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I gain so much joy from fostering relationships with my clients and teaching them how to re-connect with their bodies through movement. I am a business owner, a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), and a personal trainer. In addition to training I also co-host the podcast: Gal Pals, as well as hosting the Liveng Proof Podcast for 4+ years.

I work with clients to help them gain acceptance of their body, and provide tools to connect and move their body in a sustainable and joy-filled way. You can read more about my training philosophy here.

If you’re like me, and you prefer to listen, you can check out these podcast episodes to learn more about my training philosophy & values: 

– Wellness Without Obsession: A Non-Weight Loss Approach to Training

– Non-Diet Personal Training: Trainer Consulting

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I graduated from the University of New Hampshire, which is where I earned my B.S. in Biology.  I became an NASM certified personal trainer in 2013, which is when I also started my own business Liveng Proof, LLC. I’ve worked as a trainer ever since. I am now a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS). 

I have worked with many clients over the years who have a history of an eating disorder, exercise addiction, or just a rocky relationship with exercise/ their bodies. I love working with clients and watching them deepen their relationship to their body and restore their relationship with movement.

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There’s a lot of pressure on personal trainers to deliver a service to clients that want to lose weight or change their bodies. As I began my own path to recovery from diet culture, I struggled to offer my services in good conscience to my personal training clients. What the industry seemed to want, went against my inner values of trying to promote and educate clients on the practice of intuitive movement, intuitive eating, and body respect. 

As I made this transition, one thing became clear: I wanted my clients to feel empowered. I wanted them to walk away with tools they could access to feel more connected to their body. 

My training approach began to shift away from weight loss and an appearance-based focus, towards educating my clients on things like their anatomy, biomechanics, and respiration. My goal was to increase things like their proprioceptive awareness and decrease things like self-demonizing their body’s appearance. My training began to center more on optimizing their movement & increasing their overall sense of well being. I no longer wanted to support any practices that reinforced weight loss, diets, or appearances.

Perhaps you’re like me, and you’re a trainer with a history of an eating disorder and exercise addiction. You want to promote wellness without obsession to your clients. You want to coach in a way that honors your values. And you feel overwhelmed by the industry’s deeply rooted diet-culture values, which heavily promote things like weight loss and body transformations. 

My consultations are for anyone who wants to become a personal trainer without contributing to diet culture. It’s also for pre-existing trainers that want to learn how to work with clients in a way that aligns with intuitive eating based principles & a wellness without obsession approach. If you’re done with supporting diet culture messages of weight loss, dieting, and body shame, to yourself and your clients, this offer is for you.

I’d love to work with you to help you train in a way that speaks to your inner values and serves your clients beyond the standards of diet culture. These days personal training is so bogged down with weight loss, body transformations, and drastic before and afters. If these ideals don’t resonate with you it can be challenging to “make it” in the industry. 

This program is for anyone who wants to be a trainer that honors intuitive eating based principles, body respect, and wants to help reinvent the personal training narrative.

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Chelsea Connors is a Certified Life Coach, Therapist and speaker using a holistic approach to mental and emotional well-being. She supports her clients in navigating the anxiety and stress that is often overwhelming in the “real world” so that they can feel more grounded, intentional and joyful in life. She’s on a mission to change the conversation around emotional well-being and to normalize the ups and downs that happen just by being human.

RECS MENTIONED IN THE INTRO:
@ohhappydani
@isabelfoxenduke
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Fearing The Black Body by Sabrina Strings

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www.chelseaconnors.com 
IG: @chelseaconnors_
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IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:

