Today I’m talking with personal growth coach (and my friend) Tammy Spiewak.

Tammy and I talk all the time about so much good stuff around food and body image and change and mindset and finally realized we needed to make it public because we both always walk away from our conversations with so much insight and inspiration. 

Here’s what we dive into today:

• Tammy’s journey as a mom, school teacher and yoga teacher to becoming a personal growth coach
• How Tammy and I both walked the path of “your mess becomes your message” 
• How the expectations of motherhood in our society impacts our sense of self 
• The stories we tell ourselves that keep us trapped and stuck
• What true self care looks like (hint: its not about a weekly manicure)
• Why being selfish is a good thing
• A reframe on why you need more boundaries in your life
• Why the work of true change takes way more time than we want it to and ultimately never ends (but that’s not a bad thing!)

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When I was living through years of chronic dieting and disordered eating, I had no idea coaching was a thing. I thought diets (and the occasional nutritionist) were my only options to stop hating my body and feeling out of control around food. 

So I thought it might be helpful to talk about my experience with coaching and the work I do as a coach so that you can feel empowered to make a choice and get the support you need.  

Here’s what I’m talking about today:

• What exactly coaching is and specifically how it helps you create change even after years of chronic dieting
  
  
• The key differences between nutrition coaching and following a diet 
  
  
• Some of the major mindset and behavior challenges coaching addresses
  
  
• How coaching teaches you not just what to eat but HOW to eat
  
  
• Why coaching is the last support you’ll ever need around food and body image

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Today I’m talking with life and wellness coach for female athletes Lisa Hesse. 

Lisa’s approach to coaching is so unique and needed-she helps women find a way to transition their identity as an athlete into a sustainable way of life as a multi dimensional person (but this episode will be relatable for everyone, not just athletes!)

Lisa is a longtime runner and running has been a significant connection point for her across major “life quakes.” But at a certain point she discovered that there was a lot more underlying the exercise itself and sought to understand what being an athlete can do for your confidence, empowerment and well being. 

I love this conversation because I think a lot of people assume female athletes don’t struggle with food or body image-but that couldn’t be further from the truth and Lisa shares so much of her own personal experience and the work she does as a coach to create space for female athletes. 

We talk all about what its like to be a female athlete and not fit the “look” society expects. 

Lisa also shares her recent diagnosis with an autoimmune condition that is impacting her ability to move and how she’s reconciling that with her identity as a runner. 

This episode is packed with so many useful tools if you’re struggling to move and figure out a sustainable way to feel better in your body.

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No question, this is one of the most important episodes of this podcast to date. 

I’ve gained some weight recently. 

And I’m talking all about it. Because we need to be having more conversations like this. 

Why it happened. What I’m doing about it. How I feel about it.

I am getting VERY personal in this conversation. I share what its like to gain weight (even a little bit) as someone with a long history of disordered eating and severe body image issues and how the work I’ve done is allowing me to have a completely different mindset this time.

I talk about why weight gain is so stigmatized and why the WHY behind your eating is the ONLY thing that matters-not the outcome of gain or loss. 

This is maybe the most candid I have been in a solo episode ever-I feel SO passionately about helping women overcome these battles with food because I know first hand how life altering it can be.

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Today I’m talking with Kaleen Canevari, the founder of Flexia which is a  connected fitness company that brings the Pilates studio experience into your home.

Flexia is revolutionary in technology for sure-but even more so in how the brand includes and represents bodies of all sizes. 

I invited Kaleen on to talk because her approach to fitness and Pilates is so fresh and inspiring-her background in engineering led her to design a Reformer that actually meets the needs of many different types of bodies-including the ones not usually represented in the Pilates world.

Kaleen recognized a huge gap in Pilates because reformers are designed for one body and one body only-average height and narrow, smaller sized bodies. So right off the bat, anyone who doesn’t fit the “look” is excluded and alienated. 

