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Today Amber discusses something that plagues so many women over 40, and that is emotional eating. She breaks down the two most common reasons why women have a hard time staying consistent with their nutrition. The first is that you may have a problem with falling off the wagon time and time again. You can't stay consistent when you get so caught up in staying perfect and adhering to unrealistic rules. This sets you up for failure because diets were never meant for the long term! The second is fixating on nutrition and fitness. This doesn't mean forgetting those things, but doing nothing to change habits, emotions, changing limiting beliefs, etc., won't help you to maintain who you want to become. When there's no foundation to maintain the goals you've reached, and life gets in the way, you fall right back off the wagon again.

Amber focuses on emotional eating and what it looks like and the reasons behind it. Foods can be comforting and can be associated with fond memories. She goes on to explain that there are different levels of emotional eating and some can be ok at times while others can have a major negative impact on the body. More important than the frequency or the amount of eating, ask yourself what the intention is behind the emotional eating?

Amber shares her tips to begin implementing change into your eating habits and get in the right direction. Look at the origin story. Where did this come from? Can I understand it enough to forgive myself? Being aware and forgiving yourself for your mistakes is crucial to progress. Second, discern whether you are emotionally eating or if you are actually hungry. Before reaching for an unhealthy snack, take the "hunger" out of it and eat a healthy snack so you can evaluate your emotions. Lastly, use simple coping mechanisms such as breathing, meditation, friends to call or talk to, playlists of songs that pump you up, etc. Tune in for more on these tips on how to take control of your eating habits!

Key Highlights:

• Emotional eating when you aren't actually hungry
• The importance of finding the intention behind emotional eating
• No diets will work because they don't address the main issue at hand

Episode resources:

• Get the Beauty & Gut Collagen+ by MindBodyGreen by going to this link: MindBodyGreen and using CODE: wellnessrevolution15
• Amber's free intermittent fasting guide: ambershaw.com/fasting

About Amber Shaw

Amber is a Body Transformation Expert, Founder of The Wellness Revolution, motivational speaker, and NBC Health and Wellness Coach. Having built a lifestyle that allowed her to embrace work, children, exercise, and well-balanced eating habits, Amber now works with helping and coaching women to achieve the same level of serenity and empowerment through a sustainable way of living.

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Sleep is KING! As we age and our hormones shift, sleep is something that can suffer. There are lots of quick fixes, but in the long-term, they aren't a sustainable solution. Today's guest, Julien Jagtenberg is sharing some killer and innovative technology that can help improve your sleep through breath. He also brings us tips and tricks to help lead you to better sleep quality.

Drawing inspiration from his own mother's battle with sleep deprivation, Julian wanted to find a natural solution for her. This is how he found the power of breathing to help his mom's sleep quality and many others with their sleep deprivation.

Julian delves into how sleep is the key to health. Many of the health issues we see today are due to lack of sleep and poor sleep quality. We tend to obsess over exercise, weight loss, and many people struggle with mental health and it can all be tied to lack of sleep. However, we can build our health up and use the best medicine to heal our bodies, and that is good quality sleep.

Why do the latest and greatest sleep gadgets not work? Well, that's because restlessness (stress, and anxiety) is the root cause of most sleep issues. Julian read about the effects of holding a baby on your chest and the subconscious mimicking of the breathing pattern of the baby and how it can help calm the nervous system. This is how his concept of the breath being the key component of his development of somnox. Many of the trackers we use at home are not always accurate and just confirm and reinforce our poor sleep quality and this doesn't help. In fact, it can worsen sleep deprivation from more stress and anxiety. These trackers don't help us solve the problem of poor sleep quality!

According to Julian, the better way and the more holistic approach to measure your sleep hygiene is going to be asking yourself how you feel when you wake up in the morning. It's time to look at what we can do to make ourselves feel better with tangible tools. That means making sure to establish a sleep ritual (going into sleep mode), using breath-work exercises, writing thoughts down and getting them on paper before going to sleep. Somnox can assist in the breathwork piece of your sleep ritual and can help you improve your overall health.

