The Evolution of Attractive Match Vegan: 2024 – Easy methods to be Vegan | Going Vegan

Attractive Match Vegan® exists to assist vegan, vegan-curious, and vegan-friendly people uncover their blind spots, discover freedom from unhealthy patterns, join with their larger selves and change into holistically wholesome and match, to allow them to create concord and align their life-style with private and planetary peace. 

The BIRTH OF SEXY FIT VEGAN®

The 12 months was 2013, and it was the 12 months my internal mild, which had change into dim, started to shine once more… It was the 12 months Attractive Match Vegan® was born.

Let’s rewind so I can share my vegan origin story in a nutshell…

I found my life’s objective, to be a voice of compassion for animals (particularly those who usually find yourself on plates), after I was seven years outdated and linked the meat on my plate with the animal it was.

My internal mild shined brightly after I was a younger child regardless of being deeply linked to the struggling of animals, as a result of I used to be filled with hope that I might make a distinction. 

By the point I turned 15 I used to be absolutely vegan and had change into a passionate animal activist earlier than I might drive a automobile. 

I really feel the necessity to pause right here and say… Bless my mother and father’ hearts for his or her willingness to drop their child off to do issues like sit in cages on the aspect of the street to show the devastating circumstances of farmed and lab animals!

In my younger thoughts I believed, “If solely folks knew what was occurring behind the closed doorways of manufacturing facility farms, then they’d go vegan too!” I felt empowered,  believing it was so simple as spreading consciousness.

Discovering that most individuals didn’t wish to be made conscious was a bitter tablet for me to swallow, and my brilliant internal mild steadily started to dim throughout my teenage years.

Quick ahead nearly 20 years…

I used to be residing in Miami, and though I had earned my Grasp’s diploma in Social Work, I used to be working as a private coach and health teacher, feeling a little bit misplaced and really unfulfilled.

I had taken discover that lastly, after I requested for vegan choices at eating places, the servers had been normally capable of assist me (or not less than they not checked out me like I had two heads)! 

After which someday it hit me like a ton of bricks…

It was time to cease enjoying small. It was time to start out a vegan weblog in order that I might attain folks all around the globe and do my half to assist carry veganism into the mainstream.

I used to be 33, and there have been nonetheless so many stereotypes about what it meant to be vegan. Vegans had been nonetheless considered weak, or hippies, or indignant up on their soapbox. 

I wished to point out the world that being vegan… that compassion… is horny, and that you may be slot in physique, thoughts AND spirit, and have enjoyable as a vegan… that it wasn’t a sacrifice in any respect! 

And so Attractive Match Vegan® was born.

THE SEXY FIT VEGAN: THE EARLY YEARS

I created a web site and weblog with no actual plan for making it right into a enterprise. I simply knew it was time to reconnect with my objective to be a robust voice for veganism once more. 

The Attractive Match Vegan model rapidly took off and gained momentum.

What I got here to appreciate nevertheless, is that with a view to actually join with my viewers and be a robust power for the vegan motion, I wanted to search out the braveness to be weak (thanks partly to Brene Brown’s TEDx speak).

So in 2017 I discovered the braveness to share about my very own therapeutic journey with the world. I wrote a collection of weblog posts titled, “From Disordered Consuming to Plant-Empowered Dwelling.”

Earlier than lengthy I had a ebook revealed, launched The Vegan Life Coach Podcast, and developed a teaching program to assist folks make the transition to a plant-based life-style and develop a wholesome relationship with meals, and their our bodies. These sources have helped hundreds of individuals uplevel their well being holistically through the years.

A GROWING CONNECTION TO CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES A DISCONNECTION WITH THE BRAND

In the meantime, my private journey towards wholeness had taken me down an intensely religious path, exploring quantum mechanics (which I think about the intersection of science and spirituality), and experimenting with strategies of increasing my very own consciousness.

As my deep-dive into consciousness intensified, I began feeling much less linked to the Attractive Match Vegan® model. 

My community expanded and I started engaged on new initiatives, a few of which concerned unimaginable new companions and branding that was largely disconnected from the Attractive Match Vegan® model. 

The considering was partly that making a “hook” that was much less “in your face” with the phrase, “vegan” would make it extra inclusive and appeal to a wider viewers.

Then, in 2022, my world grew to become intensely difficult, a narrative I share about in my Rise & Thrive Manifesto.

Lengthy story brief, I skilled excessive burn-out and ended up in Peru for a 12-day ayahuasca retreat at The Temple of the Approach of Gentle. Upon returning house, my beloved cat, Bob, fell off the balcony in entrance of me and died in my arms on the way in which to the ER. 

The ache of Bob’s demise felt insufferable, and but, due to the discoveries I’d made with the steerage of plant, human, and animal academics, I used to be capable of work with the ache and permit myself to totally mourn and grieve.

