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Regulate & LIBERATE practice™

A Fresh Lens

Before You Begin: Releasing the Emotional Weight of Previous Attempts

Duration: Approximately 10 minutes

If you’ve spent years trying to lose weight, there’s a good chance you’re carrying more than physical weight.

Many women begin a new journey carrying disappointment from previous attempts, frustration from years of struggling, and the belief that past experiences say something negative about who they are.

This guided audio has been created to help you release some of that emotional weight before you begin.

Through gentle relaxation, guided reflection and supportive visualisation, you’ll be invited to view your previous attempts through a new lens—not as evidence of failure, but as evidence of perseverance, learning and growth.

By the end of the practice, many women report feeling calmer, lighter, more hopeful and more open to the journey ahead.

This practice may help you:

  • Release feelings of guilt, shame and self-blame around previous weight-loss attempts
  • Reduce feelings of overwhelm before starting your journey
  • Create a greater sense of self-compassion and understanding
  • Develop a more hopeful perspective about what comes next
  • Let go of the belief that you are “starting over”
  • Begin your Lose For Life journey feeling calmer, supported and more empowered

A message before you begin

This practice is not about forgetting the past.

It is about understanding it differently.

Because your previous attempts are not proof that you have failed.

They are proof that you kept trying.

And perhaps, for the first time, you are beginning this journey with something many of those previous attempts were missing:

Understanding.