Dieting and emotional eating often go hand in hand. Emotional eating is often a response to deep-rooted emotions such as trauma, stress, anxiety, or depression, while dieting is the most common approach used to combat emotional eating. When dealing with uncomfortable feelings, it can be difficult to sit with them. We often try to escape from them by self-medicating with food, exercise, shopping, or anything that gives us instant pleasure, which drifts us away from our fitness goals. Fitness and ...
May 08, 2023•50 min
You have a choice. You are all the architects of your own life, and the choices you make determine your destiny. Choosing the right habits, people, places, and things to surround yourself with is the way to create a life that reflects your desired goals and aligns with your higher self. However, if you don’t actively choose these elements in your life, then someone else will do it for you—and it may not be what we want. Living a purposeful life is all about making the right choices. Making the r...
May 01, 2023•35 min
Many of us are hiring coaches and investing in a lot of courses and self-development to help transform our lives, but never addressing past anchors that are keeping us where we are, which is where the work is always at. It’s only when we start working through our trauma and emotions do we begin to experience results in our health and fitness. Doing the inner work allows us to see fitness and health as part of who we are and not as a means to try to punish ourselves for wanting to look a certain ...
Apr 24, 2023•34 min
Achieving your fitness goals is not about pain to gain. It’s all about building consistent habits and showing up every day. You don’t need to push yourself too hard to get the results. Focus on what your body feels, not the exterior physical looks. Health and fitness are a part of who you’re, and you can't get the results you want if you punish and hate yourself through it and don’t allow yourself to be curious and experiment with the things you enjoy. Reclaiming your health is much easier when ...
Apr 17, 2023•43 min
As humans, we’re constantly getting played by negativity, whether that is the society, economy, interactions, or everyday experiences. To stay ahead of the game, we must constantly be aware, have strategies to block out interference, and choose empowering thoughts. Choosing empowering thoughts protects your energy and will help you set boundaries and perform at a deeper level in your fitness, business, relationships, or career. Although it’s backed by science that most of the thoughts we think o...
Apr 10, 2023•29 min
Burnout is becoming a positive thing in our environment where we’re always on the go. We are always congratulated for working hard, waking up early, working late than we’re supposed to, and leaving no room for ourselves. No one is immune to burnout. Everybody can experience it. It doesn't matter how proactive, energetic, or determined you feel. If you are not looking out for yourself and showing yourself some self-love, you will soon start to feel drained. Sometimes we get caught up in our work,...
Apr 03, 2023•31 min
We live in a world where pleasure and pain are constantly at odds. For many of us, trying to find the balance between these two extremes can be difficult, leading to unhealthy habits like binge eating, drug abuse, or out-of-control eating. The quest for pleasure and avoidance of pain may have us neglecting our own physical and emotional well-being. But what if we could design a world where we can thrive from within, even during pain? The pain may not go away as fast as you want, but telling your...
Mar 27, 2023•43 min
For decades, we have been conditioned to take stretching as a critical part of yoga. But what if stretching is the main culprit to our pain? Do you ever notice that even when we’ve stretched the pain out as we are often told, it always seems to come back. And stretching is often recommended as a way to relieve muscle and joint tension. However, it might not be doing your body the justice it needs. Stretching has been shown to increase the risk of injuries, specifically those involving the hip or...
Mar 20, 2023•40 min
We all have something we put away for later, thinking it will be saved for the perfect moment. Whether that is our fitness training, using our best candles, or changing our lifestyle. So often, we hold ourselves back, thinking later will be better, and we don’t embrace everything available to us today and the abundance in our life. Allowing the ‘I’m not enough,’ I’m not good enough,’ or ‘I don’t have enough’ scarcity mindsets to set benchmarks for us on when we qualify to use some things we have...
Mar 13, 2023•37 min
Did you know up to 85% of doctor's visits can be traced to low magnesium? In modern society, the demands are so high for us. We have gone from working 8 hours a day to being plugged into our work throughout, which gets us stuck in sympathetic mode. Even in this stressful mode, society congratulates us for working hard, working on the weekend, sleeping less, and being such badass. We’re encouraged to work harder, have more coffee, be on the computer a little bit longer, be in a sympathetic state,...
