Oh my I can’t sleep I call it Bodylove insomnia! I wish I could reach out and connect with each one of you divine creatures. I am so passionate about the Bodylove mission that I often lay awake at night brain storming… how to get the exposure we need to reach you all.
I am blessed to meet so many magical people who want to help me and who see and feel how need Bodylove is. Tonight I pray for inner peace that the destiny ahead of me will bring me the courage and guidance I need to continue my work. Trust calms my mind and with each breath I feel love flowing within me and then releasing into the world around me. Connect. Love. Play. Laughter and More Love that is what I pray. The end to our fight, it is clear in my sight.
Blessings and Much Bodylove,
Ingyarna
Kisses…
Today, I have over whelming gratitude for the goddess gals in my life. Remarkable, talented, divine women who hold so much power and passion that it does make believe that I am truly lucky to belong to such a tribe of Goddess Gals. At the gym today I literally bumped into an old friend of mine Tanya www.loudfitness.com it has been ten years since I saw her. Ten years later and we are the same women yet so much more connected to who we are, both of us living our dreams after much soul searching, yearning and working. Next, as I rushed to dress myself, I sighed a sigh so deep that the woman next to me smiled and we both laughed. I said, “ How good is it to SLOW DOWN, to take a deep breath and take your time. It feels so blissful.” That statement opened up a chat that lasted for 30 minutes were Priscilla a 30 something film producer shared a fabulous story of healing after telling her about Bodylove. Priscilla, what a sexy name, took the challenge and has been sober now for two years and is daily creating a new life and a new reality for live. From drinking and popping copious amounts of drugs, her weight battle and family issues this woman has lost 25 pounds of baggage that no doubt was helping her to carry the pain that she was holding. Priscilla was open and giving and I felt honored to hear her story. I heard her voice, felt her pain and now her I could divine beauty and magnificence that was shining in front of me. Today, I feel so lucky to have a vocation and a mission I am so committed. The wonderful thing is each woman has a story to share and as we share we learn, grow and heal as we listen and learn from the gift of their journey’s bring us. Each week, I am going to post a new story at mybodylove.com so we can continue to learn and share from one another. Never before have I felt so blessed to be a woman so connected to the limitless beauty and love that we have to give the world. The time has come for us to own our God given strength and to finally listen to our hearts, to honor our bodies and to truly believe in the calling our intuitive voice brings us. Not questing, not doubting but believing in the magic we hold within. Each day without fail I am compelled to tell as many people as I can about the brilliant film THE SECRET. The Secret is a fabulous story about The Law Of Attraction and as result of watching this film and my years of study on healing and metaphysics I am now reminded daily about the magic of this law. I highly recommend that each of you buy The Secret available at thesecret.tv
I also have amazing girlfriends who at times have shown me great love by supporting me on my Bodylove journey. I also have some very special male mentors too so this does not disclude their amazing contribution to my work and my life but this article today is about honoring the Goddess Gals in my life. Four of the biggest supporters have been my attorney who worked pro-bono for ages, Susan Keller of eapdlaw.com who is committed to helping female entrepreneurs succeed in business, to my friend and teacher Laura Auerbach who supports me in areas that I find too tedious and tiresome this woman rocks, to my long time friend Jackie Isles who continues to listen to me patiently on all subjects and I mean all, to my girlfriend Bodylove investor, mentor and room mate Melinda who has taught me to listen to my intuition, to focus, to be grounded. Melinda has amazing way of getting to point by being direct and firm but compassionate and extremely kind. I have learnt a lot from her about her to carry myself as a business woman and yet still remain connected to who I am – a feminine, strong yet kind, passionate and determined, ultraist idealist.
