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Newsletter #20
January/February 2011
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Dear Monica,
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We're back!
So sorry for being absent these last six months... We have been so busy
with all that's going on. The whole team (23 great people!) are always
very busy handling the workload of giving workshops in a dozen
different countries every year.
We take
great pleasure in introducing our new logo and our new slogan:
Over the past 28 years, we have constantly searched for
ways to improve and fine-tune the various aspects of our teaching in
order to better assist you on your personal journey - physical as well
as emotional, mental as well as spiritual - always keeping in mind the
importance of the notion of loving yourself.
We hope that this new logo, with its vibrant colours and
sense of freedom, will come to represent the very essence of Listen to
Your Body.
We are thrilled to be able to share this news with you and
sincerely hope that you will be just as excited about it as we are!
...and we have also given our Web site a new look! GO and
see it now www.listentoyourbody.net
We've been busy little bees but we're back and we're ready
to give English-language workshops in the US and in Canada. So if you
would like to organize a workshop or two for us, or if you know of a
school or organization that would be interested in doing that, let us
know.
Have a good
read!
Monica
Shields
info@listentoyourbody.net
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Testimonial
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 Dear Lise,
I want to thank you so much for the insights I received from the
questions in your book, Your Body's Telling
You...
Those questions were the exact ones for me after a 20-year struggle
with my body, with self-hatred and insecurity.
I found out I created the same problem, gaining weight and wanting to
lose weight, time after time to make sure I always had to work
something out. Searching for answers I was never going to find, because
subconsciously I never wanted to have the answers. That was really
important because I was so scared to face reality. I was so scared to
find out I could perhaps never have a wonderful man in my life and by
staying a little bit (and sometimes more) overweight, I always had the
perfect excuse to accept a not-so-great boyfriend or to keep telling
myself there was never going to be a good guy for me...
read on by clicking here.
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Did you know that...
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... you cannot please everyone? Most people
think it's possible.
If you feel uncomfortable or guilty when you say or do
something that seems to displease another person or if you are
disappointed, frustrated or even angry when another person does not do
or does not say what pleases you, then you are among those who believe
you can please everyone, especially people you love.
 How
do you feel when your partner forgets your birthday or your anniversary
despite the importance you attach to these events? Many people will
reply that it doesn't bother them and that they are used to it. On the
other hand, if you are trying to convince others that it doesn't bother
you or if you are thinking about it, it is an indication that this
situation does bother you.
How do you feel
when your partner forgets your birthday or your anniversary despite the
importance you attach to these events?
It is IMPOSSIBLE to please those
we love all of the time. To constantly please all those who are close
to you (parents, spouse, children, friends, colleagues at work) means
being attentive to all their demands and remembering everything that
makes them happy, which, you will surely agree, is beyond anyone's
limits. If you are in the habit of behaving this way, it is imperative
and urgent that you learn the difference between pleasing and loving.
PLEASING means to give pleasure
by behaving in accordance with what pleases someone. LOVING means
accepting someone's differences, desires, fears, limits, talents and
shortcomings, WITHOUT judging them for it and without wanting to change
them. We can conclude from this that LOVING is a spiritual
notion and that PLEASING is a material (Physical, emotional or
mental) function.
Therefore, if the people you
love decide not to please you, it doesn't mean they do not love you:
they are simply expressing their LIMITS. Everyone is entitled to have
limits. Moreover, LOVING yourself means respecting your own as well.
When you decide not to act according to the desires of another person
out of respect for yourself or vice-versa, tell yourself that this is
AN ACT OF LOVE.
Let's go back to the example of
the partner who has a hard time remembering birthdays and
anniversaries. Their problem with remembering has nothing to do with
love. You might think that this person should nevertheless make an
effort to please their spouse since it is what most people do for a
person they love. My reply to you would be that there are no doubt
things this person likes to do, which their spouse does not like to do,
and in which the spouse does not participate, like watching all the
football or soccer games on TV. If a woman is doing her own thing while
her husband is watching the game, does that prove she doesn't love him?
And if she goes shopping without her husband because he doesn't want to
come along, does that mean he doesn't love her? In both cases the
answer is no. It is, rather, proof that you LOVE YOURSELF.
NO ONE CAN CONSTANTLY BE
PLEASING OTHERS. When someone decides to please another person simply
because it gives them pleasure to do so, it becomes a choice and not an
obligation. On the other hand, pleasing someone out of FEAR of not
being loved or appearing egotistical creates expectations on both sides
and generates a feeling of guilt. Wouldn't you rather be living a life
of true love?
With love,
Lise Bourbeau
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Great news!
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Lise's
latest book soon to be published in English
Listen and Eat: LETTING GO OF CONTROL
Were you
aware that for the last several years one of the hottest media and
marketing topics in the world has been food and the way we eat? This
lucrative industry produces reams of material on food research, the
healthiest recipes and the best diets. Lise's latest book, however, has
little in common with any of that. Its goals are quite different. What
it aims to do is...
- help you discover the six factors
besides hunger that make you want to eat;
- help you realize how much you are
controlling your diet, how you are controlling your diet and why
this could be harmful;
- teach you to easily recognize the
emotional wounds preventing you from eating a nutritious diet;
- and help you love and accept yourself
- both in your physical body and especially as the person you are
- at every moment.
In this
innovative book, LISE BOURBEAU, world renowned specialist on listening
to your body, offers an abundance of genuinely useful approaches and
answers concerning the relationship between you and the food you eat.
She presents a more realistic picture of our eating habits and tackles
the subject from a new angle. As you read, you will discover the close
connection that exists between your physical body and the emotional,
mental and spiritual dimensions of your life.
Listen and Eat: LETTING GO OF
CONTROL is in a class all by itself. Its simple, accessible techniques
will help you transform your life as well as your relationship with
food.
(Book cover
and title to be confirmed)
Be notified by email when this book becomes available
AND receive a Special Rebate
Send us a quick email at info@leseditionsetc.com with the
words LISTEN & EAT as the subject before February
28th.
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LTYB around the world
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Take a look at the great
pictures taken in 2010 during our workshops in Novosibirsk (Siberia), in Dijon and
Toulouse (France), in Athens (Greece), in Quebec (Canada) and
in Kiev (Ukraine)
See pictures now
In addition to
these 5 countries, in 2010 the LTYB team gave workshops and lectures in
Belgium, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, Romania, Russia (Moscow) and
Switzerland.
In 2011, LTYB will be giving
workshops in Italy, Russia, Japan, Romania, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Quebec.
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Joke of the month
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 Gertrude is busy frying eggs when her husband comes home.
He enters the kitchen and exclaims, "Watch
out! Be careful! Add more butter! Turn them over! Flip them! Butter,
more butter! Can't you see they're going to burn? Come on, hurry up!
Turn them over now! Now! Don't add too much butter! You added too much
butter and not enough salt. We need more salt!"
The woman, completely exasperated, finally yells,
"What is the matter with you? Why are
you screaming at me like that?"
Very calmly, the man says to his wife as he leaves
the kitchen,
"Nothing, dear... I just wanted you to
know how I feel when you're beside me in the car ... "
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