Ignite Your Life

🌟 “The world will be saved by the Western woman.” – Dalai Lama🌟 Today, on International Women’s Day, these words feel more urgent than ever. Wars raging, economies shifting, technology advancing at a pace that outstrips our evolutionary frameworks… The world doesn’t just need saving—it needs healing. But to heal the world, we must first heal ourselves. Women everywhere are speaking up, stepping up, and refusing to settle for the way things have always been. And yet, the question remains: Are we truly free? Too many women—especially in the Western world—are pouring from an empty cup. Eating disorders. Addictions. Burnout. The pressure to “do it all” and “have it all” while losing themselves in the process. We’re out trying to save the world, but at what cost? If we are to be the change-makers the world needs, we must start with ourselves. We cannot lead if we are depleted. So today, I challenge every woman reading this: 🌟 Prioritize your health and well-being. Not as a luxury, but as a necessity. 🌟 Speak up about your personal struggles, the ones we’re conditioned to hide. 🌟 Support other women (and men)— a rising tide lifts all boats! 🙌 The world needs us strong, whole, and ignited. And that starts with us reclaiming our own power; reconnecting—body, mind, and soul—so we can show up as the powerful leaders the world needs. ✨ ~ with love, Rachelle 💛 Tag a woman who inspires you. Let’s lift each other higher today and every day. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025 #EmpoweredWomenEmpowerWomen #IgniteYourLife #WellnessAtWork

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻/𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲: A few things freeing myself from addictions to food and alcohol have taught me: ➡️ Addictions are rooted in loneliness. ➡️ Loneliness is caused by my judgment of others. ➡️ My judgment of others is a reflection/projection of my judgments of myself. ➡️ My self judgment is caused by a disconnection from my Higher Self and Source. ➡️ My addictions deepen this disconnection. My addictions didn't cause the initial separation (that was caused by 'big T' and 'little t' trauma). But what started out as coping mechanisms to soothe the discomfort of being disconnected with Source/God/the Universe, became a fuel for it. And so the cycle continued and worsened until I made the commitment to reconnect with myself - body, mind and soul. Alignment is now my superpower. #EatingDisorderAwareness #EDAwarenessWeek #MentalHealthMatters #EatingDisorders #BulimiaRecovery #AnorexiaAwareness #HealingJourney #MindBodyConnection

In honor of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, here’s a quick question to check your awareness. Spot The Eating Disorder: Who of the following is struggling with an eating disorder? a) 13-year-old girl, average student, variety of interests, a few close friends. Like many kids her age, she loves sweets and processed food. She’s starting to feel self-conscious of her developing curves as she enters puberty. b) 19-year-old girl, former party girl making positive life changes, including losing the weight she gained from overindulging in food and alcohol for four years. Many friends, close with family. Some are concerned she lost the weight too quickly. c) 24-year-old young woman, thin but not overly, married to her high school crush, recently graduated from university, and excited to start her career as a high school science teacher. d) 36-year-old woman, healthy weight, vegetarian, practices yoga regularly, loves her job working with at-risk youth and young offenders, spends weekends hiking with her husband and their two dogs. e) 50-year-old woman, award-winning screenwriter/producer, published author, in a new relationship with a wonderful guy, weight unknown as she threw away her scale but others describe her as skinny. Quit drinking alcohol, loves yoga, kayaking, nature walks, and hiking. f) All of the above. Answer: f) All of the above. Each of these describe me at some of the lowest points in my struggle with eating disorders. The first time I binged and purged was at 12 years old. Over the past four decades, I have struggled with bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating. To be honest, I thought I had overcome bulimia years ago when I stopped throwing up, which I thought was the only ‘purging’ activity that went along with the binge/purge cycle, but then I learned some of the other purging behaviours include: ⚠️ Fasting ⚠️ Using laxatives ⚠️ Using diuretics ⚠️ Using enemas ⚠️ Excessive exercise It was a huge wake-up call when I realized a couple of months ago that my eating disorder had crept back into my life as a way to counter my sugar addiction—something I have struggled with since childhood, but which intensified after I quit drinking two years ago. Thankfully, I wasn’t starting from scratch in my healing. Over the years, I’ve gathered tools and strategies that have helped me break free from my sugar addiction and the unhealthy behaviors that came with it. But I know so many others—women and men—are just at the beginning of their journey, and I want them to know they are not alone. There is so much guilt and shame around eating disorders, and it can be incredibly hard to talk about. I hope this quick activity helps highlight how easily eating disorders can be hidden from family and friends. ✨ My hope is that it sparks a conversation. With love, Rachelle 💛 #EatingDisorderAwareness #EDAwarenessWeek #MentalHealthMatters #EatingDisorders #BulimiaRecovery #AnorexiaAwareness #HealingJourney

