualize that intention and bring it to life. When you’re ready, I want you to close your eyes and picture yourself embodying calm and regulation as an entrepreneur.
Client: So I say out loud : ‘I embody calm and regulation as an entrepreneur.’
Stephanie: Indeed! Now it’s time to let that visualized intention guide your body as it moves. As you move your body say your intention out loud. ( you are your own choreographer). Yes! Move your body in any shape or form you want. What is happening
Client: I already feel a little calmer, but I feel more alive too! I never knew I could have energy from calm instead of being fueled by stress. I feel hopeful for the first time in awhile!
For you to know
My clients often come to me exhausted and at the end of their rope. Our culture teaches us that we must force our bodies to conform to our version of success, but the Body Knowledge Entrepreneur learns that she doesn’t have to sacrifice her own well-being to achieve success in the business world.
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To further your understanding of who you are so that taking your talents out into the world as an entrepreneur are successful and practical.
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Listen to my Podcast with Thao
around How to Practice Body Talk
Let’s understand how listening to your Body’s Voice (and you have every right to disagree) communicate.
Better Business Decisions made Easier
There are many things I am thankful for this week, not the least of which is my close relationship with my body. That interdependency provided the confidence I needed to become a successful professional.
Refreshing Your Memory about the Body Knowledge System®
Athletes, dancers, and actors know the feeling of trusting their physical selves to perform and succeed on the field, stage, and film. As a professional dancer and choreographer, I matured with open communication between my mind and body. That relationship benefits my entrepreneurial side, starting and managing several small successful businesses using my Body Knowledge System® as a basis for all of them.
Brief History of Understanding your body’s Intelligence
Body acceptance, body positivity, and body confidence are modern terms to free today’s women from the negative influences of the media, their families and friends, and significant others. All babies are born confident. The separation between mental and physical selves occurs when we understand our dependency on others for survival.
Pleasing them replaced pleasing ourselves.
Not that our mothers’ judgments of what we ate and wore didn’t influence our self-image throughout childhood; they did. After leaving for college, marriage, or work, the media’s impossible standards took over her role of body shaming.
So how do you Practice your personal Body Knowledge?
My Business Coaching reconnects my clients with the intimate relationship they had with their bodies at birth. My clients move from being stuck in their mind space to genuinely enjoying their body space.
Yes! Connecting with your Body Knowledge enhances your business opportunities
Eliminating judgment of ourselves and others, we enjoy the steadfast support from our bodies and see no need to seek validation elsewhere.
Feeling stuck, pressured, insecure?
Those feelings occur in your mind but show themselves in your body, in your body language.
How often has your mind said “yes” when every muscle in your body screams “No!”
You can trust your body because she always tells the truth.
Your Next Step
Enjoy taking this brief OASIS Entrepreneurial Style Assessment
After receiving your results go to my calendar to find out more about yourself in order to make better decisions in your Business and Personal Life.
Final Note:
I coach women entrepreneurs who want to integrate better business skills into their business and most importantly to enhance their confidence skills
How? With my Body Knowledge System® and my experience with owning, creating and managing several profitable businesses. Book a call with me
Talk Soon
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Practicing your personal and professional body knowledge helps build confidence to function better during each day.
Let Marty share her evolution with her own body Knowledge
Find out yours right now
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Let’s listen to Marty:
As Stephanie’s client, I ended my estrangement with my 55-year-old body. She pointed out that at birth, our body and our mind are one unit. As we mature, our mind turns its attention outward to the environment to fulfill our body’s needs. We respond to external stimuli, and the separation increases, further distancing our body from our mind.
I was ready to look at my relationship with my body as more than just taking up space on the planet. Rather than micromanaging my physical self, I embraced her, began to listen to her wisdom, and became comfortable with the knowledge that my BFF was there supporting us in our best interests.
Until our move to Montana from Southern California, my exercise was aggressive tennis four times a week. I love our ranch and the surrounding beauty, horses, dogs, and trails to hike. I spent days at the PC ghostwriting, and I had absolutely no desire to do aerobics to a video, run the trails (grizzly bears and mountain lions are out there), or do yoga without a skinny yogi ordering me into another pretzel pose.
