361. If You Blame Yourself for Not Overcoming Your Pain Fast Enough, Hit Play! (+Somatic Exercise)
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Release Date: 11/08/2024
Ep 382: Five Lies About Strength Training for Women That You Need to Know About
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Episode 382 For decades, women have been fed a line of myths about how to work out if their goal is to build strength, speed up their metabolism and get healthier overall. But what if I told you that most of these "truths" are actually just myths perpetuated by outdated fitness advice, and that are actually keeping women from achieving all their goals? In today’s episode, we're shattering the 5 common lies women have been told about strength training, and of course, tell you what is actually true. Here’s what you’re going to...
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Ep 381: Why You Aren’t Able To Make Progress In Some Areas Of Your Life (It’s Your Nervous System!)
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Episode 381 Are you feeling stuck in certain areas of your life? Like no matter how hard you try, you can't seem to make progress and move forward? That can happen because your nervous system is stuck in the past. Your nervous system can get stuck on repeat, replaying memories and emotions from the past over and over again. For example, when you right now feel anxious even though there is absolutely no real danger present, this likely happens because your current situation reminds your nervous system of something similar, even if just very remotely similar, from...
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Ep 380: “When I Start Exercising, My Fatigue & Pain Will Only Get Worse”
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Episode 380 LAST 4 days to apply to work with me: In today’s episode, I want to discuss a common belief that people with neuroplastic problems, such as chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety often have, which is this: “When I move my body, I end up WORSE than before.” I was inspired to record this episode after a conversation that I had with my client who worked with me for a little over 6 months. Previously, she had had years of chronic sensations. When she contacted me for strength training, she had already gotten better using different modalities, but...
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EP 379: Strength Training with Neuroplastic Symptoms (TMS): 3 Women Share Their Inspiring Stories
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Episode 379 2 months customized 1:1 training plan and daily coaching: APPLY HERE! In today’s episode I want to share with you 3 short success stories from 3 women who all started strength training even despite having TMS / neuroplastic pain. And they all have great experiences to share! As I mentioned, what’s common to all of them is that they all have or had TMS pain / neuroplastic pain or symptoms. But what’s different about them is that they all were on very different levels when they started: Laura already had a lot of experience. Amanda had...
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Ep 378: 3 Life-Changing Truths About Strength Training that You Must Know About
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Episode 378 Of course, you’ve very likely heard about the importance and benefits of strength training. But most people only see one piece of the story, which is fat loss or weight loss. And also the mental health benefits are starting to get more airtime which is awesome. But still, most people think that “Yeah, I know I should do it but life is busy so I get to it sometime later.” Or, “I think it’s too hard” or in case of neuroplastic pain: “I will wait until my pain is completely gone and I’ll start then.” To show you HOW important strength training really is,...
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Ep 377: How To Start Exercising Even If You Have Chronic Sensations
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Episode 377 Today’s podcast is 2-part: In part 1, I’m sharing with you a very practical tool that helps you to get started with strength training even if you have chronic sensations. You may have tried telling yourself: “I’m safe!” and repeated that many times, hoping that that will take down the feeling of intensity and anxiety. But nothing is changing, you still feel fear, the thought of working out and all the things that could go wrong are still present. If your body is in an overdrive, and you have physical sensations of hypervigilance and anxiety, it’s...
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EP 376: 3 Things You Need to Know About Chronic Pain and Building Physical Strength
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How To Use Visualization to Regulate Your Nervous System + Reduce Anxiety
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Ep 374: 7 Ways To Feel HAPPIER And Decrease Your Chronic Pain & Anxiety
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Ep 373: Chronic Anxiety & Pain: Do Your Daily Habits REDUCE It or PRODUCE More Of It?
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