Key Highlights

• How Somnox was born from Julian's mother's own sleep deprivation
• Many of the health issues plaguing the US can be caused by poor sleep quality
• The ineffectiveness of sleep trackers and why they don't offer solutions
• Melatonin and the dangers of taking these supplements
• The misleading idea that alcohol can help you go to sleep faster
• Somnox and how it works by utilizing breathwork that can support good sleep

Episode resources:

• Use code AMBER15 for 15% off Magnesium from Cymbiotika: bit.ly/Amber15Cymbiotika
• Amber's Little Black Dress Bootcamp: ambershaw.com/little-black-dress-bootcamp

About Amber Shaw

Amber is a Body Transformation Expert, Founder of The Wellness Revolution, motivational speaker, and NBC Health and Wellness Coach. Having built a lifestyle that allowed her to embrace work, children, exercise, and well-balanced eating habits, Amber now works with helping and coaching women to achieve the same level of serenity and empowerment through a sustainable way of living.

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

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Website: ambershaw.com

Irregular periods, mood changes, anxiety, depression, hot flashes, night sweats, weight fluctuation…sound familiar? These can be the tell-tale symptoms of perimenopause that could indicate a hormonal imbalance in your body. On today's episode, Amber highlights the 4 diet changes you can start to implement now in order to help you restore your body's health and decrease some of these symptoms.These are: Protein, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Fiber, and Calcium. Are you getting enough of each?

Amber breaks down the importance of each of these then takes it a step further to give you ideas, tips, and tricks on how to fit each one into your daily routine and the benefits you will reap, specifically for women who are experiencing perimenopause. Lastly, Amber explains some of the things to limit in your diet that could be causing hormone disruption and exacerbating the symptoms women may be experiencing.

Key Highlights

• Perimenopause and the symptoms to look for

• The importance of getting your body moving, making better health choices like quitting smoking

• The importance of restorative health and movement

• The 4 diet changes and their impact on the body

• What you should be limiting in your diet for optimal health

Use code AMBER15 for 15% off Magnesium from Cymbiotika using this link HERE.

About Amber Shaw

Amber is a Body Transformation Expert, Founder of The Wellness Revolution, motivational speaker, and NBC Health and Wellness Coach. Having built a lifestyle that allowed her to embrace work, children, exercise, and well-balanced eating habits, Amber now works with helping and coaching women to achieve the same level of serenity and empowerment through a sustainable way of living.

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

In this episode, Amber's guest is the first Architectural Designer to be on The Wellness Revolution podcast! James Stanley brings a unique perspective to his clients through his weaving of spirituality and Zen into his work. Amber's discussion with James begins with his childhood and growing up in southern California watching his mother expand her business into an empire. As a child and an adolescent, James was fascinated by many different religions. As he entered his 20s, he helped his mother in her business but felt a longing for many years to connect to a higher power. He moved from California to Miami where he encountered a life-changing moment and began studying Egyptian Kabbalah.

With his degrees in Engineering, as well as Interior and Architectural Design, James left Miami and headed to New York City. He started his design career through an agency in 2000. After working for an event company for five years, James decided to open James Stanley Designs. He connected with his first client through a friend and designed his first project. James believes it was through this first client who let him express himself that led to him building his own business.

James and Amber continue to deep-dive into the meaning of Zen and how to find internal peace and happiness in life. They discuss how to hold on loosely to material things and be aware of that attachment in order to be content with your life's path. Their conversation goes on to connect these principles to creating space in the home for a Zen room or space and how to do this in a practical and budget-friendly way. Amber goes on to discuss with James about meditation and how to connect it to creating a room conducive to that practice. They also delve into the difference between thoughts and meditation and how to grow in deciphering between the two. James and Amber's personal experiences and backgrounds in meditation lead them to talk about some of the obstacles that can come up during the journey into meditation.