Most of us live daily without awareness of our unique, individual approaches to every aspect of living. As a child, my mother signed me up for years of ballet lessons, which I loathed. I am built like my father, a former professional football player and coach. Floating about a stage in a leotard, a powder puff tutu, and painfully restrictive toe shoes is a humiliation I carried into adulthood.
If I was an Organized or Analytical Style, the ballet or a regularly scheduled gym class might work. Spontaneous styles look for pick-up basketball games on the neighborhood courts, drop-in hot yoga sessions, or at the 24-hour Jazzercise studios.
I have identified my dominant style as Inspirational as I sought an exercise that I would do! Freeform dance to rock ’n roll was my answer. Playlists to sweat to, stretch to, and smash writer’s block anytime, anywhere. The magic is always in the movement, and the music creates inspiration, fulfilling my style as I accomplished my goal of burning calories and getting in touch with my body, my BFF.
Inspirational, my dominant style, which is also evident in my career choice (writer/producer) and fortunately for my producing hat, Organizational comes in a close 2nd at work and at play. (Tennis foursomes, weekly court times, Bridge card games.) When shopping, I make a list, then forget to bring it with me…so I rely on memory and inspiration after arriving at the store.
As soon as we identify and accept the specific style that applies to eating, exercising, relationships, shopping, working, and playing, we derive more benefits, enjoy the activities more, and reinforce the closer relationship we have with our bodies.
Knowing your style in relationships, as well as that of your significant other, parents, children, and associates, will strengthen your understanding. If you feel generous, go beyond your simple observations, and educate them in Coach Stephanie’s Style system.
The Body Knowledge System’s value is its ease of restoring the confidence you were born with in this original, sensible, and provocative process. My only regret is not knowing about the Body Knowledge System ® in my teens or twenties, as the principles in the process are lifelong guides to my personal and professional success.
Thank you, Coach Stephanie; for me, better later than not at all!
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Stephanie’s emphasis for any entrepreneur is Intention
“With your intention in mind, let your dance reflect it. If your intention is to lead with grace and assertiveness, move with a blend of poise and power. If your intention is to shatter stereotypes, let your movements be bold and transformative. As you dance, your body becomes a living embodiment of your commitment to combating disrespect.
Allow your intention to permeate your thoughts and emotions. Let it resonate within you like a mantra, infusing your dance with purpose and meaning. With each motion, remind yourself that you’re the orchestrator of this dance, the driving force behind your journey to conquer disrespect.”
| Client Challenge and ‘Ha-Ha!’(Revelation) Client: I have struggled with people pleasing my whole life. I feel like I end up absorbing so much in an effort to make everyone at work feel happy. I’m exhausted and catering to everyone is holding me back. Stephanie: You’re dancing to someone else’s tune right now. Let’s get you back in sync with your body so you can find your own. Client: I am ready to begin. Stephanie: Let’s start with your intention. What would that sound like? Give me a short sentence please. Client: Ugh. ‘I just hope I can learn how to stick up for myself.’ Stephanie: Let’s explore reframing your language with more definitiveness: Your turn: Client: ‘Sticking up for myself empowers me!’ This feels and sounds better. Stephanie: Okay, Let’s try describing how you’d show up if you had no fear! Client: ‘I intend to show up boldly, to know what I want, what I need and to act those things out in a kind but firm way!’ Now these words inspire me! And Yes Stephanie! I remember what to do next…dance and move with my words! Plus moving with the words of my Intention makes my intention stronger and believable so that my mind and body remember the feeling of my Intention. |
One more step-Now it is your turn
Finding out about your style to move forward with all your business challenges.
Let’s now make a date for your customized coaching session.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Want to know if coaching with Stephanie is a fit for you? Listen in to this recent interview
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.’
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
Take the Body Confidence Check-in Quiz
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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.
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.
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
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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