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Elizabeth Thomson is a US Army Combat Veteran and competitive ballroom dancer. Upon returning from service, she found that the trauma and flashbacks of war followed her home and later discovered she suffered with PTSD.

Through her healing process, Liz was lead to a local dance studio, signing up initially just to take some swing lessons. Fast forward a few years later, and Liz steps out onto the floor of competitive ballroom dancing for the first time. The rest is history! Since then, she has won two major world titles as an amateur in American Smooth and currently trains with some of the best coaches in the industry. Her goal is to continue to grow as a dancer, become a professional ballroom competitor, while also sharing her story of how ballroom dancing helped her overcome PTSD.

4:12 How did you get into ballroom dancing?

4:35 - Liz’s experience going to get help with PTSD after deployment

8:25 When did you notice PTSD symptoms appearing vs when did others notice?

9:25 What made you take notice & accept your PTSD was affecting you?

11:05 What was your knowledge of PTSD before you realized you were struggling with it?

14:50 After you came to terms with the fact that you were struggling with PTSD, what happened then?

18:35 - When did you walk into a dance studio for the first time?

23:50 What other ways did PTSD affect your daily life? 

25:25 How she connected lack of sleep to symptom exacerbation

28:20 When was the first time you connected your mental health to dancing?

31:55 The impact of community on mental health improvements

32:55 Collective Effervescence - the community bond affect when you’re moving together with others

36:55 How she went from a comfort zone of baseball caps to ballroom makeup and bedazzled costumes for competition

39:25 - How Liz has transformed in the time since she’s began Ballroom in 2013

43:25 What version of yourself does dancing bring out in you?

46:45 How depression & anxiety look in her life now vs what it used to look like?

47:55 How does she handle low days now?

53:55 What’s in your future for ballroom competitions?

58:45 What wisdom would you share with your younger self?  

Follow Liz's Journey on IG: @lizaroooni

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Today we’re talking about mental health morning routines and how use rituals in the morning to align your energy for the day. If you have been wanting to change your morning routine, learn how to get more out of your mornings, look forward to starting your day, or create a few routines that gets your mind & energy in the best place to take on your day, then you’ll want to listen to this episode!

Here are a few take aways from today’s episode:

1. On our good days morning routines can help us align us to intentional energies & ways of being that we want to show up as in our day.  On our hard days our morning routines can be there as a grounding action to remind us who we are and wake us up to our inner warrior when we forget. 

I want to hear what morning routine you’re working on implementing this week - send me a DM on Instagram @christine.coen!

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In this week’s episode I sat down with the inspiring Amy White, founder of the Healthy You™ program. Amy is a board certified holistic nutritionist and wellness coach who encourages clients to reconnect with their body to feel confident like they once have. However, it wasn’t an easy path. In this episode, Amy goes into detail about the time where she felt hopeless, and how this set off a catalyst for her going back to get her Master’s in nutrition. Amy pushes people to understand that their best years are not behind them and to recognize their power. 

In this episode, Amy and I discuss:

• A period of her life feeling down and hopeless in her late 30s when she realized she’d lost herself somewhere between marriage and being the mom of pre-teens.  We get into what this was like for her, how she found her way back to exercise and fell in love with strength & conditioning at 50.

Connect with Amy Here:

Amy White - Masters of Science Holistic Nutrition (MSHN), Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist (BCHN), Certified FunctionMasters Degree Nutrition (MSN), Board Cert Nutrition & Lifestyle Practitioner (FNLP)

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Website: https://www.thesimplicityofwellness.com/

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthandyourhappyweight

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In episode one of the Wake Up Your Warrior Podcast, Christine Coen goes over the biggest paradigm shift in her recovery from thinking depression was only caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain & that she was powerless and would need to struggle & be on medication for the rest of her life to believing that she could do something about this, she could impact how she feels, and she is not powerless to her challenges.

This is Christine's story of how she realized exercise could help her overcome her battle with depression, anxiety & binge eating.

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Welcome to The Wake Up Your Warrior Podcast with me, Christine Coen. The impact of moving our body on our mental health is undeniable, but the hardest part of struggling is getting out of bed and doing the thing. I know, I’ve been there.

Every week I will share conversations with humans who’s lives have been transformed by the power of movement on their own mental health, breakdown the latest neuroscience with leading experts, and hopefully inspire you to wake up your inner warrior to fight for the best versions of you every day.

Think of us, me & the guest on this podcast, as the friends who jump in the deep dark hole with you, because we’ve been down there before and we know the way out.

Meet me here every week on the Wake up your warrior podcast!

The first episode drops on July 26th

You can find us on Apple podcasts, Spotify or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

See you soon, warrior.