Elegant Elevation

Introduction:

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my book. I pray that it will bless your soul and have a lasting positive impact on your life. I am confident that it will help guide you in your personal journey of shattering through the glass ceiling to become the best version of you. My name is Michelle Williams. I am a Certified Holistic Wellness Coach, Visionary Leader and Author. I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management and a Project Management Certification, but my true passion is striving to be a significant part of the change that I wish to see in the world. I want to help other people overcome life’s obstacles and barriers by introducing the same program that helped me become the best version of myself. The name of the program is Elegant Elevation. The Elegant Elevation program helped me to uncover underlying issues and tackle the root cause instead of focusing on minor symptoms that could be seen on the surface of my life. This book provides a guide on how to incorporate holistic wellness into your life to become the best version of you.

My inspiration and motivation to write this book came from losing both of my parents and many other loved ones prematurely to preventable health conditions such as congestive heart failure and diabetes. Over the years, I discovered that many of my loved ones met this tragic fate due to lack of knowledge about the factors that contributed to and caused high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and diabetes such as inadequate sleep, consuming significantly more food than their body needed to function (and consuming it too often), living a sedentary lifestyle, not properly managing the stress in their lives and failing to adopt a holistic approach to wellness.

I developed the Elegant Elevation program because I wholeheartedly believe in achieving overall wellness through a holistic approach which includes the Mind, Body and Spirit. We need for each one of these “buckets” to be full in our lives in order to be healthy. I struggled with my weight for most of my adult life. I could always manage to lose weight but could never sustain the weight loss. The reason I could never sustain my weight loss is because I was approaching my issue with weight as if it were the actual problem. When truthfully the excess weight was just a symptom of several underlying issues that I needed to resolve. It wasn’t until I was able to identify and uncover those underlying issues that caused me to overeat and gain weight in the first place, that I was able to live and maintain a healthier lifestyle and weight. I am dedicated and committed to helping you do the same.

Let me begin with why I named the program, book and brand Elegant Elevation. Some of the words and synonyms in the dictionary used to describe “Elegant” are refined, classy, graceful, distinguished, charming, dignified and exquisite. Often when we are going through a phase of transformation, we view the result that we want to achieve as the destination or “grand prize.” But we fail to acknowledge, appreciate, and celebrate the process, journey, and season that we are currently in and persevering through. We are refined, classy, graceful, distinguished, charming, dignified and exquisite just as we are. Right here and right now, we are all of the words that define and describe “elegant." It doesn’t matter if we are male or female, Black or White, young, or old. We are “elegant." We do not have to wait until we reach our goal of becoming the best version of ourselves to acknowledge, appreciate and celebrate ourselves, our qualities, our gifts, and our elegance.

We live in a time where instant gratification and overnight success is the goal and is celebrated. We often skip right over that middle part; the process that it took for us to attain success. If the process is in fact mentioned, we often refer to it as the struggle or hard times instead of the beautiful growing or awakening transformation that it is. We often tend to glaze right over that part of the story. That part is where we gained the most knowledge through trial and error. It is where we increased our faith because that is all we had to carry us through. It is often the part where we strengthened our relationship with God because we could not trust our own instincts and judgment. We had to rely solely on His guidance. That is the part of the story that we need to share more than either the starting point or the ending when we reach our goals or achieve our dreams. We need to share every one of those lessons that we learned. We need to share how God made a way out of no way. That is the most useful part of the journey that others need to hear above all. That is the part of our story that others can apply to their own lives to achieve their goals and dreams, since their starting point or beginning may drastically differ from ours. They may not be able to see how our story and journey is similar to theirs because the other circumstances in their lives are so different.

The definition of elevation is the action or fact of elevating or being elevated to a higher level, which is exactly what happens when you apply faith, intermittent fasting and God’s favor to your life to achieve holistic wellness and become the best version of you. I included “Shattering through the Glass Ceiling” in the title of the book to illustrate the barriers and obstacles that we all encounter that force us to rely on our faith and God’s favor to shatter through and overcome. Each one of us has our own set of barriers and obstacles that we need to shatter through and overcome to get to the other side to become the best version of ourselves.

In this book, I will share with you some of the most painful barriers and challenging obstacles that I had to shatter through and overcome to become the best version of myself. This process is not a destination, but a journey. Elegant Elevation is a program that encompasses Faith, Intermittent Fasting and God’s Favor. It helps you learn how to use God’s word, His grace and His mercy to overcome the obstacles and barriers that are preventing you from becoming the best version of you. As I continue my walk with God and on my personal voyage, I will continue to assess my circumstances, evaluate myself and apply the principles I have learned and used to develop Elegant Elevation to ensure that I am constantly growing and evolving. I hope after reading this book that you will do the same in your life.