Today we welcome Rachel. Rachel Brooks is a Natural Bikini Competitor, Fitness & Lifestyle Coach, Writer, and Self-Love Advocate. She is the founder of I am Athletics, a line of athletic apparel and accessories with an important message: Let go of your limiting beliefs and redefine who you are. Create your own Story. After a lifetime of living in extremes, from body dysmorphia to eating disorders, to self-esteem issues, she has overcome her struggles by creating a balanced health and fitness lifestyle of mind, body, and soul. Through experiences of her own, she wants to give back and inspire, encourage and empower others to embrace life with passion and purpose. She specializes in helping professional women become their best selves through the practice of creating a positive mindset and a soul filled with self-love, self-acceptance, gratitude, and forgiveness. She helps cut through the health and fitness overwhelm (or noise) with flexible dieting and customized strength training routines so they can create a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. She is in the final stages of writing her fitness memoir for publishing this year. To learn more about Rachel you can visit her website www.Iamrachelbrooks.com

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Today we welcome Abby to our podcast. Abby Lewtas is an Adventurer, Life coach, Speaker and Host of the Wanderlusters Mind podcast. Abby’s entire outlook on life changed when she ditched her successful sporting and professional career to travel and live abroad, returning three and a half years later to a world which she couldn't relate. Abby has now found a way to live and breathe adventure into every day.

Abby works as a life coach with travelers and wanderlusters who return home and find it hard to create harmony back in their ‘reality’. She lives life to its full potential through her adventures, passions and curiosity. Inspiring others to do the same by challenging their status quo and getting creative with their path forward.

Reach us at www.acceptingtherapy.com or at 312-373-0782

This week, we have a special guest, Lucy Cellucci. Lucy is a Canadian author who has spent the last few years of her life examining the roles that women fill in western civilization, and questioning the crisis of the depleted spirit that many women wrestle with during their middle years. She is reaching out to women everywhere with her book, Loom, which will be published in the summer of 2019 in an attempt to connect with her readers, lay out her truth, and encourage women to make the space that is necessary for their own journeys of personal growth. Check out more information on www.acceptingtherapy.com

This week, Grace & Sarah dive deep into providing some alternative ways to cope with ADD/ADHD symptoms. Stay tuned for some practical ways to cope with ADD/ADHD symptoms.

On this week's episode Grace & Sarah tackle some ideas related to what perfectionism is really all about. Perfectionism is a great topic to discuss with your therapist. If you'd like to learn more about perfectionism, check out our blog posts on www.acceptingtherapy.com on identifying perfectionistic tendencies as well as 5 tips on overcoming perfectionist tendencies.

This week we have a special guest, Vicky. Vicky Ayala is a brand strategist and visual storyteller who helps multi-passionate entrepreneurs identify their signature hook and monetize their bankable skills. She integrates mysticism with the entrepreneurial journey as a way to make the road to success fun, inspiring, and engaging. She creates products to help women navigate self-mastery as way to differentiate themselves in the online space. It is through this work that she’s also able to manage her own experiences with depression and anxiety.

Welcome to this week's episode on how to spot the red flags of domestic violence. Join Grace & Sarah as they discuss different patterns of behavior that may be apparent in an abusive relationship. They also touch on how subtle these signs can be within a relationship & demonstrate it through applying it to a fictional case.

Today we have a special guest, Vanessa Grace. Vanessa Grace is a licensed social worker who has a private practice as a mental health therapist, and has an online business helping women kick co-dependency to the curb through a webinar series. Other titles include wife, cat owner, minister, tarot card reader, transformation specialist and epic party thrower. Her fashion role model is Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds and if a movie is ever made about her life, she wants Melissa McCarthy to play her. Vanessa is warm and calming while at the same time creates laughter and a positive feeling.

Resources:

soulamplified.org              

Webinar called: The Vibrant Business Blueprint  Program is called the People Pleaser Recovery Roadmap

enlightenedbosslady.com  intuition quiz

facebook.com/groups/enlightenedbosslady (or they can get to it through the quiz link)

Facing codependency book:http://www.piamellody.com/books.html

Brene brown website https://brenebrown.com/

This week, we bring in a special guest to talk about the myths related to eating disorders. Sheana Tobey is a staff therapist at The Awakening Center, located in Lakeview Chicago.  She works with adult individuals who are struggling with eating disorders, trauma histories, and anxiety.  She is also a co-leader of the yoga informed psychotherapy group at The Awakening Center.  For more information, please visit her website www.sheanatobey.com.

Oops! We forgot to post this last week! Join Grace & Sarah as they discuss what generalized anxiety disorder is as well as common ways to treat it. Stay tuned towards the end for our weekly self-care challenge!