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Spirituality of Strength Training

Welcome to the Spirituality of Strength Training! The show covers everything from the strength training, spiritual practices, meditation, mindfulness, soul awakening, healthy lifestyle, yoga, and the science of healing physically, mentally, and spiritually. Anna Willard is a health profession who discovered the integration between mind, body, and spirit and the importance of healing all three together as one during her own healing journey. Hear from health professionals, psychiatrist, spiritual leaders and strength coaches. Enjoy!
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Episodes

SST_75: The movement from a psychologist to a spiritual coach Janine Miller-DeLany

How to face and heal trauma vs getting stuck in “woe is me” When in the exercise zone, it frees your mind and physical blocks Training with joy from the childlike spirit Self - Judgement creates less energy and restriction in body How to have self-love without the other person and the importance of community How to balance the craziness from news along with self healing, self-care How to stay open to messages of love within the body

Feb 17, 202055 min

SST_74: Heal for Life with Liz Mullinar CEO at Heal for Life Foundation

Trauma brings transformation. It is a choice how it will change you. It can destroy you, or it can create strength to love and live in the midst of hope. Liz Mullinar the CEO at Heal for life Foundation shares her wisdom and experience as a healer and psychologist.

Feb 09, 20201 hr 4 min

SST_72: A new year a different cry

Letting go is an expression of grief, grieving is a process of forgiving. ~ Anna Willard A new year, a new decade brings change and invites transformation and transitions within our life. For us to embrace the fullness of any type of change there is a grieving process of letting go of the past, good and bad, joyous and hurtful moments.

Jan 01, 20209 min

SST_70: The hard reality of Forgiveness; Acceptance with your host Anna Willard

"Self-Forgiveness is accepting the reality truth of our failures, flaws, and imperfections" ~ Anna Willard Todays Short Sweet Solo Episode Anna Willard talks about three simple steps to follow when practicing self-forgiveness. Acceptance, Daily Doing, and Positive Understanding. Listen in as she shares how she too struggles with this practice of forgiveness.

Nov 25, 201912 min

SST_68: The Art of Forgiveness with these three powerful women, Reita Johnston, Betsy Shilling, and Stacey Sorgen

All three of these women bring a broad and deep perspective to forgiveness and the intersection to mind and body within this practice. In this episode you will learn different aspects of forgiveness like How to have grace and faith Develope a level of self-trust How letting go is a step by step process Its ok to start small Mindfulness within forgiving self For the yoga therapy ball here is the link https://livewellround.com/?ref=e6wwg2ew7kq Use ironwilltrain and save $10

Nov 05, 20191 hr 28 min

SST_67: How Anger Started The Forgiveness Project with Marina Cantacuzino

Anger is an empowering emotion, nothing is wrong with it. The danger with Anger is when it goes on for too long. ~ Marina Catacuzino Marina started the Forgiveness Project out of anger during the time of the Iraq War. Her passion to bring peace through this practice of forgiveness is compelling and transformational.

Oct 21, 201938 min

SST_66: JillFit and Fitness within Forgiveness around infidelity

Jill Colman shares her story of forgiving her ex-husband who cheated for two years of their marriage. In this episode she walks about . . Its ok to forgive without letting them off the hook Forgiving self without repeating the same pattern Self acceptance is the key of forgiveness How to ride the waves of emotions through forgiveness Letting go while holding onto self trust Control and trust are complete opposites Body acceptance is key within the practice of forgiveness

Oct 13, 20191 hr 3 min

SST_62: Slow is the new Strong

Slow is the New Strong To build a stable foundation of strength, it requires a slow approach. Listen to another short sweet solo episode with Anna Willard as she shares the benefits of going slow when learning the kettlebells. She list three simple benefits by taking things slow Self Awareness Ability to self correct Stay true to yourself Anna encourages everyone to not only slow strength training down but all areas in life so that you will be able to stay true to you!

Sep 15, 201911 min

SST_61 Death Brings Life with your host Anna Willard

Death brings life, it is a transition stepping into the unknown to become open for a newness within life. Listen in as Anna Willard gives insight to how she has recently been dealing with a death within her life. How easy it is to bypass emotions, How scary it is to lean into our emotions How healing our emotions can be.

Sep 08, 201913 min

SST_58: Religion & Fitness Learning to Love through differences with your host Anna Willard

Have an open mind a willing heart to learn to love through our differences - Anna Willard In less than ten minutes Anna shares from her experience how we can create a neutral ground within fitness and religion. She uses the analogy how different types of fitness can be beneficial at different times in life to how we can also benefit from different forms of regions and spiritual practices. Her main goal with this episode is to help us see how loving is learning through our differences.

Jul 28, 20199 min

SST_57: Holy Water the power of water healing our mind, body, freeing our playful spirit with your host Anna Willard

Within this episode you will learn how magical water can be for our soul and heal our mind giving us the freedom to simply play and enjoy the beauty of nature. As you listen you will also here how she sees the interconnection of the spirituality of water as she touches on these three concepts: How water can help those who suffer with PTSD How water can spark creativity, awe and wonder How water can be a hug from mother earth

Jul 21, 201927 min

SST_56: The Power of Brainspotting with Paige E. Roberts Performance and Neuro Training

Paige specializes in neurophysiologic therapy of Brainspotting to assist athletes in de-conditioning mal-adaptive brain-body neural pathways from perceived sports failures, sports injuries and surgeries. She uses photobiomodulation-light therapy to assist athletes in healing their sports injuries and surgeries by up to 50% faster including concussion-traumatic brain injuries.

Jul 14, 20191 hr 14 min

SST_55: The Awaken Aussie Originally from Poland, Ela Staniak shares her fitness and awaken stories

Awakening moments do not have to be a tragedy but can be from the beauty from life. Our first international guest Ela Staniak give here wisdom and insight about the connection between mind, body, spirit within the fitness industry. She shares her personal story that brought her to understanding the connection of spirituality within the physical from the death of her parents to living in beautiful Australia.

Jul 07, 201954 min

SST_53: A west coast soul with a midwest heart Angela Glaze an Ayurvedic yogi

As you listen to Angela explains these three types of doshas, you will gain body wisdom and knowledge to be more attuned with your health. By understanding the elements of each one, pitta, kapha, and vatta, you will be given the tools to know how to improve your health to the exact needs of your individual body

Jun 23, 201959 min

SST_52: Wisdom of words and Wisdom of our body a short sweet solo episode with Anna Willard

In this episode she dives into three aspects how and when words take away from the wisdom of our body. Talking too much about the goal or decision tricks the brain to feel like it has accomplished it already Talking can take away from the time and space needed for practice the lessons learned from the discussions. Being over coached, mentored takes away from brain body connection and the wisdom from within our body TAKING ACTION WILL ALWAYS BE THE KEY TO MOVE FORWARD YET THE MOST CHALLENGING

Jun 16, 201915 min

SST_50: The man about meditation James Brown

Three types of meditation concentration of the mind - anchor your focus on a certain thing, it is concept of being better control of your mind, tame the monkey mind contemplative practice - curate your thoughts into better thoughts, from negative to positive thoughts. Vedic - allowing your mind to meditate with a certain mantra, allowing your mind be in flow

Jun 02, 20191 hr 3 min
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