Dear reader, you may not know this yet but I feel called to share this with you right now.
Maybe you do know but you haven't been reminded recently. Or maybe it's just nice to hear it from someone else.
I want you to know that it's okay to not be okay. It's okay to have feelings. It's okay to be emotional.
You're allowed to feel
You're allowed to 'just be' sometimes
You're allowed to sit and breathe
You're allowed to cry
You're allowed to be human
Believe it or not, you don't have to be perfect all the time.
One of the best things I've ever been reminded of is that I am 'not a robot'
Also know 
You don't have to be suffering 
You don't have to struggle
You don't have to hide 
You don't have to shy from yourself
You don't have to push away
You don't have to ignore
You don't have to fight 
You don't have to feel bad
You don't have to agree
You don't have to know
All you have to do right now, in this moment, is give yourself permission.
Permission to do whatever you want
Permission to feel however you want
Permission to feel differently
Permission to live life 
Permission to have higher standards
Permission to succeed
Permission to be acknowledged
Permission to have knowledge
Permission to have purpose 
Permission to share
Permission to love 
Permission to be yourself
And release
Release limiting beliefs
Release old behaviors
Release negative patterns or habits
Release thoughts
Release the 'can't'
Release the 'should'
Release the 'how'
Release the 'what if it doesn't work'
Release yourself from these ties
Then move
Move forward
Move into your power
Move into your space
Move into your best self
Move into your higher identity
Move into your best life
Move into your new normal
Move into your new beliefs
Move into your self
And embrace
Embrace a new life
Embrace a new you
Embrace a feeling of 'Ahhh yes'
Embrace a knowing
Embrace a sense of calm
Embrace a wholeness
You have the ability to
Turn goals into plans
Turn dreams into reality
Turn failure into success
Turn doubt into belief
Turn sabotage into motivation
Turn yourself into whoever you want
It's all up to you to ignite this ability and accept that you have it.
It's up to you to overcome.
It's up to you to choose. It's up to you to commit.
Everything in life is energy. It's all a belief. It's all a choice. You get to make everything into anything you desire. 
Be it time perception, success, health, wealth, family, relationships, and more.
You get to choose your reality.
Wherever you are right now there are two things to know.
1. It's all absolutely perfect 
2. It's your current standard
Ask yourself, do I want to raise this standard?
Then ask yourself if you truly deserve to raise the standard.
Then decide when the standard is being raised.
Then go raise your standard.
At any point in time in your life you have choices to make. There's a decision being made by you every couple seconds or minutes.
Consider that your heart decides to beat for you, to keep you alive, to sustain YOU.
without you asking it to
Consider that as a sign.
A sign to show up 
A sign to be you 
A sign that there is a reason you are here, there is a purpose you are meant to serve, and the world needs you.
Consider it as an empowerment
Empowerment to give to yourself
Empowerment to receive 
Empowerment to have everything you desire
Empowerment to accept that you deserve more
Empowerment to own who you are
Honor yourself, honor the beauty of 'just being'. 
Honor through respect
Honor through love
Honor through belief
Honor through acceptance
Honor through care
Honor through health
Honor through pursuit
Honor through living in your light.
Life really is a beautiful thing. To be alive is a beautiful thing. Let's acknowledge this inexplicably amazing miracle of the universe, the stars, the earth, and the vast uniqueness we have readily available all around us.
It's time.
Building More Than Just a Body
Celeste Rains-Turk: Celestial_fit
Celeste Rains-Turk
I felt called to share with you, so if you feel called to share with anyone, share; you never know how it can help until it does.

[I AM NOT PLANNING TO DO A SHOW ANYTIME SOON--HERE IS MY WHY] 

I decided I don't want to train to compete in a show anymore. 

I decided I really want to train to just feel my best, love how it feels, Look forward to it every day, and look better than I have ever looked. I want to be dying to get back into the gym, and competition prep wasn't doing that for me. 

So here's the thing, the training to actually prep is very regimented. 

