Dear Pinkies,

Please welcome Mojo Mentor Laura Fenamore, the Pink Body Image Guru and Founder of One Pinky Body Image Revolution, a company devoted to helping people find balance in their lives and learn to value the home they get to live in - their body. Today she brings us some wonderful insights on body image, growth, seeking, and aliveness.

One enemy of an otherwise sustainable life is stress. It is our attachment to things and situations that become emotional and physical stressors. This is not a new concept, although many “self help" teachers, myself included, carry this message. Adopting and building ways to manage our worries and our fears is tantamount as we move through life.

Life is here, and it can be difficult. We may lose jobs and friends, we will ache for success and unattained love, and we will sometimes struggle with situations and questions that will seem to take our very breath away.

Finding a way to breathe and survive, if not strive, through these challenges is probably the most important stepping stone in our path of sustaining our lives. It is those among us who turn these challenges into opportunities, in fact, who become our greatest leaders.

I am a seeker

From as far back as I can remember I had a limitless curiosity. My nickname as a kid was “Barbara Walters” – I always wanted to know everything. That hasn't changed much. Today I am proud of my keen desire to learn and grow rather than feel ashamed of it.

You see, I believe that everything that is showing up in our lives, whether joyful or challenging is an opportunity for us to be more of who we are.

Who we are, not who we think we are.

Many of us run around hiding from our truth, wearing masks to get others to think better of us, like us more ... by why? I just know that the harder I try to get people to like me, the worse I feel.

The same is true in vivicolor regarding our “health” and “body image.” The more we think that our self-worth is tied up in the weight on the scale or how we look, the worse we make ourselves feel.

Now don't get me wrong, self care and weight and health matter. However, they will not be corrected by a mind that is seeking a cure from a place of fear and pain, rather than hope and love. Simple, and not always easy to grasp. Do you ever wonder why this is?

Life is a gift and for those of us who have it, why not make it the richest, happiest experience possible?

We can always be in the process of improving and becoming more of who we are. It is possible to find easier, gentler ways to be with our bodies, our health, our self worth.

I ask my students, “What can you learn from this pain and where might it take you? What is the lesson here?”

Ask yourself right now, Pinkies, about a situation that is bothering you. What is the lesson here? What challenges in your life can you transform into opportunities to Own your body, your aliveness, your authentic Pink spark? How can you transform from your own worst critic into a seeker?

With pride in who you are,

Laura