When I launched The Body Love Experience on 1 September 2016, I was in a place of complete love, acceptance and peace with my body and I wanted everyone to experience the same thing! What I had forgotten when I created the program, was the prior 35+ years of body loathing. In May 2010, I … Read more
Have you ever thought that war with your body is you being at war with you? That not liking your body, or part of your body is you not liking you, or a part of you? You can’t love your body if you don’t love you, simple. Whilst self-love feels “over-done”, misunderstood as egotistical, you … Read more
This week marks two years since I was lying in a hospital bed with pelvic inflammatory disease after being sexually assaulted by a friend from overseas staying with me. He knew my history with childhood sexual abuse and yet he came into my home and within an hour had pinned me against a wall, … Read more
You don’t know my story… All you see, is the outer manifestation of the life I have lived.. You don’t know the pain, trauma, joys, successes that I have experienced in my life… You don’t know my hopes and dreams, you just look at my outer shell, and decide I am unworthy. Unworthy of your … Read more
This is me, six years ago today, and thanks to body dysmorphia, still felt like I weighed 120kg, and yet, I was 70kg…. I hated this picture because I felt like it showed my fat stomach still and was ashamed. At this point, I had been in recovery from bulimia for close to two years, … Read more
