People will love you, and people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you.

The creepy mirrored funhouse that is judgement is a world that’s worth your attention. If you are someone who is constantly judging the way others are dressing, speaking, behaving, or otherwise living, chances are pretty good that you’re also being just as critical with yourself.

This episode is about how we can heal our relationships to ourselves, and be more happy, compassionate and at peace — not only with ourselves and our bodies — but with the world at large, through examining our judgements.

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6 | Why Your Words Matter

14 | Cut the Crap, Face Your Fears + Love Your Life with Lauren Zander

Maybe It's You

Edit: “You aren’t afraid of the thing you think you’re afraid of, you’re afraid of what the fear is asking you to look at” is a quote from Shelli Varela. I forgot to give her credit for that line.

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Living an authentic life, facing up to your internal dialogue and bad habits, failure, dreaming big(ger), and so much more: this interview with Lauren Handel Zander has allthethings.

Her book, Maybe It’s You, instantly became one of my all time faves, and her no BS style is sure to inspire you to investigate the ways in which you might be getting in your own way of living the life of your dreams.

Some of my favorite lines from this interview:

“If you have no tolerance for failure, you don’t get to win”

“The minute you say ‘I’m not changing this’, you actually get that you could”

“We need to break into our own mainframe”

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A workout. A competition. A presentation. Any time we’re put the the test, why are we SO quick to point out the 37 ways in which we could have done better? Why do we immediately list all the ways in which we were disadvantaged, or that our competition had some distinct advantage that we didn’t have?

Why is unapologetically delivering 100% effort so damn hard for us to do?

With the Open in full swing, this is an especially important time to consider these questions, and more importantly, make an honest effort to rewire this tendency.

This episode is about how owning our vulnerability and being unapologetically proud of our efforts will make us better athletes, businesswomen, partners, friends, and overall happier people.

Read my CROSSFIT OPEN MANIFESTO for more mindset tips.

Adapted from this original blog post.

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Is there anything that the average American woman fears more than the bathroom scale? This tiny little piece of plastic has the power to make us feel happy, devastated, confident or ashamed, and even when we don’t want to be swayed by it, we are.

Beyond the scale impacting our mood, one of the biggest fallacies about the number flashing back at us is that it is a reflection of our HEALTH. And just isn’t that simple.

We need to stop conflating thinness or leanness with health, because the truth is, health comes in every size, shape and form.

This episode has 10 alternate ways for you to consider your health to help you drop the obsession with the scale and focus on the things that actually matter.

EXTRA READING:

Instead of Chasing a Goal Weight, Try This

The Scale [from the She Thrives archives]

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The Open is here this week! Are you already freaked out about having your whole gym watch you try to get one double under or one muscle up for 12 minutes straight?

Not exactly sure how to eat to perform? Curious how you can get the edge? Terrified of coming in dead last?

Let’s chat.

This episode is ALL about how to make the next 5 weeks of CrossFit both your most competitive and your most FUN.

How to eat, how to train, best recovery tips, and of course, how to master your mindset to ditch Comparisonitis and use nerves to your advantage so you can crush each WOD and feel proud of your effort.

Best of luck to you all, my the WODs be every in your favor!

LINKS:

YES, You Should Sign Up for The Open

Performance and Recovery Tips for The CrossFit Open

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