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Elaine K. Howley is an avid marathon and ice swimmer who has completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming (solo swims across the English Channel and Catalina Channel and a solo circumnavigation of Manhattan Island). She was the first person to swim the 32.3-mile length of Lake Pend Oreille in Northern Idaho and the third person to complete the Triple Crown of Monster Swims (solo lengthwise crossings of Lake Memphremagog in Vermont and Canada; Lake Tahoe in California and Nevada; and Loch Ness in Scotland). She’s also an award-winning freelance journalist and editor based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Help raise funds to support cancer research and clinical trials for Swim Across America.
On September 9, 2021, Olympian Elizabeth Beisel (with the help of her incredible support staff) will attempt to be the first woman to swim the 20km (12.4 mile) route from Pt. Judith, RI to Block Island, RI. Elizabeth will adhere to Marathon Swimmers Federation rules throughout the entirety of her swim. The swim will be nonstop and unassisted. Elaine is helping to coordinate this epic swim.

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• What I learned from watching the Bachelorette (don’t judge!) with my dad and my daughters
• How acting like a detective helped me identify the root of some of body image issues- and how it can help you, too
• A simple, effective tool that can help you let go of the thoughts or beliefs that don’t serve you 

For full details visit: https://pam-moore.com/2021/08/17/how-to-heal-your-relationship-with-your-body-food-and-exercise/

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Your Body Is An Asset for Moving Beyond Anxiety and Chronic Stress and into Embodied Success.

As a Body Muse and Movement Alchemist, Ashley helps high-performing women move beyond an anxious mind and armored body so they can align with their next level of fulfillment. Using a holistic approach inside the Vital Body Method, she teaches you how to activate your body’s natural healing state for growth and expansion by feeling, processing and understanding the energy being expressed through your body using somatic movement, breath and play.

She believes that when you let the kid in you win, you will trust yourself, love yourself and guide yourself to your next level effortlessly- moving from stuck to free in your body and life.

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Claim your Free Gift from Ashley: https://ashleydepaulis.ck.page/freegift
Website: https://ashleydepaulis.ck.page/vitalbody
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashley.depaulis/
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/innerathlete/

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For FULL show notes, visit: https://pam-moore.com/2021/08/10/ashley-depaulis-how-to-cope-with-trauma/

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At the age of 36 Vicki Hunter wasn’t guaranteed she’d survive the injuries she’d sustained in a major car accident, let alone whether she’d ever run again. 14 weeks pregnant with her first child at the time, she’d shattered nearly all the bones on her right side, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury, a collapsed lung, a punctured liver, and no promise she’d fully recover. Now 60, not only has she fully recovered, she’s just as strong of a runner - and even stronger a person than ever .

Having qualified for the Olympic Marathon trials in 1988, she applied everything she knew about marathon training to her rehab. Today she continues to compete in all kinds of running races, from 5k’s to 50k’s, and is currently gearing up for the Boston Marathon. 

Retired from teaching Political Science at the University of Colorado, she’s now focusing on coaching. A certified level II Foundation Training Instructor and a Lydiard certified running coach, Vicki is committed to helping people of all ages maximize their ability to move well. 

She’s also completing a memoir; as it turns out the writing process has a lot in common with endurance sports, which we get into in this episode. 

Connect with Vicki

• Website: https://vforcepro.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twelvehouramnesia/

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For full show notes visit: https://pam-moore.com/2021/08/03/how-to-acheive-big-goals/

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Erica Sara is the definition of tenacity. After going through a divorce in her 20’s she left her lucrative position at Coach to pursue a degree in nutrition and started designing and creating jewelry at the kitchen table of her NYC apartment. 

Today she’s the owner of Erica Sara Designs, featuring beautiful, timeless, customizable jewelry that’s graced the pages of publications including Runner’s World, Women’s Running. Glamour, and Better Homes and Gardens, just to name a few. And if you haven’t seen her work there, chances are, if you following women’s running, you’ve seen it on many of the pros, including Alysia Montaño, Colleen Quigley, among others. 

