About Theresa Paganini, owner of Eloveate

My goal is to live life to the fullest! I want to pull every juicy morsel out of life that I can! And I wouldn’t be able to do that if I hadn’t learned to love myself, exactly as I am. Who am I? I started as a Jersey, Italian who grew up as the baby girl amongst three older brothers. After moving to Florida, I ended up a teenage girl who struggled with low self-worth, depression, and a variety of eating disorders. Now, after a few decades of practicing self-love, I live in Arizona with the loves of my life (husband and dogs). I’m a step-mom to four amazing young-adults, and the owner of two companies, eLOVEate and Love Yourself Lean. At my core, I am a passionate, energetic, opinionated, dominant, active, sensitive, loyal, imperfect, protective, loud, hard-working, logistics-loving woman. 

I mentioned above that I struggled with a variety of eating disorders as a teen and young adult. I was in a rough headspace at the time, so I drowned myself in food, alcohol, and cigarettes. Luckily, I had one of those "aha" moments that opened my eyes to a very simple truth - our happiness is 100% up to us. If I want to be a happy, healthy human then I need to CHOOSE to be a healthy, happy human. I needed to choose different beliefs, thoughts, words, hobbies, and even friends. If I wanted to be a different person, I needed to act like a different person. I needed to act like someone who valued themselves, who loved who they were in all of their imperfection, and someone who believed they deserved only good things in their life. Once I made that choice, the journey began!

Now, my passion is to teach other women how to create UNSHAKEABLE self-worth. As I know too well, we often get struck with self-doubt when someone questions us, shares a different opinion, or displays any real or perceived doubt in us. I want to eliminate that. 

I want us to be so self-assured in our worthiness and abilities that no one and nothing can shake our confidence. I want us so confident in our worthiness and abilities that we see every single experience in life as a success or a lesson...never a fail. The only true failure is giving up. 

I want us to feel confident to put ourselves out there knowing that we can handle any hiccup or mistake because it is simply a lesson. Instead of shame or embarrassment, we react to snafus with determination and possibly a self-directed laugh, and then gracefully pivot. 

All of this is possible when we love ourselves unconditionally- when we love and accept ourselves in all of our messy humanness. When we can develop a self-love that strong, other people's judgment no longer has any power over us. That's what I want for us. Freedom from judgment and self doubt.