FitMama

Jen recaps the 7 Pillars of the FitMama Foundations™ and highlights the importance and paradox of this 7th pillar – Fitness, movement, exercise…however you look at it, Jen will ensure you have a new perspective by the end of this episode.

Jen shares the negative consequences of core dysfunction and what things can make it worse. This episode will have you asking some deep questions to yourself that will truly change the way you look at things, so the things you look at change.

Want a flat belly, strong body, fit heart, toned arms?

Want to feel good, happy, relaxed, patient and rested?

These are all possibly for you – but they all start from a deeper connection within. Apply for the upcoming group-coaching program: The FitMama Foundations Application is here.

Often postpartum, it’s more important to consider what NOT to do, than what to do.

Jen outlines the ABCs to focus on as you consider what your fitness routine looks like at this phase in your life.

Start your fitness journey by listening within: www.lovefitmama.com/listenwithin

This episode is brought to you by the 21 Days to Love Your Body eBook program and by Muse, the brain sensing meditation headband.

This is one of the most common things FitMamas say they “want” when it comes to postpartum fitness and health goals. Jen goes into what it really takes to “get your body back” and how it may be a lot closer than you think. She deep dives into the key pieces to focus on at the level that can actually affect change – and it may take less sweat than you first anticipated.

This episode will inspire you to a practice forms self-love and self-care that you may not have realized is so intimately connected with how you feel about your body. Your relationship with yourself is the one that Jen encourages you to work on. She introduces the sex and self-care guidance she expands on in her FitMama Foundations™ group program and will have you setting aside time in your busy schedule to start engaging in some of the more useful ways to “get your body back.”

Click here to apply to the FitMama Foundations™ Program beginning June 19, 2018:

This episode is brought to you by show partners: Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee and Your favourite meditation tool, Muse, the brain sensing headband.

Were you ever into journaling, writing, poetry, pen-pals or imaginary play as a child? Jen digs deep into the what, why and how behind this important pillar of the FitMama Foundations™. This episode pleas with you to do the work IN to your workout because journaling will allow you to break free from so much of what stands in your way (you). It will help you move when feeling stuck, it will help you understand what is underneath the very surface level day-to-day thoughts and feelings and will give you insights, awareness, connection and a mirror that just may be the missing link for you.

Here are a few prompts to get you started:

• How do I want to feel today?
• What do I need today?
• What could things look like if I wasn’t always rushing?
• What if I did have the resources and time for self-care?
• What’s really stopping me from reaching my goals this week?

As I share in the podcast, I have opened up the doors to a new FitMama Foundations™ Group Program that starts June 19, 2018, by application only – to apply click here: http://bit.ly/FoundationsApplication

This episode was brought to you by The Best Self Journal and Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee

In good form in this episode of the work IN to your workout, Jen shares why meditation is one of the cornerstone pillars of the FitMama Foundations™.

Have you ever noticed it’s not what you want that you really want, it’s the feeling that said thing will bring?

Want weight loss? You probably want to feel strong and healthy in your body. Want more sleep? You probably want to feel rested and energized. Wish you had more time? You probably want to feel good about what you’re doing and have clear boundaries so you’re not constantly doing everything for everyone else, BUT you.

Will meditation help with all of these? Yes.

In a very impactful, noticeable way, incorporating small doses of meditation will change your life for the better. Jen gives you so many reasons why meditation is such a key component to the work IN needed to get the most from your healthy lifestyle.

By the end of this episode, you will see why scheduling in your (even 5 minute!) daily session is the game changer you’ve been waiting for.

Everything you want is just one calming breath away.

Tune in to reconnect to the core of you and set an intentional path to honour you through deep breathing, visualization and meditation today!

Contact Jen with questions!

This episode of the FitMama Podcast is brought to you by Muse, the brain sensing headband and the Best Self Journal. It’s the little daily habits that make up your lifestyle!xx

Water, weight loss, worrying – say what? Today Jen launches into a call to action reflecting her famous “2 by 2” rule tool for water intake and explains how water helps with weight loss. Jen suggests incredibly useful ways to incorporate more water into your life and shares the secret to making the habit of drinking water (or any other health habits you want to adopt) effortless.

Listen in today for the kick you need to up your water intake and energize your life today!

This episode is brought to you by The Best Self Journal and the 21 Days to Love Your Body eBook

There is nothing glamorous about weighing yourself and then judging yourself or speaking to yourself differently depending on your weigh in. There is nothing glamorous about yelling at yourself inside to get to the gym or stop eating this or that. This has to stop – imagine someone else weighing you in every morning and then berating you and restricting your food or upping your activity based on it. Imagine them saying all day to you out loud the negative words you say in your head?

This would be classified as abuse.

It’s a funny paradox that I have seen in my clients and felt myself so many times.

