Self-Care Envisioned

Is your well-being taking a back seat?
Do you...

When we put ourselves last, we create space for anxiety, depression, fatigue, anger, heart disease, and other illnesses to creep in when we don’t even notice. A wide variety of symptoms can plague us for some time before we’re even aware that a problem exists.

What is self-care?

A good self-care routine helps you take better care of your overall health and well-being—It improves concentration, energy levels, and overall happiness. Practicing daily self-care helps you cope with daily stressors and build resilience so you can live a healthy life regardless of the circumstances you find yourself in.

In today’s chaotic world, I don’t know anyone who couldn’t use some more self-care!

When you attend the Self-Care Envisioned Workshop, you’ll leave with...

A vision board to give you some clear goals and direction on each of the 8 Pillars of self-care (Physical, Personal, Emotional, Social, Spiritual, Intellectual, Financial, and Environmental)
Ideas on how to incorporate more of the 8 Pillars of Self-Care into your life.
Some good mojo to get started and convert your thoughts into action.

When you practice good self-care, you’ll improve your...

When you practice good self-care, you’ll reduce or eliminate...

Tending to our well-being might sound simple and make a lot of sense; however, for many, it’s an area that is often overlooked until it’s too late. When we tune into our needs and establish healthier habits, we’re nourishing not only our bodies but our souls, which strengthens our overall health and well-being.

Date: Saturday, March 18.

Location: Rocking B Farms, 22212 NW 31st Ave, Ridgefield, WA 98642

Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm (maybe longer if you still need time to complete your board)

Cost: $55

What’s included: A potluck lunch, community, friendship, laughter, coaching through the process, and vision board supplies.

What to bring: You, a friend (must register), a potluck item, magazines, and a favorite beverage (I will provide coffee, tea, and water).

8 Benefits of Group Coaching

Unlike any other time in history, the world we live in today offers many opportunities for learning, growth, and development.

We can watch videos, listen to podcasts, attend workshops and lectures on zoom, read books from great teachers, such as Brené Brown, and so much more.

Another way to learn, grow, and develop yourself is through the group coaching process.

In the case of my 12-week online group coaching program, One Size Fits None; it looks like this —

  1. Participants bring their life experiences to the group and develop deep connections with the other participants knowing they are not alone on their journey toward creating a healthier lifestyle.
  2. The coaching and group support offers a greater likelihood of success in achieving the goals the participants set for themselves.
  3. When there are more eyes and ears on a situation, the knowledge base expands, allowing for a greater perspective in finding solutions to difficulties.
  4. A culture for continued learning and creative thinking develops, which drives participants to a greater level of personal development.
  5. Participants develop greater listening skills when others share their stories.
  6. With each success, participants learn to trust that they can finally achieve their desire to live healthier lives, and the group celebrates with them.
  7. Doing things solo isn’t always fun, so a group offers the benefit of sharing the journey, building relationships, and having fun simultaneously.
  8. The cost of group coaching is a fraction of the cost of private one-on-one coaching, so it offers excellent value for the offer.

As a coach who facilitates group coaching around a topic that often fosters shame and guilt, I am honored to have witnessed some amazing transformations with the participants I’ve worked with. Their journeys inspire me to continue supporting them in a discovery process to uncover their relationship with food, exercise, and health.

Below is a recent Facebook post (with permission to share) from a previous One Size Fits None group coaching client.

 

This was not my heaviest, but this is a before and after of my weight loss journey! 325 down. I still have more to go, but I’m on my way!! The program that helped me the most was “One Size Fits None “! I worked on myself from the inside out”! I’m thinking of doing the program again to keep me going forward! Come do it with me! All on zoom! Not just about weight loss but about feeling and being healthier. Body, mind, and spirit!! I HATE having my picture taken, much less sharing it with people. I get that I’m beautiful, no matter what size I am!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If living a healthier life is important to you, join me for some group coaching through One Size Fits None, my twice-monthly group calls. Or, as Collette did, schedule a call to learn more about my One Size Fits None program.

With Love,

Vonie

One Size Fits None

Do You Want More Energy? To Stop Dieting? To Break Old Patterns?

One Size Fits None empowers you to:

1. Step off the scale
2. Break free from dieting
3. Build a healthier relationship with yourself

One Size Fits None is NOT Your Typical Weight Loss Program

It teaches you to make lifestyle changes that lead to losing weight, feeling better, having more energy, and having more energy long term.

When you feel like shit mentally and physically, it’s impossible to change unhealthy habits into healthy ones! If you’re ready to undo guilt, shame, hiding, and self-sabotage, this is the program for you.

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Your in the right place if you've...

struggled with maintaining a "diet" (or two or ten).

felt like a failure at exercise routines.

known, deep inside, you were doing everything right and still not getting healthier.