Tune in to hear more of James' practical advice on how to create a Zen space that is based on your own unique style and tastes, from music and scents to colors and textures.

Key Highlights

• James discusses his background and how it brought him to begin an architectural design company based on his childhood helping his mother in her business
• Zen and what it means for your home
• Not getting caught up in the distractions in life
• Recognizing a thought for just a thought
• Choosing to feel a certain way
• Meditation and how it is a journey
• Practical tips for creating a Zen space in your own home
• Finding things you love as inspiration for your space
• Specific budget-friendly ideas for items to design your space

Episode Resources:

• Click here to join the FREE 2-day event happening September 12th & 13th: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Check out Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning

Connect with James

Website: jamesstanleyny.com/

Instagram: @jamesstanleyny

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TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

In this episode, Amber shares great tips on how to shift your mindset and finally break up with the scale and not let the 3-digit number dictate how you will feel for the rest of the day. It's really interesting how the number on the scale can impact the emotional estate of those looking for fat loss goals. Suddenly, your weight is no longer data to analyze; it becomes a piece of evidence that you're not working hard enough, right?

What most people don't know, however, is that the number on the scale can be influenced by many and many variables: if you had a good night of sleep, if you had enough water the day before, if you had an intense workout that morning, if you are fasted of had a big meal moments before. All of these factors impact your weight at that specific moment.

So, why do we feel so 'emotionally hijacked' by the scale to the point that it can influence our self-worth and self-image?

For many years the scale has been a symbol for both fat loss and muscle gain goals. But other aspects – non-scale aspects – can also tell if you are succeeding: your clothes fit differently, you're looking different in the mirror, people are noticing changes, etc.

Not to mention the specifics of fat loss vs. weight loss. There's a thing called body recomposition that can help explain why the number on the scale is not going down (you might be changing fat for muscle mass). Tune in to listen to the whole episode and learn how to quit the scale obsession!

Key Highlights

• Why do we let the number on the scale dictate our self-worth? During your fat loss goal, it's more than important to break up with the scale instead of being obsessed about it;
• For many years traditional medicine has been using the scale to provide data (health markers) for patients. The problem is that the scale has no longer become data and is now a tool for self-sabotage;
• Once you let the scale go, start celebrating your non-scale victories (there are many of them), and start dissociating your emotion with it, your life improves;
• Allow yourself to check in with yourself instead of letting an external circumstance (the scale) tell you that;
• Ask yourself: "Why do these numbers are so important to me?"

Episode Resources

• Click here to join the FREE 2-day event on September 12th and 13th
• Get the Beauty & Gut Collagen+ by MindBodyGreen by going to this link: MindBodyGreen and using CODE: wellnessrevolution15

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

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Website: ambershaw.com

Roy Biancalana is a certified relationship coach and expert in the field of attracting love. Host of The Attracting Lasting Love Podcast, today Roy talks about all things relationships, how to have a healthy dynamic with your partner, and how to take responsibility for the things that worked and the things that didn't work during a relationship.

Amber and Roy also discuss the major role that our first 'relationships' have in our adult lives. The way we connected with our mother, father, and all the members of the family, was responsible for shaping our personality and has a huge impact on the way we interact with potential lovers. These personas that we create with time (our personality) are like pieces of a puzzle that are craving a match. Relationships come from this match.

Roy also highlights the law of attraction saying that it only works – we can only attract the kind of love we want – if we drop all the limiting beliefs around love that don't serve us anymore.

Tune in to learn how to make your current relationship free from triggers of past relationships, how to attract the right type of partner, and how to find love even if love is having a hard time finding you.

