”I don’t know what has happened! Ever since I hit menopause my waist has disappeared, my energy has hit an all-time low, and my libido has completely disappeared. Help! I hate myself and am honestly afraid that if I don’t turn things around soon I am going to destroy my marriage."

I recently received this email from a client asking me for pointers on how to lose weight. She was obviously feeling quite discouraged as are many in the post-menopausal phase of life, so today we are going to talk about the 5 things you can start doing today to go from being fat, sick, and unhappy to thin, healthy, and vibrantly energetic over the next 6 months.

1. Get rid of all of the unhealthy food in your house. Right now! And I don’t mean eat it. Box it up and drive it over to your local soup kitchen, or if it is open packages take it out to the trashcan.I have had clients in the past tell me that they can’t get rid of all the “good stuff” in their house because their husband or kids will get mad. First of all, if you are considering that box of chemicals or bag of processed junk to be the good stuff, then you will be in for a wonderful treat of quick weight loss as you learn to love healthy food. My brother-in-law recently stopped drinking soda and started drinking more water. He has lost 20 pounds in about 5 weeks from that one small adjustment.
2. Stop dieting. Right now! The entire belief behind dieting is based in depriving yourself…and who in the world wants to spend their entire life feeling deprived? Not me!!!It is much more beneficial to find out what it is that your body loves and thrives on and eat that! My body operates the best on a plant-based diet. I know that because I have experimented with just about every eating plan known to man, and this is the only one that gives me the strength, energy, and vibrant health that I want. The experiment I would suggest is to go on a fast for as long as you can (not more than 3 days to start) and then break your fast with watermelon. The next day add in oranges. The following day add in lettuce. Continue to add in vegetables and fruits for the next two weeks, noticing which ones help you feel more vibrant and alive, and which ones make you feel bloated and tired. Permanently eliminate anything that doesn’t make you feel great. After two weeks you can begin to experiment with different grains, then dairy products, and meats. Within a short time you will find the ideal diet for your body, and you will see the number on the scale going down!
3.  Move that body for 30 minutes daily. Start today! It doesn’t matter if you put on your favorite dance music and whirl around your living room, or hit up a yoga class, or venture into the gym, or take a walk around your neighborhood. Just do something!It’s not even just about the cardiovascular benefits (which are wonderful!) but the reduction of stress that exercise provides that will support you in living a healthier lifestyle. You have heard of the fight or flight response, right? When we were cavepeople, if we saw a saber tooth tiger our hearts would start racing, our breath would get short and shallow, and all of our blood flow would rush to our arms and legs. Why? So we could either run or fight, that’s why! And the same thing happens today…but our stressors look more like an irate boss, or an uncooperative kid, or too many bills and not enough money instead of a saber tooth tiger. I don’t know about you but most people who are carrying around excess weight are stress eaters. By getting in the habit of moving your body for 30 minutes daily you are burning off the stress and saving yourself a lot of unnecessary calories.
4.  Drink more water. Starting now! The body needs approximately ½ of your weight in ounces of water daily. If you weigh 150lbs. that would be 75 ounces of water every day.  Do the math and figure out how much your body needs.Now I don’t want you to start drinking the full amount immediately unless you are already pretty close to your goal. Instead I’d like you to slowly build towards it over the next couple of weeks by adding 8-10 ounces every 24-36 hours. That way you will slowly build up and reach your goal. After a few days you will actually feel your body begin to crave more and more water as it moves out of its dehydrated state and in to a detoxifying state. As the body’s ability to detoxify strengthens, you will see the number on the scale to continue to move downward.
5.  Stay focused on WHY you want to reach your goal weight. Always! You will still have stressful days, or moments when you decide to indulge in something delicious that is not necessarily on your healthy foods list. The one way to be certain that you won’t let those challenges stop you is to be very clear about your why for living a healthy lifestyle.My client who you read about earlier is obviously very concerned about destroying her marriage. Her why is to have a happy healthy relationship with her husband.

What is your why? Please put it in the comments below so I can hold that vision with you.
 
Following these simple tips will help you start on the path of being thin, healthy, and vibrantly energetic, and if you should need more support please join me for a free Finally Thin Forever session.
 
