Roots of Change, from survival to success with Diane Gudmundson

I remember those days where I believed that the only way to lose weight was to do some kind of special diet like Atkins which was almost carbohydrate-free or other diets that restrict certain food groups. I was so far off back then. I remember the first round of P90X I did where I ate all healthy food throughout the entire challenge and I completed the full 90 days of workouts but in the end I lost no weight. I was so disappointed and so I researched and found portion control systems that are easy to follow and tested it out on my second round of P90X. Boy was I shocked after my second round when I had dropped 35 pounds of fat in 90 days and it was absolute wow and amazingness! I was so blown away that I became obsessed with portion control and researched multiple ways to do this and then I created my own easy system to follow that does not have any fads does not eliminate food groups and does not involve any kind of starving and which is really nice lol 😆 Over the next little while I will be talking more about my discoveries that helped make my health journey easy and simple in the long term. This includes mindset hacks that I’ve learned! I’m very excited to share my reset for life system with you once It opens! If you would like more information on this system and notifications about new podcasts coming out, be sure to sign up with your name and email at www.dianegudmundson.com

Yes it is time to ditch those old beliefs and thoughts. How many times have you said “I will be happy when…”I will be happy when I’m successful in my business, I will be happy when my mortgage is paid off, I will be happy once I find my life partner, I will be happy when …XYZThe truth is, is that being a happy person first gets you all the things. It gets you the circumstances and people that you want in your life not the other way around.So where did we learn all these old beliefs and thoughts that we carry through our entire life? It is scary to think that many of these beliefs have actually blocked us from having success in whatever we are “trying” to do to become happy. The good news is that you can change all of this for yourself. I used to have those old beliefs as well and I learned how to “reset” them and that old thinking for good. I went through many resets myself and now I have earned the crown of being the “reset queen” and being able to help other people to get past these blocks as well 😀The way to do this is not just about consciously telling yourself positive things it’s about getting deep into the programming that we have been given over the years and change it deeply in the subconscious mind for good. Most people don’t realize this but our subconscious mind controls 95% of what we do and this is absolutely mind-boggling. I am so excited to talk about what is to come in my services that I can provide for you in the next few weeks and I will be talking about it more and more. I would love to have you enter your name and email on my list in order that I can provide more inspiration and information for you. So please be sure to enter your name and email at www.dianegudmundson.com

Oh boy, I remember those days where I was feeling unfulfilled and wondering what my purpose was in life anymore. My days as nurse practitioner felt like I was in the rat race and was impacting my energy and I truly felt stuck. That sense of feeling lost and dissatisfied really bothered me, but what bothered me even more was the fact that I had gained weight without realizing it. Then I started asking myself how did I get to be so irritable and why do my kids trigger me. I just was not happy. This seem to be a vicious cycle and I continue to hit the reset button numerous times with the intent of trying some new diet, or some new morning routine or some new schedule and it never seemed to stick because I would end up in my old cycle again. Now I’m getting excited about my new project because I have reset my life so many times and I have finally found a way to do one big reset and never have to hit the reset button again. This project has three key secrets inside the food for life, the body for life, and mind for life which is a complete game changer when you combine all three together. That is the magic of simplicity that you can implement into your life quickly, easily, and it becomes a way to get rid of struggle and to give you a clear sense of direction well feeling so much better. Please enter your name and email at dianegudmundson.com so that I can notify you when I send out some more tips and exciting tricks about the reset for life

In this episode, I talk to you about the magic of self-awareness. As we go through our life, not only are we programmed, but also we reject parts of ourselves based on how others assess us and those parts. We push away those parts of ourselves and literally begin the process of non-acceptance. Eventually, we wake up and realize that we don’t even know who we are anymore because those parts of ourselves are so disconnected and we have forgotten the essence of who we truly are. Rediscovering this Is the magic of discovering your purpose and the essence of who you truly are and why you were here on this planet. Thank you so much for listening and please reach out to me on Instagram at @DianeGudmundson Or email me at [email protected]. If you want to receive more notifications about upcoming podcasts and special Talks, then please enter your name and email at www.dianegudmundson.com. Thank you and sending you much love

Health is the foundation of all transformation. I have spoke of us in past episodes, and I want for you today to really think about what health means to you. What expectations are you setting for yourself? Are you making achieving health a punishment? What I mean by this, are you setting expectations higher and higher and then spending in ordinate amount of time focussing on guilt and never achieving your expectations? I know how it is because I used to be there. I spent so much time focussing on and obsessing over health and being a certain weight that it took up so much of my life. Now I have transformed to a point where I can feel peaceful and love and accept myself as I am and guess what? Health happens far more naturally this way and you have less stress and it does not have an impact on your life in a negative way. When you’re peaceful and relaxed, and have less stress and worry, then naturally your body does not feel the need to hold onto excess fat as a stress response. I will be talking more about this on future episodes.Take some time to think about what your definition of health is and how you treat your health and body every day. Are you treating it through the energy of love and acceptance, or are you being yourself up and over obsessing over it and never meeting your own expectations? I would love to hear from you if you can send me a direct message on Instagram or you can email me at [email protected] to let me know one thing that you took away from this podcast and perhaps even what your definition of health is for yourself?

