BodyWay Coach Christie

Christie Wilson, R.N.

My earliest memories of eating for comfort start around 6 years of age.  Of course, I didn’t realize it at the time, but my relationship with food and my body was heading down a path of many years of struggle and pain. At age 13, I gave up dancing (which brought me great joy, but I didn’t have a dancer’s body), and went on a diet. Convinced if I lost 10lbs, everything would be ok. I would be happy. That launched me on the roller coaster of diets and deprivation, starving and control which persisted until I was 30. After a devastating heartbreak and loss, I came out of the fog of depression 6 months later to find that I had gained 100lbs. Now I knew, it wasn’t about the 10 lbs. “ What is wrong with me?”, I thought. I am an intelligent woman, I have a bachelor’s degree in nursing. I should be able to ‘figure’ this out. I spent the next ten years searching for a solution to my problem. Trying every diet again, often more than once (I was persistent), therapy, and working with a disordered eating specialist. All of this trying to figure it out led me deeper into the maze of self loathing, body hatred, and desperation.

On the brink of utter hopelessness I found Jane Latimer’s book ‘Beyond the Food Game’. Through the pages of her book I felt a glimmer of hope. What I didn’t know at the time was a fire had been lit in my heart. My spirit had come alive! I did realize that I was at a fork in the road. You know the place, where a decision can make a dramatic impact on your life. I knew I had a choice before me to continue with the struggle and pain or to choose to follow Jane’s guidance and to step into a new way of being in relationship with my body, my food, my spirit, and my life. I became her student and never looked back. I embarked on a path of transformational adventures, soul evolution, and discovery of my authentic Self! It has been quite a ride and each day brings more surprises, lessons, and joy.