Graced Health: Perimenopause and Menopause Wellness for Christian Women

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This is not an episode about self care - you can certainly go take a bubble bath or get a pedicure, but you aren't going to find those in this list.

This solo episode offers science-backed ways to take care of yourself so you can feel and function well. Most take a minute or less.

I offer 10 simple ways to take care of your physical, mental and spiritual health.

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As a fitness professional, you would think this never happens. 

But it does.

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Wondering how to create a holistic health plan for your physical, mental and emotional health? You'll want to hear this episode with celebrity trainers Andrea Orbeck, Desi Bartlett, and Nicole Stuart. 

Combined, these three women have decades of experience and dozens of fitness certifications and credentials. They have also worked with hundreds of celebrities, supermodels, and ordinary women to develop workout and wellness solutions to stay active and feel good in their own skin

We discuss:

• What “feeling good from the inside out” looks and feels like
• Defining holistic fitness in our unique bodies
• Incorporating emotional and mental health into a holistic fitness program
• Taking inventory of what is working for you and what is not working
• Understanding our hormones and experimenting with fitness and nutrition to mitigate menopausal symptoms
• Transitioning our workouts as our body goes through transitions
• How pilates can help us age, feel and function well

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Every other week you'll get a healthy dose of grace with a chapter from my book Your Worthy Body.

Within each chapter of Your Worthy Body, I take a rule set forth by the health industry, social media, and perhaps even ourselves and rebuke or refine that rule with science and/or scripture. Each of these rules is part of my story and one I previously tried to keep. 

Each chapter title is a rule to break. I hope you'll break them with me.

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Every other week you'll get a healthy dose of grace with a chapter from my book Your Worthy Body.

This week I'm dropping both the Introduction and the first chapter, since I've also shared the introduction before back in November 2021.

Listen here to the Intro, then go to your next episode for Chapter 1.

My latest recommended ways to nourish and move your body, mind and spirit: Nourished Notes Bi-Weekly Newsletter

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Anytime I needs some fresh joy in my life, I know where to head - to Yvette Walker with the Positively Joy podcast. Yvette’s episode entitled “What to do when you're sleepwalking through life and faith” (Season 13 Episode 23) aired a year ago and was one of the ten most downloaded episodes of 2022. I invited Yvette back to talk about some of the ways we each dig into God’s word and spend time with Him. She shares some specific strategies as well as helping us to pause and ready our hearts for our time. I just loved this conversation.


We discuss:

• Resources to help you connect with God’s word
• The power of pausing before prayer 
• Methods like PRAY, SOAP, and GOD

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Yvette is host of the Positively Joy podcast and founder of Positively Joy Ministries at positivelyjoy.com. She published the life lesson-filled devotional “Whispering in His Ear” and its companion study and discussion guide God's Voice and How to Listen. 

She manages a Facebook Community group along with other social media related to her platform. Yvette is a former journalist and also is an educator and Dean of Students at Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma. She is chair of the Journalism Education Committee for the National Society of Professional Journalists. She has been inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.

My latest recommended ways to nourish and move your body, mind and spirit: Nourished Notes Bi-Weekly Newsletter

30+ Non-Gym Ways to Improve Your Health (free download)

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On Tuesday's episode, I talked about a fitness community and how to develop one even if you aren't going to the gym.

That episode came from a need*I have.  And while I've been working hard to develop quality content for you, the problem is I don't know YOU! 

We have a bit of a one-way relationship. You hear plenty of me, now I want to actually see and speak with YOU!

To that end, I'm creating GracedHealth+.

Sign up for GracedHealth+ here

This is a subscription-only leg of the podcast. When you subscribe, you'll get:

⭐️ An invitation to a monthly Zoom meetup (TBD days and times depending on what people want)

⭐️ Amy Uncut episodes right in your podcast feed, full of motivation, encouragement, or  other  off-the-cuff thoughts

⭐️ An audiobook chapter of Your Worthy Body released every other week

⭐️ Emails  sharing my latest fitness and health videos

The first ten subscribers get a NEW live B.COMPLETE  with me over Zoom. 

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I wasn't sure how to begin or end this but I just decided to jump in and share what was on my heart...

Let's talk about what we do when we know we have a lot to get done.

What are your habits? 

Without realizing it, I created one. Listen in for more.

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Has your fitness community changed since pre-Covid? Mine has. And if you're like the informal poll I put out on Facebook, yours probably has changed somewhat as well.

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I admit: I miss my fitness people. 

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I've been on a journey to rebuild my community since it looks different, and I wonder if you are missing the group atmosphere as well.

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In today's solo episode, I'm sharing a few ways to I'm creating my own ways of connecting with others and offer you some ways to rebuild yours.

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Be sure to stick around to the end, where I share an exciting opportunity to expand our community to a monthly virtual meetup!
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My latest recommended ways to nourish and move your body, mind and spirit: Nourished Notes Bi-Weekly Newsletter

30+ Non-Gym Ways to Improve Your Health (free download)

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Author Mary DeMuth joins today to discuss her book Love, Pray, Listen: Parenting Your Wayward Adult Kids with Joy. Regardless of if your children are wayward or not, this book is full of applicable wisdom in expressing love to and fostering good relationships with your adult child.

We discuss: 

• Her passion for helping other parents find joy in parenting adult kids
• Embracing our own brokenness and relating to our adult children as fellow strugglers
• Parenting comparison
• How to trust others to share our pain but still maintain boundaries of privacy
• Finding comfort when our children have walked away from their faith
• Dealing with “helpful” advice from others when parenting our unique children

Get your copy of Love, Pray, Listen here

Listen to Mary's Podcast, Pray Every Day with Mary DeMuth

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My latest recommended ways to nourish and move your body, mind and spirit: Nourished Notes Bi-Weekly Newsletter

30+ Non-Gym Ways to Improve Your Health (free download)

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YouTube: @AmyConnell