• Where she found a sense of belonging growing up
• The importance of spending time where you feel invited
• The challenges of being a multi-passionate /multi-interest person 
• Not knowing what you want to do & switching her major a handful of times
• The pivotal moment that lead to her journey to becoming a therapist who has her own practice
• Her experience with therapy on-and-off throughout her life
• She craved therapy because it felt like the conversations she was missing in her day to day life
• Her experience losing a close friend in a car accident just after graduating college
• Her experience with grieving & what she learned
• Everyone’s grieving process looks different
• She shares a variety of experiences with navigating grief
• Grief is not linear
• We can experience grief both when we lose someone or if things change
• How “should’s” are detrimental to our ability to process
• Practical advice on how we can navigate a situation when we are feeling the SHOULDS
• A large gap is missing in our education – we don’t have the tools to navigate and process our emotions, comparison, finances, and the constant race of wanting more
• Not having the tools to handle stress
• “It’s true that all human beings experience some suffering, that being said you do not exist solely to suffer. You and your life are meant for so much more”
• acceptance vs. settling (complacency)
• She speaks to this idea of: “if I settle for what is, then how will I grow?”
• The feeling of wanting a template to arrive at success (typically to earn the approval of others)
• Toxic Positivity
• Our minds can feel scared if we have a negative thought we feel doomed
• Staying true to ourselves in different facets of life (ie. relationships, career, movement, finances, etc).
• The long term effects of compartmentalizing ourselves and invalidating them by “muting” parts of ourselves
• Her advice on how to infuse the practice of creativity back into your lif, to help relieve stress, & connect to yourself 
• “Just because I don’t know the answers, doesn’t mean it has to be hard”
• Change is part of being yourself

While you’re here!! Helpful links for you to help #BlackLivesMatter movement. Remember, this is a marathon not a sprint – so do what you can every day to be conscious in your efforts to help. 

To help educate yourself – documentary “13th” on netflix really opened my eyes to some things that I just did not know and I’d highly  recommend giving it a watch!

Petitions to sign!! – https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#p…

The Bail Project: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/…

Where to donate: https://nymag.com/strategist/article/…

How to support Black Lives Matter without money: https://www.allure.com/story/how-to-s…

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It’s always my hope that even if you have a different story that you can hear parts of yourself in the conversations had here, and that you can walk away with tools on how to navigate the not-often-spoken about topics that may be holding you back from living in the present. My mission is to offer you tools, insights and stories to help you on your journey. 

But one of those journey’s I have neglected to address – which now seems glaringly obvious – is that of racism.

I overlooked this experience most likely because of my privilege as a white person. I am waking up to my role as the “good white liberal”. No one wants to be thought of as racist, but by not speaking up about this topic – is in fact condoning it. So by not speaking about systemic racism I was playing a role in contributing to it. 

Here are some resources you may want to look into:

Books:

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor 

Shows, Movies, & Documentaries :

#blackAF (Netflix)
13th (Netflix)
When They See Us (Netflix)
Dear White People (Netflix)
12 Years A Slave
Greenbook

Podcasts:

Balance Black Girl Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/balanced-black-girl/id1438982040 

Body Trauma: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/body-trauma-a-storytelling-podcast/id1510247972

2 Dope Queens: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-dope-queens/id1097193327

Pod Save The People: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod-save-the-people/id1230148653

@balancedles
@balancedblackgirlpod
@thefriendIneverwanted
@bodytraumapod

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In this weeks Liveng Proof Podcast episode I’m share a recent episode I recorded on my second podcast: Gal Pals. This was a very special conversation that invited me to dig deep and reflect on myself. It brought up a lot of interesting stories as you will see.

What kind of birthday dessert do you like?

So your sun sign is a ______ do you relate to the typical characteristics of this sun sign?

What’s your type:

Myers Briggs: 

Enneagram: 

4 Tendencies: 

If you had to change careers to something totally different and your education was paid for what would you train to do?

What is something that most people assume about you that isn’t true?

When do you feel the most like the most confident badass version of YOU?

What is one item of clothing that makes you feel YOU?

What is something you’ve recently discovered or re-discovered that you really like?

What is a part of your daily routine that you are loving right now?

I know you feel a deep connection with trees which is so beautiful- tell me about how that’s unfolded for you?

What are some lessons you’ve learned from trees?

What is a favorite birthday memory?

What’s one of the best gifts you’ve ever received?

What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?

Biggest lesson you learned from __ ?

What is something you’ve gotten better at this year?

What is something you still want to work on?

Imagine the best version of YOU – you’re doing all your self-care, you’re feeling good, you’re wise AF – what words of wisdom would you have for us?

If you could sit down with 10 year old self and tell her about your life now what would you be excited to tell her?