We need more sleep, we want sleep, we always feel tired and exhausted and rarely feel rested…

Then, when it comes time to sleep, we tend to find everything in the world to do BUT rest our heads and get that very thing we need in a solid way each night.

We all crave to be in control of our time and how we use it and though we know we aren’t at our best unless we get the sleep we need, we still don’t prioritize it. Until we make it more appealing and glamorize it to make it more attractive, we will constantly push it down the list as something to do after everything else gets done.

Don’t fall prey to this! Move sleep up the list and tune in today to get re-inspired for making sleep one of the most important parts of your life.

This episode was brought to you by Muse Meditation Headband for your mindfulness and relaxation pre-sleep routine and Best Self Journal for prioritizing your sleep!!

Food and diet has become one of the most talked about and complicated aspects of our health and fitness culture. What to eat? When to eat? How much to eat? The weight loss industry and health practitioners have been making up meal plans for decades now. Curiously, however, we now have a generation of children being born that aren’t supposed to live longer than their parents did.

That’s shocking and when it comes to adaptation and evolution, that is completely backwards. Something isn’t working when it comes to the diet industry actually supporting long term weight loss.

So where does that leave us then if we want to lose weight and keep it off?

To the work IN to your workout of course!!

In this episode Jen shares the science and reality around how our thoughts and feelings affect our food choices and how those can matter more than the food choices themselves. Feeling guilt, shame and regret around food choices will increase the stress hormones in the body and in fact lead to less chance of weight loss and a cascade of other things you are unlikely to want.

Intuitive eating, or “listening to your body” is important and also knowing where the choices or cravings or desires are coming from. Are they coming from “shoulds” and “have to’s” or are they coming from love and connection and a desire to nourish?

There is no judgment, just questions here.

Ask yourself how you are standing in the way of your goals through too much “food negativity” and worry rather than experiencing, eating and enjoying.

Jen suggests 3 things you can do starting today that will allow you to get a deeper understanding of your personal experience and you how you can move in each moment towards food freedom. For life!

You got this!

This episode is brought to you by The 21`Days to Love Your Body™ and by Muse™, the brain sensing headband.

Do you feel lack? Feel not good enough or unworthy no matter what you do?

So often we don’t stop to look around our life other than to compare ourselves, our bodies or our life situation with our friends, family, peers or people we may or may not even care about. We take the opinion of others as the gospel and we let others’ thoughts or feelings about us inform our own.

Our biggest fears as humans are around not being worthy. Not being loved. Not being good enough.

We think we need to hire a trainer, start a diet, do a complete overhaul on our life or something else external to us to be good enough.

It’s all lies you tell yourself, and in this episode Jen will break it down for you – unworthiness or feeling lack is a symptom of a greater problem and can be remedied by one life changing action:

Listening and connecting within. Regularly checking in with yourself and what’s your inner guru is telling you.

Within yourself is all the love, abundance, worthines and happiness you can ever dream of.

Tapping into this endless supply is what the The Love FitMama Way is all about.

Tune in to hear more.

You are worthy and loved, there is just no doubt about it.

Want to connect more with Jen Oliver? Email her [email protected] or join the movement in the FitMama Facebook Group.

This show was brought to you by Notes to Self Socks and Muse – the Brain Sensing headband.

Change is an inevitable part of life and yet one of the most feared things we encounter on our journeys.

How do you adapt to change?

How do disruptions in your routines and life affect your thoughts, habits and behaviours?

Jen shares some of the major changes she has endured and how these have played a role in her personal growth and development.

When you listen and ask yourself the questions Jen poses, you will find yourself going back in time to stories in your own life that were created out of change.

Are these stories serving you?

Are you playing the role of victim or victor in your stories?

The questions about how change is changing you, are about exploring these stories and experiences, and finding 5 or more ways they were a growth experience benefitting you.

Shifting perspectives here opens up empowering opportunities to transform.

Tune in now to embrace change and flow through life with more ease.

A thank you to this show’s sponsors: Four Sigmatic and Best Self Journal.

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This episode will have you thinking in ways you didn’t even realize were possible. Jen takes us up, down and all around in this episode asking the real questions that will get you moving forward in your goals using the self awareness you have around emotional eating.

If you consider yourself an emotional eater, Jen explains how this is a gift and one you can harness to better understand your deep connection within. If you want it to lead to behavior change that is a choice you can make. No pressure.

Jen shares some of the science behind the nervous system – gut-brain connection and gives you the inspiring evidence that you have it all within you to truly overcome anything you think is holding you back, starting by being aware of it.

Jen touches on The Love FitMama Way and how understanding the 3 stages of deeper self-love begin with her eBook and audios program, The 21 Days to Love Your Body available on her site, http://www.jenoliver.com or http://www.lovefitmama.com

This show was brought to you by the 21 Days to Love Your Body eBook and Audios program and The Best Self Journal