Ways To Live A Happy, Positive, More Fulfilling Life

Hello from a small writing nook in Kalamazoo where all the walls are wood and there is a small beam of light shining through the windows. This is an introduction to the rest of your life. This is for you – the dreamer, artist, old soul, entrepreneur, creative who wants to do more with their life. And not because someone else is telling you to be better but because there is something inside of you keeping you up at night and resurfacing every single morning when you wake.

I have such a good feeling about your life. I completely believe that this year you will do something incredible. I believe in you. I believe that right now, in this moment, you have infinite amounts of potential. I think we are all so much more powerful than we realize. All change starts with an idea, a thought, and the determination and passion to keep the spirit alive. It won’t ever be without self-doubt, complications, failure, and heartache, but that’s okay – those are all things that make us grow into better, stronger people. We don’t have to do this alone. E-mail me koty@thoughtcatalog.com. We can face our fears together.

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1. The hardest part is always getting started but we have to start somewhere. It begins with a simple step, a sentence, a brush stroke, an email, a phone call. Life moves at you fast, so give yourself the chance to start something new. That’s all any of us need – a chance to shine.

2. Get rid of the things that fail to bring any value or meaning in your life.Minimize old possessions that mean nothing, rid yourself of one-sided relationships. Create room for space to grow in every area.

3. Concentrate on what you want. Visualize it. Consider the steps needed to take to get there. Accept the fact that things take time.

4. Connect with someone you’ve always admired. Send an e-mail to an author that gave you a new perspective or made you feel so completely understood in a way you never experienced before. Send gratitude to the people who have inspired you. Every connection you make can come up later in surprising ways.

5. Get out of your head. Take a walk, visit a museum, watch a movie, strike up a conversation. Let the world inspire you in the different formats that surround us every day.

6. Take note of the things that help you recover – meditation, comfort foods, best friends, live music. Take care of yourself when the time comes. Self-care is critical in the process of becoming.

7. Stop waiting for things to happen to you. So many people spend their entire lives waiting – waiting for the right person, the right job, the right time to do whatever it is they want to do. Stop waiting for other people to take notice. Find your voice and use it to get what you want.

8. Dedicate yourself to the things that move you. Give yourself a time frame for working on something – six months, one year, 14 months. Every single day remind yourself you have a purpose.

9. Give yourself the permission to say “no thank you.” Remember you don’t have to say yes to everything. This is your life, right? Stop saying yes to the things that don’t excite you, to the things you don’t want to do.

10. Focus on the things you love about your life. Think about how you can take small steps to make each of those things flourish in their own way.

11. If you’re in a dead-end relationship – leave. If you have a job you can’t stand – quit. If you hate your roommate – move out. It’s not that easy, you say, and trust me, I know. There are always reasons to stay a little bit longer, to prolong the inevitable. Find a way out. If you don’t fight for your own life, who will?

12. What’s your dream job? What do you hope to do some day? Find someone in the field and connect with them. Ask them if they need an assistant or if they could use a volunteer or intern in their office. Create opportunities for yourself.

13. Don’t worry too much about what other people think. Other people being your parents, your peers, your friends, randoms on the internet. Don’t get caught up in hive mind. Abandon other people’s expectations for your life. Forget what other people your age or in your profession are doing. It doesn’t matter what other people are doing. It only matters what you are doing.

14. Rid yourself of other people’s negativity.. It’s so easy to succumb to other people’s bad moods, to get caught up in the negative emotions we each face every day. Don’t let it. Help your friends when they need a pick me up but don’t let them bring you down to the sadness well they can’t escape from.

15. Give compliments freely and without the expectation of return. Love people for who they are now, in this moment, flaws and all. Practice unconditional love.

16. Get lost. In busy city streets, on abandoned country roads, in the vibrations of your favorite songs, in the warmth of someone’s lips. Become unnerved once in awhile.

17. Be proactive in managing your moods. Take note of the things that piss you off, of the sadness you can’t come back from, of moments that make you deliriously happy. Figure out how to weave your way in and out of your emotions to overcome the thoughts that self-sabotage you.

18. You will never be as young as you are right now. You will not be the same person tomorrow that you were today. Lose yourself in enthusiasm and passion and the drive to make your life exactly the way you want it. 

Koty Neelis

8 Week Whole Body Makeover!

If you are reading this then you are seeking a new way of living, moving, eating, being and experiencing life in a body you love--one that cultivates your finest expression of who you can be in this life time. This 8 week course will help you to pull away all the masks of shame, guilt, failure and all the bad habits and negative crap that manifests in our lives and bodies, so you may emerge with a new shape, new mind, new resilience and a renewed connection to your true, most radiant self. 

