It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.
– unknown
Challenge your Self Limiting Beliefs, as you will find, most of them are not true.
– Jodi Burke
I want to share some things on programming after the last post.
Self Programming that is and from a different perspective in upcoming posts!
People asked me if the last post was a photo of me and yes it was.
I didn’t post the picture of me in the last one out of vanity or look at me look at me type of energy just to be clear. I’ve started a series of Whispers from Your Soul which is going to be fun, inspirational, loving, supportive and planning seeds of awakening to your truth.
The other reason I am posting images like that is to start sharing some my journey, struggles and over coming them back to more of me, the truth of me, the real authentic me.
For years I’ve struggled with body issues, self judgements & criticism, hatred against myself and my body – the posting of that picture represented A lot of inner work that I’ve done to reverse the distorted programming I had allowed in and created that kept me in separation especially from myself!!!
Free is in Love
When we choose to install distorted programming about ourselves and our bodies that keep us living in fear, rejection, judgements, criticisms, not feeling good enough etc there are little to no vibrations of love.
That is NOT the truth of who you are!!!
The truth of our existence and of our BEingness of our soul, is that it only knows the higher vibrations of love and anything less is distorted programming!!
Distorted programming creates separation within ourselves therefore also gets projected outside of ourselves – ego, judgments, narcissistic behaviour, self abuse etc.
Two years ago I would never have a posted a photo like that and like I said it’s not about look at me look at me it’s about I’ve come a long way so if you’re reading this and struggling know that you too can do it!! You just need better programming and more Self Love as that is the basis of it all.
Love YOURSELF!!!
It’s so friggin Freeing!
Much Love
Jodi
Self Love IS Freeing
PS – Please note I am only sharing my journey and offering inspiration and planting seeds to look t things like you, your body and life differently – it is not medical advice in any way.
If you are struggling with some of these issues – my Book – For & You – Choose You is a great place to start!!
No 2 Bodies are the Same – Choose Love as in Self Love / Body Love!!
Your body hears everything your mind says.
– Naiomi Judd
Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It’s a state of mind.
– Amisha Patel
Embrace and Love your body – it’s the most amazing thing you’ll ever own!
– unknown
Don’t let your mind bully your body!!
Life is way too short to spend it fighting with your body or yourself!!
Mind – Body – Soul
Be in the Vibe of Love – it starts with Self Love
If one stops to think about it – everything we do we do for our bodies – or mostly anyways. We eat to feed our bodies – our bodies are real – are you feeding it real foods? We work to house our bodies – provide a home and warm bed to sleep in. We buy cars or ride bikes to get our bodies from place to place or to work. We dress our bodies in clothes to go to work or outside – depending on the weather and in our society we need to cover up :). We exercise to move our bodies.
Are you doing any of those for your Soul? Probably not, but for the body. Yet we are not our bodies.
How do you talk to your body? Kind loving words? or Judgement and criticism? Do you put clothes on your body that it likes and what feels good or what you thin it should wear? Do you starve your body? Over eat? Over drink? Never let it have some fun? Do you spend most of your time pissed off at it, wanting to change it or love it as it is?
I’ve been there – I know and once I let go and crossed over it all became much easier and clearer
Just some things to think about!!
Jodi
xo
Shout out to ALL the people working on loving their bodies – because in our society that is not easy – I’m proud of you and you should be too!!
Struggling with Emotional Eating? 21 Days Food and You is a great place to start to make radical changes!!
Shout out to ALL the People Loving Their Bodies!!!
No 2 Bodies are the Same – Love Yours No Matter What!!
Real Bodies are fat, and thin, and both and neither and otherwise.
– Hane Blank
There is no wrong way to have a body!
– Glenn Maria
You were born to be real not perfect!
Cuz You’re amazing just the way you are!!
The problem isn’t with your body – it’s what you think of it and what you think of yourself – true self love is thinking love, feeling love, being love and eating love………not fear, judgment, hatred, criticism, jealousy, processed food (and emotions) or abuse of any kind.
NO two bodies are the same!!
Choose Body Love!
This is a body hate free zone – remember – there is no perfect body only marketing and advertising that reminds you that you’re not good enough and then the self programming loop you keep running in your mind. It’s time to tell it to f*&^ off – we have approximately 75 000 thoughts a day – most of which were the same that you thought yesterday, last week and probably last year.
It’s a program – delete it and reinstall one of self love and body love!!
The body is the only place your Soul has to live – so take care of it. Raw, Naked and Beautiful – Real, Authentic and Truth.
Eat Real
Live Well
Love Deeply
Laugh Often
Never Give up on Your Dreams
Jodi
xo
Remember – there is nothing wrong with your body but there is a lot wrong with the messages that try and convince you otherwise.
Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique nature’s handiwork… My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.