There were things I REALLY missed that weren't part of my prep training (heavy squats for lower reps, deadlifting, benching) and as a trainer I KNOW I can still achieve my goals with these lifts however I also wanted to look forward to going to the gym again. 

I wanted to do cardio because I wanted to, not because I felt I haaad to (you feel?). I want to be in the best shape I've ever been consistently without having to do bulks or cuts (there will still be growth and define stages). 

I am on a mission to get to the point where my stage body is only 3 weeks away. Basically what I mean is id be walking around with a body that would really only take some extra conditioning and a water cut to tighten up to be considered "stage ready". 

I enjoyed my first show a lot and definitely wanted to get on stage again and again. 

But then I realized I wasn't enjoying a lot of my prep and it kinda screwed with my metabolism if I'm Being completely honest.

I went from 135 Pounds to about 115 pounds or so for my last prep. It didn't take me more than a month and a half to get to 150 pounds from 115 pounds (yep 150) during my bulk. 

Granted I could've done things differently and more diligently in terms of how I worked my way into it. 

But still. 

I honestly put so much on just in two weeks. (Keep in mind I was still eating a great amount of food before my show-- I wasn't starving myself and my cals were still fairly high, my training was frikkin CRAZY tho). 

Also remember, weight is just a number and that didn't bring me down it was the way my body changed. I still loved myself because I was way stronger and I was putting on lots of awesome muscle mass too. Although I'd be lying if throughout my show prep and after comp I didn't go through body image lows. 

And here's the thing, in my " second competition prep" my body wasn't changing much. 

The reason for this I believe was purely because I wasn't enjoying it, I wasn't aligned with it, I questioned it, it didn't feel right. 

Now that I'm following a program that makes me feel amazing and empowered again, guess what? 

RESULTS - this is why we MUST focus on the inner strength in order to generate the outer strength. 

Our minds and our bodies need to be loved. Not separately, not at two different times. But always and all at once and fully. 

I want to just feel amazing and go back to where I started which was just always improving daily. 

So here I am, I'm here to improve, to love myself, and to get love out of every step of the process. 

My message and purpose on this earth is to help other start Building More Than Just a Body And that's exactly what I check myself with daily. 

If you love that message I would love to have you in my free Facebook tribe (tagged above)

Fitness is my life and my lifestyle. I enjoy and love it and that fire won't burn out as long as I respect and listen to my body, mind, heart and soul. 

Your fitness routine should fit your lifestyle not the other way around. 

There's so much out there telling you that you must be restricted, you must be in pain, it must be hard, but that's all SOOO wrong 

I chose to listen to myself and my heart. I knew what was best for me and my body. 

If this message inspired you to take action to have a program which fits your life and feeds not just your body but your heart, mind, and soul, then I want to hear from you. 

Message me on fb now or comment on this blog post and let me know WHY you want to commit to a program like this

