Deep Breaths & Dance Breaks

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Types of untraditional therapy modalities like EMDR, music therapy, somatic therapies, embodiment, and polarity
2. Embodiment as a practice and a way of being - where you experience positive AND negative emotions to the fullest extent to feel fully alive
3. The phases of eating disorder recovery and "recovery grad school," a phase where you truly experience wholeness, fullness, and aliveness

📘Resources ▪️Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR (one of Alex's therapeutic modalities) ▪️Tattoos on the Heart:The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle ▪️The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck ▪️Eating in the Light of the Moon by Dr Anita Johnston ▪️Brené Brown (researcher & speaker) ⭐️About Alex

Alex Leff is a licensed creative arts Therapist who has specialized in working with people with eating disorders, trauma and addiction for the last 10 years. She is currently in private practice and is building programs and retreats to support women in combining traditional therapy with several other forms of healing that Alex has been focusing her work and training on the past several years. Alex believes in the body’s intuitive wisdom as a driving force in all treatment and healing, and works with clients to help them strengthen their relationship to their own body, energetic alignment and pleasure to find freedom and liberation in their recovery and their lives.

 

You can learn more about Alex and her work on her website and instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/antidiettherapist/

https://www.alexleff.com/

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What is "perfectionism" - really? And what are the sneaky ways that it might be holding you back in relationships, work, and other areas of your life?

2. The importance of setting and maintaining boundaries and how to repair relationships when boundaries cause friction

3. How to let go of perfectionism in relationship to our bodies as they change and adapt throughout our lives

 

📘Resources

▪️Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (one of Noni's favorite therapeutic modalities)

▪️The Vanishing Half (book)

▪️Safe Word podcast (Noni's favorite podcast)

▪️Alison Roman (chef)

⭐️ About Noni

Noni Vaughn-Pollard is a mental health counselor and psychotherapist in New York City. She studied nutrition at NYU as an undergrad, then pivoted to mental health counseling and got a master’s degree in mental health. Noni specializes in working with people who struggle with perfectionism and is passionate about helping people cope with the fear of disappointing others. In switching from nutrition to mental health counseling Noni had to grapple with her own perfectionism and let go of her expectations of herself and others to go after what she really wanted.

 

You can learn more about Noni and her work on her website and instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/afroandappetite/

https://afroandappetite.wordpress.com/

 

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What to do when a negative or maladaptive thinking pattern that you thought you let go of comes back up

2. Why relationships and other vulnerable experiences might cause us to lean into old habits

3. Three powerful tools for breaking free from negative body image and other harmful thinking patterns based on my own recent experiences and experiences with clients

 

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my one-on-one and group nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Whole, Full, And Alive Episodes: Episode 1:  Wholeness: How to Feel Complete as You Are Now & Episode 34:  Heather Boddy’s Guide to Self and Body Acceptance

▪️We Can Do Hard Things Podcast with Glennon Doyle

 

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Find inspiration in Heather's story of self and body acceptance to help you on your journey as well

2. Widen your lens! Become aware of how society impacts our views on body image and self-acceptance

3. Explore and find out what works for your unique body regarding fitness and movement

 

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Listen to the Love Your Bodd Podcast with Heather Boddy: Episode 44: F.I.T. 4 ALL Part I: Redefining Fitness 4 You & Episode 45: F.I.T. 4 ALL Part II: You Belong in Your Body

▪️Geeknasium

▪️The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

▪️Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina String

▪️Connect with Heather: Website | Instagram

 

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Four concrete tools that can help you feel ready to take leaps that allow you to live the life you desire

2. Why taking risks and surrendering is a requirement for having a fulfilling life and a fulfilling relationship with your body

3. How to navigate the difficult feelings and fears that come up with taking risks and surrendering

 

📘Resources

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my one-on-one nutrition coaching program and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call! 

▪️You can also check out my group coaching program!

▪️Listen to Whole, Full, & Alive Episode 2:  Fullness: The Foundations for Becoming an Intuitive Eater

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

 

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. It's never too late to search for and be your authentic self

2. How to reflect on the best and the worst experiences of your life to find who you really are

3. Why understanding the why behind what you do is essential for understanding who you are

 

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Whole, Full, and Alive - Making Your Job More Fulfilling Without Changing Jobs with Shelley Kay

▪️Martha Beck Podcasts

▪️The L Word TV Series (2004-2009)

▪️Colin Bedell Instagram

▪️Untamed by Glennon Doyle

▪️Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Given Florence

▪️Eat Pray Love Book | Film (2010)

▪️Elizabeth Gilbert Instagram

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

▪️Connect with Maria: Instagram (personal) | Instagram (Be Conscious PR)

 

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. How slowing down and incorporating more rest without guilt creates a more abundant life

2. How to stop fragmenting your energy to cultivate a greater sense of meaning and productivity

3. Specific steps for setting boundaries with social media to prevent overwhelm

 

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Call.

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Embodied Meditations by Tara Brach

▪️The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss by Marc David. 

▪️The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection by Michael A. Singer

▪️Mike Dooley’s Books

▪️Connect with Maria: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Email

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

About Maria

Maria Macsay is a certified holistic life coach, movement facilitator, somatic breathwork practitioner, and yoga teacher. Maria has been on a mission for the past nine years - to help her clients find their way back to themselves. Through the power of movement, meditation, breathwork, and mindset alignment, she has provided her clients with the clarity, joy, freedom, and confidence they've been longing for in their lives. 

Learn more about Maria’s work through her website, or you can visit her Instagram or Facebook.

 

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What it felt like to run a half marathon a few years after healing from an eating disorder and compulsive exercise

2. The unexpected life lessons I learned through committing to running

3. Practical tips and advice on the must-have gear that makes running enjoyable

 

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to learn more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Call

▪️HOKA Running Shoes

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

 

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. How to discern the difference between intuition and procrastination

2. How to trust your gut and honour dramatic transitions in your life

3. The nuances of embracing being single beyond loneliness and the biological clock

 

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Connect with Whitney Catalano: Website | Instagram | Twitter

▪️You can also listen to Whitney’s podcast, It’s All Made Up, Anyway

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

About Whitney

Whitney Catalano is a Self-Sabotage, Accountability, & Alignment coach who helps creatives, ADHD’ers, and multi-passionates master habits, confidence, money mindset, & self-trust so they can embody that person they've always dreamed of being.

Connect with Whitney on her Instagram and Twitter

You can also visit her website for more details on her business coaching. 

 

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