~ Alfre Woodard
If Everything IS Energy and it is – your body is the place the Soul calls home – it hears every word you speak and every thought you think – you will have this body the rest of your life – why make it a battle ground – why not love it the way it is??
Are you letting your light shine or hiding in the darkness – by darkness I mean self judgments, criticism, lies about not being good enough, think enough etc……….
We are all like Snowflakes – each one is different, unique and beautiful – why try to be like someone else – that is not why we are here!!
Remember who you are!!
Jodi
xo
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Emotional Eating is Self Imposed Abuse, Restriction, Trapment
Living Beyond Bondage came about for a Grant Proposal for Photography but mostly for my 21 Days Food & You – Stop the Insanity Program AND the Raw, Naked and Beautiful Project. Anyone who suffers from Emotional Eating will understand this and also benefit from the program hugely. I will be sharing more on this as well in upcoming posts.
– Living Beyond Bondage –
We were all born pure, innocent and full of love.
Somewhere along the line the story got distorted.
All the Negative, Limited Loathing Self Talk
The drug of choice for many, especially women, is food.
Along with that drug often comes constant self criticizing, loathing, judging and obsessing about what one ate, didn’t eat, body size, shape and imperfections – no matter how small they may seem, it always gets distorted.
Yes, media, advertising, possibly parents, teachers, friends or siblings may play a role in somehow reminding us that we aren’t good enough the way we are IF we buy into it and believe it.
The start of De-Programming the mental Self Talk
It’s a disorder gone rampant, with over 91% of women disliking their bodies and themselves, many to an extreme. 80% of 13 yr old Canadian girls have been on a diet already and 95% of people with an eating disorder are between the ages of 12 – 25 yrs.
I know – I’ve been one of them.
Self Talk is Better – There is NOW Awareness of the Self Abuse Programming
The mental, emotional and often times physical bondage is excruciating – yet many hide it well from others. The wires around the head represent the mental constructs of the programs, self talk and beliefs – none of which are self loving.
Stuffing down emotions, or better yet, not feeling them at all.
We often feel alone, fragmented and on our own keeping things bottled up inside.
We are caught in a vicious cycle of self depreciating, devaluing, loathing and often times self abusive – until we decide enough!!
Starting to Truly See the Lies We’ve Been Telling Ourselves!!!
Only 5 % of women naturally have the body type portrayed by women in the media and for which the other 91% are trying to compete, yet we continue to strive for something that truly is not the ‘norm.’
We aren’t good enough the way we are is the constant reminder.
The other 4% don’t have tv, internet or magazines and therefore really, they are the free ones.
If we’re going to buy into stories, why not buy into self empowering ones?
Who truly decided what beauty is?
Waking Up to the Truth of Who You Are (Who I AM!!)
We all have a story to tell – we’re trying to make it a similar to one another and that is the start of the disconnect.
We are born and should be able to be our authentic selves and creatively express who we truly be through our gifts – not by trying to be like one another.
With the start of the disconnect we compare, judge, shut down and buy into someone else’s ideas of beauty and what we should look like and we start our own mantra of not being good enough.
Yet we are like snowflakes – each individually designed, beautiful and unique.
Some of us, remembering that, have broken free from that bondage – most of it being self imposed and mental self talk.
We decided that our lives weren’t about fighting our bodies, hating our bodies or ourselves or spending 95% of our time worrying about a few pounds or what we did / did not eat.
Cause it’s really not about food.
There were too many other beautiful, amazing things to see, feel, be and do in this lifetime.
That is the start of removing the bondage – you allow yourself to feel – ALL and reprogram the self talk.
The one thing that separates a food / body obsessive addiction is you have to learn to live with both, unlike most other addictions.
When one can truly do that – accept and love what is – then the bondage is gone and nothing is more freeing than that.
I know I am one of them!
True Freedom from Self Imposed Limitations & Abuse
Women Wanted who Want to Break Free – Raw, Naked and Beautiful Project – Real, Authentic and Truthful – Beauty!.
This will become a book and gallery exhibitions – I am currently in the Ajijic Mexico area but will be travelling this year and will be posting where I will be – Please contact me if you would like a session!!
Much Love & Gratitude
Jodi Burke
PS Again here is the 21 Days Food & You and the Raw, Naked and Beautiful Project
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” ― Amy Bloom
“The human body is the best work of art.” ― Jess C. Scott
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
“How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.” ― Karen Quan
“By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!” ― Steve Maraboli
“Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you.” ― Golda Poretsky
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I no longer look for the good in people, I search for the real……..
because good is often dressed in fake clothing, real is naked and proud no matter what the scars!!
– Chishala Lishomwa
Nude Yoga on the beach is fun and freeing!
Clothing is over rated sometimes!! Some of the best ‘real’ conversations I have had have been on the beach – nude beach that is – it seems the masks do come off 🙂 besides the clothing!