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Our Bodies Carry Us Through Everything in Our Lives, Good and Bad

They become the repository not just for our muscles, tissue, and organs but also for our trauma. Unresolved trauma shows up as …

Everyone experiences trauma and every trauma you experience changes your body. Left unresolved, trauma creates an imbalance, and your body must compensate. Many times, in an attempt to balance itself, your body will create or hold onto extra weight, pain, unhealthy habits, and anxiety among other things. The result has a myriad of symptoms from weight gain to disease to mental health repercussions.

And you may get some results … but until you go back to the trauma and resolve it, your body’s need to balance itself will keep overriding your attempts to alleviate the symptoms. To truly heal, you must go back … and resolve the traumas, one by one, releasing your body from the burden and making balance so much easier!

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How? Gestalt

Gestalt sees as whole beings — body, mind, and soul. Our wholeness may get interrupted with trauma, and we will find ourselves compensating in some way to maintain our wholeness (we call this “strategy”). Sometimes, we can resolve the trauma quickly. Many times, however, circumstances will disrupt our ability to heal and we have to rely on our strategy longer. If that strategy is unhealthy (such as an addiction), we may get stuck. Resolving the trauma will release the strategy and the resulting stuckness so we can move forward with joy and ease.

I am a trained facilitator in the Gestalt process. I have a completed an intensive two-year program to learn how to help you identify and resolve the traumas that are holding you back from reaching your health goals.

You may notice there are horses pictured throughout this website. Horses are naturally whole — naturally Gestalt — in their beingness. I often partner with my horse Cody to facilitate my clients’ trauma resolution. In my One-to-One Coaching Programs, you can choose if you’d like to work with Cody and I or just me.

Learn More About Gestalt and Equine Gestalt
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"... it got me thinking and doing steps to take to promote my own health and personal goals. There were lots of actions and opportunities presented to support me in those actions. The daily calls, journal prompts, articles, and homework kept the program in the front of my mind."
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"I have never really journaled in my life and I like this once I got into it. It made me more objective as to why I did some of the things I have been doing. Really making me take a deeper look into why I do some habits and how I could change them. Closing night with the horses and the connection this brought to some very deep and personal issues, I was amazed."
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"This is a lifelong learning thing for me – and I think this program may have helped me see the pattern AND the consequences even more clearly."
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"Vonie is a very caring compassionate coach. She gently helped me through a dark time in my life. If you are considering a coach, I highly recommend her."
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“Vonie, I am so impressed with the direction you are headed with your life. Having known you since we were young teenagers, I’ve been witness to the many different paths you have faced. Now, even the way you express yourself is with an excitement that’s infectious and I want to know what it is — I want what you’re having! Best wishes and blessings to you my dear friend.”
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“Vonie, you are an amazing, dynamic woman whose life experiences and coaching instincts are going to benefit so many. I am inspired by your drive and determination, and believe you and Cody will be an awesome coaching partnership – big love to you both!”
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One-to-One Coaching

Design a program that fits perfectly for you by choosing from virtual coaching, equine sessions, and in-person Gestalt sessions. Packages can be designed for one month, six months and 12 months. We start by choosing your focus for your one-to-one program then choose a schedule that fits for you and get to work! This intensive program offers you both flexibility and privacy.

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One Size Fits None Program

This is not your typical weight loss program, it’s a holistic health and wellness program that teaches you to make sustainable changes in your life. Stop the insanity and take back control in your life.

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Cut the Rope & Choose Your Own Adventure

Writing about the eight pillars of self-care these past few weeks has been a fun experience. It not only helped me see where there were holes in my own self-care routine but researching each one also gave me even more tools to help my coaching clients. I love it when that happens!

After writing the series and preparing for this newsletter, I found myself thinking about how we get to choose our own adventures with self-care and life.

And then, yesterday morning, while having breakfast with a friend, I realized our conversation related perfectly to today's topic:

Choose Your Own Adventure —

A series of children's books, Choose Your Own Adventure, takes the reader on a journey where they get to choose their own adventure by selecting a specific role to play. It could be a pirate, a doctor, or another character or profession. Once they've read some pages and decided which role they will play, they are guided further along the path with different pages and more options. Eventually, they arrive at the end of their adventure. Throughout the series of 184 books, there was a wide range of endings (from 7 to 44) that the reader could come to. Of course, once the reader has read one ending, they can go back and pick another adventure and continue reading the book.

Unfortunately, our lives aren't a series of books with different endings.

Or are they?

 

Just because you start life one way doesn't mean you must continue that same path. Take, for example, an alcoholic who has lost their job, family, and friends. They can decide to make significant changes that would improve the quality of their life, regain employment, mend relationships with their loved ones, and build a foundation for solid friendships. They've changed the narrative, and the story will end much differently than the direction it had headed.

Another example is the person who spent most of their life living an unhealthy lifestyle only to be faced with a threatening health issue. Again, the story is bleak and won't go so well if a transition doesn't take place. They can choose to continue the path they are on or take the steps necessary to reverse the health crisis.

From the moment we put our feet on the floor in the morning to putting our heads on the pillow, we make decisions. We decide what to eat, what to wear, how long we'll brush our teeth, which way to drive to work, etc. In Psychology Today, it is suggested that we make 35,000 choices per day. Wow!

