Hate your body?

Self-conscious about how you look?

"Looking good" on the outside according to others, but secretly suffering emotionally on the inside?

News flash: your body image distracts you from truly loving yourself.

Image alone is not sufficient -- you deserve deeper nourishment than that!

Watch this week's 12-minute Love Letter video to discover a simple yet profound hack that uses your body to teach you to deeply love yourself, flaws and all.

"I need better nourishment."

Whether you are looking to improve your personal or professional health, please let this video be your reminder that you are not alone and that together we can make that happen.

This is week two of four. Our four week deep dive into the power of loving yourself.

Maybe it's time, like if you've clicked play on this video, maybe it's time for you learn how to love yourself at a whole new level, because as we covered last week, you've been called to love others in a big way.

But, in order for you to fill their cup and quench their thirst for love and support, you have got to go and get a faucet of water with which you can fill your pitcher and your cup first. So, that you can continue to serve them.

So, this week. Week two, the guides have said it's time for us to talk about loving your physical body now.

For some of us, this is a lifelong battle against the grain of loving our physical body. We hate our bodies.

Hate your greeters. I hate the extra juice. All the extra things and so on. Or, the different scars that we've accrued over time. Or, maybe you don't like your curly hair, or your straight hair, or your skin tone, or your eyes, or your ears, or your nose, or your tooth, right?

There's so much, so much emotion that's caught up in the physical representation and the physical presentation of our bodies that we can get caught up in body hatred, rather than love.

So, be kind to yourself. If that's you, if you're still battling with your weight or your skin condition, or part of your body that you've just always hated, this week is for you, darling. So, again, the reason why we're taking the four week approach to loving ourselves is we want to take a deep dive together.

And, there's power in loving yourself, but sometimes we just flat don't know how.

We hear it all the time in different positive writings as we were talking about last week, you've got to love yourself, you've got to love yourself.

Different people in the media being positive, you've got to love yourself so that you can love others and so on and so forth.

But, how in the world do we do that? So, week two through four is exactly how. This week, we're going to focus on loving your body. Loving our bodies.

So, when we're beginning with body image on the path to loving ourselves, if we begin on the physical level from the standpoint of body image, we're already setup to completely fail.

Loving your body has nothing to do with your body image. Love is bigger than image.

So, this is the message from the guides from you. This week in particular, if you've always been struggling with body image and never feeling enough, right, looking in the mirror and not really feeling like it's ever enough or ever completely arranged, and nice. Image will not get you there.

Know this: Loving your body has nothing to do with body image; Love is bigger than that. Image is circumstantial, conditional.

If we're looking to increase your self-love and loving yourself, starting from the physical, the image of your body is the wrong place to start.

And, you know I don't really deal in the whole right versus wrong thing, but I'm going to tell you, you're setting yourself up for the scenic route and I don't mean that in a positive way, if you're going for body image. So, here's why.

Body image, or the visual representation, the spatial physical representation of your physicality is circumstantial. It's conditional. Your body, the way that it looks is a condition. You could have the most cut arms or you could have the most soft and voluminous arms.

Both of those are conditions that determine whether or not you can share love on the physical level.

So, for this week in particular, we want to elevate your ability to love yourself on the physical level, but we're not going to go from the standpoint of body image, right?

So, let's make that clear. Getting all cute and stuff like that, yes it's pleasurable, but again, it is circumstantial, it's conditional. That would sound like, "Oh, I only love myself if I look good" or "Me looking good and taking care of how I present myself is a sign of self-love on the physical level."

But, what if you're depressed and you don't have the energy for that? What if you don't have the money to buy jewels and makeups, and haircuts, and all sorts of things? How can we love our bodies on a physical level that does not have to do with body image?

So, the guides, first and foremost are bringing forward the concept of contrast. Using your body, the contrast that you experience in your body, as a gateway for increasing yourself love. What does that mean? Contrast means that which you do not want. That which you do not want is what contrast is.

So, let's take a double chin or extra juice around your belly, for example. Extra belly fat. Maybe that's something that you do not want. This is a gateway for loving yourself, because it is contrast coming forward. Contrast is always an invitation to expansion. Contrast, this week in particular, is your training partner.

Now, when I'm talking about contrast in terms of fat on the body or for you, it might be pain in the body, et cetera. Let contrast be your training partner in that contrast is there to draw your attention toward yourself.

Now, we're going to cover this more next week, but let the attention that's drawn toward you change to be curious about how can I be more loving towards this contrast? What does this pain signal me to.

Oh, okay. I need more self-care, right? Change the story around the pain of your body. What does this extra or excess flesh on my body draw me to, what positive aspect, what type of growth, progress, love, and connection do I need that my fat is blanketing me with?

So, with that, it might a positive story on extra weight gain might be, "I need better nourishment", right? So, the fat on my body is showing me, okay, I'm malnourished. I need to better nourish myself.

Now, I heard someone just say in the energy, "Oh, that means I'm over-nourished, I'm eating way too much", okay. So, that's a different form of nourishment, right? It's eating the right things versus eating the stuffy things and the crappy things.