Mar 06, 2023•30 min
When it comes to injury, as athletes, sometimes we take our prognosis as our reality, which robs us of our identity. We can overcome injury and disease. We just need to change our mindset. Whatever we believe, we become. Our beliefs create our thoughts, which are the programs our body follows and aligns with. When we accept what the doctors or society says, it takes our power away. When we accept our diagnosis as reality, we tell your brain to stop looking for answers. The body is meant to regen...
Feb 27, 2023•37 min
When you are truly doing something from a place of love, you get into a state of inspiration and can tap into the essence of who you are. However, many athletes get burned out competing with others and trying to be on top of the game. Whether you are trying to get that perfect shape, abs, or flow, comparing where you are at with others can lead to unfulfillment from the very thing you love. We fall into burnout and unfulfillment because we’re not being authentic to ourselves and what we want to ...
Feb 19, 2023•40 min
There is a massive generalization and many claims on what we should and shouldn’t eat when it comes to diet and fitness. But the truth is, eating is intuitive and based on what works for you as an individual. Intuitive eating is all about being aware of how good you feel and doesn’t feel when you eat certain food. This is, however, so difficult for many of us because we’re so used to feeling bloated, having headaches, and joint pain that we don’t recognize we feel terrible, but when we fix the p...
Feb 12, 2023•35 min
Are you working hard on your fitness but not accomplishing your goals? Do you feel you're falling behind and need to catch up every time? Being a leader of yourself is the key to creating a motivating climate that can help you stay on track with your fitness goal and find your fulfillment. Becoming a good leader and manager of yourself is all about planning, scheduling, time blocking, and time management, which are crucial in cultivating and tapping into your motivation. On the other hand, findi...
Feb 06, 2023•50 min
Dieting has been controversial for years, with many claiming that it's an effective way to achieve weight-loss goals. Unfortunately, the reality is that dieting often fails to deliver lasting results. It's a short-term fix that relies heavily on tracking calories and limiting certain foods but fails to address the underlying issues surrounding unhealthy dietary and lifestyle habits. Yes, dieting might give you fast and quick results, but the pounds come back very quickly when dieting is stopped....
Jan 30, 2023•41 min
There are so many components to health then what we put in our bodies. It’s not a tunnel vision around what we eat and how much we move. Our life is synergetic, and everything we experience, from the spirit, mind, emotions, and body, is a nutrient that impacts our health, and it can either be nourishing or detrimental. As an athlete, your breath, relationships, environment, and self-perception are nutrients, and they determine your subjective human experience (SHE). Your SHE is who you are, and ...
Jan 15, 2023•51 min
Happy new year Athletes! What a start to the year it has been for me! I had set so many exciting things to kick off in 2023 and instead, my body gave up on me. I’ve spent all of December extremely ill, after a Tony Robbins event, and I’m still not anywhere close to 100%. Full disclosure, I actually recorded this episode while in the bath and uploaded it today to share with you what's been going on with me in hopes that it resonates with at least one person today and let you know that you are not...
Jan 09, 2023•17 min
It was after completing a 12 week weight loss program that Victoria developed an eating disorder. She would starve herself all day, over-exercise, and indeed up so hungry at night that she would go on huge binges… These binges would be met with a mixture of shame, anger, guilt, and anxiety of gaining weight that she would purge it all and punish herself with extreme forms of exercise. Victoria began getting the attention and acceptance that she’d been seeking out her entire life. She was the ski...
Jan 02, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Everything is energy. The molecules that compose our entire universe vibrate at various frequencies and emit energy - even our physical bodies emit energy. And as we know, energy cannot be destroyed or created, it can only be transformed from one form to another. This is why all the traumas we carry physically, emotionally and psychologically impact the functionality of our energy systems which can materialize into physical ailments, like pains, sickness and disease. Today I speak with Valentina...
Dec 26, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 34
One of the toughest obstacles we face as athletes is getting back into our fitness routine after a serious injury or a period of absence. Earlier this year I tore my calf muscle and was left in a cast for 10 days. Now, while I was in the cast I sustained a SECOND injury. My knee had swollen up the size of a grapefruit! This whole year I’ve been battling my injury. I was unable to run, I felt it when I was walking, training, squatting - It showed up every time I moved. Being active is a huge part...
