Social Media promotes Body Bullying!
To stop Body Shaming…Begin with your body!
While the rise of social media has had damaging effects, it has also empowered many women (and men!) to stand up against the bullies.
As the founder of the Body Knowledge System®, I’m here to help restore our integrity as we move from body shame to body awe*! My website guides women who want to progress from Body Shame to Body Awe through the successful application of my body knowledge system.
*Body Awe means respect filled with wonder when considering our body.
“AWESOME” Current culture uses “awesome” to describe the very best of the best. Notice the “we” in that word.
And even more practically . . . what are the practices you can incorporate into your everyday life to make this a reality?
Learn how Body Shaming can be erased forever with the Body Knowledge System® with Coach Stephanie Wood, PCC.
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Listen to my Podcast with Thao
around How to Practice Body Talk
Let’s understand how listening to your Body’s Voice (and you have every right to disagree) communicate.
Better Business Decisions made Easier
There are many things I am thankful for this week, not the least of which is my close relationship with my body. That interdependency provided the confidence I needed to become a successful professional.
Refreshing Your Memory about the Body Knowledge System®
Athletes, dancers, and actors know the feeling of trusting their physical selves to perform and succeed on the field, stage, and film. As a professional dancer and choreographer, I matured with open communication between my mind and body. That relationship benefits my entrepreneurial side, starting and managing several small successful businesses using my Body Knowledge System® as a basis for all of them.
Brief History of Understanding your body’s Intelligence
Body acceptance, body positivity, and body confidence are modern terms to free today’s women from the negative influences of the media, their families and friends, and significant others. All babies are born confident. The separation between mental and physical selves occurs when we understand our dependency on others for survival.
Pleasing them replaced pleasing ourselves.
Not that our mothers’ judgments of what we ate and wore didn’t influence our self-image throughout childhood; they did. After leaving for college, marriage, or work, the media’s impossible standards took over her role of body shaming.
So how do you Practice your personal Body Knowledge?
My Business Coaching reconnects my clients with the intimate relationship they had with their bodies at birth. My clients move from being stuck in their mind space to genuinely enjoying their body space.
Yes! Connecting with your Body Knowledge enhances your business opportunities
Eliminating judgment of ourselves and others, we enjoy the steadfast support from our bodies and see no need to seek validation elsewhere.
Feeling stuck, pressured, insecure?
Those feelings occur in your mind but show themselves in your body, in your body language.
How often has your mind said “yes” when every muscle in your body screams “No!”
You can trust your body because she always tells the truth.
Your Next Step
Enjoy taking this brief OASIS Entrepreneurial Style Assessment
After receiving your results go to my calendar to find out more about yourself in order to make better decisions in your Business and Personal Life.
Final Note:
I coach women entrepreneurs who want to integrate better business skills into their business and most importantly to enhance their confidence skills
How? With my Body Knowledge System® and my experience with owning, creating and managing several profitable businesses. Book a call with me
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To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Practicing your personal and professional body knowledge helps build confidence to function better during each day.
Let Marty share her evolution with her own body Knowledge
Find out yours right now
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Let’s listen to Marty:
As Stephanie’s client, I ended my estrangement with my 55-year-old body. She pointed out that at birth, our body and our mind are one unit. As we mature, our mind turns its attention outward to the environment to fulfill our body’s needs. We respond to external stimuli, and the separation increases, further distancing our body from our mind.
I was ready to look at my relationship with my body as more than just taking up space on the planet. Rather than micromanaging my physical self, I embraced her, began to listen to her wisdom, and became comfortable with the knowledge that my BFF was there supporting us in our best interests.
Until our move to Montana from Southern California, my exercise was aggressive tennis four times a week. I love our ranch and the surrounding beauty, horses, dogs, and trails to hike. I spent days at the PC ghostwriting, and I had absolutely no desire to do aerobics to a video, run the trails (grizzly bears and mountain lions are out there), or do yoga without a skinny yogi ordering me into another pretzel pose.
Most of us live daily without awareness of our unique, individual approaches to every aspect of living. As a child, my mother signed me up for years of ballet lessons, which I loathed. I am built like my father, a former professional football player and coach. Floating about a stage in a leotard, a powder puff tutu, and painfully restrictive toe shoes is a humiliation I carried into adulthood.
If I was an Organized or Analytical Style, the ballet or a regularly scheduled gym class might work. Spontaneous styles look for pick-up basketball games on the neighborhood courts, drop-in hot yoga sessions, or at the 24-hour Jazzercise studios.
I have identified my dominant style as Inspirational as I sought an exercise that I would do! Freeform dance to rock ’n roll was my answer. Playlists to sweat to, stretch to, and smash writer’s block anytime, anywhere. The magic is always in the movement, and the music creates inspiration, fulfilling my style as I accomplished my goal of burning calories and getting in touch with my body, my BFF.