With peace, joy, love & light,
​Keli

​Have you ever noticed how some people notice everything that is wrong with the world, while others notice everything that is right with it? Which type of person are you?
The type that tends to get caught up in the problems
OR
The type that tends to clearly see the solutions
 
Did you know that the only difference between the two is their point of focus. One is focused on what is happening outside of them, while the other is more attuned to what is happening within. Being able to recognize your own viewpoint is essential if you want to live a happy life.
 
I am naturally able to see the problems in any given situation. I have always been able to do this, and I’ve actually wondered if it is my superpower. It’s probably what made me such a great Naturopathic Doctor…I could see where the body, emotions, and thoughts were out of alignment and help people bring themselves back to health with a few gentle adjustments to their lifestyles.
 
But where it doesn’t serve me is when I become righteous or judgmental, thinking that I “know better”. One of the reasons I gave up my practice was because I was finding that I had become way more invested in my client’s well-being than they were, and it wasn’t healthy for me. I genuinely loved and cared for my clients and would find myself up at night researching new ways to help them. Then they would come in a couple of weeks later for a check up and had not yet implemented one of my suggestions. It was maddening.
 
It was also a huge problem.
 
The beautiful thing about problems, is that if you look close enough you will always see the solution is right there with it. A Course in Miracles describes it in this way…
 
A problem is simply an area of darkness. The solutions are seen in the light. If you bring your light into the darkness, your solutions will be revealed.
 
That is exactly what I did! My problem was I loved my clients, but I felt like they weren’t taking action on the information I was providing them with. The solution was finding clients that were ready to take the actions necessary to help them experience the results they wanted. That epiphany is what lead me to switch the focus of my business to a coaching model, and I must tell you it has been extraordinarily rewarding.
 
I get to use my knowledge from being a Naturopathic Doctor to help my clients experience vibrant health. I get to use my knowledge from being a business owner and entrepreneur to help my clients experience business success. I get to use my knowledge from being a personal growth and development trainer to help my clients experience loving and connected relationships. And I get to fulfill my purpose by helping my clients to fulfill theirs too.
 
What problem are you currently faced with? The one that seems impossible to solve, and you may have even noticed yourself beginning to give up on the hope of ever making it happen. It may be that extra weight you have been carrying around for far too long, or that dream of financial freedom that still seems out of reach, or the quest to find, fall in love with, and live happily ever after with your soulmate which still eludes you.
 
It’s time for you to get help finding a solution to your problem! And I am just the person to help. I challenge you to book your Free Rapid Change Coaching Session with me right now. In our one-hour phone session you will:

• Get clear about the goal(s) you would like to achieve in the problem area of your life
• Understand what is standing in your way of reaching that goal
• Leave the session feeling renewed, enthusiastic, and empowered to change things quickly

 
Do yourself a favor and take advantage of my problem-solving superpower. And if you have any friends that you think would benefit from my help, please feel free to share this information with them.
 
Thanks so much! Have a great week…
 
With peace, joy, love, and light,
Keli~

Spring is here, and many people are beginning the process of cleaning projects around the house. Some may even be doing internal cleaning with a colon and liver cleanse. 

Although there are definitely huge benefits for cleaning up your physical environment, there are even greater benefits to cleaning up your mind. You don't have to spend 5 minutes watching the news to see all of the fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs that are prevalent in our world, and sometimes we feel overwhelmed and incapable of making a difference or changing things. But I assure you, we can.

And it all starts with changing our mind.

One of my relationship coaching clients started working with me because her husband had cheated on her and she was deciding how to move forward and needed some support. She was ashamed to talk to some of her friends about it, and the ones she did tell immediately took sides...which was in no way helping her to make a clear decision.

On one hand she loved this man. He was the father of her children, her best friend, the co-creator of their beautiful life together. But on the other hand, how could he have done this to her? To humiliate her and completely disregard their family like that? She felt like she was being ripped in two.  

My first step with a client is typically to get a clear vision of where we are heading, but she was unable to start there. I needed to help her clear her mind completely so that she could hear the voice of her own soul.