What are you most excited about this year?

What’s bringing you joy lately?

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GEORGIE

Instagram: @georgiemorley

The Chasing Joy Podcast

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Madison Morrigan is a 4x international award winning life coach, speaker, and creator of Awaken Her Soul, a 14 week mentorship program designed to help womxn embody their worth, power and fullness. Centered on self-responsibility and full expression, Madison coaches ambitious and creative womxn to shed layers of old programming keeping them small and finally come home to their true selves. Madison has her degree in interpersonal communication with an emphasis in psychology from Missouri State University, has a certificate in conflict resolution and legal mediation, and is proudly Certified BYCA Coach. This conversation started rolling from the moment I hit record. I decided to just roll with a less “official” starting point and I kind of like the comfortability of it. 

How she chose her name (Morrigan is the celtic goddess of war, death, and rebirth)

Divorcing her husband & recent coming out experience as queer

The resistance that she feels when she feels oblisgated to inform people of her sexualtiy 

Wrestingling with not wanting exploiting herself for other people’s understanding, but also share authentically

Social media can make us feel like “we” are the product, it can hinder us to really see one another as people

“When we treat ourselves like a product, people stop seeing us as a person”

How do you know what is sacred (aka not to be shared publicly)?

Is social media, trauma bonding?

She shares about her childhood, growing up with an alcoholic parent who she was enmeshed with

Her experience with spirituality & religion

Her coping mechanism of overidentification with high performance /work addiction

Understanding our coping mechanisms/ trauma responses served us at one point but may no longer (once we feel ready to heal)

Healing her relationship with high performance & owning her voice

Upleveling ourselves into things that scare us

Getting comfortable experiencing life as a participant/student/peer, accepting instead of being the leader and space holder

The vulnerability of being seen in my power around other women, in person

Realizing the self work, only works when we’re showing up eventually in relationship

There’s information in our patterns (Am I usually the leader? Am I usually the space holder? Do I do things to avoid being the object of attention?)

We are not our pain and/or trauma. We are not our coping mechanisms. We are not our beliefs or our stories.

Target analogy: Outside ring: our person, our personality, the stories we tell ourselves (the self we become to accommodate the world). Middle ring: True Essence (who you’re actually here to be, outside of what culture/ or your trauma tells you to me). Inner ring: True Divine self  (we are all connected and made of the same thing)

Why authenticity is not simply disclosure

Processing forgiveness: I don’t have to be punish, resent, withhold, or be angry with someone to feel justified in my feelings

Coming to terms with that you “I will never get what I needed” and learning to protect and honor your inner child

Learning to honor & feel our anger and grief

Unlearning self-abandonment

Embracing forgiveness and allowing (allowing yourself to feel your feelings)

Forgiveness in the ability to soften around something

She speaks to the idea of both/and

Pendulate the ability to fluctuate between two places in your body

The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) Test

Irene Lyon

Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

Instagram: @madisonmorrigan
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/madisonmorrigan
Website: madisonmorrigan.com
Email: [email protected] 
Mastermind Class: Rising Sovereign

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In this episode I’m chatting with Tamara Braendle Onofre – a holistic health coach & personal trainer. Tamara is an advocate for a balanced lifestyle, health at every size, and eating disorder recovery. In this episode Tamara shares her experiences with recovery from an eating disorder, exercise addiction, chronic pain, and the loss of her mother.

Friendly disclaimer: there may be topics in this episode that you personally find triggering, and that is okay! Should this happen, please do whatever it is that you need, to take care of yourself. Lastly, there are certain foods mentioned as well as disordered eating and exercise behaviors described in this episode. Tamara also mentions specific exercise duration. 

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Instagram: @tamara_fit27
Website: thefitmuffin.com

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IN THIS EPISODE:

Her experience with a traumatic hip surgery and cast as an infant and the effects this had later in her life

Mother also underwent her first battle with cervical cancer at this same time (1.5 years old)

Moved to the United States from Switzerland (10 y.o.)

Developed anorexia (over exercise / under eating) (11 y.o.)

Hospitalized for the first time and was forced to enter treatment (13 y.o.)