Dec 19, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Do you find it difficult to stick to your routines and goals when the end of the year holidays come around? I myself always feel tired and my body needs more rest than usual around this time of the year. Now athletes, you might be worrying, thinking something is wrong with you because you don’t function the way you normally do, but I am here to tell you that it is completely normal! Our bodies are incredible in how they function, they even follow the seasons of the year, which is why you feel mo...
Dec 12, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 54
How would you feel if you were told that you would never walk again? After sustaining an injury on the job and being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, Police Sergeant Michael Herst was told by his Doctors that ending up in a wheelchair was inevitable. Michael knew he would do whatever he could to slow the progression of his disease. He tried everything the doctors suggested, he even agreed to clinical trials of new medications, only to be left disappointed and in a worse condition than he was...
Dec 05, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 35
It's estimated that around 80% of people who start a diet regain the weight they’ve lost and more. But why does this happen? In western society, we are on a constant quest to find the magic diet. The secret formula that will allow us to release weight fast and with little effort. The truth is, a diet is a restriction. We deny ourselves the things we want and when we do this, we create a stronger reward system in our brain for it - we activate a more intense dopamine surge that ultimately creates...
Nov 28, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Are you getting the results that you want in the gym? If you said no, then pull out those notepads, athletes, because I’m going to share with you the Top Ten Reasons why you’re not seeing the results you want in the gym. Now, not all of these will be relevant to your situation, but keep in mind that something as simple as over training or not getting enough sleep could be stopping you from reaching your full potential not only in the gym, but in your everyday life as well! In this episode of the...
Nov 21, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Athlete, are you tired of dieting and stepping on the scale? Want to learn how to lean out and maximize your energy in only 5-12 minute each day? On this episode of Fall in Love with Fitness, here is what you will learn: -The basic (and simple!) formula of fat loss -The 3 "S"s to Transformation -The 2 hormones responsible for weight gain (and how to manage them!) -The 28 Day YouTube Challenge and Open Q&A about the challenge -How to win a $500 voucher to Transformation in Paradise and a 1 ye...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 1
What is your relationship with health and fitness like? Do you start creating transformation in your life only to struggle to maintain not only what you are doing, but the results you achieved as well? If this resonates with you, I know I can help! Something we always forget is that transformation is so much more than just health and fitness. Permanent transformation occurs only when we shift our identity. But remember, athletes, this transformation doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and co...
Nov 07, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Dr. Terry Wahls was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. By 2003 she had transitioned to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. She underwent chemotherapy in an attempt to slow the disease and began using a tilt-recline wheelchair but nothing seemed to help slow the slow decline of her health. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day! She is the author of The Wahls Protoc...
Oct 31, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Do you never feel rested no matter how much you sleep? Do you need that cup of coffee in the morning in order to have your daily poop? Or are you maybe experiencing sexual dysfunction? You may not realize it, but these are all signs and symptoms of a slow metabolism. Our bodies are living breathing machines. And like any working machine, our bodies require a fuel source in order to function and thrive. However, not all fuel sources are made the same. If our bodies aren’t functioning as optimally...
Oct 24, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In 2014, Brisa Alfaro found herself inside a NYC Hospital, surrounded by her family with no idea what had happened and why everyone was gathered around her to say goodbye. She had suffered a brainstem stroke, resulting in Locked in Syndrome. Brisa was unable to move or respond and had less than a 1% chance at surviving. Unable to use her body, all she could do was focus on her thoughts and use the power of manifestation to will her recovery. It first started with the movement of her pinky, then ...
Oct 17, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 37
On this episode of the Fall In Love With Fitness Podcast, I interview the author of the NY Times and the USA Today bestseller, Fast. Feast. Repeat. , and Delay, Don't Deny - Gin Stephens We are told that we need to release weight to be healthy. But it’s actually quite the opposite: we need to be healthy to release weight! Today Gin talks to us about how intermittent fasting is a health plan with the side effect of weight loss. Gin has lived the intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014, losing o...
Oct 10, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 71