In this episode she shares the twists and turns she took on her path to pursing a dream she’d been carrying since childhood; Erica discovered her passion for jewelry design at just 10 years old, using scraps of leather to craft fabulous leather pins, earrings, and hairpieces for her family and friends. (This was the 80’s!). 

When she’s not creating jewelry, Erica spends her time running, cooking, and hanging with her husband Robert and their two kids.

Connect with Erica
Website: www.ericasara.com
Instagram: @ericasara
Twitter: @ericasara

For full episode details visit: https://pam-moore.com/2021/07/27/12-erica-sara-how-to-pursue-your-passion/

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We talked about… 

• Being picked last for every team as a kid, growing up as a dancer and later becoming a runner
• How rowing laid the groundwork for becoming a runner
• How running became part of Erica’s mental health toolkit
• Her path from the NYC corporate fashion world to starting her own business 
• How watching the NYC Marathon finish line changed her life 
• How the NYC running community embraced her with open arms after her divorce
• How she (probably illegally) converted her NYC apartment into an art studio 
• How she went from working at her dining room table to designing personalized jewelry for elite runners
• Why she’s such a saver- and how her good financial habits have allowed her the freedom to pursue a dream
• All four of her grandparents survive the Holocaust; how her family history has affected the trajectory of her life 
• Advice to other people who are contemplating a mid-life career shift
• Why she keeps her social media presence as genuine as possible
• How she ended up marrying a man who wasn’t her “type” - and advice for all the single ladies. 
• Taking maternity leave as a small business owner
• How to set work-life boundaries as a self-employed, work at home mom
• On her creative process as a jewelry designer 

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In 2014, ten days after my second daughter was born, I was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy; the right side of my face became paralyzed and never fully recovered. At the time all I wanted was for my face to go back to normal. Actually, for years, I was obsessed with my facial asymmetry. As we approach the fourth anniversary of the publication of an essay I wrote about the experience, I have more perspective about the experience and what it means—and I have my older daughter to thank for it.

For full details visit: https://pam-moore.com/2021/07/20/how-to-get-over-bells-palsy/

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Resources/Stuff I mentioned in the episode

• Twelve Truths About My Life With Bell’s Palsy (Longreads)
• Ten-Minute Tuesday: Instead of asking “What if I fail?” try this question instead
• Ten-Minute Tuesday: Got Impostor Syndrome? Pretend it’s your bat mitzvah
• Catherine Apicella, pelvic floor physical therapist: “Why not me?”
• Brie Doyle, retreat leader, author, and meditation and yoga teacher: “Silence has so much for us.”
• Alison Rothman, body-centered holistic health coach: How to access strength from within 
• Mother’s Day Bonus episode re: mom rage
• My interview with Kristin Duffy for The Second Chapter Podcast
• My interview with Jamie Gold on the Clubhouse Wellness Wednesdays series on do’s and don’t’s for creating a home workout space that works
• Jamie Gold, couch potato turned athlete: Risk being uncomfortable
• How that essay got me featured in People magazine
• My interview with People
• Reading the essay at The Book Bar as one of the Colorado Author's League's finalists for the best essay of 2018 (which I later won! 

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Alison Rothman MA CYT, is a Body-Centered, Holistic Coach utilizing her extensive studies, experience, and first-hand knowledge of the capacity within the human body and spirit to heal. Alison provides clients with the ability to access their inner resources and release debilitating life patterns in order to reclaim their body, mind, heart, and soul connection.  In addition to her one-on-one work, she facilitates retreats and groups, writes, speaks, and is the host of the podcast "Embodied and Awake". She lives in Boulder, CO. with her 12-year old son. 

Connect with Alison
Instagram:  @embody_life
Podcast:  https://www.embodymylife.com/podcast (and is on about 20 different platforms)
Website:  www.embodymylife.com
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/EmbodyLifeHolisticWellness 

The next round of The Acceptance Circle begins in September 2021!
The Acceptance Circle is an ongoing, transformational group and individual coaching program which includes holistic wellness practices, gentle yoga, movement, meditation, mindfulness, and an all inclusive sharing circle.
For details visit: https://www.embodymylife.com/acceptance-circle

There are still a few spots left in Alison's women's retreat, Unwind to Awaken in Molina, CO, August 6th-9th 2021
For details visit: https://www.embodymylife.com/retreat/unwind-to-awaken

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In this episode we talked about...

