00:00In addition to this new fabulous book, Lisa Nichols, you have brought a new body into
00:12this studio.
00:12So talk about the connection between releasing, whether it be our physical weight, whether
00:17it be emotional baggage, releasing to create space for our abundance.
00:20You know I'm loving you, girl, for saying releasing.
00:23Well, you taught me.
00:24Right.
00:25I love you for saying releasing because everyone says, how did you lose the weight?
00:28And I go, first of all, I didn't lose it because I don't want to find it.
00:32Y'all know this is not lost and found.
00:33I don't want to find it.
00:34Y'all keep it.
00:35I don't want to find it.
00:36It's releasing because if we realize how much weight is attached to emotions and before I
00:43ever lost one pound, I had to look at the reason why I put on a 78 pound jacket emotionally.
00:52What was I covering?
00:53What was I protecting?
00:54You know, and the reality was I put it on 19 years ago and 19 years ago, I went through
01:00some traumatic things and I needed to put on a jacket to make Lisa feel safe.
01:05Now, everybody don't want to have this conversation because it requires us to go into our vulnerability,
01:09to go into that.
01:11Why do I choose?
01:12I know eating less and working out.
01:14No, I know the, I know the program.
01:16People ask me, what did you do?
01:17Like I did something different.
01:19I ate less and I did the program.
01:20I created this program that helped me, but I, how did I get ready to be consistent is
01:27the key question that I looked up and I realized that when my son's father, for me, everyone
01:32has their different, but when my son's father went to prison, a part of me just kind of died
01:37away.
01:37Like really, you know, I have an African-American male child in South Central LA whose father's
01:43in prison, my son has a 66% chance of going to prison.
01:48Now that I put on a jacket, I put on an emotional jacket called 78 pounds as a result of that
01:54emotional void, shame, guilt, longing for his father to come home and year after year when
02:01he didn't, you know, there's a part of me that went, now it can never happen.
02:04Now we can never happen.
02:06So all of the stuff I stuffed down, uh, about that, you know, and it wasn't until I called
02:12him and I haven't shared this anywhere else.
02:15It wasn't until I called him on December 18th of last year.
02:21And I acknowledged to him, I loved you before you went in.
02:25I just, I just, I just said every truth I've been stuffing.
02:29I held, I held onto the possibility of us for years.
02:33Now my mouth said, no way, honey, but my heart said, maybe one day.
02:38So it wasn't until I just became fully transparent with my truth.
02:43I didn't want to get back with him.
02:45I just need to, I just needed to really let that truth live outside of me.
02:49Then I became consistent with every, all those techniques we know about.
02:55And then I trusted myself to be in this body again.
02:59Well, you look fabulous in it.
03:00Thank you, sis.
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