Key Highlights

• Being responsible for our actions in the relationship is the first step to healing what needs to be healed with the partner;
• Not blaming the other person for everything is also a huge component of making things work out;
• We need to take into account that childhood patterns will have a big influence on the way we deal with love issues as an adult;
• Lessons and feelings from childhood impact our actions and behaviors today;
• Every couple's dynamics are different and how they will influence the relationship also happen in different ways;
• Our personas are like pieces of a puzzle that need to find their match;
• Law of attraction can work for you but only if you do the work: being yourself and dropping all of the limiting beliefs;
• It's important to be aware of potential triggers from former relationships that can come to the surface and impact your current relationship.

Episode Resources

• Click here to join the FREE 2-day event on September 12th and 13th
• Cymbiotika discount code, use code AMBER15 at this link here!

Connect with Roy

Facebook: Roy Biancalana

Website: coachingwithroy.com

Podcast: brookescheller.com/podcast

Book: Relationship Bootcamp by Roy Biancalana

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Yes! As human beings living in the chaotic modern society we live in, it's pretty common to suffer from mild anxiety. The symptoms vary from individual to individual but feelings of unease, difficulty relaxing, and excessive worrying are the baseline. Morning anxiety, however, can make the rest of the day unbearable so that's why it's important to pay special attention to it.

In this episode, Amber talks about which tools have been helping her with her morning anxiety and which of these tools you can implement into your routine to combat your anxiety.

It's important to be aware of how the body feels and give it what it needs, so all of these tips are adaptable. It's also fundamental to understand a little deeper how anxiety is directly correlated to hormones. Cortisol, which is the stress hormone, plays a huge role in this.

Amber's tips will help you cope with morning anxiety and handle daily stress better, but each person should know what strategies fit best in their lives. Tune in to learn more!

Key Highlights

• As we age, it's important to have tools to recognize what's going on with ourselves, and eventually, give the body what it needs;
• Cortisol is the stress hormone and melatonin can be considered the opposite of cortisol. Hormonal levels play a huge role in how the body is responding to daily situations;
• The night before is especially important to cope with morning anxiety. Settling down two hours before bed, reducing caffeine intake for the afternoon, and avoiding superficial light – like the one on your smartphone – are just a few of the measures you can take to have a better night of sleep.

Episode Resources

• Click here to join the FREE 2-day event on September 12th and 13th
• Get the Beauty & Gut Collagen+ by MindBodyGreen by going to this link: MindBodyGreen and using CODE: wellnessrevolution15

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

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Website: ambershaw.com

Dr. Brooke Scheller is a Doctor of Clinical Nutrition, Certified Nutrition Specialist, and expert in nutrition for alcohol use by impacting gut and brain health. In this episode, she talks about how alcohol impacts the gut, our nutrition habits, and even the brain.

Alcohol consumption is such an individualized topic and is different for everybody. However, it's fundamental to be conscious of the impacts alcohol use – for short or long periods – can cause on the body. Every organism is unique but alcohol has the power of influencing all of the other systems in the body.

Sometimes alcohol needs to be eliminated for the good of all the other body functions, but most people don't know this. Vitamin and nutrient deficiency is also a victim of consuming too much alcohol, which in parallel can cause mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. Dr. Brooke also explains the connection between alcohol consumption and gut health.

In your case, what triggers the act of drinking alcohol? It's important to be aware of all the moments – parties, dinners at the end of the week, moments of stress and anxiety – that might trigger the drinking. In addition, Dr. Brooke explains that nutrition habits can help with decreasing alcohol consumption. Tune in!

Key Highlights

• How do we change the relationship with alcohol? It's important to be aware of all the moments throughout the week that triggers alcohol intake;
• With age, our body responds differently to alcohol. As young adults, we can get away with drinking for long hours on a Saturday night, but as we age this shifts;
• Alcohol is deeply connected with food intake: sometimes bad nutrition can cause an increase in drinking habits;
• Sometimes alcohol needs to be eliminated for the good of all the other body functions. It impacts blood sugar and gut health;
• Brooke explains that gut health plays a role in all systems of the body;
• Drinking can cause vitamins and nutrients deficiencies;
• Brooke shares some good practices when it comes to nutrition, highlighting that intermittent fasting is a tool but listening to the body is crucial.