So, embracing contrast in your body and allowing that to be a gateway for self-love. When in doubt, remember why. There are imperfections in your physical body. That Source has sent you here to challenge you. To challenge you to love, despite all the imperfections.

If you saw a baby with a cleft lip, you wouldn't hate that baby or say it's disgusting or ugly, it's a baby. It's precious.

You deserve the same level of acceptance that you would give that baby who had that cleft lip or had a deformity from her birth. You'd automatically honor that baby's divinity and worthiness.

Challenge yourself this week to look at the contrast in your body and simply say, "I love you anyway", right? Look at it fully, head on. And, "I love you anyway", that's your mantra for the week.

The oracle cards of the week, speaking of, Archangel Raphael Healing oracle cards deck. This is our healing angel on the physical level. Angel Raphael, what do we need to know about loving our physical body? Increased energy! Yay!

Dear Archangel Raphael, thank you for filling me with the unlimited energy of divine love and light. And, here's where we'll end this week. The more you send love to the parts of you on a physical level that you actually hate, the more you will actually increase your energy. You'll fill your cup and love yourself first.

Go ahead and comment below, send me an email back.

What stands out to you? What part of your body are you going to say "I love you anyway" to? This week in particular.

Make sure you subscribe on YouTube so you get these love letters first every week and get ready for it. Muah! See you soon, bye!

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Challenge yourself to embrace contrast to practice loving yourself.

Put your attention on something you don’t like about your body and say “I️ love you anyway.”

Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!

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Is procrastination your middle name?

Avoiding something very important because you're scared of confronting it?

Feeling insecure about a certain part of your body?

Source is sending you a wave of confidence and productivity right now.

It's time to step up and take responsibility for shifting your energy - no more waiting to be saved!

Watch this week's 10-minute Love Letter video to start taking ownership of yourself and your life!

"Why didn't I follow my gut feelings?"

This week in particular, Source is saying it's time for you to own it. Own it.

Whatever's coming up, when we say own it, it's time for you to take ownership.

This is about taking personal responsibility, about claiming and really accepting into you something that you may have been hiding, avoiding, or when it comes up, you push it to the side. Especially, the guides say, own your natural intuition.

What does that mean? What that means is develop, accept and cultivate your relationship with your natural intuition. Learn about her. Practice using her. Own it.

Don't dabble here and there or believe but then if someone asks kind of couch away or cower away from it. No, no, no. Own it.

You know, you know that that was the right decision for you and when you didn't make it you're kicking yourself in the face like: 

• • "I knew that I should have done this."

• • "Why didn't I follow my gut feelings?"

• • "Why didn't I follow my intuition?"

• "Why didn't I see the signs, or moreover, why didn't I accept the signs that I did see?"

This is a little bit of tough love, but it's because I believe in you. We believe in you here at the tribe at the dojo. Source is behind you always. Own it this week.

It's not just your natural intuitive sense, which by the way, which everyone has. I don't care how un-spiritual people want to say others are or how people want to say that they are. "I'm not into that woo woo stuff." Yeah, okay. You get hunches as if that is an intuition. I'm going to leave that there because I can go on a whole rant and we want to keep this to a reasonable amount of time, but it's time that you own it.

It's not just your natural intuition though. It may be that you messed up and because we are taught perform and perform at a high A level, right? A for awesome. Always get As. There's no other letters in the alphabet because there's only A.

We're taught to perform at a high level, and A means not just awesome, but acceptable. If you don't do an A performance or produce an A level product, then you're not acceptable. Own it.

If you have an ear that's out to the side or a chipped tooth or a gap in your teeth, right, or you have a mole or you know, a little bit of extra juice in your shape, own it. Rather than punishing, punishing, ignoring, down playing, hiding. Own it.

I myself, I used to have a lot of self-consciousness about the gap in my teeth, especially because from time to time it makes me whistle unexpectedly, but I wouldn't smile because I was so shy to do it. Right? To show that oh, I don't have perfect teeth. No, I've never had braces. It took a dentist who has a bit more of a spiritual mindset to say, "No, Victoria, your teeth come together so beautifully. God created them so beautifully. No, you don't need braces." For him to be so passionate about the natural shape of my smile, for me to say, "Wait a minute, maybe I don't have hideous teeth. Maybe it's okay for me to have a gap in my teeth." Then one of my aunt's just flat out said, "You know it's sexy. Madonna has a gap in her teeth."

Know this: Own your imperfections - they make you unique and give you depth!

Own your imperfections. Don't let them slow you down. In fact, the mistakes of our lives and the imperfections that we have and have to deal with not only color our lives and make you unique, but it also gives us depth.

If you have been able to make a mistake and come out on the other side of it, that means you have a depth of wisdom. You've gone another level knowing what not to do. You have a new depth of wisdom that wasn't there before. Accept, integrate, and own that wisdom.

Own the fact that it happened and that you can own this present moment being the best version of yourself, the highest vibrational version of yourself, the most present moment of yourself. Don't let it weight you down.

I'm hearing the Oracle Cards calling the energy. The deck this week in particular is life purpose oracle cards deck, so the angels are showing up more of our sense of direction as well as giving us inspiration if we feel a little bit stuck and crusty energetically.

