Dear Friend,

It’s Official! I just signed the contract for my latest book with a publishing company. The book will outline in detail my signature five-step process to help people break-free from Negative Body Obsession and live the life of their dreams. I am incredibly excited – thank you for your ongoing encouragement and support. Together we will create a world where every individual is honored and cherished for his or her unique beauty.

Regarding my book, I have a favor to ask of you, as well as an incredible opportunity to offer you:

I am collecting stories of people who have struggled with body image and eating disorders to be published in my book. Stories have been proven to be one of the most effective teaching tools available. Stories help people to better identify their personal struggles and gain the insight and inspiration to break free.

So I am asking you, as members of the Break Free Beauty community, to share your stories. Have you struggled with Negative Body Obsession or eating disorders? Do you love and cherish your body, or do you wish you could run and hide from yourself? Wherever you are at, I would love to hear your story.   If chosen, it will be published in my upcoming book. Plus, I will give you a free copy of my e-book, 5 Steps to Loving What Your See in the Mirror, as a thank-you.

Just hit reply to this email (or email me directly at sarahmaria@breakfreebeauty.com) and let me know if you are willing to tell your story and help improve the lives of millions!

(If you want to tell your story but would like confidentiality, your name can be changed.)
Please remember, if you know someone who might find this information helpful, please send it along!

Peace, Love, and Beauty,

Sarah Maria
Leading the Beauty Revolution

Step 1: Be Willing to Change

In the previous article, Are You Ready to Get Naked, I outlined my signature five-step process to help you break free from Negative Body Obsession and live a life filled with peace, love, beauty, abundance, and joy.  As promised, I am going to go through each step in detail in the coming weeks.

This week we are looking at Step 1: Be Willing to Change – Set an Intention

The most important factor in changing our current situation is creating a vision and setting an intention. Most people know when they want to change their current situation. They know when they are unhappy. They know when they are depressed and anxious, frustrated and stressed. Yet often times they don’t have a vision for where they want to get to. They focus on the difficulty of their current situation and can often become lost in the confusion, despair, and disappointment.

What many don’t realize is that we create our reality through our thoughts. That’s right, with every thought you think you are manufacturing reality; you are creating your life. We often think that life is something that happens to us, but the latest advances in science are showing us otherwise. We are in the driver’s seat; we are creating our experience minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour.

Unfortunately, most people are creating their lives unconsciously. They are being controlled and influenced by the past, most usually by their parents and teachers from childhood. They are living their lives based on patterns they learned in childhood. Many of these patterns are dysfunctional and destructive, so instead of creating a life of peace, joy, and abundance, they create lives of unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and discontent.
Fortunately, we can become conscious of how we are creating our lives. We can discover the subconscious patterns and behaviors that influence us in negative ways. Once we identify these old patterns, beliefs, and behaviors, we can begin to break free from them.

As we break free from these conditioned patterns, an amazing thing begins to occur. We become more and more effective orchestrators of our lives. We get in touch with our innate power to create. We become increasingly aware of how we create our reality through our thoughts, emotions, and actions.

The first step in becoming more effective creators of reality is to set an intention. Why? An intention is our message to the universe about where we want to get to. We don’t need to know how we are going to get there; we just need to a vision of what we want our lives to look like and feel like. When we set an intention and keep it constantly in our mind it triggers the universe to orchestrate its fulfillment. We need to know what we want. The universe will work out the details of how and the when. Intentions should always be in the present tense, as if what we want has already occurred.

Intentions can be used to manifest your dreams in any area of your life.

If you are struggling with your body image and/or your eating, some helpful intentions are:

• I have a peaceful, easy, graceful relationship with my body.
  


• I eat the perfect foods in the perfect amounts to keep my body healthy and strong.
  


• I am beautiful.
  


• I love my body and myself.
  


• I have perfect health.

These are just some examples; you know the intentions that are right for you. Take the time right now to write down intentions for your life. Carry them with you and look at them throughout the day. When you wake up in the morning and before you go to bed at night are particularly helpful times. If you meditate, read these intentions before and after meditation.

