If you missed the How To Feel Good In Your Skin Teleclass from last week, or forgot to register in the first place, here’s your chance to listen in.

REPLAY TIMES:

Thursday, September 2nd at 8PM Eastern, 7PM Central, 6PM Mountain, 5PM Pacific, 1AM London, 10AM Sydney

Tuesday, September 7th at Noon Eastern, 11AM Central, 10AM Mountain, 9AM Pacific, 5PM London, 2AM Sydney.

Do you find yourself saying no to fun outings because they involve wearing a swimsuit or shorts? Do you look in the mirror and dislike what you see, or avoid the mirror as much as possible? Are you waiting to lose weight before you do what you really want?

Most women are accustomed to living with the pain and shame of body hatred. And yet, that body hatred causes a ripple effect of problems, from a general feeling of being unfulfilled to intense shame and depression.

In this 60-minute teleclass, Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. (founder of Body Love Wellness and leading authority on Health At Every Size) will share some of her top techniques for feeling good in your skin– the same ones she shares with her private coaching clients.

You’ll walk away from this call with surprisingly powerful, yet simple techniques for feeling at peace with your body.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How to reconnect body and mind in a pleasurable way.
• The top mistake that women make when they’re trying to feel better about themselves.
• How to start loving parts of your body that you dislike now.
• Easy ways to heal from habits that no longer serve you.
• Powerful meditation/visualization practices that you can use anytime.

Whether feeling bad about your body is a new problem for you or you’ve been feeling that way as long as you can remember, you’ll get at least 3 BIG insights into how to heal from negative body image that you’ll be able to use immediately to feel more confident and comfortable in your body.

Note: Everyone who registers will receive a link to listen to the recording of the class, so you should still register if you can’t make it live!

Just enter your info in the boxes below, and you’ll receive the complete call details via email.

This week’s affirmation (used with permission from one of my clients):

“I’m where I’m supposed to be at this moment.”

Try it out and let me know how it affects your week!

Golda Poretsky, HHC
www.bodylovewellness.com

Listen to the podcast here:

In the past, I always hated being a beginner.

Despite the fact that I love to learn new things, I never liked being really new at something.  I never liked feeling lost and confused.  I never liked the feeling that other people were catching on to something that I wasn’t getting.

When I decided to play bass at Ladies’ Rock Camp this summer, I knew it was a big leap.  I knew that in 2.5 days I was going to learn a bit of bass, form a band, make t-shirts, write a song with my band, and play at the Knitting Factory.  And that was pretty much all I knew.  I didn’t know anyone else at the camp.  I had never played bass before in my life (in fact, I had never played a stringed instrument ever).

But as I walked in to bass class on the first morning of camp, I decided one thing — for once in my life, I was going to embrace being a beginner.  I was going to embrace the power of having a beginner’s mind, of knowing nothing, and therefore being open to all possibilities. As Shunryu Suzuki said in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, “When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. Then we can really learn something. The beginner’s mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.”

Beginnings (The Fool) From The Goddess Tarot Deck By Kris Waldherr

This same concept shows up in the tarot as well.  The first card of the deck, the zero card, is called the Fool.  But the fool isn’t truly foolish, he or she is just a newbie.  This card implies the beginning of a journey, within or without, the sacred nature of being open to possibilities, the primordial soup within each of us and the power of being a real beginner.

So why am I writing about being a fool and a beginner?  Because I’m hoping to illustrate (perhaps a little clumsily) the power of being new at something.

When we try something new, we often feel powerless.  We feel that we’re at the whim of our teachers, mentors, and counselors.  We feel pressure to get it right, to be prodigies, to not feel lost or admit that we’re lost.

But I think that being new at something can be really powerful.  The first time you wear a sleeveless top can be really powerful.  The first time that you ask a guy out can be really powerful.  The first time you pick up a bass and hear that sound ring out of your amp as it bounces around the room can be really, really powerful.  It can be really freaking scary too, but I agree with Shunryu Suzuki.  When your mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

So, my newbie friends, what are you going to be new at this week?

And if you want to try something really new, I’ll be making a big announcement about The Empress Club in just a few days.  It’s a group program designed to rocket you toward your food and body image desires.  We talked about it at the last teleclass . . . but there’s more to come.  So stay tuned!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. is a certified holistic health counselor who specializes in transforming your relationship with food and your body. Go to http://www.bodylovewellness.com/stay-in-touch/ to sign up for her newsletter and get your free download — Golda’s Top Ten Tips For Divine Dining!

Have you picked up Golda’s book yet? Get your copy of Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal today! Get it for your kindle too!

© 2010 Golda Poretsky. All rights reserved.

The Fature’s so bright, I gotta wear shades!

• The Eat Nothing Diet –  Big Fat Deal points out that the “diet tips” of certain bikini-clad famous people sound a lot like the “diet tips” of the severely eating disordered.
• Vagina Friendly; Make Friends With Your Area — The Rotund reminds us that getting to know your vulva is awesome!
• Do You Trust Your Body? – This is not a fat-o-sphere link, but in this piece, my friend, Nancy Bevers, talks about how learning to trust your body from the perspective of someone who is trying to conceive.

Lemme know what you think!

This week, I was inspired by my amazing experience at Willie Mae Rock Camp.

So this week’s affirmation:

“I rock.”

Try it out and let me know how it affects your week!