In this episode, I’m joined by Zach Hair for a deeply honest conversation about religious trauma, embodiment, and reclaiming agency through movement.

We explore how high-control belief systems — including purity culture — disconnect people from their bodies, intuition, and sense of self, and how practices like strength training and CrossFit can become pathways back to safety, dignity, and belonging.

This episode is about rebuilding trust in the body, completing stress cycles, and coming home to yourself after harm.

Ever wonder why your body reacts before your mind even catches up? This episode is your fun, no-fluff crash course on the three states of your nervous system — the gas (fight/flight), the brake (shutdown), and the balance (connection).

We’ll unpack what’s actually happening in your body, how to Notice → Name → Navigate your state, and why movement is your body’s first language of regulation.

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Let’s move emotion, not just think it away.

A brief intro to Movement x Mental Health, with Tori Head.

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In this very first episode, I (Tori Head) open the conversation around emotions, the nervous system, and how movement is so much more than fitness. Emotions aren’t just in your head — they live in your body. And when they get stuck, so do we.

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