Sacred Vessel
Holistic Weight Loss
A Kind and Holistic Approach to
Positive Body Image, Self Esteem & Weight Loss for Women
After a lifetime of battling with her weight and following diet after diet with no lasting success Lauren dropped several stones in weight and went down two dress sizes in 2020 without using calorie counting, cutting out food groups or applying strict diet rules. She devised her own holistic guided approach to weight loss called Sacred Vessel. The weight she lost in 2020 has, importantly, stayed off. Now in her late 50s Lauren feels better about her body and her self-image than she has done her whole adult life.
Other women who have taken Lauren's Sacred Vessel Programme tell her how much happier they are feeling in their own skin. In Lauren's experience when you fix your emotional relationship with your body and with food you can re-align yourself with your body's needs and then weight loss follows naturally.
Alongside her experience as a healer and therapist Lauren holds a Diploma in Healthy Eating and Wellbeing. She promoted the Healthy Eating strand of the Healthy Schools Programme in her former role as Healthy Schools Co-ordinator for Leicestershire and following that worked freelance as a trainer for the Eating Disorders Association (now called Beat) travelling around the UK providing awareness training for healthcare professionals, teachers, youth workers and other professionals.
Although the Sacred Vessel programme is not designed for those suffering from full blown eating disorders it does draw on Lauren's experience to address some of the disordered thoughts and behaviours around food, eating and body image that are so widespread in our society.
If, like Lauren, you have had enough of dieting and you feel ready to try a new approach to caring for your body and your weight it might be time for Sacred Vessel. The latest class started Monday 7th October for eight weeks via Zoom at 7pm UK. time. If you'd like to register your interest for the next class you can click the button and Lauren will be in touch.
Please seek medical diagnosis and specialist support if you suspect you have an eating disorder. You can contact Beat for guidance, signposting and support.
The Sacred Vessel Approach
The Sacred Vessel Philosophy
Challenge your habitual thoughts and judgements about your body. Recognise the messages you have been giving your body and change these to more loving thoughts and feelings.
Form a supportive relationship with your body as your Sacred Vessel for your Spirit in this lifetime.
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Improve your Body Image
Don't wait until you have lost your excess weight to feel good about your body. Begin to release shame and self-consciousness and start loving your body right now. You'll be guided to look at your body through more loving and understanding eyes.
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Relax with Calming and Nurturing Visualisations
Enjoy Lauren's Sacred Vessel visualisations as she guides you through stress reducing and calming experiences. You just need to sit back, get comfy, close your eyes and listen. Over the eight week Programme you'll be sent recordings of these visualisations to play whenever you want them.
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Tune into your Body and Listen to its Messages
Pay attention to the signals your body is sending you. When you learn to tune in you'll find your body has its own wisdom and can guide you towards eating foods that nourish you in satisfying quantities that meet your body's needs.
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Make Sustainable Changes
The Sacred Vessel approach encourages you to make manageable changes to your habits, choosing to make a little shift in your habits at a time. Small changes can add up to a big difference over the weeks of the Programme and most importantly once your healthy new habits have been embedded into your lifestyle you'll follow them automatically and won't need to exert will power.
Become More Mindful and Enjoy your Food and Drink
Mindfulness can bring calm in the midst of the chaotic demands and stresses of modern life. You are guided towards a more mindful approach to your meals. When you really pay attention to what you are eating you can enjoy your food more.
Choose Real Foods and Look after your Gut
Ditch crazy, unsustainable, diet restrictions and eat a wholesome and diverse range of foods. You'll be choosing more real foods that nourish your body and help to support your microbiome and looking at labels - not for calorie counts, traffic lights, or fat grams - you'll be checking you are mostly eating real food, not ultra-processed 'food-like substances'.
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Enjoy Group Support
When you gather with other women you realise you are not alone and that many of us have had similar thoughts and experiences about our weight, diets, food and body image. We are on a shared journey of empowerment which starts when our relationships with our bodies begins to heal.
Ready to try a Sacred Vessel visualisation?
Make yourself comfortable and follow Lauren's voice as she leads you to enjoy a cleansing dip in the sea.
Janet changed her relationship with her body
"I would like to thank you for the sacred vessel sessions. My weight has fluctuated all my life . Even at my lightest weight I was unhappy. These sessions have given me insight as to why and have certainly allowed me to explore the issues behind my issues with food and my body.
I feel lighter and brighter than I have done for sooooo long. You have given us all the opportunity to flip our attitude towards our physical body. Listening to others experiences has been both difficult and comforting. The visualisations raised so much for me on a personal level. Emotions and out dated attitudes that I can now address. I know that this is a long slow and steady journey but it's a journey I am ready to embrace."
Lauren's Sacred Vessel Story