If you are someone who identifies as a woman, I am willing to bet that you've been given advice about having it all and then lived an experience of falling down the stress well, and that's been followed up with a lecture on how you really should be doing more self-care.

Self-care is packaged up as a cure for all and on top of everything else we are doing to 'have it all' like the good empowered modern women of the world, we end up feeling guilty because we aren't doing self care enough... or properly. Clearly... because if we were, then having it all would be blissful, not stressful.

Cue my incoming self-care rant.

Plus I'm gonna reveal something about stress that may save your life... and it isn't that you should avoid it.

Things mentioned in this episode:

Kelly McGonigal Ted Talk

Self-care assessment

KLP Guides and Journeys:

Body Confidence 

Undiet Your Life

Connect with Kickass Life Project on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

5 reasons to exercise... that have nothing to do with body shape or size! Have a listen and let me know what do you think of my picks. Which of these appeals to you the most? What other benefits would you add to this list? 

If you came to the show notes looking for the answers, I'm not giving away the list here lol. If you came to the show notes looking for links to things I mentioned in the episode, here they are :)

KLP Guides and Journeys:

Undiet your Life journey (free)

Fierce AF journey

Connect with Kickass Life Project on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

I wanted to do an episode on heartbreak and fitness and mental wellness because break ups...SUCK! When I get my heart broken, all the empowerment juice blows out of me like blender without a lid. In this episode you'll find 3 ways you might react to an unplanned break up and my top 3 tips for slapping a big ol' bandaid on each of those reactions. And then we'll talk about more serious things like attachment styles and how the way you feel about relationships might be influencing the way you approach your fitness and nutrition needs.

Plus, I announce my incentive for leaving a review for this podcast :)

Connect with Kickass Life Project on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

KLP Guides and Journeys:

Body Confidence Guide (free)

Undiet your Life journey (free)

Fierce AF journey

Date Yourself journey

A Q&A with Dr. Tamzin Morley - naturopathic doctor and all round amazing woman. We talk hormones, weight changes, hot flashes, sleep and so much more.

The first question I asked Dr. Tamzin was, "Why do you think this is such an important topic for women to be discussing and learning about?"

By the end of the interview, we have identified some beautiful reasons that honestly teared me up a little.

Connect with Dr. Tamzin Morley ND

Connect with Kickass Life Project on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

KLP Guides and Journeys:

Body Confidence Guide (free)

Undiet your Life journey (free)

Fierce AF journey

Date Yourself journey

Ever wanted to know more about me, the host of Kickass Life Project, than you actually wanted? lol. I went outside of my comfort zone to spontaneously record this episode without planning. I found an article titles '50 Things Every Woman Needs To Do', and I went through them all to see how many I should put on my bucket list.

Want to see how many of these things you've already done? How many you might want to try? Listen along and keep track for yourself. I would LOVE to hear which ones you disagree with, which ones you have fun stories around, which ones you are committing to getting done soon.

Guides and Journeys mentioned:

Body Confidence Guide (free)

Undiet your Life journey (free)

Fierce AF journey

Date Yourself journey 

Podcast episode mentioned:

You're Still On; Keep Riding

Connect with Kickass Life Project on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

Jenny Eden Berk is an Eating Psychology coach, Culinary Nutritionist and #1 best selling author of the book, The Body Image Blueprint. She helps sensitive and soulful women release chronic stress, restore body confidence, eat consciously and heal their relationship with food. You do not want to miss this fun interview where we discuss the common questions that come up when people start to eat mindfully and intuitively. 

Things like:

Connect with Jenny Eden Berk

www.jennyedenberk.com

Follow Jenny on IG

Follow Jenny on FB

Learn more from Jenny

FREE mindful eating course

Body Image Blueprint book

Podcast episodes mentioned:

Un-Dieting

You're Still On; Keep Riding

Connect with Kickass Life Project on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

Have you ever struggled to get your butt off the couch and exercise? I have!! Yesterday is a prime example. And the day before that. Motivation to workout is hard, even when you know it will feel good afterwards.

I don't actually have the stats but I'd make the wager it's #1 on the list of 'things people procrastinate about'.

Now overcoming procrastination is not my speciality but when it comes to doing procrastination, well I don't want to brag, but I'm a bit of a self taught expert!

So I've got a 6 idea formula I'm going to share today. Do this the next time you are procrastinating and you'll be able to procrastinate even longer. Joking. Let's see if we can make it easier to do the things you're putting off and get to the things you're looking forward to faster.

If you want to avoid procrastination and Get Shit Done

Stuff mentioned in this episode:

Get Shit Done blog and PDF

Connect with me on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

Related podcast episodes

Blog and podcast:

Anxiety and Fitness

ANT's 

Polyvagal Theory

You're Still On; Keep Riding

Podcast Only:

An Emotion Story

Worry Better

"I'm doing all the things - yoga, meditation, journaling - and it's not working; I'm still anxious all the time. What the FUK is wrong with me?!" Probably....nothing!  

Anxiety feels bad, but it is not an emotion; it's a physiological state. And there is a useful purpose to that physiological state. It's a smoke alarm. It's a check engine light flashing at us.

The anxiety might be there for a very good reason.

Trying to coping skills your way around an actual threat is like gaslighting yourself and your system. If coping skills are not working, potentially your brain is doing exactly what it is supposed to do by sounding the alarm

This doesn't mean you have to stay dis-regulated but we need to start by validating.

Validation can be the BEST coping skill. Using phrases like, "This makes sense" or "My feelings make sense."

Listen to this episode for ways to use movement as coping as well and why discharging the anxiety energy isn't enough... we also need to find safety.

(most of this is paraphrased from Britt Frank)

Sources:

Britt Frank

Alex Howard

Stuff mentioned in this episode:

Fitness for Anxiety

Fierce AF (90 day program)

Connect with me on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

Journeys you might want to explore

Undiet your Life (free)

Fierce AF (90 day program)

Depression IS a protective state from an emotional storm. It might feel like you are slightly removed from the storm, watching it from the side lines or from above in disbelief, or maybe the best analogy is like you are in the eye of the storm and have nowhere to go without getting swept away and so you just don't move. Depression is shut down. Depression is conservation.

We're gonna talk about one of the reasons we might try to numb and two thoughts about numbing to help you forgive yourself. 

We're gonna talk about how depression proves your strength and bravery. 

I'm going to give you a mental exercise to prove you might have more control than it currently feels like and I'm going to give you some top tips for starting to exercise from a place of depression... and it usually involves doing LESS. 

Stuff mentioned in this episode:

Emotional First Aid Kit

Fitness for Depression

Fierce AF (90 day program)

Connect with me on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

Journeys you might want to explore

Undiet your Life (free)

Sassy Sexy Strong (free)

Fierce AF (90 day program)

Abortion is not about killing babies, but banning abortion is about killing women. (metaphorically and literally) Think about all the things women will not be doing while they are busy fighting for their reproductive rights? Think about all the things women won't be doing while they are busy raising children they couldn't afford or didn't want. Think about all the things women won't be doing while they are busy protecting themselves from men who will be angry that they are pregnant because it is going to screw up their lives somehow. If dieting is a political sedative for women, reproductive rights are a shock collar. If you control a woman's reproductive rights, you essentially control her life. This is NOT ok. I am going to go so far as to say that in some cases, this is legal murder of women. In some cases, this is a physical invasion, assault, and violation on a female body that is in the same arena as rape. This is NOT ok and I couldn't stay quiet. 

Connect with me on the socials:

Connect with me on IG

Connect with me on FB

Connect with me on TikTok

Journeys you might want to explore

Undiet your Life (free)

Fierce AF (90 day program)