By Kim Brassor

One Voice Evolving: Better You, Better World

Too much. Not enough. And finally choosing yourself.

Hi friends,

I want to share something I’ve never said quite this plainly.

For as long as I can remember, I lived inside something I now call the dieter’s dilemma: that painful place where you try everything, follow everything, believe everything and still feel like you’re failing.

My story started before I even understood what a body was. I was born with tiny rolls on my baby thighs. So my mother, steeped in her own fear and conditioning, decided I couldn’t possibly be “hers.” She left me in the hospital for ten days and retold that story throughout my life. That was the beginning of my body shame.

By third grade, my weight was announced in front of my class. By sixth grade, my mother put me on my first bribe-diet. By fourteen, a doctor labeled me “obese” and wrote a Weight Watchers prescription so my folks could claim it on their taxes.

My worth was measured in ounces. My belonging was tied to a scale. And sneak-eating became the only place I felt control.

For decades, I did what so many women do: every diet, every pill, every shake, every meeting, every promise that “worked”… until it didn’t.

That’s the dieter’s dilemma. Dieting fails you, and then teaches you to blame yourself for its failure.

I didn’t know then what I know now: diets create the very weight gain they pretend to fix. I’d have weighed less over time if I never dieted at all.

By my late fifties, after an extreme shake diet and weight training stint, something in me whispered, “Enough.” I couldn’t survive one more regain.

The path I chose led me to become an Intuitive Eating counselor mentored by Evelyn Tribole herself. I saw behind the curtain and slowly my body began to feel safe.

And then something remarkable happened: I asked for help. From a doctor. A real one. Someone who spoke to me like a human being, not a number on a chart.

She offered a new tool — a medical option I had every reason to fear and every reason to doubt. I didn’t trust it at first. I didn’t trust myself with it either. But I also knew I couldn’t keep looping through the same cycle.

So, with my heart in my throat, I said yes. Three years ago, I began GLP-1 medication quietly, privately.

Not because I failed. But because my biology had been altered by decades of dieting.

Because I wanted to live with ease. Because I wanted to stop fighting my own body. And even then, the shame of daring to dream lingered.

The old tapes of “cheating” when eating easily converted to being accused of “cheating” when satisfied. WTF. It has been a deeper phase of the healing journey to stay in my shifting skin. IYKYK.

It’s dizzying.

It’s heartbreaking.

It’s unnecessary.

And it’s why I’m done being quiet.

Why I Created Radical Recovery: Deconstructing Diet Drama

Women don’t need another diet. Or another rule. Or another thing to fail. We need to understand the system that shaped us and find our way back home in our very own skin.

This six-module journey gently guides you through the deeper layers of body shame, perfectionism, and social conditioning that taught us to distrust ourselves.

It’s the work I wish someone had given me at 14…and at 34…and at 54.

A Gentle, Private Invitation

If you feel a stirring as you read this — a sense of recognition, a little ache, a quiet yes — I have something for you.

This online course goes on sale for the month of December. It's a self-paced 6 module program you can read about: HERE.

Just hit reply and say, “I’m interested” and I’ll send the coupon code for $99 personally. It’s $197 otherwise and will go up to $297 on January 2.

I'm so sales averse this time of year. I made sure not to market the usual ways. I'm all about word-of-mouth and friends & family discounts. If this calls you, check it out.

No pressure. No performance. Just an open door when you’re ready.

Reclaim your right to be you. Let this be the gift you give yourself.

—Kim

I AM LUCID