What if...

You let go of the pressure to change who you are, and instead you learned to embrace your inner power to become who you are. By Kelly Clements-Gennis

Monday, May 31, 2010

Does Your Daughter See Her True Beauty When She Looks In The Mirror?

Who do you see when you look in the mirror?
Do you love and accept the woman looking back at you?
How do you feel when you see the idea of the perfect woman on tv?
How do you feel when you see the covers of all the magazines on the newsstands with the bright and bold messages to be thin, to have a certain hair color and the perfect body with the most stylish clothes?
Are you feeling pressure to be someone your not. Pressure to loose weight, to die your hair to have more, to have better to weigh less?
Do you feel this PRESSURE!!! Are you trapped by this PRESSURE???
Do you even know who you really are? Do you know your true beauty?

You listen to that voice inside your head that's full of negativity and self doubt. The voice that feeds your desire to be someone other than who you are. It feeds you with feelings of insecurity. Not allowing you to love the woman looking back at you when you look in the mirror. And there you are left not knowing how to process all these negative emotions. Feeling bottled up and ready to burst.

I want you to think about all of this. Now ask yourself "If I feel this way, how does my daughter or other young girls feel?" as her role model, what am I teaching her? If we as grown women feel this way, and look at ourselves constantly with judging eyes, just imagine...

how all the young girls must feel!


All the girls in our lives that we love and adore so much who are mirroring our every thought, feeling and action. Playing back what we put out when we don't love and accept ourselves for who we are. Watching with a full heavy heart, as we judge the woman we see when we look in the mirror, when we put on our clothes, when we stand on the scales 10 times a day and freely comment with anger and disappointment when that magic number just isn't there.

If you can't look in the mirror and love and accept who you see, how can you expect that she will?

When I used to look in the mirror, I didn't know how to accept that woman looking back at me. Through all my mind chatter and pressures of everyday life I couldn't let go. I didn't know how to love and accept myself for who I was. I couldn't see my own beauty. I only wished to be who the media told me to be.

The day Hannah at 5 years old stood in the mirror seeing herself in her bikini looked at me and said that she was fat and that her belly was too big, I became aware of what had I done! 

Hannah, please forgive me for allowing all my negative body image beliefs replay over in your mind as though those thoughts are yours. She was mirroring what she saw me, her mother, her role model do. So to her, it was what was supposed to be done! She wasn't seeing Hannah, she was seeing my thoughts, feelings and insecurities though was quickly taking them all on as her own.

Looking into her eyes I knew in that very moment the lesson that was presented so clear so full of truth, wisdom and power. I knew as a mother, as a woman and as someone who has changed her life, and has taken control over her mind and is now celebrating her true beauty that this was a huge part of my purpose. To give girls the power to love and accept themselves for who they are.

Through learning to love and accept myself for who I am, and teaching Hannah to do the same, she no longer looks into her refection with judging eyes.  
Hannah now only sees her true beauty. her true self. confident and empowered. She is free to be herself. no more pressure. just a real knowing that beautiful comes from inside her. She knows and feels it glow.

As mother daughter team, we are spreading our message of our experience, our life lessons and our passion to empower each and every girl so that she too can look in the mirror with love and acceptance and know that she is unique. She is her true beautiful empowered self. And that there's no one better to be!
Like Hannah says "mommy we have to help all girls feel good about themselves. We have to teach them that being beautiful is being YOU!"

We now spell beauty "BeYOUty" because, as mother and daughter,"BeYOUty!" is our message. When you ignite your inner BeYOUty you become your true self. Confident, empowered and free!

This summer is a very special one for Hannah and I as we are launching BeYOUty Boot Camp Summer Program! Together we will be sharing our sun filled days with girls ages 8-12 teaching mind and body health and empowerment and we are so excited to be guiding, loving, supporting and inspiring the girls to be their true self. Confident, empowered and free.
To learn more about BeYOUty boot camp summer program please visit www.thinkfeelbe.ca

As a woman, mother and role model, It is my purpose to ignite your inner BeYOUty in a way that inspires and motivates you to be your true self. Confident, empowered and free.

Now, that's what I call BeYOUtyful!


See YOU at BeYOUty Boot Camp
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Kelly Clements-Gennis
Mind and Body Health and Empowerment Coach
BeYOUty Mentor
Think Feel Be
Programs for Women and Girls
 
902.218.3713
102 QUEEN St. 2nd Floor, Suite #6
 
"Think Feel Be...Ignites your inner beauty in a way that inspires you to be your true self. Confident, empowered and free!"
Now that's what I call BeYOUtyful!"

Thursday, May 6, 2010

What if? Part 2


what you just let go?
what if you let go of the pressure to change who you are, and instead you embraced you inner power to be who you are, where you are, right now in this very moment.
what if?
who would you be? How would your life be different?
I ask myself "why do we get caught up in our thinking mind?"

Here we are, thinking and judging each and every thought, every feeling. Not knowing how to feel. And if we do feel we are afraid to go deeper. Afraid to know. Afraid to process. Not knowing how.
Who are we being?
yes that is the question. Are we creating our life right now in this very moment or we being victims, stuck in our thinking mind. Not doing. Just thinking. Wanting. Full of fear. Letting her stop us. With the volume to our chatter box turned up way to loud. In a trance while she yells telling us to STOP! You can't do it, it's too scary, your sure to fail, you don't deserve it, this isn't the way. Go back to where you were. Go back to who your were. Come on, fill me up, I'm hungry. I'm unsatisfied. Feed me. Don't feel. It hurts. Stay numb. it's safe here.
If you are aware, awake, conscious, perhaps some days you wish that you could go back to sleep. go back to the place of unconsciousness. where you didn't know any better.
but why?
You've come so far. This is part of your journey. This is YOU Creating YOUR Life.
wake up.

Take ACTION
let go
trust
be free
believe
create your life
be in the moment and trust it's exactly where you need to be.
breathe love in. Breathe love out.
let it flow to you. Through you and back again.
you are me
I am you
together
we
are...life,love,light
you blossom and bloom
your are...yellow knowing, green being, magenta inspiring, purple thinking, white seeing and black feeling
so,what if.....you let go?
tell me who would you be.


By
Kelly

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Redefining Beauty for our Girls from the Inside Out! Introducing "BeYOUty Boot Camp" for girls age 9-14

All Girls ages 9-14 are invited to BeYOUty Boot Camp - March Break 2010 in Charlottetown &Summerside.

Developed & facilitated by Kelly Clements - Gennis of 
Think Feel Be - Empowerment Programs for Women and Girls.

Just imagine...

giving your daughter the gift of confidence, health, self acceptance and empowerment. Now you can! with BeYOUty Boot Camp for Girls!
Creating inner beauty is about how girls feel about themselves, what they feed themselves and

what they let within their minds and hearts. BeYOUty Boot Camp provides a fun filled day of basics designed for young girls and their developing self esteem. 

Imagine…your daughter venturing on a journey of self discovery that will inspire her to

have the confidence to love and accept who she is...
Enroll your girls today in a program lead by a mother who's mission is to ignite the inner

BeYOUty of girls in a way that will inspire, motivate and empower each girl to be her true self.

Confident, empowered and free!

Now, that's what I call BeYOUtyful!

BeYOUty Boot Camp Activities Include:

* Balloons and Bubbles

*Visioning and vision creation

*Circle of BeYOUty

*Think Feel Be... lessons

*Just Be...Relaxation techniques

*How to Be... Healthy, Strong and Vibrant learn how to make Kelly's "Go Green Smoothie!"
and other super foods!

*BeYOUty Camp includes lunch for the girls which you will be proud to know they will be creating for themselves!