Xx
Celeste Rains-Turk
Celeste Rains-Turk: Celestial_fit

[LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY]
*huge realizations I had around energy as I thought about why I believe everything is energy*
It states that, “energy cannot be created nor destroyed, rather it transforms from one form to another.” In science, we see things like chemical energy becoming kinetic energy.
Not only that, but anything without energy fueling it will not be able to fuel other things. Essentially, we are all being fueled by something, or we would not be able to tap into and use our own energy.
Here’s what is important to know though: EVERYTHING is energy.
There is no getting around this.
We are all forms of energy, mass is created through energy, energy comes in all forms.
There are all sorts; potential, kinetic, electromagnetic, and radiant. The amazing thing is that we have all of it. There are so many take aways that can come of this idea and it has really lit a fire in me to share with you—a PURE energy exchange and flow with this post...
Because energy is not created it means that everything we have right now is everything we will ever have. Because energy cannot be destroyed it means that we will never be limited or in scarcity.
So why do we tend to believe we will be without? 
Why do we tend to believe others are in excess?
When in truth, there is so much energy around us. Even our thoughts are energy. Anything we put our energy into we receive more of.
Why? Because when we focus on something we find more of it.
Have you ever wanted a certain car and then you research it and then all of a sudden you start seeing that car everywhere? You can do the same for your life.
You can choose to focus on things like abundance; health, wealth, love, support and the universe WILL deliver.
Here’s another thing to consider about energy; You have alllllll the energy you could possibly need within you.
Considering the multiple forms and types of energy it is our job to choose to release the form we so desire to receive.
Think about a rubber band being stretched, that is elastic energy and that also makes it potential energy. It does not possess kinetic energy until it is released.
So, let’s consider this, you have a LOT of potential energy in you, when you choose to release, it changes, you change.
Let’s also consider the energy which is influential in creating our life. We literally always have the power to choose our life. We can choose to have abundance and positivity or we can choose not to. But it is all a choice; it is not anyone else’s decision but our own.
So, when we consider this, it is easy to limit our beliefs isn’t it?
We can believe that reaching our goals is hard, or feeling happy is difficult, or being motivated is nearly impossible. We can also believe the opposite is true.
Knowing that either belief does NOT change the actual amount of energy in your life, or the universe as a whole, but only the type of energy you have in your life, ask yourself, “What do I choose to believe?”
Here’s the thing, energy does not just show up, it is literally always here.
You have the power to choose what happens with it.
Not all things have the energy you desire until you give it to them.
It is like paying for something you don’t want to pay for and it feels so horrible, compared to paying for that amazing coach, item, or event you have always wanted to have, that feels frikkin fantastic—that is energy.
Even when receiving things the energy we have behind it is a choice.
Let’s say you have this goal, maybe it is to start a business, or have a family, or find your soulmate, or lose fat, or gain muscle, or feel confident, or make money, or whatever it may be; you have to decide what energy you put in.
Because the energy you put in is the energy of which you will get out.
{Visualize this next bit}
So, picture this, you are sitting in front of this huge machine, But you are sitting there and there is this sign on the left that says “Insert Energy Here” and a sign on the left that says “Receive Here” and imagine you have your goal sitting inside of the machine okay?
So you are just looking at it and in the room you see two baskets. One has balls of energy labeled “positive” and one which has some labeled “negative”. And you now have a choice to make. 
So you stand up and you decide to put the negative energy into it because well your identity says so.
And then the machine starts smoking and you start freaking out and you have no idea how this could happen I mean really?! Now you are thinking to yourself, as you put more negativity in, omg self,
You LOVE your goal don’t you? 
Don’t you want it bad enough? 
Why are you putting this negative energy into it? 
Why do you keep picking up more negative balls of energy? 
Stop. 
Put them down. 
Stop.
Stop.
And then the machine starts making all these weird noises and nothing has come out of the “Receive Here” side yet… Except for some smoke and a little bit of dust and random little things that are not at all what you envisioned.
You look in your negative energy bin and realize, holy shit, the energy is all just floating their it won’t go away, it won’t give me more, it is just frikkin’ there and I can’t get rid of it and I can’t create more of it it is all just frikkin’ thereeeee!!
So you turn to your positive basket of energy, and you are in so much need, you have such a deep desire, you want this frikkin’ goal to come true so you use the energy which is within you, you light that fire, you make your potential become kinetic and you pick that basket up and you pour positive energy into the “Insert” side and all of a sudden…
The machine stops smoking
It stops making loud noises
It stops fumbling around
It stops banging
It starts to generate…
You realize you have no way to make more energy but you can generate the outcome, oh man can you generate the outcome!
Look at this flow, look at this, consider it done, you can already feel it, you know this Is going to be kick ass and match your vision, shit it may even surpass your vision with all this positive energy, 
boom 
boom 
boom.
Through giving and giving you keep tipping the basket over the insert side, energy ball, after energy ball,
after… after… after… BOOM,
the “Receive” FINALLY lights up, you run over, and out pops your beautifully, hand finished accomplished goal.
You’ve started the business, or you have lost the weight, or you have gained the muscle, or you have started a family, or you have hired that coach, or you are finally feeling more confident in your skin.
And the machine starts repeating, “Endless Opportunities to Energize, Endless Opportunities to Energize, Choose your Energy, Choose your life, Endless Opportunities to Energize”
So you put your goal, or even your new goals back in and you do it all over again, but this time, with all the positive energy in the world and as you put more in you get more out and here it all comes…
10 fold
20 fold
30 fold
Holy moly, is this real? 
Is all of this energy really doing this?!
yes yes yes it is!
THAT was the moment…
The moment you realized that even though you could not create this energy from thin air, even though you could never destroy the negative energy being there, you could make the choice, and you did, and you did again, and you did again.
You always have the choice to decide what kind of life you want, what kind of energy you want, what kind of results you want.
All that shit may be there directly, or all that negative energy may be in the world or the universe, But you, my friend, have energy within you that NEEDS to be released.
You are the only one who chooses how it is released, what becomes of it, and what it does for you.
So today, and every day, I challenge you to ask yourself, “What energy did I choose today?”, “What energy does this need?” “What energy must I have to achieve x?” “What energy did I use when xyz?”
If you are ready to step into your best energy, and finally receive the results you have so desired, and truly step into the space of abundance and total ability to have exactly what you want.
Then I want to personally invite you to join my VIP Building More Than Just a Body membership site at
www.celesterainsturk.com
This site was created by me and is consistently updated by me through a space of positive, uplifting, educational, informative, and result generating energy. This is my energy for the world. This is my truth. This is my purpose.
All you really need to decide is, what energy will you put into yourself today, and what energy do you choose to have in your life moving forward?
If you are a true action taker committed to finally seeing the machine (that is you) LIGHT UP and you know it is time to input positive energy to endless opportunities to energize, choose your life, and choose your life then click the link and join my VIP membership site perfect for starting, improving, or uplevelling your fitness, life, health, wellness, behavior, mindset, confidence, and so much more-- no matter where you are right now!
Insert Energy Here: www.celesterainsturk.com