I gave her a guided 15-minute meditation to practice daily. After the first week she was aggravated and declared it had been the worst week ever! She had gone from tears to anger to disbelief to revenge. I told her that was great because it meant she was working through her grief process. She just needed to trust the process and keep to her daily meditation.

By the second week she was starting to feel a bit more peaceful and centered. She was beginning to accept that what was done was done. That's when I asked her how she got him to cheat on her. WHAT??? Yes, you heard me correctly. You see the one thing I know for sure about relationships is that when all of your needs are being met by your relationship there is no reason to go looking anywhere else. It took a moment for that to sink in, but once it did she was able to take responsibility for how she contributed to the breakdown in their marriage. It also allowed her to start seeing the possibilities in how she could make things better.

Our turning point came at week three when she decided that she wanted to forgive her husband and transform their marriage into a loving, connected, fun filled, and romantic adventure. Yay! We did it. We had clarity of direction, and the real work could begin…and boy did it! You'll be happy to know that it’s three years later and they are living happily ever after.

Clearing the mind is a necessity for anyone who wants to experience the life of their dreams.

You can't decide on where you are going based on past pain, misery, or confusion. You must find a way to let go of all of that, and center yourself in peace so that you can hear the sweet voice of your soul's truth. 
 
If you’ve been wondering how to spring clean your mind, do not fear…I am gifting you the very same meditation I gave my client three years ago.  It was a gift to me many years ago from my teacher Alexander Everett, the father of the human potential movement. I have been using this meditation daily for many years and have shared it with my students and clients who love it as much as I do.
 
Your 21 Day Spring Cleaning Mind Challenge:
Commit to practicing this Centering meditation every day for the next 21 days. It is only 15 minutes long. It is best to practice at the same time every day. It doesn’t really matter if that is first thing in the morning, at lunchtime, before bed, or anytime in between…just pick a time and stick to it. When the universe notices you are committed to showing up every day the miracles start happening.

At the end of the challenge you will have cleared through much of your mental garbage, and you will find yourself feeling lighter, peaceful, and inspired. I’ll be anxious to hear how it went, so please let me know your results at the end of your 21 Day Spring Cleaning Mind Challenge.

It’s nice to have a buddy to share the journey with, so please feel free to share this with any of your friends and loved ones who you think would benefit by joining you in this challenge.  

Happy Spring Cleaning!

Have you ever noticed how some people just seem to be lucky? They got the perfect figure, career, or family and are living happily ever after. How in the world did they do that? Do they have a fairy godmother they forgot to tell you about?

No!

But they did do a few things that many of us never think to do. These aren't deep dark secrets or mysteries from the beyond, and if you were to ask the lucky ones what they have done, they may not even be able to put it into words.

Not because they are withholding from you, but because it's just how they have always done things so they don't realize that they hold the key to luck. 
​
So today I will talk to you about...

By following these three simple suggestions you can become the creator of your own luck, the designer of your own ideal life. You will be the one others are looking at in awe and wishing they were as lucky as you.
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How will you take the ideas from today and transform your own life? Please reply and let me know. And if you think this information would be valuable to others, please feel free to share, tweet, and forward to your heart's content.

This year seems to be chock full of horrible flu's and viruses. One particularly ugly one reared its ugly little head in my life in February.

I had just suffered the lost of my beloved shih tzu Harry, and was working through the stages of grief. Did you know that grief can disengage your immune system? Well I did, but I still wasn't prepared for what was coming.

It started out with a runny nose. And I mean runny...like hot water running out of a tap. At night the water dripped down through my sinuses and into my throat, leading to the next step of laryngitis.

From there it traveled down into my lungs, and the coughing started. Coughing up huge chunks of what looked like rotting pieces of my lung. At one point I actually thought I might die from it because the cough had become relentless. It seemed angriest at night, disrupting my sleep and leaving me exhausted.

By the grace of God, I only had the most severe of the symptoms for a week, and I attribute that to the fact that I used eastern holistic healing to bring my body back to balance.