To my beloved high school friend and vision keeper Iris Ray Nunn who has taught me not to fear the magic that we within us, to appreciate and acknowledge the gifts that have been bestowed onto us, Iris is a spiritual mother, a leader, a poet and a manifestor. From her love and her faith in my calling I have been able to embrace who I am completely – Ingrid Arna, the shaman, the visionary, the love, the healer, the performer, the poet, the creator, the film maker, the author, the entrepreneur, the mother, eventually the crone and the intuitive Goddess. I am all of this things. And you my Goddess friends are all that and more! This is my calling to you to see feel and be your divine beauty with every breath and with every experience to connect to your centre to yoru heart and to your power as you are centered and supported by the love of your community to the Bodylove Babes that believe in your who are a part of you. The more I write about Gratitude the more I have to express, to Kathleen Whitledge for her undiluted passion, her truth and her believe in magnificence, her belief in creating opportunities that have no limits, to honoring her every word, to Laura Powers, for her commitment to Bodylove and her work and trust in me and the Bodylove mission, to Kate Super my new manager who is truly talented, divine woman who without realizing is a perfect example of a woman who does business with passion, pose and power. To my mother who is truly a magical woman, she has taught me about tenacity, setting boundaries and personal responsibility. To my sister Nadine who has taught me about forgiveness, acceptance and surrender. I love this gal and together I know we will achieve great things. We will all achieve great things. If you have a story to contribute or just a paragraph you want to share about your experiences and feelings please email me at newwisdom@mybodyove.com, Much
Bodylove,
Ingrid Arna x
Inner health is reflected outwardly. True beauty is the result of this kind of harmony. If we don’t look within to connect to our divine essence we will never really have the beauty that comes from knowing and loving our selves. May sound corny but I do believe that discovering who we are and reconnecting to our unlimited potential is one of the deepest most rewarding relationships we will have in life.
Blessings,
Ingrid x
What a joke! I have to swear sorry! F@CK! I just got an email from a company trying to send me a free dose of diet drugs. Wrong woman you stupid lack of integrity morons! It is absolutely ridiculous that billions of dollars are spent on diet products and most don’t work and are extremely damaging to our health.
Before you read on, please note that I do believe in personal freedom and choice. It was my choice to take the pills and to perform to get them. I am not here to blame however I do believe that people like doctors are in a position of power that should be used wisely to make sure we get the very best care and support. A friend, told me that I sound angry in this blog and that Bodylove is about being loving. I took his comments into consideration and decided to keep this piece as is, honest and passionate. I am loving and I am not angry but I will express my views and my views below illustrate how I clearly feel. I am not going to go all soft about issues that need to be addressed. That is one of our problems today. People need to take more of a stand and see through the BS frankly.
I should know considering I spent from the age of 18 – 23 popping diet pills. I would visit my GP and tell him or her mostly a him, how badly I needed to lose weight for a casting and that I would promise to take extra good care of myself by continuing to eat and each month I would go to a new doctor with a similar story. I was an actress for goodness sake and I wanted those pills more than anything. Of course I was going to pull off an Oscar performance. But who in their right mind would prescribe a 110 pound (54 kilo) girl diet drugs to loose another 10 – 20 pounds. Doctors who get dollars for prescribing them no doubt or those who really don’t give a damn about our mental or physical health.
For years I lay awake at night with severe hunger pains from my endless diet coke, coffee and gummy bear famine. I was an emotional wreck and when I finally had the courage to quit the drugs my central nervous system was out of whack and it took me years to get my body back into balance.
Did I mention that my metabolism was kaput and I some how managed to develop a thyroid condition, undoubtedly a result of the adrenal exhaustion that set in during this crazy period. Oh yes and my body ballooned too, gaining an extra nice ten kilos which was ever so comforting as I tried to wean myself off those nasty poisonous pills! NOT!
The pharmaceutical industry has a lot to answer for as they slowly kill women by providing drugs that have been known to give people heart attacks! Before you go popping a pill to solve your body issues, please have the courage to look within to see what is really going on. Also know that once you come off the drugs you can be almost 100% sure that your body will be in crisis mode and years of healing will need to be integrated to regain your health. Trust me I have been there and done that and it was a long difficult journey involving emotional, spiritual, nutritional, physiological and psychological study. Eat nutritious food, get good sleep, drink lots of purified water, pray, get guidance and support from professionals if needed and surround yourself with loving people.
If you need to drop a few pounds or want to reshape your body then do it with love not with a drug. Also, make sure it is weight you need to lose and not some inner issue that you need to release. I have a feeling you might just be divine as you are.
The aftermath of living a diet and pill popping life can be a long journey back to health. Love yourself and live diet pill free in pure ecstasy!
Much Bodylove,
Ingrid xo
Hi Ingrid,
I stopped by your page here on Zaadz as well as your Bodylove website and was greatly impressed. You’ve gone through tremendous depths of pain, heartache and hardship. Reading your biography, I’d say you’ve been to hell and back. But most importantly, you’ve come out clean on the other side. Rejeuvenated and filled with a sense of purpose and meaning. That’s a testament to who you are as a person and is a great credit to you. Furthermore, your company and its mission are wonderful. I agree with everything your wrote about women and the issues they face in terms of self-esteem and body acceptance. I know from my own point of view, nothing is more attractive or more enchanting than a woman who is comfortable with who she is and everything that goes into making her unique, special and rare. A woman may be outwardly beautiful in the conventional way, but it is that inner sense of poise and grace that makes her truly radiant. I really applaud you not only for everything you’ve done for yourself–which is inspiring and so impressive–but also for all you are trying to do for other women so that they too may begin to feel at home in their bodies and see themselves as the beautiful people they are. Take care and be well.