I am beginning to dislike small talk – I want to talk about life, death, sex, magic, consciousness, the universe, what makes your heart sing, the meaning of life, how to bend energy, unplugging from the matrix, what keeps you up at night, what makes you jump out of bed with a skip in your step, your insecurities, your fears, your loves, your battles, your triumphs…….I want real conversations with depth, meaning, passion, juiciness and aliveness.
What’s up or how you doing just doesn’t cut it anymore!!
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This is the simple difference between clarity and confusion.
– Matt Khan
Our ‘Reality’ is not as real as you may think!
I am also pretty sure that the title Raw, Naked and Beautiful could have some pretty interesting thoughts or images dancing around one’s head 🙂
I took on and named this project almost 2 years ago – it’s been in my thoughts constantly yet I struggled with a few things – with the direction and within me – now much more is becoming clear and it’s truly the time to move forward with this!!
Raw, Naked and Beautiful stands for Real, Authentic and Truth – and I may, actually I hope 🙂 as the deeper I dig, I realize how little I know or understand about the real energetics of living and being yet my journey and inquestable thirst for truth (ahh being a true Sagg) I would love to share what I am finding as our ‘reality’ that seems so real is not what you nor I think or have been taught it is!!
Our so called ‘ reality’ is such a man made construct based on anything but truth, We are multi dimensional beings that view and live life through our 5 senses which is extremely limiting as we cannot keep up with how much information is in our awareness or fields each moment therefore we have beliefs, programs, patterns, judgments, points of views etc that everything gets censored through – kind of like that telephone line game as a kid – remember how distorted the information was by the time it hit the last person – no where near how it started out usually. Funny in the game but not always funny in the game called life!
Real Foods – what the body needs!!
Raw is about real – real foods, real emotions, real conversations, real ways of living and being. Where can we be more real in our lives? I will dive more into all of this in upcoming posts!! We are turning more into who we are and living from the heart more not the head. (psss – there will be a little gift coming out soon so check back in shortly)
Raw, Naked and Beautiful Project
Naked is about being Authentic – whether that is having your photo taken in the nude, semi nude or not it’s who are you truly and how do you want to be seen being the real you!? And speaking of naked – what is wrong with the human body, your body? Do you love it? or not? It’s time to let go of negative self talk, self abuse and another twisted thoughts about nudity being pornographic etc Our bodies are the place our Souls call home – love it and a big part of that is being the real you! I will share my journey of my relationship with food, my body and self and why now this is my mission. Some major deprogramming for some of us for sure!!
Celebrate YOUR Awesomeness!!
Beautiful is about Truth – the truth of who we are! I so love using the snowflake analogy as it seems to work – we are each like a beautiful,unique snowflake that when we come together we all play an unique role but when looked t separately we look different, are unique and beautiful – so why try and be like anyone else!!?? Loe your unique, quirky, beautiful awesomeness!!! 🙂
We all came into this world pure, innocent and full of love – somewhere along the line the story got distorted.
The journeys to come home, back to self, back to love.
When we leave planetEarth we may be asked of our time here – how much were you able to love and how much were you able to receive love………
So I leave you with this question – where in your life can you be more, raw, naked and beautiful??
Eat Real
Live Authentically
Love Yourself
Laugh Often
Be Awesome!!!
Jodi
xo
PS To find out more about the Raw, Naked and Beautiful project click here.
If you are struggling with Emotional Eating or sense of Self – 21 Days Food & You is a great starting place!
Me Being Me – Photo by Ted Peters
Here are a few examples – judgment vs non-judgment or anyone or anything, ease vs struggle, love & self love vs hatred and self hatred, happy vs sad and so on. It’s ok to move thru different emotions s that is part of the human experience down here but to stay in a lower state for extended periods of time is not real living or being as each decision we make – even how we feel is based on coming from love or fear.
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Yesterday I went into Facebook to update a page of mine that I hadn’t posted on in a little while and I was changing the name over and re-doing the little photo as well.
They wouldn’t let me make the change of the name of the page to the project I have started working on due to one word in it – Raw, Naked and Beautiful got rejected.
Can you guess which word?? (It has since been approved)
Raw, Naked and Beautiful Project
Then I uploaded this photo but since it is a small space part of the image was not shown – I then got my notice that I was banned for violating Facebook policies for 24 hours.
Are you kidding me?
I actually had to sit back and laugh and to be honest it only put more fuel on the fire of digging deeper into my project and getting it out there more.
This is the year – so many lies, corruptions, deceits, sex scandals and more are coming to light.
Be prepared – some of it is truly twisted.
When one has decided to wake up or take the red pill (there actually were some great clues in The Matrix!!) so much is so apparent that I have a hard time believing what still gets missed in every day living.
Yet I was asleep too for a long time.
