Body Image Mastery Review
Laura Fenamore today
To help others to attain their life-long goals, Laura founded Body Image Mastery , which specializes in helping people who want to transform their bodies through lifestyle changes and to transform their careers by unleashing their inner entrepreneur. Through her workshops, teleseminars, speaking engagements, and writing, Laura has helped thousands of people make positive changes in their lives, as well as create more balance overall.
Lately, Laura’s focus has been to support people in having healthy, balanced relationships with their bodies. She teaches people that what they say to their bodies, how they nurture them, and what they feed them has a huge impact on their physical, mental and emotional health and well-being.
Laura’s radical shift began when she came to understand that the only person who could truly love her, was herself. Although she was neglected and abused as a child, she saw clearly that she could use the rest of her life to love and take care of herself and to inspire others to do the same.
Many of us know the anguish of being overweight, trapped by eating disorders or yo- yo dieting – the feeling powerless of the body we live inside and even hating ourselves because of it.
Laura’s Story
I totally understand this pain. By the time I was in the fourth grade, my mother had taken me to an obesity clinic at a local hospital. Imagine being nine-years old and led into a hospital (pretty scary under any circumstances) because something is very wrong with you.
I was weighed in and the doctor sat down and told me I had to stick to the diet he would give me. I remember sitting there, thinking about the foods I loved to eat (none of these were on his “diet,” of course). There was absolutely no discussion about how I was feeling (physically or emotionally), why I ate, etc. The entire conversation was the diet. My mother drove me home in shaming silence, interrupted by the occasional “you must” stick to this diet, lose weight… I was already feeling humiliated and hopeless without her lecture.
That was over three decades ago, and I still remember what happened next as if it were yesterday. When we got home, I ran to my room and cried – filled with shame, anger, and sadness. Later, I sneaked downstairs when I knew no one would be in the kitchen. I opened the door to the refrigerator and started shoving food into my mouth. I just kept shoving and shoving and shoving until I heard someone coming. That was the end of that DIET.
I continued to go to the obesity clinic until someone labeled me hopeless and sent me on my merry way, wishing me luck. I had lost a few pounds, only to regain it – plus a few extra. (Sound familiar?) Between ages nine and twenty-four, I remained a tried and true compulsive over-eater. My journey of self-loathing included alcoholism, bulimia, and cigarettes – anything to escape my self-imposed prison – a lie, of course; the bars only closed in more and more, instead. My core illness was, of course, compulsive eating. Quite simply, I was out of control with the quantity and the kinds of foods I put into my mouth.
I ate as a child because I felt no one loved me. Later, I would beg my therapist to help me control my overeating. I can still hear myself, pleading with various professionals, “Please help me turn off the switch in my brain that causes me to binge.” Little did I know that what I needed was something to be turned ON, not off. I needed to turn on the self-love switch. It would “turn off” the myriad of voices chorusing that I was unlovable every day.
Laura At 21
After that, Laura went through more years of struggle, shame, anger, and sadness.
Finally, the love of another person helped open the door to her own self-love.
By the time LAura was twenty-five, she had lost one hundred pounds. She went from her lowest point to a new beginning.
Her radical shift is out there for anyone. When Laura tells her story to others, she shares it with one goal in mind. That people will hear it and use it to start their own “radical shift.” That they will start to repair some wounded part of themselves. To this day, when people ask her how she lost all those pounds and kept them off forever, her answer is simple. She tells them that she learned to love herself, and self-love goes a long way.
If you’re ready for a radical shift and want to know how full your life can be if you let go of yesterday and let go of your stories from the past, go to Body Image Mastery and open your arms wide for the possibilities and hope locked inside you.
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