The Lean & Serene Method

After decades of losing and gaining hundreds of pounds, I am coming out of my Fat Closet to share openly the most important tools, techniques and methods I have found to help me maintain my healthiest weight. Each day, with the help of G-d and All my Angels, I become healthier and stronger, and it is my joy to help you do the same. (If you are an atheist or agnostic, no worries, you will learn to access your analog Wise Mind, which will serve you well in your journey towards wholeness and a healthy body.)

 

 

Here’s a brief overview of what I know personally and professionally to be true, effective and powerful to help you shed your extra weight. (With no GLP-1 shots, no surgeries, no questionable pills.)

• Improving “Self-Talk” is the beginning of Self-Care:
  Narrative therapy techniques have been proven to reshape self-perception and behavior. You will learn to name your hidden cognitive distortions, belief systems and personal myths. As Dr. Dan Siegal says, “When you can name it you can tame it!” Then you will turn these unhelpful thoughts around into more compassionate, affirmative Self-Talk. This is similar to writing new code for your brain. Whatever words follow the “I am” become part of your identity and create a strong Mindset. For example, over time, you might shift from your belief “I AM IMPOSSIBLE!” to “I AM POSSIBLE! I can do hard things…I never give up.” Plus much more. To this end, you will also learn techniques to communicate with your “Future Self” who will guide you to meet all your weight loss (and other) goals.

 

• Learning and applying Neuroplasticity principles:
  Neuroscience will help you understand your brain better, and how to grow new neural networks faster for better results. Fun fact: you can rewire your brain at any age!

 

• Emotion Regulation strategies:
  You will learn empirically verified turnaround skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (“DBT”), Solution-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Grief and Loss processing, and other sources of Emotion Regulation science and wisdom. These are all backed by extensive studies in effective neuroscience.

 

• Psychospiritual Tools – To gain mastery over your 3F Challenge – The Food, Fat, Fear Trifecta:
  You will need to learn and practice accessing Spiritual energy. Your Ego’s Willpower is not sustainable; it is often very flimsy and wears away quickly by the end of each day. You cannot cure Willfulness with your Ego…you need to tap into some supernatural energies, e.g. Wise Mind, Mindfulness tools, the Quantum Field, the 5th Dimension, accessing the Angels, your Ancestors, Source Energy, Higher Power and/or your personal Deity. This is an important part of this work, and it is how you will shift from Willfulness to WILLINGNESS. The key to a comfortable, sustainable weight loss is to be able to make more consistently loving choices with your food. Unfortunately, as you probably already know by this point, you cannot force yourself – with your Ego – to make more loving choices. This loving, compassionate energy is derived from Spiritual practices.

 

• Focusing on the Five Pillars of Excellent Health:
  These include Mindset, Nutrition, Exercise/Movement, Sleep, and Forgiveness/Compassion tools and strategies. Of all the Pillars, your Mindset is the most important. I think it is 80% of the work. When you change your Mindset, you are then able to make more healthy choices and reduce the inner conflict and friction which causes relapses and setbacks. The Five Pillars require you to learn and absorb a rich science-based curriculum. This will strengthen your mind, body and soul to become someone who no longer uses food to self-soothe. Once you learn and gain mastery over your favorite tools, you will have success as you live within your non-dualistic “Progress not Perfection” Mindset. You will break free from the painfully polarizing All or Nothing, Black or White, Good or Bad Mindset and then continue to Cha-Cha down the Red Carpet of your beautiful new life!

 

• Your Customized Solution-Focused Treatment Plan:
  This requires six minutes per day of practicing your new psychoeducation tools and spiritual techniques. I require six-minutes per day to help you shift your Mindset successfully. If you can’t schedule six minutes/day, then you are not ready to get well. That’s no problem. When you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, you will reach out to me again. My door to this multimodal practice will remain open and ready for that exciting time in your life!

May you get there soon💙

Lisa Wessan