Obsessive exercise – exercise addiction began to bloom to compensate for eating more (15 y.o)

Developed hypothyroidism, induced by her undereating 

Started bingeing and purging every night (17 y.o)

How her Mom helped her to stop purging altogether

Started abusing prescription drugs to lose weight (college)

How a break up catapulted her recovery

Due to excessive running, her pelvic bone collapsed and she almost lost her leg. Around this time her mother was also diagnosed with cancer for the second time.

Her experience having a major reconstructive surgery which forced her to stop exercise completely.

Permission to not work out – that we ALL have permission to not workout at anytime.

Her grieving process after losing her Mom shortly after her wedding

Eating disorder recovery as an accelerated course in self development and discovery

Learning to not let your struggles define you

PODCAST EPISODES MENTIONED:

Episode 100 Anorexia Recovery, Reframing Why We Exercise, & Breaking Away From Diet Culture with Claire Purnell 

Episode 45.5 episode What’s My Story with Engrid Latina 

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Evie O’Conner is a trauma-informed yoga teacher and therapist in training. She is currently completing a Masters in the Clinical Mental Health program in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology. Her offerings focus on awareness, allowance and integration of all layers of self: physical, mental, emotional, energetic, spiritual, societal, cultural and ancestral.  Evie teaches yoga classes, leads women’s groups and circles, offers 1:1 inner-child healing sessions, teaches Intuitive Eating and this year, is very excited to be taking on clients in her therapy practice. Evie believes deeply in each individual’s capacity for self-healing and views healing as a lifelong, non-linear journey. Her aspiration is to hold space for her clients to reconnect to the healer within themselves and the medicines of the natural world. 

Website: www.evieyoga.com 
Instagram: @eviemarie.oconner

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IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:

Her natural curiosity & desire to learn as a child

Our humanness is the doorway to the spiritual.

What’s come up for her during this global uncertainty

Informed consent in how we heal

The western approach of the medical model. What this model excludes. 

She offers an alternative inclusive approach to the medical model – for those who have not found resolution with the medical model – one that offers the patient agency and sovereignty in their healing journey.

How seductive it can feel to use ways to escape reality 

The non-linear journey of healing 

She shares about her own struggle with an eating disorder from ages 10-19

Having gratitude for our coping mechanisms

Learning to sit with our own pain rather than obsessing about the symptom. 

Learning how the symptom (obsessive thoughts about food + body, or depression, anxiety, etc.) is an indicator of something that needs our attention.

Working with diagnoses in mental health: when are they helpful? When are they harmful? Who do they serve? Who do they disempower?

How a mental health diagnosis can feel like a trap to some and empowering to others. 

Everyone is the master and expert of their own experience 

The power differential that can occur between a therapist and client (therapeutic aggression). 

How we can lean more towards a client centered approach where co-creation is the foundation of the relationship.

The anti-psychiatry movement

The history of diagnoses in mental health

Psychiatry is a modern day witch hunt

The history of the DSM

How have mental health diagnoses created a broader cultural implication of pathologizing the human experience? 

Archetypes: pathologizing the neurotic expression vs. the wisdom expression

What are the causes of mental illness? 

Are there some causes that don’t get validated as much as others? 

At the end of the day- what matters most is how each individual/client works with diagnoses and if they experience it as helpful or harmful. 

Dr. Kelly Brogan 

Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays

Silvia Federici 

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Jill Zimmerman, DPT utilizes a movement based approach she unravels the layers of poor posture, dysfunctional breathing patterns, stress, and body mechanics to discover the underlying cause of aches and pains. The birth of her child sparked a special interest in pelvic floor function and diastasis recti and has been incredibly influential in her everyday work.  

Currently Jill offers online consultations where she helps people find the root cause of hard to solve struggles with their body. She is also available to consult with trainers, therapists, yoga instructors or other wellness professionals who want to learn more about my methodology or need advice in helping a client or patient of their own.

CONNECT WITH JILL
Instagram: @jillzimmermanpt
Phone: 843-509-2577 
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://perfectlyfitcharleston.com/

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IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:

What is diastasis recti?

What are common considerations people could take into account regarding healing/correcting their diastasis?