• I used a neti pot with a warm salt water solution to cleanse and soothe my sinuses once a day
• Followed by naysa oil drops in the nostrils 

• I also journaled a LOT. The lungs hold the energy of grief, so I needed to work through and release mine.
• I meditated several times throughout the day, connecting to the Source of Love. The throat is where we give and receive love, so I knew I needed to remove any blockages that may have been present.
• I made chicken noodle soup with lots of fresh vegetables, garlic and onion. Garlic is antiviral and antimicrobial so it helped kill whatever was wreaking havoc on my system.
• And last but not least, I went through 2 bottles of Bronchial Support. It helped relieve my cough so I could sleep at night, and to expectorate all of the yuckiness from my lungs. I love this stuff so much that I actually reordered two more bottles to have on my shelf in case I need it. 

To heal the body needs rest. Take the time that you need to work through your healing process. And hopefully you'll feel well before you know it!

With love & light,
​Keli

It has certainly been the beginning of a fascinating year! It seems like people's anger levels and intolerance's are reaching an all time high. It got me wondering to my Self...what in heaven's name is going on here??? So I started doing a little research (of course!) and I found some interesting information from the astrology world.

For the last few weeks several planets have been creating a Grand Cross in the sky which means different energy patterns have quite literally been "squaring off". That explains why we have been seeing the same thing happening between people everywhere we look. And this Grand Cross is also helping to bring to a close what we started back in 2008. That helps explain why this election year seems way more volatile than any I remember in the past.

The real question is...what does this mean to you? Are you noticing your intolerances being flushed up, and when they do, how are you choosing to deal with it? By reacting with judgement and hatred, OR proactively choosing to love and accept that which you do not understand?

And what were you beginning in 2008? Did you fulfill what you had envisioned, or do you still have work to complete?

For me 2008 was the time when I began to own my talents as a teacher and healer. This morning in my journal I realized that I am complete with that dharma, and am ready to move on to my next journey as an author/speaker. I'm not even sure what that means...but I do know that it fills my heart with blissful anticipation of what is to come.

Take some time this weekend to do a little inner reflection. Imagine how different the world would be if everyone was living a life they loved. That's the vision I'll be holding for you. 

​And promise me you won't put off doing your inner work! You deserve to be living the life of your dreams. As the old saying goes, "If not now, when?"

With love & light,
Keli

The good news is YOU have created everything you are experiencing in your life.

​The bad news is YOU have created everything you are experiencing in your life.

​The problem is that most people think that things just happen to them. My husband just left. They ran into me with their car. She got cancer. And the list goes on.

​What if humanity woke up one day and just started taking responsibility, and speaking the truth? Instead of saying my husband just left, it might sound more like...I'd rather be happy by myself than miserable with him. Or instead of saying they ran into me with their car...I wasn't paying attention and swerved into their path causing an accident. Or how about instead of saying she got cancer...she must have been ready to get back to heaven!

You see our reality is created by our thoughts, and once those thoughts are put into words THEY HAVE POWER. More specifically, they have the power to create.

​That is why people who say they are broke all the time have no money, and why people who always complain about their spouse are so unhappy in their marriage, and why people who think they are powerless give up so easily.

​The truth is that you have ALL the power to create the life of your dreams AND the life of your nightmares...and the only one who gets to decide which it is going to be is YOU! So, which will it be?

​Remember...your word begins the process of creation. Before you say the next thing that pops into your head, ask your Self if it is in alignment with the outcome you desire. If you truly want to create more peace, joy, love, and enlightenment in the world then all you have to do is align with those thoughts and ignore the rest. What we focus on expands.

For today, let's focus on peace on earth and goodwill towards all fellow beings.

With love & light,
​Keli Ackroyd

I came across these beautiful words this morning, and just had to share them with you...

"These are the words I wish I’d had whispered to me, many moons ago. When I saw a stray dog on the street that I went home and cried for. When I didn’t get picked for the team. When I didn’t think I was good enough. When I hadn’t yet found my way.

This is for the misfits. For the soul searchers. For the little acorns who don’t yet know they will branch out into their own greatness. For the uncertain children, for the unsure adults, for every single person trying to understand their place in this world. This is for you.