All the best,
Charlie
“I know from my own point of view, nothing is more attractive or more enchanting than a woman who is comfortable with who she is and everything that goes into making her unique, special and rare.” I love this comment, so ture, amen.
Light, Ingrid Arna x
How can we expect anyone to know what we need if we don’t ask for it. Often I see myself and my friend’s battle with relationships because their needs, expectations and desires are not being met. As I have grown to understand who I am and what I want in life, I now have a deeper connection to what I deserve and what I need to have to be happy and fulfilled. Thank the lord, I have learnt to ask for what it is that I need to feel supported, loved, in balance and respected. But that learning has come with time and a sense of self – confidence that has allowed me to express my truth with compassion.
I deserve to have what I want and I won’t settle for anything less. My needs I am sure are different to yours and only you can determine what will truly bring you joy. From my business to personal relationships I am finally asking, and as a consequence setting clear parameters for myself and to others. I may not always receive what I want but I can tell you I am much more likely to get it if I ask. It’s so empowering for me to take on this new way of communicating and it has come with many tears in my personal relationships. Part relief, part releasing the old me, part re-connecting to my truth made for some of the tears. Not knowing the outcome of this new ground of unfamiliar territory was a another part of the emotional release.
Girls and women really get taught to ask for what we need and rather than ruffle feathers we suppress our desires to please others. But I want to please myself now! And NO I am not a selfish bitch! I am so over feeling guilty for knowing myself and communicating what I need. Yes it feels good, yes I feel empowered and yes I feel like a strong woman and there is NO bitch living here. Others can think what they want to, I can’t control their responses and if they dig it cool and if they don’t then that is cool too. I move on or try to work out why they have an issue so we can resolve it and move forward whilst still being true to what I needed to begin with.
Today if I need to ask my partner to caress me in a certain way to turn me on (MORE) or to please every so often, like a few times a week ?, to cook me dinner and pick up the groceries and if I need days of solitude and space then I ask for it. It’s amazing how accommodating people can be when we communicate from the heart.
Lately I have needed days on my own to just chill and be still. I have an amazing man in my life and I felt soooooo conflicted about neglecting him. But the more I neglected myself the more agitated I became. Duh, hello, of course. So I had a little battle with what to do, mediated on my feelings, and in a weepy blur decided to speak from truth. I told him, “ I love you and your splendid but I need some Ingrid time. I don’t know why I feel this way but I do. I need to take care of myself. I have been working really hard and I just need space to quieten my mind and to tune into my inner me.” As you can see I just spilled it out in one big confession!
The boyfriend was totally cool and if he wasn’t I wouldn’t be with him anyway so of course he was going to honor and respect my needs because he’s a cool, confident loving dude! Now here I am at the beach alone in my home alone, alone, alone and I love it, love it, love it! My body feels balanced and I am able to give myself what I need; love, solitude and attention from me!
This is all a very new way of being! I have only just recently started to ask for what I need and my life has changed almost instantly. I have learnt to establish boundaries and a huge weight has been lifted!! At first it was awkward and emotional. It was like all this confined pent up emotion spilled over, pent up over years of suppressing what I really want to say. The tears that flowed illustrated just how much I needed to get it out. I am convinced that if we hold emotion in our body that needs to be released it dampens the spirit and our energetic health. Asking and expressing our desires is an act of self-love! So express, speak up and ask!
I am sure that suppressing my needs was totally linked to wanting to having people like me but what I have discovered is that I like me and if other people do that is fabulous but I am not dependent on the approval of others.
So now if I feel heavy, tired, frustrated or angry, I ask myself,
1. What are you really feeling?
2. Where is this coming from?
3. What do you need? &
4. What do you really want to say?
I then role play it to make sure that I am speaking from love and not any other emotion but I do express with no veils to cover what I really feel, need or desire. What a relief!
I am finally feel free to show it all and still be accepted, appreciated and perhaps respected even more as my relationships deepen because of it. I urge you to go within to discover who you are and what you need. Then don’t forget to ask for it with love and compassion! Ask, believe and receive!
Much Bodylove and Much Light,
Ingrid Arna xo
