Episode description

IN THIS SOLO EPISODE I’M SHARING: How exercise was modeled to me growing up How this formulated my relationship with fitness How being an athlete became a large part of my identity The stereotypes we have of personal trainers & fitness industry professionals, imprinted from diet culture The positive + negative effects of being an athlete The experiences I had, that showed me how I had value  I didn’t know that my values was independent of my performance & appearance Where I learned “smaller is better” Adopting exercise as a coping strategy that evolved into a compulsion How my relationship with exercise has evolved from control/keeping myself small → to feeling empowered Believing I needed to suffer in order to earn approval, acceptance, love, belonging Questions I am asking myself: Why am I exercising right now? Am I doing it to feel empowered and connected to myself? Or am I doing it to control/manipulate my body? Because I feel obligated to? How will this exercise make me feel after? Empowered? Disempowered? Finding the True Self  Enter to win these SIX lightroom mobile presets TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:+ Leave an itunes review+ Take a screenshot & email it to engrid@livengproof.com+ That’s […]

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