Loving your Sacred Vessel
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 Loving Your 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.
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 to Love Your Sacred Vessel. You can book one to one sessions with Lauren via Zoom, or apply to join the next group Programme by registering below.
The Loving Your 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 whole 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 Love Story
Early in 2020 I said, 'No more!' to dieting
after spending all my adult life on or off a diet.
I finally recognised that restrictive diets, whether they were low fat, low carb, slimming clubs, fasting, juicing, no longer worked for me. I could look back and see clearly that diets had only ever been a temporary fix, often resulting in weight gain that took me even higher than my starting weight when I inevitably came off them and started to eat normally again. How dispiriting!
I remember I would get excited about a new diet and feel full of determination and willpower, only for my weight loss to plateau after a couple of weeks or months of self-denial. In recent years that excitement was no longer in evidence and dieting had left me alternating between the BMI 'overweight' and 'obese' categories. I seemed destined to remain between two or three stones above my BMI healthy weight whatever regime I tried.
Dieting made me feel so self-conscious about my body that I detested having my photo taken and as I am only 5ft 2" tall the excess weight was extremely visible. When I was younger I would regularly be asked, "When is the baby due?" As I aged at least people stopped asking me that question!
From my stubborn excess weight it was clear my body was not impressed by the many and varied dieting regimes it had been subjected to over the years. My weight was having a real impact on my health and I was concerned that I might develop type 2 diabetes as both of my grandmothers had done. I wanted to lose my excess weight to feel fitter and healthier and I sensed that this would also be good for my mind, body and spirit.
The question was, "If I am going to stop dieting what will I do?"
I was gently guided to apply the therapeutic principles and insights I've gained from over 20 years of helping people work through their mental, emotional and physical issues. As I have worked on my own body issues I have been deepening my connection with the Divine Feminine. I brought in Goddess wisdom, intuition, hypnotic visualisations, affirmations, crystals and a huge helping of kindness. I was guided to read around the benefits of eating a diverse range of plant-based foods, the role of the gut microbiome and of the relationship between sleep and weight. This felt like a truly holistic and sustainable approach that I could incorporate into my lifestyle.
To my delight the stubborn weight started to reduce without dieting,
without angst, without struggle or starvation.
It steadily fell below the level where I had always got stuck when dieting. To my joy the weight continued to come off gently and more importantly it has stayed off.
I'm left with a healthy, new respect for my body and a desire to treat her as my sacred vessel and my precious partner in life. At 57 I am menopausal and living proof that you really can lose weight in the menopause. I love and appreciate my body like I have never loved her before and my confidence in front of the camera has been transformed too!
Early on I realised there were a lot of other women who might benefit from changing their minds and emotions about their bodies, weight and food and so the Sacred Vessel approach was born. The aim of Sacred Vessel is to provide you with a range of empowering tools so that you can also make sustainable changes that honour your spirit and support your body, mind and your emotions.
Join Lauren to shine a light on your own issues around food and weight, to nourish your body and to appreciate everything she does for you.
An Important Note Regarding Eating Disorders: Lauren 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. She has an understanding of the complexity of these illnesses, however 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, emotions and behaviours around food, eating and body image that are so widespread in our society and in her opinion may be of use for those in recovery. Please consult your medical team for advice if you wish to join. If you suspect that you are currently suffering from an eating disorder please visit your doctor for diagnosis, or reach out to Beat or another reputable organisation for support and advice.