All change begins with a vision of what you would like to create. Take the time to set an intention and begin to realize your ultimate power to create a reality you desire.

Break Free Signature Coaching Program!

Are you ready for incredible breakthroughs your life? Are you ready to overcome you struggles and limitations and live the life of your dreams?  If so, consider my Signature Coaching Program where I will lead you by the hand to help you break free from anything that is limiting the realization of your full potential.

Are you ready to take that next step and achieve a life of love and abundance?  Hit reply to this email (or email me directly at sarahmaria@breakfreebeauty.com)and discover the signature coaching program that can create more love and abundance in your life than you ever dreamed possible.

Incredible Teleseminar series!

Join me and my incredible colleague, Clare Mann, for a 5-part FREE teleseminar series discussing how we often fight to be Stunning on the Outside, while Dying on the Inside.  The dates are June 18, 25, July 2, 9, 16 at 7 pm PDT.

Sign up and receive call-in details here:
www.instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=3172584

New Radio Show!

I am starting a new radio show! It is called Body and Soul with Sarah Maria. Stay tuned for details about upcoming shows – this will be an amazing opportunity to hear from leading experts in health and healing.

There are two wonderful books that I read recently that I highly recommend:

Intention – Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way by Dr. Wayne Dyer – Dr. Dyer talks about intention in great detail, showing you how to connect with attention and create the life of your dreams.

Happy for No Reason by Marci Shimoff  - Studies show that 1 out of 5 American women are on anti-depressants. Have you ever struggled with depression or know someone who has? Have you ever longed to just be happy? This book will give you a step-by-step formula to help increase your levels of happiness, for no reason at all.

June Special

Okay – I promised that as my subscribers you would be entitled to exclusive specials and discounts on my products and services. This month we have a special that you won′t want to miss!

For the month of June you can purchase a copy of my CD and receive one hour of one-on-one coaching with me for $100. That′s right – for just $100. Normally, my CD costs $37 and I charge $500 per hour for coaching (and I rarely offer coaching in hour-long increments, but rather in 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month packages). That is a $537 value for $100! Talk about an incredible discount!

June marks the beginning of summer and it is the time that many of us may be moving your winter clothes into the closet and pulling out shorts, tank tops and even bathing suits. The summer season can be a difficult time for our body image as we lose the comfort of layers of clothing. If you need some extra support during this time, my individual coaching can help!

This offer is just for you, my dedicated subscribers. I am so grateful for your ongoing support and encouragement – together we will revolutionize beauty so that everyone realizes and lives their beauty and their glory.

To take advantage of this offer, please just visit: www.breakfreebeauty.com/specials/June.

Sarah Maria is leading the Beauty Revolution. She is a body-image coach who teaches people to love their bodies no matter what shape, size, age, or ethnicity. She leads workshops internationally, speaks around the world, and conducts coaching with individuals and couples, empowering them to love themselves and live their dreams.
Before launching Break Free Beauty, Sarah Maria earned a BA in Theology, graduating summa cum laude, and then earned her MIA in International Affairs from Columbia University. She later earned her law degree from Stanford University.

But woven into her outstanding achievements academically, Sarah Maria experienced an intense hatred of her body. Starting at age 14, she began a vicious cycle of 500 calorie diets, bingeing, and purging. The pain of this cycle motivated her to investigate holistic healing and spirituality. As with everything she does, Sarah Maria pursued these disciplines with a passion.

While pursuing her academic career, she studied and practiced yoga, earned a diploma in Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counseling as well as certification as a Chopra Center Meditation instructor. After graduating from law school, Sarah Maria opened a healing business, Ananda Healing Arts, offering yoga instruction, Ayurvedic and nutritional counseling, and massage therapy. After seeing how many people were controlled by self-hatred and discontent with their physical appearance, she founded Break Free Beauty, a company committed to teaching self-love.

Sarah Maria has developed a concrete and practical approach to helping people love their bodies. She teaches a five-step program that takes people from self-loathing to self-love.  Her passion is sharing this signature system with others so that everyone, no matter what their body looks like, can learn to love and cherish themselves. She helps clients love their bodies, connect with the soul, and live their dreams.