"I've claimed my ‘someday.’ You know, that ‘someday I'll do this or that/lose the weight/get a life.’ That's the one! I'm claimed mine - finally!

In part I must thank MySpace, because that is where I found Ellen Lalicata and renewed an acquaintance which began in 1990. Back then, she was a talented high-schooler with a dazzling smile with whom I shared time and space on stage. A few short years later, she was graduating and moving on into the wide world. Fast forward 13 years to find me learning how powerful the networking system of MySpace can be. Finding Ellen was like finding treasure, as it had been with other people I found there.

The treasure that Ellen represented, however, turned out to be far more valuable than I could possibly have imagined. I was at a point in my life where I was finally dealing with long-ignored issues I'd allowed to fester and build up inside of me and which had manifested themselves on the outside as well (my shells, as I refer to them; an internal one and an external one). I had made attempts to deal with the external shell ... Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach, Biggest Loser and more had helped me achieve some measure of temporary weight loss, but no long-lasting results. In fact, typically I'd end up re-gaining what I had lost and then gain a bit more; discouraging, to say the least.

When I read about The Spirit Garden on MySpace, and then clicked through to the official website, I had one of those sensational serendipity moments that occur when the Universe wields its magnificent power. More than a little intrigued and excited, I e-mailed Ellen and we scheduled a complimentary one-hour consultation. Being on the phone with Ellen (we live a couple states apart) for that consultation was comfortable, comforting, hopeful ... I felt hope like I hadn't felt it in a very long time.

I registered for The Spirit Garden's six-month whole health program and was amazed by the changes in my life month after month. There were no lose-10-pounds-in-one-week pills, no diet plans to follow; there was no talk of surgery or a magic wand to be waved. This program, unlike all the others, is designed to work from the inside out and that's exactly what it does when you invest the time and energy in yourself - for therein lies the key I had missed for so long.

Through The Spirit Garden's program, Ellen was able to support me in undoing years - decades! - of damage I had done to myself. She opened my mind and my heart to the endless possibilities I possess and, in doing so, the weight began to fall away, pound after pound. I'm still amazed to step on the scale every Monday and see another pound gone; it's so effortless! For the first time in my life, food is no longer my enemy. While it still provides me with great pleasure to cook and eat food and to go out to enjoy a fine meal, food no longer represents a comfort or a band-aid or any other type of feel-better drug; it is what gives my body and mind the energy needed to think and perform. What an awesome sense of freedom that comes with!! Paying attention to what my body needs and wants, I eat what satisfies and sustains me. I no longer binge on pints of ice cream or bars of chocolate; I no longer suffer destructive cravings ...

And so today is my ‘someday!’ Every day is now my ‘someday!’ With food no longer something I'm at war with, I am now able to focus my energy on other aspects of my life and see with great wonderment how everything is beginning to fall into place as its meant to, when its meant to.

With great empathy, excitement and compassion, I urge you to engage Ellen Lalicata and The Spirit Garden and claim your own ‘someday.’ It's your turn!"