In today’s episode, Jessie sits down with friend and colleague, Carrie Moxley, to talk all things fitness and body image with the added layer of Carrie being a fitness and strength coach, like Jessie! Carrie discusses her journey through body awareness, disordered eating and exercise, to neutrality, and how body things can get complicated, even for fitness professionals!

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Resources and References 

• Check out Jessie’s Annual Birthday Sale!
• Carrie on Instagram
• Misfit Strength Website

Show Notes 

0:55 - Jessie’s Annual Birthday Sale is on NOW!

2:18 - Jessie introduces our special guest and topic for the day!

3:15 - Carrie explains how her profession evolved as she grew an in-person gym space and community

7:49 - Carrie takes us through her journey from becoming aware of her body, through disordered eating and exercise compulsion, to finding strength training to help heal her body image

15:58 - What made Carrie change her mantra AWAY from “every woman needs to lift to feel better” 

18:10 - What Carrie did when her oldest son approached her with an interest in strength-training - and how it ultimately got her back in the gym, herself

21:00 - How Carrie returned to strength training with the truly neutral and nonjudgmental coaching style she needs in this season 

24:07 - Why Carrie would choose neutrality ANY day of the week - and processing her previous body shame that she thought, at the time, was care

28:31 - Carrie relives her recent first-time experience wearing a sports bra as a shirt in the gym without attaching any meaning or judgment to it - at the age of 44

30:06 - The loneliness of disordered eating, and how community can help heal 

33:53 - On finding just the tiniest bit of self-compassion, and allowing space for yourself to make mistakes

34:59 - What we hope for people who are listening today

37:28 - Episode wrap up