I had an inspirational moment when I hit the record button to speak very slowly and deliberately about just how critical it is to have a foundation of self-love and self acceptance. Further, as I was speaking, I realized that in order to have self-love and self acceptance, we also need to further deepen our awareness and our sense of who we really are. Therefore, working on our sense of self is also a key parallel activity to focussing on self-love and acceptance. Even though the concept is simple and it general sense, it is complex and very deep seated based on the programming that we have received as children and throughout our adult lives.There are ways to de-program ourselves that I will speak about on future episodes, but for the purpose of this episode I wanted to speak to the value of transformational coaching and how that will help you to discover your deep sense of self and therefore further develop yourself love and acceptance.I will be beginning to take 1:1 clients in the new year while I am working on developing my specialized group program. Of interest, I will also be offering subconscious reprogramming services starting in March 2022, which is pretty exciting!If you have questions please feel free to email me at [email protected] and be sure to sign up for regular communications at www.dianegudmundson.com with your name and email address. Thank you for listening and I will see you on the next episode

The question is this… Who would I be if I was not being what I was taught to be? Who the heck is your true self? If you think about it, we are programmed right from when we are born and we are taught everything that we know and believe including things about money and love and relationships and the expectations of society. We are taught cultures religion and how to behave in a proper manner for example at school. We are taught that our value in the world depends on what we accomplish and our social labels such as nurse practitioner and mother and all the rest… It is no wonder that many of us are left with very low self-worth, self-esteem, and no concept of what our purposes in this world and who we even are anymore… The process to engage in and to be serious about is to unlearn and de-program yourself with all of the crap that you have been taught to believe over all of your life. All of that crap that you’ve been taught is not your true self. I have learned this and I am absolutely inspired and fired up and excited about discovering the answer to who is my true self? Any questions? Please feel free to email me at [email protected]. I thank you again for listening

I am late recording my podcast this week, because I have had an emotional disruption with this huge layer of the onion peeling off during my own transformation. I realize that I have had bad habits of thought they have created a life of struggle and aloneness and difficulty. Because I’ve had a long history of trauma, abuse, neglect which I have been healing from, the layers of the onion come off and the issues identified become deeper and deeper and more challenging to identify and to realize. This past week, When digging into habits, I realized that it’s one thing to have behavioural habits, but these habits of thought can be extremely destructive to your life without you even realizing it. Thus they are subconscious and blind spots. My eyes are open after realizing that I have a habit of making my life a struggle and beating myself up. Yep, very hard to admit, but I’ve been doing this to myself for many years. Everything from using a shovel to dig holes for fence posts instead of hiring a post hole digger, to ripping apart fences with an axe instead of getting help and many many more things that I have done to myself. I have also Pushed away people willing to help, and I have also pushed away people that I have loved dearly which has been a form of beating myself up I now realize. It is so sad to look back and I spent a lot of time crying processing all of this, but I am so grateful that I had this eye-opener and realize this now about myself so that I can move forward. If you have questions please don’t hesitate to email me at [email protected]. Please sign up with your name and email at www.DianeGudmundson.com So that I can have an opportunity to email you other tips and stories and notify you when there’s a new podcast. Thank you so much for listening and I will see you on the next episode

Getting squeezed is a very interesting analogy when you think about what comes out when you squeeze various types of fruit? What is truly inside of them becomes quite apparent. This is a final step to developing self-awareness, because when we get squeezed or triggered as human beings, whatever comes out of us is what we have to learn is inside of us. Most of us are unaware or do not admit that we have those negative emotions on the inside or we don’t even realize it. It then in other words is a blind spot that we need to work on. If you become angry, triggered, frustrated, guilty, feel shame or be fearful, these are all inside of you. This is a way to have the clues as to what you need to work on based on the self-awareness that you now realize with those triggers. Triggers are a blessing because they teach us something about ourselves. This is a great step towards self-awareness and like I said in the podcast, self-awareness is a process that is not simple or something we can just figure out in one episode, rather it needs to be something we work on for long term. Thank you for so much for listening and if you have feedback that you would like to send me, feel free to email me at [email protected]

If you’re anything like me, you have been overdoing and overachieving and over accomplishing and maybe even been a workaholic for far too long… Have you taken the time to sit down and breathe and really take a look at what you’ve accomplished? Have you taken the time to recognize, acknowledge deeply and then celebrate what you’ve accomplished? Or, are you like I was, where you are constantly dissatisfied with the amount you are accomplishing and always setting new goals and accomplishing more and moving forward at Rapid speed Without taking the time to acknowledge anything that you’ve done.? Yes I totally get it because I was there too! Once I sat down and took the time to recognize and acknowledge and celebrate my accomplishments, it totally transformed how I felt about myself and about my life. I feel less pressure to accomplish and also feel better about myself because I’m taking the time to acknowledge what I’ve done and to celebrate myself. If you have questions or comments feel free to email me at [email protected] and also if you want to get more information by email then please get onto my email list at survivaltosuccess.ca