**WARNING: EXPLICIT sharing of the TRUTH**. {with love of course}
Do you feel uncomfortable with owning the fact that you want your body to actually look better?
Do you feel uncomfortable admitting to the world that you don't like the way your body physically looks?
How would you feel if you could openly express to yourself and give yourself full permission to actually know it is okay to want to aesthetically look better?
How would it feel to know you are allowed to want to look better?
How would it feel to be able to own this without feeling 'shallow' 'judged' 'material' 'surface'?
I find it interesting how people come to me and share with me how much they don't like their body. It's almost as though they seek my permission to want a better body because it's nearly always followed with 'well not that that matters completely' or 'it's not all about the body for me' or 'I mean I just want to feel better too' and then continue with wearing x or looking like y.
Ladies and gentleman,
FUCK society 
FUCK the stories
FUCK THE FEAR OF JUDGEMENT
THAT IS ALL BS.
Telling you you can't have whatever you want, including a GREAT body that you feel sexy and proud to look at.
PPSSSHHH I think we both know you deserve to be able to have whatever you want. This is your life after all, isn't it?
Something I've heard countless number of times is: "my body doesn't represent who I am inside".
NO SHIT.
Excuse me but, You haven't allowed it to.
You have SABATOGED your own desires in fear or self doubt or anxiety or in pain or any emotion.
What do you really want?
Why do you really want it?
Why the hell haven't you received it yet?!
What is stopping you?
You have all the knowledge of what you want, but too often I see people not getting what they want because of their identity.
I HATE hearing:
'I've always been the fat friend'
'Everyone in my family has x and now I do-- it just runs in the family'
'My genetics'
'I don't know what it would be like to actually own my red dress or my smashing blue tux'
'I can't see myself in a bikini' 
'Nothing I do works'
'I have tried everything'
*insert more stories here*
LISTEN UP PEOPLE
This is NOT a matter of your nutrition or your exercise routine.
This is a matter of YOU and what YOU believe you're worthy, capable, and deserving of.
This is a matter of stepping up and Building More Than Just a Body
You are ONLY able to accept what you are willing to BELIEVE YOU DESERVE.
So if somewhere deep down inside you you KNOW you need more and you are ready to GIVE yourself permission to FULLY step into the body you desire and OWN that that is 100% ALLOWED...
Then I want you to comment below with "YES" and I will share with you how you can gain access to my VIP membership site

