Finding Food & Fitness Freedom: An Empowered RX Podcast

Today we focus on the intersection of trauma, overexercising, eating disorders and health. Many people don't realize it but trauma and eating disorders are often inextricably linked. In this episode we discuss the ways they impact our health and some of the long term issues that come about when we don't seek treatment and find deep health.

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Join Leah Cottle and Tina Glennie on today's episode of Empowered RX where they dive deep into Goal setting and motivation after trauma!

The big take home message? Own your story, own your life! Once you own your story you take your power back!

In this episode the girls discuss:

The different phases of goal setting

What goal setting can be like before and after trauma

Actionable steps to approach goal setting from a trauma-informed perspective

Join us with Chelsea Horton, Founder and CEO of Healing Embodied, as we dive deep into the world of Relationship Anxiety & OCD. Are you filled with doubt, anxiety and fear about your relationships? Does it cause disturbances in your every day life and keep you from being present?

YOU AREN'T ALONE!

When many people think of OCD they think of cleanliness, repetition and odd habits. Most people don't realize we can have OCD about relationships and that this pain and experience can be debilitating. 

In this episode we discuss:

YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!

Fore more information head to https://www.healingembodied.com/

or find her on Instagram @healing.embodied

Jen Kiaba is an international award winning artist using self portraits to examine coercive control. She dives deep into her experiences with religious trauma after being raised into the Unification Church. This church was referred to by popular media as  "The Moonies". After escaping a forced arranged marriage, she found her way out of the cult in her early twenties. Head to her instagram or website listed below to view her AMAZING and profound art. 

Her art work is hauntingly beautiful and speaks to her experiences and trauma during her time in this cult. She uses photography and art to explore the loss of identity that occurs in religious cultic experiences. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has won many awards. 

Here we discuss the intersection of trauma, health, healing and art and urge listeners to move their bodies and express through art the emotions and experiences we find too hard to discuss with words. You won't want to miss this story of strength, courage and healing! 

You can find Jen on Instagram at @Jenkiaba

Head to her website www.jenkiaba.com for more information

Enter Haley Morrone. She is one badass woman who has completely transformed her life, her health and her trauma. This has been one of my favorite episodes to date because of how down to earth and kind Haley is! 

She gives amazing advice that you can adopt RIGHT NOW! Like:

- Focus on the present moment

- Small actionable daily steps

- Shedding trauma and building confidence

- How to never live a life without French Fries!

Haley shares her story from experiencing childhood sexual abuse, drug, alcohol and food addiction while living with suicidal thoughts. Haley has lived a tough life filled with struggles but everything changed when she found CrossFit. Years later she is happier and healthier than ever. Haley owns CrossFit Converse with her husband and has beautiful children. She also owns a Nutrition Business where she helps other women love their bodies and develop a better relationship with food. While she is down 100 pounds, this total transformation has been much more about connecting with her sense of self and shedding the weight of trauma that held her down for so long.

Find her on Instagram at: Haley_Racine

Look up her CF Affiliate: Converse Community Fitness

Please Welcome Jenn Green onto Empowered RX podcast for this awesome episode. Jenn dives deep into her experiences on the CrossFit HQ board, Owning her affiliate box CrossFit Greer AND on having high functioning anxiety! 

To visit Jenn Green's CrossFit Affiliate head on over to https://crossfitgreer.com/ 

Join us in this Episode of Empowered where we interview Jennifer Storm... a force to be reckoned with!

Survivor. Author. Victim’s Rights Expert. Consultant. Fitness Lover.

Jennifer Storm has over twenty years of experience in non-profit management and government work combined with a powerful personal story of survival from victimization and addiction. Today with over twenty-three years of active recovery she has spent her life advocating for victims of crime having worked many high-profile cases including helping victims/survivors of, Jerry Sandusky, Bill Cosby, Catholic Clergy victims and thousands of other cases in her twenty-year long career as a victim advocate.

In this Episode Jennifer shares her personal experiences with addiction, trauma, eating disorders, her writing, her career and gives us listeners actionable steps to get help on our road to recovery!

To learn more about her head here: https://jenniferstorm.com/bio/

Jennifer is the author of six critically acclaimed books on addiction, recovery and victimization. Awakening Blackout Girl: A Survivors Guide for Healing from Addiction and Sexual Trauma, Blackout Girl: Tracing my Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault, Second Edition, Echoes of Penn State: Facing Sexual Trauma, Picking Up the Pieces Without Picking Up: A Guidebook Through Victimization for People in Recovery, Leave the Light On: A Memoir of Recovery and Self-Discovery  and Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America. 

Join us in this Episode of Empowered where we interview Jennifer Storm... a force to be reckoned with!

Survivor. Author. Victim’s Rights Expert. Consultant. Fitness Lover.

Jennifer Storm has over twenty years of experience in non-profit management and government work combined with a powerful personal story of survival from victimization and addiction. Today with over twenty-three years of active recovery she has spent her life advocating for victims of crime having worked many high-profile cases including helping victims/survivors of, Jerry Sandusky, Bill Cosby, Catholic Clergy victims and thousands of other cases in her twenty-year long career as a victim advocate.

In this Episode Jennifer shares her personal experiences with addiction, trauma, eating disorders, her writing, her career and gives us listeners actionable steps to get help on our road to recovery! 

To learn more about her head here: https://jenniferstorm.com/bio/

Jennifer is the author of six critically acclaimed books on addiction, recovery and victimization. Awakening Blackout Girl: A Survivors Guide for Healing from Addiction and Sexual Trauma, Blackout Girl: Tracing my Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault, Second Edition, Echoes of Penn State: Facing Sexual Trauma, Picking Up the Pieces Without Picking Up: A Guidebook Through Victimization for People in Recovery, Leave the Light On: A Memoir of Recovery and Self-Discovery  and Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America. 

Amy Mandelbaum, 5x Games Athlete, talks training, coaching, trauma & women's empowerment. She shares her journey from a young woman lost in the world to becoming a 5x Games Athlete and Affiliate owner at CrossFit Westport where she is on a mission to help all women who walk through her doors to become empowered and find their voice. 

Amy joins me to share her story of how she has been able to overcome multiple traumatic experiences that kept her from living her most authentic life. Once she shifted her mindset and her lifestyle, she never looked back and continued on to find self-love and a passion to help other women find theirs. She talks about the ups and downs of training for the Games and  we discuss some practical tools Coaches can use with their clients to forge impactful relationships that empower and create long lasting change! 

Join us on the Empowered RX Podcast as we breakdown the Empowered RX 5 Goal Setting Factors. It's not 3 months after January 1st. Are you still working towards those resolutions? For most of us, the answer is no... Listen to this quick podcast to find out why new years resolutions don't stick and how you can reframe your approach to goal setting to work towards your goals in the next 3 months. 

1. Alignment

2. Transference

3. Enjoyment

4. Friction

5. Education