Episode Resources

• Click here to join the FREE 2-day event on September 12th and 13th
• Check out the podcast Chasing Health with Chase Smith

Connect with Dr. Brooke

Instagram: @drbrookescheller

Website: brookescheller.com

Podcast: brookescheller.com/podcast

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In this episode, Amber talks about how to deal with and handle different types of grief. Whether it's a relationship breakup, a divorce, or a death in the family, the grieving process can hit us hard. Our body does not differentiate pain so every trauma despite being different from one another, has similar effects on our behavior.

It's also interesting to make a parallel between all these types of grief and the sense of loss we get from each one of them because we are indeed losing something (or someone) in our lives. There will be part of your life you will feel is missing, and that's ok. One of the most important things we can do for ourselves is to allow ourselves to go through the process – as a way of healing.

The only way is through.

To help you handle these difficult times, Amber shares a few tools that will help ease your mind. Acknowledging and accepting grief are the main steps, Amber says, and it's also important to remember that as time goes by, we all learn how to handle grief more easily. Tune in!

Key Highlights

• We can feel grief in many ways and from many situations. When we talk about breakups, some abandonment issues can come to the surface as well;
• Our body doesn't differentiate pain; different traumas can cause similar reactions in the body and similar feelings of sadness;
• It's normal to go through the grieving process as a way of healing. We need to allow ourselves to go through this process in our own time;
• As time goes by you respond to trauma with more grace;
• Amber shares a few tools that might help you deal with grief;
• One of the easiest ways to handle grief is coming up with a mantra. One of Amber's favorites is that "we are exactly where we are supposed to be".

Episode Resources

• Click here to join the FREE 2-day event on September 12th and 13th: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Get the Beauty & Gut Collagen+ by MindBodyGreen by going to this link: MindBodyGreen and using CODE: wellnessrevolution15

Connect with Amber

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Website: ambershaw.com

In this episode, Amber interviews Ryan Haddon. Ryan is a Life and Spiritual Coach who is a master at helping people change their subconscious for good. Today, they talk about a variety of topics that are fundamental to understanding how our mind works and why the way we talk to ourselves matters.

Ryan explains that the foundation of her work is passing the knowledge she acquired throughout the years to other women, helping and assisting them, creating a 'golden chain'. So many women outsource their worth to their physical appearance and sometimes they end up forgetting that internal beauty is more essential than the external.

In addition, Ryan shares the importance of asking ourselves the question: 'How am I today?' and making an effort to feel good. Sometimes our thoughts indeed trick us into thinking something's wrong, but that's just the subconscious, Ryan explains. And to change the subconscious (it's hard but it's doable) we need to focus on some practices like meditation and affirmations to create that change day by day.

Amber and Ryan also talk about aging, some of the most important health hacks to feel good – and look good –, and what it means to have a 'self-care' moment. Tune in!

Key Highlights

• Ryan is an advocate of embodying self-love. Sharing a little bit about her background, she felt the need to love herself no matter what, even when all the tools she had failed her;
• Passing the knowledge to other women is one of the core values of Ryan's work;
• The concept of integrity is different for everyone;
• Sometimes, for some of us, the inner voices in our heads pop up to make us believe something is wrong. What's the solution? Don't listen to them;
• Ryan explains that getting to know our higher self can happen in many ways. These inner guides are multiple and can help us at any given moment;
• Our thoughts are not always true, they come from the subconscious mind. That's why it's important to respond to some situations instead of reacting;
• Affirmation practices should start with a theme; creating a phrasing that connects with you it's the first step.

Episode Resources

• Amber's Little Black Dress Bootcamp: com/little-black-dress-bootcamp

Connect with Ryan

Instagram: @ryan.haddon

Website: ryanhaddon.com

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