• How growing up as a dancer and later diving into yoga and meditation set her up to becoming a holistic body-centered coach
• The “eccentric” thing Alison’s third grade teacher did and how it - and her experiences as a competitive dancer- planted the seeds for some of her body image issues she’d later develop - including what she calls a “raging eating disorder.” 
• Self-destructive behaviors that emerged in high school
• On getting holistic treatment for her ED as well as depression and anxiety in her 20’s (and why it helped in ways that talk therapy never did).
• Questions to ask if a facility when vetting  an inpatient ED treatment 
• On becoming a single mom
• Advocating for her son who has special needs
• On coming home to see her house was on fire - and how she survived the experience without trauma 
• How her meditation practice helped her through a near death experience with a Mexican drug cartel 
• The power of writing, prayer, meditation, and gentle movement as tools for coping with trauma 
• Dealing with the trauma of childhood sexual abuse 
• Meditation isn’t supposed to be fun; it’s practice for coping with life’s challenges 
• How to cope when you feel fat 

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https://pam-moore.com/2021/07/13/11-alison-rothman-how-to-meditate/

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Brie Doyle is the founder of She Glows Retreats, LLC, hosting transformational retreats throughout the US, and internationally.  She is also the author of the forthcoming book: You Should Leave Now: Going on Retreat to Find Your Way Back to Yourself (July 2021).  

She helps people heal their past, uncover their gifts, and create their extraordinary futures. 

Doyle specializes in curating mental and emotional wellness curriculum for groups, conscious companies, schools and individuals.  

A yoga and meditation teacher for over 20 years, Doyle has worked with everyone from middle school students in Harlem, housewives in Nepal, executives at Google, to athletes on Division 1 campus.  Doyle is also an award-winning fiction writer. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and 3 kids.

Connect with Brie
Website: www.briedoyle.com
Instagram: @WellBeingByBrie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellbeingbybrie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/she-glows-retreats 

We talked about…

• Playing baseball on a boys team as a kid 
• How she got into track and field 
• How masculine and feminine energy show up differently in sports 
• What does it mean to embrace your masculine vs feminine energy?
• What Brie’s movement practice looks like 
• The workout Brie wants to try
• How to figure out what you truly want
• The power of spending time alone 
• What’s the difference between a vacation and a retreat? 
• The nine elements of a retreat 
• What it means to connect with spirituality 
• What led Brie to leave organized religion (Catholicism and Buddhism)

AND so much more!!!

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Links/Resources 

How to be a badass mom (Brie's 2016 Listen to Your Mother Show essay)

S-factor dance 

The Artists Way by Julia Cameron 

A Fine Balance - Indian mystery 

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle 

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

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Catherine is a mother of 2 active boys, and a pelvic floor physical therapist.  She has been an athlete all her life, and has combined her passion for fitness with her training in yoga, the Feldenkrais Method, barefoot rehabilitation, and corrective exercise to empower women at all ages and stages of life to regain awareness of the ways their bodies function, especially during exercise.  She recently launched both her own for-profit concierge physical therapy business AND a nonprofit, whose mission is to provide health and wellness services to women in at-risk groups at little to no cost.  

Connect with Catherine
Website: www.breathe-blossom.com
Facebook:  Catherine Repak Apicella
IG:  @breathe__blossom
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-apicella-a0907b2/

In this episode, we talked about… 

• Her journey from feeling uncomfortable in her body to feeling like she’d come home to her body
• What it means to Catherine to be embodied 
• Closet eating while growing up in a restricted household as a people pleaser
• On being a pleaser
• On never feeling like she met the beauty standard ideal 
• How becoming a mother changed her approach to body image
• How to become more embodied in 60 seconds 
• Hiring a business coach
• The power of time blocking 
• How to cope with impostor syndrome
• What is pelvic floor therapy?

AND so much more!!!

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