Hello beautiful, I'm Jannine Murray

I believe that if the women of the world become healthy and empowered, we can heal our children, our relationships and our land. I believe it is the women of this world who have the power to do so, and it all starts with loving ourselves. I myself, overcame grief and trauma after losing my million dollar business, my health, my sanity, and severe health issues like IBS, adrenal failure and having a body that bared all the shame of "not enough-ness, being unlovable, and self hatred.

I had to redefine who I was, how I trained, how I ate, from a place of deep radical self love and then put that into practice in my training, my thinking, my eating and way of being. It was these techniques that allowed me to heal from a lifetime of self-hatred and the self-destructive patterns I was stuck in, to be able to feel body empowered and have a lifestyle that expressed my most empowered self. It is with my life long body wisdom, my 12 years experience working with hundreds of women, and my soul's desire that I share this 8 week body empowerment program with you!

I created this course to give women the step by step daily practices of:

Deliciously energizing, easy to follow meal plans that transform your body to shed bellyfat and never diet again

Empowering and inspiring follow along workout videos you can do anywhere, anytime, and tone up beautifully without hours of exercise

Mindset tools needed to transform your body, mind, and heart into your most healthy, empowered, radiant self

Over the course of the 8 week program, I will be providing you comprehensive meal plans for detoxing, tummy slimming, hormone balancing and energy boosting results. I will also be providing with you 12 follow along workout videos that you can do anywhere, and throughout you will have 7 weeks of mindset focus journeys: inspiration everyday to break old patterns and create your most radiant self!

Take 8 weeks to transformation with:

A beginners guide to ensuring success

A 14 Day Slim And Sexy Detox Meal Plan

5 weeks of clean eating, tummy slimming, hormone balancing, energy boosting meal plans

12 follow along workout videos that you can do anywhere, anytime, no equipment, no excuses!

7 weeks of mindset focus journeys: inspiration everyday to break old patterns and create your most radiant self!

Morning and evening meditation

Allowing the true you to shine

All you are looking for is already inside of you! I am just here to remind you of your potential and your greatness. I will give you my proven effective tools, strategies, clean eating plans, follow along workout videos, and the necessary mindset shift you need that allows the true YOU to come forward. You don't need to be perfect in any way, you don't even need to feel ready. All you have to do is be willing, vulnerable and open to a new way of being...one that is calling to you deep down and reminds you that YOU DESERVE MORE and you won't be happy until you allow the true You to shine!

YES: you can tighten your tush and tone your thighs

YES: you can take inches of fat off your belly, hips and thighs

YES: you can tone up your arms and sculpt a sexy back

YES: you can enjoy the feeling and radiance of a clean lifestyle

YES: you can develop the habits, commitments and wisdom you need to have lasting results

And, best of all you can

Love your body just the way it is

Feel confident and connected to your most powerful self

Know that even on your fat days you love yourself anyways

Have the tools you need to bounce back after any diet screwup

Be your greatest teacher, motivator, coach

Eating and moving to love your body into beauty

Its time to learn a new way of being. One that is in alignment with your body and it's needs, along with your vision and your heart. We are able to shine so beautiful and bright once we uncover our true form, and begin using our body-wisdom.

Principles for eating, moving and living mindfully:

Every body is different, we are all different, a lot of great diets out there, almost all of them work, but for specific people with certain bodies. No diets or bodies are created equal. Also our bodies are always changing, so what worked for us in the past may not necessarily be good or effective for us now. How do we work around this? By tuning into our own body's wisdom and understanding its language, it has all the answers we are looking for.

Having the right macros: Macros are the essentials of our diets: the main ones are proteins, carbs, and fats. Remember different types of bodies and blood types do best with higher protein/high fat diets, or higher carb/lower fat and protein diets.

Use super foods and antioxidants to restore and protect cells: Antioxidants and super foods are important as they help combat signs of aging, cellular deterioration, disease and free radicals. Today less than 10% of nutrients left in our topsoil from 100 years ago. Our foods are hydroponically grown, genetically modified, sprayed with pesticides, herbicides and fungicides then picked before they are ripened, then displayed in our stores. All of these extras end up in our systems, and when our systems become compromised over our lifetimes, our bodies begin to shut down and become toxic with these accumulating chemicals.

Acid alkaline balancing foods: Our bodies do best when we are sitting at a PH level of 7.2. It is easy to stay slim and healthy with lots of energy as muscle maintains is supple form in a highly alkaline environment.

Focusing on will building foods: there are certain foods that increase our life force, our chi, our creativity, clear our mind, make us feel empowered, and build our will and self esteem. We feel good about ourselves and firmly rooted in who we are and what we are doing with our lives.

