Life by the Raines Podcast

Dana Suchow is an award-winning speaker and educator devoted to helping parents raise kids who love their bodies. In this episode, Dana opens up about her personal journey with eating disorders and how it sparked her current mission in helping parents and educators raise body confident children. We chat about diet culture and its impact on both children & parents, body confidence, intuitive eating and how parents can help kids develop healthy relationships with nutrition & movement.

This week we chat about our mindsets going into the summer and how we plan to make it the best one yet. We chat about conscious living, keeping self-care a priority even while the kids are home, creating fluid/flexible schedules, simplifying our summer plans, how boredom is the best gift we can give our kids (LOL!), and leaning into the laid back summer vibes while prioritizing staying present, relaxing and soaking up every moment.

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Such a pleasure to have Emily Abbott on this episode! Trav and I chat with Emily about finding her purpose through the shadows, which gave birth to her new journey with Psychedelic Gypsy Fitness. We chat about redefining success, breaking through the overachiever's narrative, becoming better humans by balancing the masculine & feminine energies, Emily's spiritual journey, her unique take on nutrition, movement and spiritual practice, as well as feminine sexuality and pleasure. This episode is absolute FIRE

Trav and I chat about what's really helping us elevate our lives right now. We open up about what's really helping us feel like we are moving past merely surviving to actually thriving in life. We discuss the importance of embracing cycles and seasons of life, how rest is COOL AF, conscious parenting mindsets we've adopted with our children, and how being mindful of the messages we receive is so crucial. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate and review our podcast. We would be forever grateful!

This week, Trav and I chat about protecting your individuality in all seasons of life, especially parenthood.  We talk about how you should approach valuing your own needs, finding the joy in your season of life, how carving out time for yourself is NOT a luxury, and how being the best parents you can be means showing your children that individual time carved out for yourself is a MUST in life.  Please don't forget to subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  We would be forever grateful!

In this episode, Trav and Dani chat about why boundaries are important, why you desperately need them and how to protect them fiercely.   Boundaries are KEY in protecting who we are and becoming who we want and need to be.  So often we people please, we take on too much, we take on the problems of others, or we don't ask for exactly what we need.  When we value ourselves, we are more able to implement boundaries that allow us to elevate ourselves and thrive.

Injuries.  Major life turning points.  Career shifts. A move. Setbacks are inevitable, and make us feel defeated, like we're losing traction, and sometimes have us feeling like a failure.  How do you navigate setbacks without feeling like you're losing all your progress, whether it's in the gym, in your career, in a relationship or in life in general?  In this episode, we share 4 lessons setbacks have taught us in our life, and how we still use these principles TO THIS DAY.

If you're constantly moving from one nutritional program or diet to another, this episode is full of information on breaking the diet cycle.  This week, we chat about what nutrition for life looks like, why it's important to adopt a sustainable nutritional approach, and how easy it is to get caught up in the mix with new, shiny diet fads.  We unpack how we came to look at nutrition for the long haul and how YOU can start changing your mindset about nutrition.

In today's episode, WE GO DEEP.  We open up about deep relationships, why they are so important and how you can start cultivating deeper relationships in your own life.  We share openly what's been successful in our own relationship of 19 years, as well as how we've navigated conflict over the years.  We also discuss vulnerability and connection as the foundation of deep relationships and how trust, honesty, communication, praise and feedback are critical in developing relationships that go deeper.

In this episode, we chat about the importance of body confidence, why it matters and why it's more than just a female issue.  We talk about how body confidence goes deeper than vanity, how it affect our mental health and wellbeing, and why understanding how to support someone with body confidence issues is such an important key in deep relationships.  Have a listen, and don't forget to subscribe, rate and review!