Here's the thing though...
Don't comment 'YES' below if:
-You aren't willing to take action
-You aren't willing to give yourself what you deserve
-You aren't willing to be open
-You are satisfied with staying in your comfort zone and don't want to leave
-You aren't willing to cut the crap and step it up
Comment 'YES' below if you are:
-Willing to step it up
-Willing to OWN the identity you have always desired 
-Willing to invest in what you want
-Willing to be open
-Willing to give yourself what you deserve
-Willing to commit to taking all out, massive action 

I stood in front of the mirror, and I cried...
I felt emotional
I didn’t recognize this girl
I loved so much about myself but I still hated on myself too.
I could have the best day ever, I could feel amazing about an accomplishment I had, and then I could still find something to pick on myself about…
“My legs are too big”
“I hate my stomach”
“Why don’t I have the body I want?”
“Why can’t I eat whatever I want like my friends do without gaining fat?”
“Why can’t I do x?”
“I don’t want to go to the pool bc I hate my body in a bikini—nothing looks good on me”
Mind you, I still had days where I was really proud of myself. I was always confident, uplifting, positive and 100% myself. I was always a leader, a motivator, an example. I loved (and love) that about myself.
But there were two extremes.
I was the girl I hated to look at and the girl who could public speak without fear, who could lead a team without questioning it, who could motivate people to do more and be more without hesitation.
I realized there needed to be a balance.
I had hired well-known online trainers. I thought having a meal plan and a training plan was going to do it f or me.
I already knew I was a driven person. This was not a matter of motivation for me, I already had that all. I had already started my own fitness journey on my own, then I wanted to kick it up a notch, so I did.
I had achieved MASSIVE results on my own, I lost a load of belly fat, I started “eating healthier” (what I thought was healthy, I know now was not), I worked out daily with a fire in my heart--I always looked forward to it.
News flash hit me... I still didn’t love myself, or my body, it still wasn’t good enough. I trained thinking about looking better with no thought of feeling better or loving myself which is what started my journey. I didn’t actually focus on what I wanted to find.
So even though I saw results in the way my body looked I never focused on the inner work and none of my coaches did either.
So, I took things into my own hands. By this time I already knew I wanted to give others what fitness gave me. But I also knew I had a purpose. My purpose was to give MORE. I knew I always stood out, I decided I was always going to be different, I was always going to be ME and I was always going to offer something MASSIVE to the world. And thus, Building More Than Just a Body was born.

I have been compelled to open up about my story further because I have been there. I had to go through it all, I learned, I educated myself, I received education, and I invested over and over and over again to learn, learn, and grow so I could really tap into and fully release my message..
Well, guess what? I am so excited to share this with you now
It has been released, fully, and continuously, exactly as it needs to to generate consistent, long term, sustainable results for my VIP members
I have created a Building More than Just a Body VIP membership site which delivers more than just an excellent nutrition and training regimen with guidance based on you and your goals, but all things BMTJAB like mindset, self-love, self-confidence, behavior change modification planning, wellness dimensions, and much much more.
If any part of my story hits home for you, is something you have gone through, go through, have waves of, or experience from time to time then I would love to see you in my BMTJAB VIP membership site.
I highly encourage you to take a peek and see how it can change your life too.
Comment below with “YES!” if you want to know how you can receive access to the VIP Building More than Just a Body membership site and witness a life-long, sustainable shift in your overall health, fitness, wellness, mindset, confidence and much, much more.
Comment ”YES!” below if YOU are ready to step into the best version of yourself and FULLY own it...and/or share this so someone else who needs to feel this love and step into their inner VIP can make the leap