Inspirational, my dominant style, which is also evident in my career choice (writer/producer) and fortunately for my producing hat, Organizational comes in a close 2nd at work and at play. (Tennis foursomes, weekly court times, Bridge card games.) When shopping, I make a list, then forget to bring it with me…so I rely on memory and inspiration after arriving at the store.
As soon as we identify and accept the specific style that applies to eating, exercising, relationships, shopping, working, and playing, we derive more benefits, enjoy the activities more, and reinforce the closer relationship we have with our bodies.
Knowing your style in relationships, as well as that of your significant other, parents, children, and associates, will strengthen your understanding. If you feel generous, go beyond your simple observations, and educate them in Coach Stephanie’s Style system.
The Body Knowledge System’s value is its ease of restoring the confidence you were born with in this original, sensible, and provocative process. My only regret is not knowing about the Body Knowledge System ® in my teens or twenties, as the principles in the process are lifelong guides to my personal and professional success.
Thank you, Coach Stephanie; for me, better later than not at all!
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Stephanie’s emphasis for any entrepreneur is Intention
“With your intention in mind, let your dance reflect it. If your intention is to lead with grace and assertiveness, move with a blend of poise and power. If your intention is to shatter stereotypes, let your movements be bold and transformative. As you dance, your body becomes a living embodiment of your commitment to combating disrespect.
Allow your intention to permeate your thoughts and emotions. Let it resonate within you like a mantra, infusing your dance with purpose and meaning. With each motion, remind yourself that you’re the orchestrator of this dance, the driving force behind your journey to conquer disrespect.”
Client Challenge and ‘Ha-Ha!’(Revelation) Client: I have struggled with people pleasing my whole life. I feel like I end up absorbing so much in an effort to make everyone at work feel happy. I’m exhausted and catering to everyone is holding me back. Stephanie: You’re dancing to someone else’s tune right now. Let’s get you back in sync with your body so you can find your own. Client: I am ready to begin. Stephanie: Let’s start with your intention. What would that sound like? Give me a short sentence please. Client: Ugh. ‘I just hope I can learn how to stick up for myself.’ Stephanie: Let’s explore reframing your language with more definitiveness: Your turn: Client: ‘Sticking up for myself empowers me!’ This feels and sounds better. Stephanie: Okay, Let’s try describing how you’d show up if you had no fear! Client: ‘I intend to show up boldly, to know what I want, what I need and to act those things out in a kind but firm way!’ Now these words inspire me! And Yes Stephanie! I remember what to do next…dance and move with my words! Plus moving with the words of my Intention makes my intention stronger and believable so that my mind and body remember the feeling of my Intention. |
One more step-Now it is your turn
Finding out about your style to move forward with all your business challenges.
Let’s now make a date for your customized coaching session.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Want to know if coaching with Stephanie is a fit for you? Listen in to this recent interview
Wise Words from Coach Stephanie Wood, PCC
The dream that I champion for my clients are entrepreneurs who want to feel confident with certain skills and techniques they can rely on to make a difference in the world…
As your coach I want to create a business with your talents. I do this with my Body Knowledge System®. With my 30 years’ experience with developing entrepreneurial businesses. The women I coach want to be their own financier, make their own money, make their lifestyle exactly the way they want on their own terms as they develop their business.
How Stephanie got into coaching…
I was a professional dancer on the New York Stage, but auditioning became a drain;. So, I asked myself, ‘how can I combine my talent of movement with making money?’ I didn’t want to worry about somebody rejecting me. So that’s how I started my first business, which combined my talents of music and movement. Remember Jane Fonda when she put out her first aerobics video?
I watched that, and I said to myself, in my living room,’ I can do that!’ I can actually do that even better than her. I started my aerobics business. I went to churches and temples and VA facilities, I paid rent, I employed over 30 teachers, I created the routines that I choreographed. And I did that for a couple years. And that, combined with my talent of movement, and my essence of knowing how to make money, created a platform, which is my Coaching and the techniques of business know-how with my Body Knowledge System®.
Interested in learning more? Contact me through this form to schedule a time to talk.
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Body Positivity Messages with Body Shaming Messages
What’s a girl to do?
By Coach Stephanie Wood, PCC
Lisa my new client asked, ‘What should be my correct weight and body shape be? I get mixed messages from my Family and the Media.’
What’s a girl to follow?
Coaching from Stephanie
“Have you asked your body?”
“What do you mean?”
A perfect opening to a discussion of our Body Knowledge System ®. I explained the ideal intimate friendship between a person and their body. When you end the estrangement with your body, you welcome a new best friend forever into your life. Your body supports you in many ways beyond the physical. Providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support, your body supplies reliable advice, guidance, and, most of all, love for the whole of you. (I coached Lisa with the Body Knowledge System® conversation so she experienced friendship with her body immediately).
