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Kimberly Pirtle

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excited about Fall!

Title: Bliss Coach

Gender: Female

Age: 32

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Chinese Sign: Fire Dragon

Location: Englewood, CO

About Me:

I am a life coach and Reiki Master Teacher specializing in helping people of all shapes and sizes.  As a plus size woman, I spent a lot of time longing for services that didn't judge me and wanted to nurture who I am body, mind, and spirit.  Slowly but surely it dawned on me that there were other people out there who longed for the same thing and I was in a position to help fulfill that longing.

I am also a web developer (I recently received my Masters degree in Digital Media studies) and I provide reasonably-priced web development and hosting for the holistic community.

You can read more about me and my services at my website:

http://www.uncoveryourbliss.com

I've also created a iGoogle Gadget that you can add to your personalized google homepage that offers words of encouragement, joy, and tricks for focusing on happiness.  If you would like to add this gadget to your google homepage, click here.

Before I go, I'd like to say a word about current attitudes towards plus size people.

Especially these days, there is so much anger and disdain directed towards people who come in larger packages.  I'm not exactly sure what's feuling the obesity hysteria, but you can be sure it is hysteria.  Even if the myth that being larger is inherently unhealthy were true (which, I assure you is decidely not true), that still doesn't explain why people would be so enraged about how we plus sized people live our lives.  It's almost as if we're just not allowed to take up so much space.

If you are a plus size person reading this, please know that you are a wonderful, strong, beautiful person who deserves to be nurtured, cared for, and treated with respect.  You are complete and perfect right now, no matter what anyone else says.  If you know this already I am so happy for you!  That is wonderful!  Either way, I would love to extend an invitation to you to join a community I started to joyfully provide resources and support to plus size women.

If you are not a plus size person but have been known to think about or treat plus size people unkindly, please consider that we humans will always come in different shapes and sizes and that doesn't mean that anyone is less deserving of love and respect.

These are hard ideas to integrate into what we say and how we live when we are being bombarded by information that contradicts them.  So here are some wonderful resources to help us educate ourselves about obesity and health:

Don't you realize fat is unhealthy?
Junk Food Science
Fat is not a health crisis (pdf)


For anyone interested, I've written more about this and how I approach living in my large female body here.

I wish every joy and many blessings!  It's a great time to be alive … the potential for bliss and abundance is limitless!


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