How you can test yourself for diastasis recti

The emphasis for creating alignment & how we organize pressure

The body takes the path of least resistance

The pelvic floor function (also leaking, prolapse)

The three diaphragms in the body (glotis, respiratory, and pelvic floor)

Compensation tension patterns people have to deal w/ the physical demands of life

When belly breathing isn’t necessarily the ideal breathing strategy

What is normal “at-rest” breathing?

 Why “pull your belly button in towards your spine” isn’t an effective coaching cue

Muscle guarding and abdominal gripping (and GI issues / gut inflammation/ED disorders) – recruiting more muscle tension than is necessary for the task at hand

The importance of fully exhaling (to avoid stacked breath)

Jill’s traumatic birth story

Tension shifting theory

VIDEO MENTIONED:

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Bri (she/her) is a mental health and lgbtq+ advocate who goes by Little Wandering Soul online. She is originally from NJ, but has called Boston, MA her home for the past 8 years. Bri started Little Wandering Soul on Instagram in January 2019 when she was going through a hard time. Her relationship was deteriorating and she was just back to work after being on a leave of absence for her mental health struggles. As she struggled to find passion in her work, love life and within myself she took to Instagram as a way to express herself.

She started to write transparently and authentically about what was going on in her life. About her struggles with depression, anxiety, coming out and her life-long journey of learning to love herself.

As time went on and she wrote more about my experiences, people began reaching out and sharing their stories. Bri began feeling like she wasn’t alone anymore – she felt encouraged, valued and like she had purpose.

It’s been less than a year and she is so grateful for this platform that has given her opportunity, connection, confidence and most importantly, a way to give back to her community. 

She makes sure to leave everyone with this message as they find her page: While every story is different, know you are never alone in your struggle.

IN THIS EPISODE:

Growing up with a surrogate younger sister

Navigating her parents divorce when she was 12, after her Dad came out as gay

How she processed her Dad’s sexual orientation

Her experience coming out as a gay woman

She shares how her eating disorder developed and evolved

Looking for coping strategies when we don’t feel like we have the tools to handle

 The shame cycle (binge/restrict cycle)

Her experience with embracing her cystic acne 

Normalizing imperfect skin

Intentionally placing yourself in environments that serve you

The healthy coping strategies she’s cultivated over the years

Her process of looking for a therapist

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

Armchair Expert Ep. with Whitney Cummings

CONNECT WITH BRI
Instagram: @littlewanderingsoul

Twitter: @wanderingbri

YouTube: Little Wandering Soul

Facebook: @littlewanderingsoul 

Tumblr: little wandering soul

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Haley Jakobson is a writer of plays, poetry, and creative non-fiction. When she isn’t scribbling on the subway, Haley acts as the Artistic Director and co-founder of Brunch Theatre Company, an inclusive platform for emerging theatre artists to join the conversation. Brunch Theatre’s newest show, Donuts and Holes, is all about revolutionizing sex education as we know it. In her writing Haley explores mental health and wellness, sex and trauma, queerness, and bodies. A poet in the millennial era, Haley reaches an audience of 13k readers on her instagram, @haleyjakobson. She self-published her first book of poetry, Write Like Prayers, in 2017. Haley lives in Brooklyn and is a gemini.

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IN THIS EPISODE: 

Her experience as a survivor of sexual assault

Reminders for survivors → Sharing your truth has NOT always felt good → REVERTIGO

When we have trauma the fear that can come from opening pandora’s box —

I will feel a lot of things I don’t want to feet

What if it never goes away or gets better?

“Though words hold feelings, they don’t feel feelings – bodies do that”

“People aren’t going to like us and that fact should never ever, ever be more important than trusting ourselves…I’d rather trust myself than like myself”

Her healing process 

Yoga and how it helped her her feel safe in your body again

Keeping it casual — in this culture int can feel impossible to be intentional with our romantic partners

Sex seems so easy and effortless on TV and in movies — the inadaquacy we can feel when that isn’t our experience

Her story of coming out  & misogyny withdrawl 

How her partner supports her

CONNECT WITH HALEY:
IG: @haleyjakobson
website: haleyjakobson.com

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