Cleaning and detoxing the GI tract, liver, blood and lymphatic system: Your health is a pure reflection of how good your digestion is. It all starts with your digestive system (stomach, small and large intestine). Your gut consisting of your small and large intestine, harbours 75% of your immunity, makes critical vitamins, controls hormones including most serotonin production which is needed for being happy. If our gut is happy, we will be happy. We will feel well rested after a good night's sleep, be able to wear the clothes we like as our tummies will feel slim and healthy, have energy all day, and enjoy the way we feel inside our bodies.

Practicing the art of self-love, mindfulness and self-reflection: move from love, instead of self-loathing. Move with mindfulness, instead of haste. Take time to reflect so you can drink in your experiences and become more aware. To have more love, to feel more love, you need to embody love, and move from that space. Connect to your heart, breathe, appreciate the task at hand, and open your mind to find new ways to appreciate what you are doing. Do this when shopping, prepping your food, cooking, brushing your teeth, sitting on the toilet, shaving your legs. Pour love into everything you do, as every single moment of your life is a moment to expand into your true state: love. It is one of the most healing things you can do for yourself.

Transforming your physical, mental and emotional bodies

As the Buddha said "our body is our vehicle for awakening, treat it with great care." This is why we have to take care of all our bodies: emotional, mental, physical--so that our spiritual and psychic bodies can flourish. Our physical body must be properly nourished and exercised to channel a strong spirit to manifest our hearts desires and touch thousands of lives. Our mental body has to be clear and at peace with itself. Our emotional body has to be elevated with emotions like joy, gratitude, and authentic self love.

When all of these bodies are in alignment with our true self, our passion and spirit can shine and transform not just our lives, but everyone else we touch. When we are empowered in all our bodies, we are empowered in our lives and can then focus on our true purpose, passions and success.

What others have experienced with this program

"Jannine is so amazing, she helped me lose over 60lbs, regain so much body confidence and figure out how to eat for energy and staying young. I didn't have any confidence in the gym, and she supported me and allowed me to find what I was really missing...loving my self!" - Sherry

"I consider myself a pretty healthy person in general. This program took me to that next level I was searching for. I was always struggling with losing the last 10 pounds I needed and stubborn belly fat. This program did that and made me more aware of my body." - Suzanne

"I've never felt more alive than I do now. I find that those food cravings I was having aren't showing up anymore and much of the pain in my body is slowly disappearing." - Brittany

"I just finished my 8 week makeover and I am more confident now and feel totally empowered to follow a true passion of mine, which I discovered I was certain about after I started this program." - Christine

"I can't tell you how fabulous the guided meditations are for stress. These meditations have been a lifesaver for me." - Patrice

"This is my mind body makeover and its f-bomb awesome! The mind body connection is the game changer. Gratitude walks and meditation ARE life changing." - Jacqueline

"I am enjoying this experience. I like the format, have been doing the meditations, changing my eating habits, and doing my gratitude walk. I am finding myself more at peace with myself and feeling very enthusiastic." - Ann

"Today marks the end of week two for me. I started the program for health and self love issues. I can honestly say that I am already feeling better than I ever thought possible. I am waking earlier, more energetic, eating healthy (and so my family is, too), practicing daily yoga and meditation, making positive self talk a habit, and I've lost 8 lbs!" - Leanne

About Jannine Murray

Jannine Murray is the top Health And Fitness Specialist and Personal Trainer in Victoria BC. Her journey started when she was 16 years old when she stayed and studied at a retreat centre in the mountain of Lytton B.C. called Sointual Greens.

It was here she studied with Amandah Jensan, a Medical Intuitive and Spiritual healer for two years learning about food as medicine, working with the earth and plant energies, and powerful mind/body meditative techniques like the Silva Method. This spurred her onto a path to learn and grow in service of healing herself and others.

Jannine has over 12 years experience teaching fitness classes and personal training, holistic nutrition, diverse forms of movement therapy including the Alexander Technique, Fendenkraise, and dance therapy.

She has an extensive background in martial arts, aerobics, weight training, ballet, modern and jazz dance, as well as specialty courses like abdominal training, metabolic conditioning, sports specific training, body building, and holistic nutrition.

"I have experienced many gifts of pain, addiction and imbalance, all of which have deepened my skill-sets beyond theory and into practical application of knowledge.

I have discovered that you can Be, Do, and Have anything you want in life. You are the conscious creator of your body, mind and your life. If you are here then you are ready to create miracles within your body, mind, spirit and ultimately your life.

Join me on my journey to discover your most radiant self, this world needs your light and you need to shine!"

 Jannine Murray