Welcome back to episode number 4 of the Balanced Vibes podcast!

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Welcome to the fourth episode of the Balanced Vibes podcast. I'm very, very grateful that you're here because I know that there could be 1000 other things that you could be doing right now but you choose to be here. So thank you so much for that!

Today's Topics

Here’s what we’ll cover in today’s post and podcast:

* Why a healthy mindset is as important as a healthy physical body

* Why mindset plays a vital role in making the health changes we want to make

* My personal story with depression and how I overcame it — though I'm not perfect and sometimes I still go backwards!

* 5 tools to help you strengthen your mindset.

A lot of times we are so hyper focused on our food and fitness because these things directly affect our physical body and the way we look. We're always thinking: How is this workout going to change my body? How is this food going to change my body? Is it a bad food? Is it a bad food? Is that allowed food or okay food? How is that going to change my body?

Creating A Change: It's Not About Knowledge, It's About Mindset

We think so much about our physical bodies, to the point where we often neglect our mindset.

However, taking care of our mindset is really, really important. That's why I have all of my clients are do some kind of mindset work too because healing our bodies physically, whether it's from Hypothalamic Amenorrhea, overtraining or poor metabolism, is not the hard part.

Everybody knows that when they're overtrained, they have to just rest more and work out less.

Everybody knows that if they've been under eating, they have to eat more and not fast, for example.

Or if someone has the opposite goal, like maintaining muscle or getting leaner, they know what they have to do in order to get that.

However, the hard part is that we are actually not doing it. It's not the lack of knowledge that is the problem.

The missing part is the mindset.

We're not thinking about things the right way. That's why I have all my coaching clients either do expressive writing, journaling, meditation, either silent or guided meditation,