Chrissie Webber works as a writer, business coach and motivation/ leadership trainer and is Managing Director of Life-Shapers Ltd, an online weight-loss motivation company. With over 20 years experience in the field of business and people development she has an expertise in the area of motivation for permanent weight loss.
Following a lifetime of weight issues - at her heaviest, over 21 stone and a massive size 30 – she has personal experience of diets and their devastating effect on size and psyche. With a background in nursing, psychology and business coaching, coupled with a lifetime of dieting, she developed and successfully used a series of models and tools that enhance weight loss motivation. Now over 5 dress sizes smaller and having sustained her weight loss for several years, Chrissie continues her passionate drive to change the mindsets of people away from a ‘Scarcity’ dieting mindset – where food is demonised as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – to an ‘Abundance’ mindset where mind, body and spirit work hand in hand with food and nature.
I have just been reflecting on how much our motivation needs boosting from time to time. I am the sort of person who can, if I let myself, withdraw from the world and all the motivation it offers. These are the times that I find my comfort eating creeping back and my motivation evaporating into the ether!
It is at times like this, that I now know the most important thing for me to do is to 'Feed my Soul'. All our souls require being full to overflowing with self-love, gratitude and joy. These are the things that build sustainable happiness. A happy soul has no need to turn for comfort to food, but it is all too easy to forget this when our focus is on the negative.
Like a drug, the first 'fix' of negativity has us looking for more and more, trapped until we make the choice to seek a way out. For a long time I struggled to get out of the traps by doing something self-loving that was not linked to food. This was a good first step but it was still hard to make the changes in my habits.
Then I began to realise that the self-loving acts that are best antidotes to the negativity 'fix' are the ones that lift our spirits and 'Feed Our Souls'. You know the ones that life your energy and positive emotions within seconds. They are different for all of us and so your list of ‘Soul Full Actions’ is a personal one. Some of mine are…
· Joyful and lively music I can sing along to;
· Reading a book that fills me with inspiration such as ‘Loving What Is’ by Byron Katie
· Beautiful photos of our wonderful world;
· Songs with an uplifting message in them. The last two on my list, I think lift a lot of souls so I have attached an inspirational slide show that a friend sent me recently. The pictures are really amazing and the words and music uplifting. So, I hope they feed your soul.