I felt like I used to be on a fast-track of inner-evolution, residing with intention and in gratitude more often than not, whether or not experiencing pleasure or disappointment, pleasure or ache, which I consider are all mandatory if we’re to have the complete human expertise.

It was from this new state of being that the Rise and Thrive podcast was born.

Months later, I linked with my superb boyfriend, Quinn (additionally vegan and dedicated to inner-evolution), after being single for a number of years. 

This leads us to November tenth, 2023, when the sunshine of my life, Shye (my senior “experience or die” rescue chihuahua), immediately crossed the rainbow bridge. I invite you to learn  THIS weblog submit celebrating Shye’s extraordinary story and sharing about my grieving course of.

Within the months following Shye’s demise, within the midst of the extreme grief, I dedicated to connecting deeply with my sense of belief within the Universe.

The Universe responded. It delivered me Elayna Fernandez, model strategist, “pupil of ache,” and founding father of the wildly fashionable model, The Constructive Mother.

SEXY FIT VEGAN IS REBORN

I shared with Elayna that I felt like I used to be “outgrowing” the Attractive Match Vegan® model, and was contemplating ditching it altogether. 

Along with her steerage, and a number of soul-searching, I’ve as a substitute begun the method of rebranding in a method that reconnects me with Attractive Match Vegan and aligns the model with my objective and mission in life. 

I’m now tremendous excited concerning the path the model is headed!

The way in which I see it, “horny” has nothing to do with our age, gender, or look. Attractive is an genuine method of being, and an empowering method of shifting by the world. I got here up with an acronym for the phrase horny.

S.E.X.Y. stands for:

      Soul-aligned

      Embracing your physique

    eXploring life playfully

      You being you

I additionally gained readability concerning the Attractive Match Vegan mission shifting ahead.

Attractive Match Vegan exists to assist vegan, vegan-curious, and vegan-friendly people uncover their blind spots, discover freedom from unhealthy patterns, join with their larger selves and change into holistically wholesome and match, to allow them to create concord and align their life-style with private and planetary peace. 

Increase – I’m ALL IN!

SHARING THE REBRANDING PROCESS

It’s now been over three months since Shye handed, and thanks largely to the love and assist from my compassionate group, together with the assistance of a current psilocybin journey, I really feel impressed to create once more.

And right here’s the factor… 

I don’t wish to undergo the creation course of behind closed doorways. 

I’m way more concerned about SHARING as I’m going, and having you be concerned, as a result of, at the same time as an introvert, I’ve come to know that connection and group actually is EVERYTHING!

For that motive I’ve began sending out a weekly Attractive Match Vegan “Soul-Aligned Sunday” publication (signal as much as obtain these intimate updates HERE). I’m additionally engaged on creating an internet group the place we are able to collect to share, assist, and lift our vibrations collectively.

I’ve obtained a whole bunch of responses from the group connection questionnaire I despatched out, and I really like studying your submissions!

A FOCUS ON HELPING PEOPLE OVERCOME EMOTIONAL EATING FOR SUSTAINABLE WEIGHT LOSS

One of many widespread themes I observed when studying your solutions in the neighborhood questionnaire, is that emotional consuming is a serious barrier to weight reduction and holistic well being for thus a lot of you. 

Given my ardour for this pervasive problem, my formal schooling (Grasp’s Diploma in Social Work and Certification for working with individuals who expertise disordered consuming) and eight years expertise teaching purchasers who wrestle with emotional consuming (hear from them straight HERE), I’ve determined to launch my strongest program up to now this spring. 

This system is designed to assist people who find themselves uninterested in feeling powerless over cravings and are prepared to search out freedom with meals to allow them to launch extra physique fats for good and create a significant life they love.

There may be SO a lot diet info on the market nowadays that it may be overwhelming. It’s usually not a lack of information, however the problem folks have to use the information to their lives, constantly, that journeys them up and retains them caught in unhealthy patterns and habits. 

Within the meantime, I’m additionally persevering with to work with a choose variety of purchasers individually.

Considered one of my current purchasers, Jen Whorton, shared her unimaginable, inspirational story on an episode of Rise & Thrive (hear HERE).

Should you’d prefer to discover the opportunity of working with me 1:1, you’ll be able to merely ship an e-mail to [email protected].

A NOTE OF GRATITUDE

I consider that we’re all right here to bop by life along with loving consciousness, and to boost our vibrations collectively for the advantage of humanity, animals, and the Planet. 

I get up each morning filled with gratitude for the chance to dwell my objective and share my message of compassion by the platform I’ve created, which wouldn’t be doable with out YOU.

I thanks. I recognize you. I really like you!