🚨 The Hidden Career Killer No One Talks About: Your Relationship with Food 🚨 For years, I thought my struggles with food and body image were 'personal'. A battle I fought alone. Something I had to “fix” outside of my professional life. But the truth? My eating-related struggles were deeply intertwined with my career. ⚡ I skipped meals and exercise to stay "productive," then binged on weekends from exhaustion. ⚡ I used food to cope with stress, perfectionism, and the relentless pressure to do more, be more, achieve more... and then compensated through purging and overexercise. ⚡ In extremely stressful times, I completely restricted my eating to make up for a lack of control I felt in my career. ⚡ I let my self-worth be defined by a number on the scale—just like I let my value in my career be defined by how much money I earned. I thought success meant pushing harder. More work. More commitment. More discipline. But behind the professional smile 😊 and bubbly laugh, I was trapped in a cycle of stress, self-doubt, and using food as a coping mechanism. And I know I’m not alone. 💡 What most people don’t realize is that eating-related struggles don’t just impact our health—they impact our careers, leadership, and ability to show up fully in our purpose. How? 🍫 The stress-eating drains our energy and focus. 🥗 The lack of nutrition affects our physical, mental and emotional health. 🧠 The constant mental load of what to eat, when to eat, and how to stay in control diminishes creativity and productivity. 👩💼 The body-image struggles chip away at our confidence in meetings (even on Zoom!) and at professional gatherings. 🔥 The binge-restrict cycles mirror burnout and perfectionism in following our dreams and fulfilling our purpose. I know this because I lived it. 💡 But here’s what I’ve learned: The way we nourish ourselves directly impacts the way we show up in our careers. When I finally healed my relationship with food and reconnected to myself—mind, body, and soul—everything shifted: 🚀 My energy, focus, and productivity skyrocketed. 💪 My confidence in myself (and my work) transformed. 🛑 I set healthier boundaries. 🧘♀️ I no longer let food, stress, or self-doubt control my potential. ⚖️ I stopped chasing success through burnout and started creating it through balance. ✨ Your career should fuel your well-being, not drain it.✨ If you’ve ever felt like your eating habits, stress, or body image struggles are holding you back in your professional life—you are not alone 😊 And you don’t have to stay stuck. Let’s start the conversation: Have you ever felt like stress, food, or body image impacted your work? Drop a ❤️ if this resonates. #CareerWellness #WomenInLeadership #WorkLifeBalance #FoodFreedom #MindBodySuccess #WorkplaceWellness #MindBodyConnection

Hello friends, I have recently decided to pivot my career and company, Ignite Your Life, to focus on helping motivated women reclaim their health, power & purpose to live their most ignited life!. ✨🌿 Specifically, I am empowering women to free themselves from food and alcohol-related issues, disorders and addictions by reconnecting to themselves - body, mind and soul. Those who know me know that I have been on my own healing journey for forty some years. There have been a lot of ups and downs, advances and retreats, and to be honest, it is only recently that I feel that I am truly free from the addiction albatross that has hung around my neck for as long as I can remember. 🙌💪 But if there is one thing that I have learned is that negative self-image, eating disorders, and food/alcohol addictions are sneaky, and can creep back into your life to deteriorate your health, relationships, and dreams. So, I am pursuing this new avenue with humility and awareness, and a whole lot of support and strategies.📚 I have also learned that truly being healthy is holistic… each of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our wholeness must be healthy, and integrated.🧘♀️ For long-lasting freedom, we must take a scientific AND spiritual approach, which is what Ignite Your Life does. Doing some research over the past few weeks, I was not-too-surprised to discover that eating disorders are on an exponential rise since the pandemic. And this does not include the rising rate of obesity and Type II Diabetes, which, in my opinion, can fall into eating-related issues and/or addictions. 📈🍽️ In fact, I see it with my students, some of whom are already experimenting with unhealthy dieting methods at the age of ten and eleven. Of course, social media has played a big part, and so I feel quite a strong calling to share my experiences in hopes of helping others, and to share information that I want/need to see. 📲💬 I am so grateful to finally be on the other side of this and am excited to help others free themselves too. ~ Love Rachelle If you would like to learn more about my company and our programs, visit: https://lnkd.in/gM7dkH5a #EmpowerWomen #HealthyLiving #BodyMindSoul #EatingDisorders #HolisticHealth #PandemicImpact #ChildhoodObesity #IgniteYourLife #SelfCare #WellnessJourney #HealingJourney ❤️🌟🤝

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🤔 Desperately Seeking Empowering, Insightful, Thought-Provoking Podcasts Hosted by Women! Looking for suggestions for female-led podcasts that explore a plethora of topics in the realms of science, tech/social media, leadership, entrepreneurship, politics, economics, education, spirituality, religion, social issues... I am NOT looking for a podcast where women talk about their relationships with men or sex in general as episode main topics (i.e. do not recommend 'Call Her Daddy'), although obviously these topics can be explored within conversations of the above range of topics. I also don't care for the "girl-power" vibe or any disempowering talk about what it's like to be a woman in the world. For context, my favourite podcasts in the past have been Andrew Huberman's Huberman Lab (his episode on Alcohol was the tipping point for me quitting drinking), Steven Bartlett's The Diary Of A CEO (for his range of guests and sincere curiosity), Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory (I think he has an interesting story and it's cool to witness his own evolution of perspectives through his interviews) and Jordan Peterson's (not that I agree with most of what he says (especially lately) but I like to be challenged and believe we need to practice looking at the world from a variety of perspectives). So I am looking for a podcast with these levels of conversation exploring a wide range of topics but hosted by a woman. Thanks in advance! 🙏