Everyone is familiar with the “post-partum blues” that can happen after having a baby when all the expectations of a bundle of joy meet the reality of diapers, drool, and responsibility for another human being.

The Body Knowledge System® has a cure for all the Blues!

The Blues happen after every loss in of our lives, but the day after Christmas comes with a predictable outcome: post-holiday let down.

The Body Knowledge System® has a cure for the post-holiday blues, too!

Whether all the shopping, cooking, entertaining, and clean up was your responsibility, or a shared one, the period prior to December 25th is filled with stress, dread, and expectations for the “happiest day of the year”. Regardless of the outcome, today is the day after the happiest day of the year.

If you are like most of us, your expectations usually exceed the reality of yesterday. Your sweet potato soufflé looked more like a yam pancake, your moist turkey resembled a raison rather than the plum promised by the recipe, and that very special gift you expected from your very special someone turned out to be the latest version of a food saver. Oh well, maybe next year…or the year after….

Now what?

Feel better fast!

Make a date with your BFF, and practice your dance and dance your practice!

If this is not making sense to you, contact Coach Stephanie for a free conversation on the Body Knowledge System® today!

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Coach Stephanie has a gift for you that guarantees you will not only survive the parties, dinners, eggnog, cookies, candies, you will enjoy them, too!

Simply click this link, (to the Hunger Scale on the website) download the single page of instructions. Post them where you can refer to them during your holiday events when you need some guidance around the delicious holiday food and drink you encounter at the parties you give and those you attend.

This list is the guidepost for all successful practitioners of the Body Knowledge System®. After the lines of communication are open between you and your body, you will no longer need to refer to the list to know its contents. You will simply listen to your body’s wisdom and make the right choices for both of you!

Enjoy your holidays!

Coach Stephanie!

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Your maturation into adulthood included judgment, censorship, and repression of those acute reactions to events in your life. The farther your reactions distanced you from the truth of the reaction, whether positive or negative; your awareness of your body diminished accordingly.

The challenge is peeling away the layer of negativity that separates your social mask you from the real you, then relying on the confidence of your body’s knowledge to express your authenticity with assurance.

The holidays are the perfect time to treat yourself to a rebirth of your relationship with your BFF and a supportive partnership to lead both of you into the New Year.

Create a commitment to fulfill your dreams, live your vision, with unlimited potential of personal and professional success through your practice of the Body Knowledge System®

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We think it’s expressed in body language. When answering that question, our minds go to models strutting on the runway, or charismatic speech makers striding to the podium, or the guest of honor entering a dinner room filled with people there to show their respect.

Body Confidence has many benefits. Since a first impression is usually a lasting impression, those 4-8 seconds are the most important in any meeting.

Body Confidence creates happiness in every personal or professional situation. During all interactions, and afterwards, the positive halo effect colors the memories. Those warm colors reinforce the impression made by those who participated in the event.

If it’s so powerful, why don’t we all have it?

Stay tuned, or contact Coach Stephanie now for your short cut to Body Confidence!

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Instant Response= Clarity of Relationship

At birth, the clarity of your relationship with your body provided instant response to your every need and most of your wants. Your survival, growing up depended upon repressing your body’s stimuli in favor of your judgment on what behavior was required to fulfill your wants and needs.

As an adult, your level of happiness depends on how aware you are of your body’s communications to you. Her wisdom, knowledge and instincts are pure, non-judgmental, and always have your best interests as her only priority.

What else do you expect from a BFF?

To prove it, pinch yourself hard.

Do you feel the pain? Immediately, right?

That’s your body’s communication to you.

And she has so much more to share, once you learn how to access her knowledge.

For a short cut: contact Coach Stephanie today

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The Short Cut to Body Confidence.

The first and most essential step to Body Confidence is found in the Body Knowledge System®. It is re-establishing the relationship with your body you had at birth. The closeness you enjoyed then provided both of you with support, security, and therefore an organic confidence from your unity.

There’s comfort in sharing experience with another. In this case, the really “significant other” was your body. Your body with whom every experience was shared. If it was pleasant, your body reacted positively. When it was uncomfortable, your body experienced it negatively.

And then you reacted immediately without censorship to every experience.

The BKS® returns your birthright, Body Confidence, to you in your adulthood.

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After decades of experience as a dancer/choreographer, then personal trainer, healthy life style coach, I realized my clients came to me with their minds resenting what they perceived as their bodies letting them down.

It didn’t take long for me to realize they had their facts reversed.

It wasn’t their bodies letting them down, it was their minds ignoring their bodies.

My education and experience realized there was a disconnect between their desired outcome from our work together, and what I knew was the only approach that produces real, sustainable results.

The Body Knowledge System® is the result and it begins with the body, and re-establishing the individual’s awareness of their  body.

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Body Confidence Begins in Your Body!

The lesson from birth is the body knows what is best for you, and for your continued happiness you need to be aware of her knowledge.

Without your awareness, you are unable to take care of both of you.  As a child, when hunger or thirst struck, after your body alerted you to your need you went to your caregiver to provide it.

With maturity came independence.

And when your body alerted you to her needs, you took care of them yourself.

Until…

Outside influences distracted your attention from your body’s directions in the form of “shoulds” rather than “wants”.

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Give Thanks to your BFF, Your Body!

Today is all about gratitude.

So, while you count your blessings, remember your BFF, your body.

She deserves your appreciation for so many reasons, so take a moment and list them, then communicate with her and await her response of appreciation for you.

For you both to feel better today: Begin with a smile

• Move: dance, walk, sway.
• Meditate: Still yourself for seconds, moments, to bathe in white light.
• Breathe:
  • Inhale deeply through your nose
  • Hold it for 4 seconds
  • Blow the breath out through pursed lips

Enjoy your day in the grace of gratitude.

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Of Course it does…

Look at any baby who’s been fed, watered, changed and put down in a comfy, warm container for a nap. Sometimes there’s a smile, but always that is a face of contentment.

After the initial parting scream when the baby emerged from mother’s womb to indicate his or her body’s discomfort, the baby’s body communicates his or her needs, wants, desires. The body’s cries are intended to get the caretaker’s attention to fix the body’s discomfort. When satisfaction is achieved, the cries cease.

Hence, the innate body confidence at birth.

For most of us, when our body communicated, our caretakers responded.

That connection fostered the body confidence in the future, until the estrangement began when we became outer-directed rather than inner directed.

But it’s never too late to return to our source: our body!

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