Stephanie’s coaching challenge to Lisa to move forward
I challenged Lisa to create a phrase that will have her happy with her body image, her weight, her health and her spirit without media judgement.
Lisa’s phrase (and she can change it) ‘I love what my body can do every moment.’
Coaching Final Message
Two important Body Knowledge System® principles apply:
#1 Your body helps you reframe your life from the negative to the positive. Even when your mind is pulling you down with critical self-talk.
#2 When practicing your custom Body Knowledge System® your body supports you returning to the healthy weight for both of you.
The body positivity movement is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing since it alleviates much of the pain from harsh, and often untrue, criticism from outside and sometimes from inside sources. A curse because obesity is a national epidemic and can kill you.My clients learn to listen to their bodies’ wisdom to achieve their mutual goals. Practicing their Body Knowledge System® tunes into the messages sent by their body. The Body Knowledge System® works because it begins within your body to inspire your practice.
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Just 2 minutes take my body confidence check-in
Take the Body Confidence Check-in Quiz
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The Body Knowledge System® sustains you because you and your body developed your practice to address your specific wants, needs, and motivations. This new relationship with your body renews your faith in yourself and promotes your Body Confidence.Body Confidence expands as you progress on your journey to healthy fitness. When you establish the warm relationship with your body you were born with, it becomes a habit to share with each other when you make a choice, act on a decision, or plan for your future.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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Hi all!
I have been interviewed by David Riklan [Founder Self Growth.com] around how my Body confidence
Tools and Techniques through my Body Knowledge System ® can enhance certain areas of your life ( I specialize with entrepreneurs) so that you make better choices.
Any insights or questions you may have feel free to answer in this blog
Or
Leave a message at my toll-free number 1-866-76-COACH and we can schedule
An uplifting Body confidence coaching Experience or contact me at bodyawe.com
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I am replying to your body confidence responses from my questionnaire (that you can take again or for those of you taking it for the 1st time cuz things change as you grow and learn)
As I hear from you, I want to include some observations from my one on one coaching sessions.
#2 To feel Body Confidence I need to…” I have no idea!”
This is the second question in the Body Confidence questionnaire and the answer most provided are a variation of “I have no idea!”
And this is the first challenge…it’s not about your head, your mind, your thought process, it’s always about your body.
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Time out! Engage for 2 minutes to take this questionnaire
http://www.bodyawe.com/body-confidence-check-in/
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Body Confidence is not an idea, a mental image, a thought or even a vision, it’s about a feeling. And where do your feelings live? In your body.
So, how do you find that feeling?
If your answer to the second question referred to “knowing, or thinking” any of the mental verbs, that indicates the estrangement you have from your body. To find your body confidence, refocus your attention to your body.
1. First select a feeling you are comfortable with: happy, sad, mad, or glad. Those are the four categories psychologists identify with all of our human emotions. I’d put body confidence under “glad”. So, let’s start there.
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‘Let’s engage with a coaching conversation (20 minutes, on me)’
http://www.bodyawe.com/contact-lifecoach-mentor-stephanie-wood/
Your results will take you on a new path and give you access to an uplifting body confidence coaching experience…on me or just call me now at 1-866-76-COACH/leave your cell phone number and we will connect and make a date.
Let’s hear what you have found out about yourself, then contact me (Stephanie) to get you where you want to be. I encourage you Resume the Relationship with your body through your personal Body Knowledge System®.
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2. Take a moment and locate that feeling within your body. The specific location is not important, just the realization that your body is the home to your familiar feelings of “glad.” Try answering the second question with “I need to feel glad.”
Bring back the memory of the feeling glad and the experience that created that feeling. Hearing from an old friend, seeing a video of healthy puppies or kittens, feeling good after completing something you’ve been avoiding for too long, are just a few instances that summon up the “glad” emotion from your body.
Once you recognize that feeling, identifying it, it’s a very short step to re-discovering your body confidence, also resident in your body.
Ending the estrangement…
Those who practice their Body Knowledge System® are well on their way to recovering their birthright, the body confidence.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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“I have never felt body confidence.” is the most common answer to the first question with my body confidence check in questionnaire.
Time out! Engage for 2 minutes to take this questionnaire
http://www.bodyawe.com/body-confidence-check-in/
Your results will take you on a new path and give you access to a uplifting body confidence coaching experience…on me or just call me now at 1-866-76-COACH/leave your cell phone number and we will connect and make a date
Did you know that body confidence begins in our body, and we are all born with it, even men? Males’ body confidence lasts a lifetime. Not so for women, as we mature physically, we may lose our body confidence birthright.