We have a phenomenal conversation around body image, how to create more inclusivity in fitness and why exercise doesn’t have to be just about how you look. 

This is the future of fitness-inclusivity, accessibility, connection, support.

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Today I’m talking about the idea of mental energy. 

What do I mean by that? I mean things like: 

How often do you think about food during the day?

How much stress do you have around what and when you’re eating? 

Do you get anxious when you have a dinner out with friends or your family decides they want pizza last minute? 

That’s what this is all about. Beginning to become aware around how much of your mental energy is going towards food and the implication of that on the rest of your life. 

Especially when you’re trying to lose weight, which most of us seem to be perpetually doing. 

I talk through why this matters for your well being and how you can decide where to invest your mental energy.

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So excited for today’s guest because its the first time I’ve had a therapist on the podcast.

Robyn Krugman is an LCSW working mostly women in their 30s-50s. We both believe so strongly in the mind/body connection as a way to access and deal with our struggles around emotions, anxiety, food, body image-it was a great fit to have her on The Movement Diaries. 

Here are just some of the topics we get into, sharing our own personal stories alongside ways you can begin to make changes: 

• How our disconnect from our bodies plays a huge role in dealing with our emotional and mental struggles. 
  
  
• How Robyn helps people begin to identify how emotion is showing up in their physical body.
  
  
• The importance of language in helping people begin to notice and understand what’s happening in their own body
  
  
• What it means to take up space and how can learn to give ourselves permission to do that
  
  
• The way we use external rules to control our behavior and why that’s often a big problem
  
  
• How you can start to live more authentically as yourself instead of as the beliefs and thoughts we tell ourselves
  
  
• Where our thoughts around good and bad foods originates from
  
  
• Why knowing what it means to love and care for yourself is at the foundation of all of this work

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This might be one of the most important episodes to date. I hope its helpful and you take it to heart. 

Today I’m breaking down the myth that your metabolism is broken, damaged or needs to be fixed.

Because the reality is that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Your body has adapted to the choices you have made in order to protect and take care of you.

Spent lots of time dieting and trying to lose weight? Your metabolism is smart and adapts itself. 

This isn’t a bad thing. Its what keeps you ALIVE. 

The sooner we learn and accept that our bodies are on our team, not trying to fight us, the easier life will be. Seriously. 

What do we do about it? 

That’s what I’m talking about today. 

How weight loss happens. How to keep it off for good. Understanding what weight loss is actually about for you. And more.

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Today I’m talking with fitness instructor and dancer Allyson Weiss.

I took a dance class from Allyson a few years ago and it was one I’ll never forget-she now has her own online fitness studio, Space Love Strength, and our approach to movement and self care has a great overlap that I think you’ll really enjoy. 

We have a great conversation around some big ideas like:

✅Effort vs outcome when it comes to fitness, exercise and what you think you want your body to look like. 

✅Wherever you go, there you are: how do you know what are stories you’re telling yourself vs where you can create meaningful change

✅Why exercise needs to be about more than calorie burn and figuring out how to create meaning around movement matters for your health

✅The number one movement you need to be able to do for your well being

✅The idea of space as it relates to not just movement but how you make decisions for yourself

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Today is one of those episodes that I recorded on the fly in a moment of inspiration.

And here’s what its about. 

We tell ourselves a lot of stories about what we believe we can and can’t do.

In working with my business coach I had kind of an “ah ha” moment last week around something I’ve been struggling with that’s been holding me back from where I want to take my business. 

And I said “maybe I just think I can’t do it because I’ve never done it”

Bullseye. Then I realized how many places this shows up, especially when it comes to food.

So today I’m sharing a story about cake. And how for a long time I had written myself off as someone who had no control around food, would binge eat cake and that was just who I was. Until I wasn’t. 

This episode is about how we start to change the beliefs we have about ourselves to create lasting change and why its so important to know that we are not our thoughts, emotions or beliefs-we are human beings who have the capacity to make autonomous choices. 

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