Sweet one, it’s ok that you don’t fit in now. Because you will later. Not with the cool people. You’re going to start your own beautiful revolution.

Sensitive one, don’t listen when they tell you that you must toughen up. Your sensitivity will become your empathy. Your empathy will become the embrace you wrap around jaded hearts. Your embrace will become the love those hearts will remember.

Wild one, you don’t need to succumb to the trappings of a life that isn’t yours. One day, you will seek out the storms that call you. You’ll find riches that cannot be banked. Never think for a moment that you need to tame your roaming heart.

Crying one, let the tears make the trip they need to. It’s all part of your journey.

Fierce one, your passion and pride will be the fuel you use to blaze your own trail. Don’t dilute who you are. The world will try to mould you. Make sure you don’t lose yourself as you journey through its shores.

Shy one, it’s ok that you stumble on your words sometimes. You will find your voice in other ways. Never doubt that your contribution counts.

Compassionate one, your heart feels helpless for the sadness you see. None of your weeping is wasted. Later on, your sorrow will be the catalyst for the change you will make in the lives of others.

Wounded one, you don’t need to be fixed. You’re not broken. Your heart may feel raw, just now, but it knows how to heal itself. Don’t rush to fill in the cracks. Let the hurt breathe.

Bound one, you haven’t yet learned to liberate yourself. You may feel stuck in this moment, but you’ll soon discover the rapture of being your own sovereign. You will claim your freedom and you’ll never, ever look back.

Solitary one, never fill the empty spaces with empty people. Wait for the wonderful ones. Fate has a fondness for bringing together the souls that are made to match. Spend your hours with those who appreciate your worth.

Insecure one, you are so much more than enough. Don’t look at the others and waste your wishes on what you think you need to be. Your beauty is boundless. Shine your diamond light.

Dreaming one, never stop believing in possibility, of who you are, of who you can yet become. Embrace the emotion from every experience. Claim the crown for every victory.

Let your legacy be one that honours your truth and your time here will not have been in vain."

— Skylar Liberty Rose

With love & light,
Keli Ackroyd

Ever wish you could find the perfect exercises that would take away all of your aches and pains, help you create abs & buns of steal, all while lulling you into a peaceful state of tranquility...? Oh, and did I mention no sweating? 

I recently had the distinct pleasure of participating in a continuing education class for my massage license that introduced me to the existence of these very exercises! And today must be your lucky day, because I am sharing them with you in today's KeliTV episode. So throw on some comfy clothes, and grab a mat or a towel, because you are about to experience some wholebody movement magic!

Don't you love it??? I have been spending about fifteen to twenty minutes daily playing with these movements and the results have been phenomenal. I even notice on days when I've been sitting for a long time, my body wants to do a second set of the movements!

Now, your challenge for the week is to integrate these exercises into your daily self care practice, and don't forget to let me know your results below...


With love & light,
Keli Ackroyd

Have you ever found yourself uninspired? Or worse yet, trudging aimlessly through life trying to make the best of a bad situation? I'm sure you probably have at one point or another.

Recently I found myself in that very state, and I must confess it was less than pleasant. Luckily for me the universe lead me to this awesome video. It was an absolute game changer for me, and so I wanted to share it with you. Please take the time to watch it, and if you can't do it right now, bookmark this page and set a reminder for yourself to come back to it when you have 20 minutes to spare. You'll be grateful you did!

I give you the ever brilliant Simon Sinek...enjoy!

Finding your why can be a daunting task. It was for me. After three weeks of struggling I finally found my "Why": to create soulful connections so that we can uplift each other to the highest possibility.


If you don't have the time or energy to spend three weeks (or longer) searching, I can help you discover your why in a fabulous process that only takes about 7 to 10 hours. In this interactive, online, video-led course, Simon Sinek guides you step-by-step through his Why Discovery process, and I will work with you as your partner to help you articulate your why.

Sound awesome? It is! Want more info? Contact me. Ready to get started? Click here.

Now for this week's challenge...
Please share below the one thing that really stuck out for you in this video. Unless you know your why, in which case Start with Why. :-)

With love & light,
Keli Ackroyd