It Looks Good to Feel Good…
Our motto is the title of this post, add “So Love, U” to the end and it’s the complete thought and our foundational reason for being, my foundational thought processes as I pray, create, and even write copy for product descriptions, and this blog. I start with the foundation.
Let me start where we are now. We are in the processing of rebranding. We are growing - first in thought. So, I have decided to rebrand based on what I’ve known to be True, but not knowing that it actually applied to me because I simply missed the signs.
What signs? The discomfort from eating certain foods, the black spots on my back that developed over six years, the small increments of weight gain that went ignored because well, it didn’t affect my ability to get into my clothing, comfortably. When it did, I thought, “I still look good”, and bought the next size up. When I gained significant weight, had a hysterectomy, and stopped working on my feet, and opted for a desk job, exercising was replaced by other forms of entertainment, the weight kept coming - slowly, but it was coming and I just didn’t see the impact that it was having on my organs, until I was 50.
Let me state it again: I didn’t notice the IMPACT the weight was having on my organs until - I- WAS - 50!
I saw the weight but not the IMPACT. I decided to lose weight; a whopping 108 pounds in 2018. I kept it off until approximately Spring of 2020. The significance of that timeframe is I was newly married, just completed my esthetics program, and the pandemic was in full effect. Essentially, I was stalled and felt stuck, on all sides! It took some reflection, some studying, prayer, and me revisiting my previous formal education, to find out that I was sick and my DIEit was responsible for where I was. It was literally the food that I was eating that was causing my physical discomfort. Now, I need you all to understand that I started juicing, regularly, in 2011(approximately), and I was on OMED (one meal a day) since 2019/2020. The fact that my breakouts were worse, even while using my OWN botanically-based products, was further indication that I had more work to do. My doctor wanted to prescribe medication but couldn’t provide answers for why my weight was increasing, why my sugar levels were up, why the boils and breakouts were continuing, why I was completely fatigued, why I had GERD, why Achilles Tendonitis, why, why, why?????
Zero answers, but was quick to write a prescription! Oh, and tell me to watch a video because the DIEit he prescribed to should work for me as well. Nevermind, that I am a Melanated middle-aged woman and he is an older Asian man (insert eye roll). I KNEW that I wasn’t being heard and I was determined to heal my body and not just treat my symptoms. I had to find another way and I needed it to be fast, no gimmicks!
After I canceled my gym membership, prayed some more and specifically asked God to “show me the truth, no matter where it leads me” (I’ve prayed that prayer before and whew! I’ll explain in a different post), I came across a video of Y’ahki Awakened on YouTube, Y’ahki Hickman on Facebook. That was the beginning of my new walk and enlightenment of what I already knew but hadn’t yet applied.
I life what I speak and write. Love you is rebranding as a HEALTH and WELLNESS Spa. Our views have been grounded in health and wellness, rather than beauty, but until this year because I wasn’t able to provide the necessary information or referrals. I’m ready. I’m still growing, and learning, but I’m ready!
I hope you are as well. Let’s journey together and let wellness be our guide to a great life because…
It Looks Good to Feel Good So, Love, U!
~ Shantelle