I have become more vocal about some things……just ask my friends!! J Yet for many years I stayed quiet as I got laughed at, ridiculed, told I had no idea and called a wingnut.
Yet I just knew what I knew and then when I jumped in and stating I learning, studying more, unplugged, asked questions as so much didn’t make sense to me.
Things truly bother me like that our food or so called ‘food’ is full of toxic chemicals and to et healthy is a make work project, our water is poisoned, oh yeah so is the air. Vaccine do more harm than good. The news is nothing but fake fear based propaganda and constant advertising going on to buy buy buy and messages of you are NOT good enough the way you are.
You’re probably by now wondering with does getting banned from Facebook have to do with all of this stuff??
Stay with me here as it does all tie together!!
As I have deepened my knowledge of many areas, healed my emotional wounds or at least many of them, dived in many alternative healing modalities, Quantum Physics (no this ain’t a hippy dippy post J) cleaned up my thinking and eating (from an Eating disorder to Raw Food Chef and found balance and pleasure around and with food and created a program for others), understand the banking Ponzi system that runs the world and well I could go on – this is all part of it.
Google, Youtube and Facebook are all part of the censoring of what can be seen or shared. You see more and more people are waking up to all the lies we have been fed. Yet porn is still the biggest industry on the internet.
Check out what previous Facebook people say now about social media here.
As one takes the red pill and goes down that path it becomes so evident and clear the lies we are being fed from TeLIEvision, media, advertising, internet and more – my energy is well spent planting seeds of truth, inspiration, love, awareness, non-judgment of self and each other – especially women. And helping people wake up that truly want to wake up – they know or have a feeling that something just isn’t right!!!
Every time I share my Raw, Naked and Beautiful project (which I have to admit I have been more quiet than vocal……until now) I have women contact me saying if I am in their area they want to participate or how they’ve been affected or how much they’ve struggle with self love or body issues or emotional eating or more.
So, why does showing a semi nude photos that has been done artistically create such results as getting banned??
Could it be all the fucked of points of views around bodies, nudity, sex, porn, religion, human trafficking or………..
We were ALL born pure, innocent, full of love and light – somewhere along the line the story got distorted!
Where there is light there will be darkness – the world has become quite dark in many areas – we need to remember who we are and reignite the light – it can shine brighter in each one of us – some may shine brighter – they are here to light the way for the light seekers.
The more we can let go of things that keep us in fear, doubt, anger, poor health (therefore thinking and feeling), judgment, consumerism, anger etc the more light can come in.
Its truly time for us to step back into the light and love of who we truly are – Souls or Pure Consciousness having a human experience.
Are you ready to stop buying into the the programming, the lies, the judgments making us feel not physically adequate or good enough?
Are you ready to say good-bye to your inner critic, that inner voice, that self bondage that limits you and keeps you small and take the pledge to be kinder yourself?
This is a call – a call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous and to be self loving.
Transitioning from the Old Ways!! Photo – Sandra Wagman
It’s time to surrender to what is.
Waving the flag and surrounding – red symbolizes love – self love.
Are you ready?
Are you ready to look in the mirror and love all that is without judgment and criticism?
That is the first step in transforming your experience with yourself, your body and your life!!
Much Love
Jodi
PS – I am shooting in Vancouver this Saturday for the Raw, Naked and Beautiful project – if interested PM me!!
Taking the Pledge
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I am back in Canada and last week had time with a couple of friends to capture some of the beauty of fall colors and also some images of ourselves in the fall beauty and pushing the boundaries.
Since starting to share my project Raw, Naked and Beautiful – people have been sending me messages of inspiration and also wanting to participate somehow – I see a road trip coming up in 2018!!
And I see much more energy focused in that direction – it is yelling at me that it is needed and wanted.
It has been fun seeing some beautiful spots of the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia and also seeing some of the many trails I spent walking with my dog Spirit – who passed last December – this is the first time I am really back in this area. I have felt like I’ve been chasing the light – tall cedars, fall, coolness and beautiful colors – much fun!.
After our first day of shooting – staying with my friend we uploaded some of the photos and started looking at them – it’s interesting – (good choice of words eh?) looking at photos of yourself, semi nude and nude.
Contracting when feeling self limiting – Photo by Sandra Wagman
Seeing what comes up.
Surrendering to what is has become the new theme – waving the red flag – symbolizing love especially love of self and our body.
Waving the Flag – Photo by Sandra Wagman
We truly do have that choice each day, each moment in all that we think and do – starting with ourselves.
It’s truly breaking free from the self imposed bondage and limitations of me.
It’s been an interesting trip back to Canada – grateful I am here but can’t wait to get back to the warm sun!
Jodi
xo
Shoot me a message or stay in touch as to how and where the Raw, Naked and Beautiful project unfolds – as many women are needed for it!
Looking Back one Last Time – Photo by Sandra Wagman
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