Inside the Image
In the 21st Century we have the tools to level the body confidence playing field. It is no longer about image or appearance, it’s about our connection with the location of our body confidence: our body.Body Confidence never left our body. Our awareness of it has lessened to the point of invisibility, and if we want body confidence we need to get out of our heads and resume our relationship with our body.First
Identify the Feeling
The Body Knowledge System® is the efficient, effective way to re-connect with your body to answer the first question in the Body Confidence check in questionnaire with a specific age, date, or event. Once you identify the feeling of confidence located in your body with all of your other feelings, the next step becomes possible.
Next Experience the Feeling
There’s no need to “fake it until you make it” with your personalized body knowledge system as soon as you re-establish your relationship with your BFF, your body.
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Time out! Engage for 2 minutes to take this questionnaire
http://www.bodyawe.com/body-confidence-check-in/
Your results will take you on a new path and give you access to a uplifting body confidence coaching experience…on me or just call me now at 1-866-76-COACH/leave your cell phone number and we will connect and make a date.
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Let’s see what you have found out about yourself, then contact me (Stephanie) to get you where you want to be. Resume the Relationship with your body through your personal Body Knowledge System®.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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‘A famous Tennis Player can give you insights inside of your own body confidence’ Body Knowledge System® with Coach Stephanie Wood, PCC
Body Confidence Boost
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Before reading take 10 seconds to inform yourself of your own personal body confidence confidence http://www.bodyawe.com/body-confidence-check-in/
and then resume reading
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One of my recent clients, a professional athlete on the verge of the biggest competition in her life to date, called to thank me for getting her there. She gave credit to me, but it belonged to her renewed relationship with her body. Throughout her coaching sessions she applied the body knowledge she acquired to her performance on the tennis court.Successful physical competition depends on the conditioning we provide our instrument, our bodies. To raise the effort into eligibility for the winner’s circle takes confidence in our bodies to achieve the win. To obtain that body confidence requires the practice of your personal body knowledge system.
Get Your “A” Game On!
Your body knowledge system establishes the direct lines of communication between you and your body to take your talents from the practice courts onto center court in whatever arena you choose to compete! Whether launching your new business, trying for a promotion, or looking for love in all the right places, body confidence contributes to your “A” game.
Magnetize Your Positivity with Body Confidence
Magnetism, the force behind all attraction, draws similar or improved outcomes into the individual’s reality. Those of us who express body confidence can’t avoid attracting like-minded individuals into their sphere of influence. Those associates’ positivity contributes to the higher vibration already present in the individual with body confidence.
As soon as your relationship with your body returns to the loving, trusting, supportive relationship you were born with, the positive energy ignites to attract the success you seek—personal, professional, on or off the court.
Game, Set, Match!
Over our bi-weekly sessions, my client referenced her upcoming tournaments and what specific issues concerned her about her body’s response to her training regimen and mental preparation for each potential opponent.
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Time to take 10 seconds to see how your personal Body confidence is doing
http://www.bodyawe.com/body-confidence-check-in/
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Committed athletes accept the mind-body totality to bring their best performance to the court, field, pool. Unfortunately, many of them see the axis as two individuals: mind, body. The Body Knowledge System dissolves the separation and unites the elements to create superior performances wherever they occur.
Entrepreneurs (committed athletes) face the same challenges when launching and succeeding in business…even though the opponent is rarely across a net, a field, or a lane. For most entrepreneurs their opponent is themselves:
All of these “opponents” live in their own minds! The way to defeat them is through BODY confidence, and the way to get body confidence is through your body knowledge system!
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Go ahead and answer my body confidence questions; just 10 seconds
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Listen to my client’s journey with her renewed Body Confidence
I was coaching the other day with a client named Madge who had had the coolest breakthrough. She watches her three-year-old granddaughter pretty often and she noticed that when her granddaughter is well rested and well fed, she is typically in much better spirits and calmer.
“It hit me,” Madge said, “that our minds, emotions, and bodies are truly connected.”
My client felt motivated to reconnect with her body, in hopes that she could get out of a rut of feeling like she has plateaued at work. Deep down, she felt that her struggle to advance was rooted in low self-esteem, and she was hopeful that body confidence could help her.
Another thing Madge noticed with her granddaughter is that she would sometimes resist the very thing she needed. “I could tell we needed to get out of the house,” she said,” but my granddaughter kept refusing. Finally, I just had to make the call and do what was best. We ended up having a wonderful time on an outing. It was just what we both needed.
In the same way, Madge noticed that her body would nudge her towards movement. “Whether parking farther away at the grocery store to get a few steps in or dancing with my granddaughter, I would notice my body craving movement and then make excuses for
not doing it. I realized that just like my granddaughter needs me to take over and meet her needs, I need to let my body choose what we’re doing.
Now that Madge has given her body a voice, she feels a difference! “I’m not so afraid that I’m quiet in meetings any more. Instead, I feel clear headed and happy.”
Moral of the story: Sometimes, the simplest example, can help us make some pretty helpful changes.
To your freedom,
Coach Stephanie
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