Reaction Versus Response —

We are also faced with opportunities to respond to or react to situations daily. Responses come from self-awareness, where the conscious mind works with the unconscious mind to analyze problems. It allows time to consider all aspects of a situation and the ripple effect your decisions will have on you and others.

A reaction, on the other hand, is quick and without thought. It comes from the unconscious mind. No time or effort is put into how the reaction will affect your life or others. Want more info on the topic of response versus reaction? Here's another Psychology Today article.

When it comes to nutritional health, far too many people react versus respond. Case in point, my good friend Pamela and I spend a lot of time at the barn together, and earlier this summer, one of us would say, "do you want ice cream?" There's no stop and pause moment for either one of us; the next thing we know, we're getting ice cream despite having sworn off too many carbs.

Rumination and The Chained Elephant Syndrome —

Have you ever heard the story of the baby elephant that has one of its legs tied to a post? The baby elephant becomes conditioned to the idea that it can't break the rope and wander off. As it ages, despite its size and strength, it believes it is still unable to break free. So, the elephant's mind holds it to the post.

Unfortunately, it can be the same with humans. Instead of breaking free and choosing their own adventure, they continue ruminating about the past. As a result, their mind becomes chained, letting their past experiences shape their future.

 

If we believe we can't do something, we become stuck and often decide not to give whatever that thing is (fill in the blank) another try. We keep the roadblocks in place.

I've seen this repeatedly with clients who come into my One Size Fits None program. They have tried to lose weight, eat healthy, and exercise, only to give up. Then they decide to give it another shot, break free of old patterns, and change the adventure. It's exciting to see the rope break free and the changes begin.

If you are tied to a rope, give it one more try and break it. Choose a new adventure. You'll be happy you did.

With Love,
Vonie

12 Tips to Boost Intellectual Self-Care

We are near the end of August, and it feels like summer has just started here in the Pacific Northwest. Yet, the kids will be heading back to school soon, and summer will be nearing the end. Honestly, I’m not ready for the topic of self-care to be over, so I’m doing something I’ve not done before. I’m going LIVE on Facebook tomorrow, August 19, at 2:30 PDT, and talking about self-care.

I’d love it if you could join me. If you can make it, mark your calendar and head to Vonie Kalich Coaching on Facebook when it’s time.

Okay, now on to today’s topic – Intellectual Self-Care.

Intellectual Self-Care —

Like physical, personal, environmental, emotional, financial, and spiritual, intellectual self-care is essential to our overall health, brain, and mind.

Let me explain the brain/mind part first —

Although the brain and mind are often referred to interchangeably, they are very different from each other. The brain is matter and part of our physical body, while the mind reaches far beyond anything physical. We can’t touch it!

The brain, like a computer, stores information. However, the brain is capable of much more and has far greater intelligence than any computer. And like a computer, the brain needs to be upgraded with new software. The software is intellectual self-care.

What is intellectual self-care, and why is it important?

Intellectual self-care is taking the time to stimulate the brain with new information. When the brain is processing new information and trying new things, it broadens a person’s awareness and enriches their mind. When we open it up to curiosity, we learn new things. We can also unlearn things that don’t serve us well.

When we know more, we can do more.

Scientific American has a great article on how much storage capacity the brain has. A mind-blowing 2.5 petabytes (I didn’t even know the word until I read the article). That’s a million gigabytes. Check it out here.

So, the next time you hear someone call themselves stupid, don’t believe them. However, intellectual intelligence also comes down to how much we want to learn. It’s not that we aren’t capable. When the mind is healthy, the foundation for overall health is stronger.

 

How to stimulate and build your intellectual self-care — (new software)

 

1. Reading – Reading is a great way to expand the mind and learn new things. It doesn’t have to be work-related.

2. Puzzles – physically putting a puzzle together stimulates the brain. Puzzles that challenge your thinking and vocabulary will do the same.

3. Museum – There is so much history to learn in a museum.

4. Art – the practice of doing art in any form works wonders for our intellectual self-care and many other aspects of self-care.

5. Podcasts – If you’ve never listened to a Podcast, give it a try. Podcasts are an excellent resource for learning.

6. YouTube – What can’t you learn on YouTube?

7. Hobbies – Learn a new language, play a new sport, etc.

8. School – Go back to school or take a community education course.

9. Films – documentaries are great for learning new things.

10. Events – Attend an event around a subject you want to explore.

11. Teach – Teaching others can broaden your expertise on a subject matter, even if you are thoroughly versed in it.

12. Talking – widen your view and listen to what others have to say. We will often learn something new if we listen more than we talk.

Find new things for your brain to do. Doing so will help you sharpen not only the brain but the mind, and you’ll feel accomplished by growing in more areas of your life.

With love,
Vonie

P.S. — Want to learn more about self-care? Join me for a bi-monthly group coaching call. Your first month is my gift to you, so check it out here.