Dr. Karin Flodstrom

Licensed Psychologist

A body image/spiritual program to create enduring beauty and sacred purpose

 

Your spiritual body......
The Inner Beauty Philosophy
 
Who I am is far more important than how I look.
 
Feeling beautiful inside is more wonderful than looking good on the outside.
 
I can care for myself from the inside out by paying attention to my body, acting from my soul`s purpose, and creating an enduring and loving presence in this world.
 
Every woman has her own beauty, even me, and I can look for the beauty in myself and others.
 
I pray to be true to the longings of my soul. I refuse to be controlled by fear messages of the media; messages designed specifically to make women feel they are not good enough.
 
The best sexual experiences are based not on how I look, but on how I savor and surrender to each moment while truly knowing and loving another human being.  True intimacy is far better than superficial sexual release based on visual triggers like the size of my breasts or the breadth of my thighs.
 
I can surrender to the cycle of relationship while I understand that a normal healthy relationship has different stages, some when the ground is dormant and gathering energy, and others when love blooms profusely. Trying to force fallow times to flower only slows and cheapens the experience. Instead of panicking during alone times, I can welcome each part of my relationship cycle with dignity and acceptance. 
 
The idea that only the prettiest women in the land will be truly happy is a myth that keeps everyone from finding true happiness. This myth creates divisive competition among women and causes men to chase experiences that will leave them feeling empty.  In fact, everyone is harmed, even the most physically attractive, when we believe that the way we look on the outside is more important than the person we are on the inside. Valuing external beauty above all else keeps us locked in the superficial and starves our lives of our true soul`s purpose.  
 
My body is an Earth suit uniquely designed to help me fulfill my soul purpose. When I fight my body and try to force myself to look a certain way, I create imbalance and interrupt the natural beauty and harmony I was born to create. The best way to become my healthiest and most beautiful self is to listen carefully to the messages of my Earth suit and understand how my unique body leads me toward my soul`s path.  I can replace body hate and negative judgment with self acceptance and spiritual awakening.
 
While facing heavier energies, my body tends to get heavier. I may want to eat heavier foods as a way to help me process these energies.  I may need extra food for comfort as I face sadness, fear, and anger. The best way to respond during these periods is with compassion and patience. I can allow the old negative feelings to surface. When my body becomes heavier as a way to help me process negative feelings, I can be grateful to my body for its service. This gratitude will help make my body lighter again more quickly. After working through my negative feelings, the heavier energy will leave my body. I will want lighter food again, and I will feel like exercising more. Then, if it is God`s Will for me to be a smaller size to help me find my Soul`s Journey, I will easily lose weight and my body will most likely stabilize at a lower setpoint. When my healing cycle again progresses to the point where I am processing and excavating the negative, my body may gain weight again, but likely not as much. I can repeat this cycle of gaining, processing, releasing negative energy and losing weight until I find that I have reached the healthiest weight for my body.    
 
Some Earth suits are designed to carry more weight than others. This does not mean that these earth suits aren`t as good as thinner ones.  This may mean that the souls in these earth suits have volunteered for a sacred purpose that is served by a larger body. Maybe they are here to challenge the obsession with thinness? Maybe their earth suits anchor them more securely to the Earth because of the challenging work they are meant to do?   There is a reason for everything my earth suit does. My job is to listen and find that meaning.
 
All earth suits are beautiful when performing the tasks they have been designed to perform. Balance, harmony and love, not size, determine beauty.  Our eyes have been trained to see a very narrow definition of beauty. We can use the Inner Beauty Philosophy to retrain our perception so we can see and create God`s Beauty in every one of us.