My 30 minute check in and accountability sessions with Terra are invaluable! She is helping me to solidify my new healthy habits and it is working! In the past, I've lost weight but it always comes back. This time is different! Terra helped me "lose the weight the way I want to live it" as she says and I am finally at my real goal weight for the first time ever. I highly recommend Terra's coaching if you want to make changes that last.

I love that I'm not alone in this process and that the wisdom and experience of others adds to my journey. I'm one who grows through other's experiences and I love resetting each week. Begin again and more! I am very grateful to have Terra, her wisdom and experience as an integral part of my support team! There have been many breakthroughs! I've come to know that food isn't the answer to anything emotional and how to better handle those moments when food previously seemed to be the only answer. I know the value of having my own personal management systems, and using them. I have come to understand that this life is a journey, including my weight and healthy habits, with fine-tuning moments all along the way. I have a full toolbox with many skills for self and environmental management.

Since becoming part of the Joy in the Journey community and watching the Monday and Friday Bookend Your Week videos, I have become more kind to myself. I now try to see myself as my children and grandchildren see me. ‘A wonderful and caring person'. My body is what is carrying around my soul/essence - what is most important really is ‘what's inside’. This way of thinking has really helped me to be less judgmental of myself. Showing myself the same grace I show others. I love the knowledge I have gained and the real talk. It's not a quick fix. It's a lifestyle. As Terra says many times it’s about learning to 'lose weight in the same way you want to live it’. This was so big for me. I always wanted the weight off and deprived myself in order to achieve my goal, only to see the weight return as soon as I got off the restrictive ‘diet’. This truly is a lifestyle change - not a temporary ‘fix’ and I now find joy in the journey each day!

Working with Terra not only helped me to take control of my health, it also taught me a lot about myself. This was unexpected at my age! I had tried to lose weight over and over again unsuccessfully and when I met Terra I really didn't know if I was capable of achieving a healthy weight I could maintain. She was able to help me uncover things that were holding me back and helped me see that I didn't have to change everything all at once to see results. Terra is extraordinarily caring and the fact that she has overcome significant weight struggles herself and has years of experience helping others do the same made me feel instantly connected to her. I am grateful to finally live at a weight that's healthy for me and that I found "joy in my journey" as she likes to say!