Angels, what do we need to know right now about owning it? Is there something that we're not owning about our brilliance that maybe you could tell us? Oh my. Children.

Oh my goodness. Your life purpose involves helping, teaching, and healing children. This ... I'm being guided to speak to someone very much so in particular.

I won't say your name, but the guides are telling me you're going to watch this love letter when it airs or whenever you click on it. You know that you're supposed to be working with children, but you think because I don't have my masters of education with kids or because I don't have kids of my own or because my kids are a certain age, you have this story.

I really don't know who I'm talking to, but I'm going to stay specific. The guides are telling me to do so. I'm getting really warm right now.

You have a story that you keep telling yourself to avoid the fact that you are supposed to be working with children. Maybe you're afraid of what they may do.

Kids can smack you in the face or say the most rude things, or even simply by them being children can bring up scary parts of our own childhood. It's time for you to own it. This week in particular.

It may not be like, "Oh, I'm going to take that job working with kids or start that part of my business giving back to kids" or something like that. It may be just this week really journaling and saying, "You know what, I've been avoiding this about working with children and it's time for me to own that."

The minute you're aware of it, it starts to heal, but especially if you're called to work with children but you're having a fear around it, thinking that. Or telling yourself a story that you're not good enough, the guides are saying you need to reach out and get help with that.

Whether it's working on your energy here at the dojo to raise your vibration open enough to share with children and cultivate that vision that you see or if it's going to a therapist and really a psychotherapist, so you can process what aspects of your childhood are coming up for you when you see children.

You really have to own it this week in particular. It's time to take action.

Send me an email back. Comment below. Tell me what's coming up for you. I'm curious to hear, who out there am I talking to? Was it you?

You don't have to say what your situation is if it's quite private, but just give me a post below and say, "You're talking to me." I get those all the time and I love to see who source had be channel to in particular. I never know. I never know unless you tell me.

Make sure you subscribe on YouTube so that you get your love letter first and share this with someone. All right, I'm sending you so much love and blessings and you ready for it? I'll see you next week

 In Love and Light,

Victoria.

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Frustrated with your weight and dislike how you look in the mirror?

Struggling to keep to a diet and exercise routine, but do you find yourself getting nowhere or starting strong and petering out?

Wish someone could just show you what's wrong with you?

This week's video is an intimate look into how I personally lost 30 pounds and kept the weight off.

And no, the it's not about diet OR exercise...

Know this: Weight loss? It's not about pounds on the scale. Never has been, never will be. It's about learning to Love yourself enough to BE your true self. #H2LYS

Back in 2012 I began my weight loss journey. Yes, 2012, the year when the year was supposed to end and all that good stuff! For me, I experienced a shift in my consciousness that catapulted a new relationship with my body.

You see, I have struggled with my weight all my life - it's been up and down and back again. At that time I had been the heaviest I've ever been, 160 pounds on my 5'3" frame, and I was tired, bloated and wondering what's wrong with me.

Spoiler: THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU.

What inspired me to look beyond comparing myself to others (friends, magazines, blah blah blah) was 2 books in particular: "The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children" by Doreen Virtue and "The pH Miracle for Weight Loss" by Robert O. Young.

What Doreen's book helped me realize was that my emotional eating was not just "out of control" or a "problem" but moreover it was an unconscious but calculated habit to deal with being a highly sensitive individual.

Her work showed me how I was using food to shut down my sensitivity so I could cope with empathic overwhelm.

Robert's book continued to build on this, showing me the science of what happens when you put certain things in your body, and how you can communicate better with your body by clearing it out.

So for New Year's 2013, I began a 3-month psyllium husks cleanse, committed to detox from all the negative energy my body was holding so I can receive nutrients better and receive the gut feelings Spirit was sending me with greater clarity. (Email me if you want to know the exact cleanse at senseivictoriawhitfield@gmail.com).

But here's the thing - you need to know WHY I did this, moreso than the HOW.

The how gets boring, old and wears off with time, but if you have a WHY that is bigger than your desire to stay at a certain weight, you can make sustainable and lasting change. So here's why I did it:

I realized that I need to Love myself more.

That's just it.

Love.

I started to see inner self and my body as a defenseless baby crying for attention and in need of help. Rather than stuffing a baconator in her mouth to shut her up because she's to bloated and exhausted to cry any more, I decided to listen to her and tend to her cries.

It's about learning to listen with Love to yourself and your body. That means feeling and learning about how your body responds to different foods, exercise, behaviors, habits, environments and people you have in your life and that you expose it to. And taking action accordingly to protect and nurture her, as you would with a defenseless baby.

So that's how I did it.

The diet, the exercise, the programs, etc. were all an extension of my Big WHY.

Love. Following Love will always bring healing.

This Sunday, we will go more in depth at the Food Energywork: Enlightened Eating for Empaths Retreat.

But I want you to know that all you need to do is start with Loving yourself enough to BE your True Self. Rather than stuffing it down. Leave a comment below or send me an email back at senseivictoriawhitfield@gmail.com with what you think.

In Love and Light,

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