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The Mind Body Academy Podcast will help you get healthy from the inside out. Sarah Rose takes the struggle and confusion out of losing weight and getting mentally and physically healthy. You'll learn how to develop a healthier mindset, eating habits, and lifestyle. The way she sees it, a happy body begins with a healthy mind. Tune in weekly so you can stop worrying what the scale says and start carrying out your purpose on a bigger scale. Happy and healthy begins as a state of mind.
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Your lovability is not determined by other people's capacity to love you. It's determined by your ability to love. Tune into this week's episode to find out how you can experience more love.
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To gluten or not to gluten? That's the question everyone is asking about these days. In this episode, I clear up whether the gluten-free label that seems to get slapped on just about everything these days is another diet fad or something we truly ought to be mindful of so that we can enjoy better health.
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Do you have too much to do and too little time to do it in? In this episode, I share my process for overcoming overwhelm and producing instead of procrastinating without all the pressure.
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Emotional health isn't a size, shape, or number. It isn't something you can measure on a scale. It's the invisible strength you show up with when faced with the pressures, stresses, and challenges that come your way. Most of people take this strength for granted. They expect it be there without having to put in the reps like they do at the gym. They don't incorporate emotional fitness into their lives and because of this they end up carrying the weight of their emotions around with them. So much of the focus in the field of mental health is on treating mental health. In this episode, you'll learn how you can create and condition your emotional health and release the mental weight that's been holding you back in life.
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If you're thinking that going sugar-free means munching on a bunch of lettuce and celery sticks, think again! When we're fixated on what we're taking out of our diets, we often forget to properly plan for what we'll be adding in. That's because most people cutback with the mindset that they HAVE TO do it, instead of making it something fun and desirable they actually WANT TO do. And even when they want to, people can't seem to. Why is that? In this episode, you'll learn the essentials of overcoming sugar addiction. You'll discover it has very little to do with willpower and everything to with biochemistry. You'll also listen to me talk about my health scare that lead me to care and why you should to.
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Lots of people gage their health based on how much they weigh. They tend to assume that someone who is skinny is in better health than someone who is overweight or obese. They also think that they can eat whatever they want if it doesn't make them gain weight. This is 100% wrong. In this episode, you'll learn about "diabesity" and "skinny fat syndrome" - either of which might be affecting you or someone you care about. Listen in level up your understanding of what it truly means to be "healthy".
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I know what it feels like to live with anxiety while trying to juggle the demands of life and simultaneously trying to dodge curve balls out of left field. Like say... a global pandemic. If you feel like you're dropping some balls, I've got you covered in this episode. Listen in to find out how you can unwind your anxious mind.
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On this episode of The Mind Body Academy podcast, you'll learn exactly why you self-sabotage and what you can do about it. Take control of your life and achieve even the highest of ambitions by applying what you learn in this episode.
PS. Oh hey! It's episode 50. Celebrate with me by sending an episode of the podcast to a friend and telling them why it made you think of them. Cheers to 50 more and many many more!
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In this episode, you'll learn to set and keep your New Years resolution to lose weight. A lot of us get a little... shall we say... "overenthusiastic" when it comes to setting new goals for the year ahead. We want it all. I'll teach you how to reel it in so you can actually get it done.
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Most of us are so preoccupied with what's IN our food that we forget all about what's being put ON our food. I used to shrug and think that, whatever it is, it can't be that bad for us. Yep, I've eaten more unwashed fruits and veggies than I care to admit. I've also looked at organic and non-organic produce and thought to myself that the biggest difference was probably the price. I couldn't have been more wrong.
In the context of the pandemic, we need to be asking ourselves why we are so vulnerable right now. What we’re living through with the pandemic of COVID-19 is the intersection of the pandemic of the virus with the pandemic of chronic disease and obesity. In this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast, we explore the impact of chemical farming and environmental stress on our immune systems. You'll also learn about glyphosate, one of the most harmful toxins on your food that you've probably never heard of.
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Worried about gaining weight over the holidays? In this episode of The Mind Body Academy podcast, I'll give you the tools to navigate the holidays and enjoy all the foods you love without worrying about weight gain.
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If you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight. WRONG! The vast majority of conventional nutritionists and doctors have it mostly wrong when it comes to weight loss. The biggest misconception is that it's just a question of "calories in, calories out". In this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast, you'll find out exactly why calories don't matter and you'll discover what does.
If after listening to this episode, you’re inspired to detox to end your sugar addiction and eliminate your carb cravings, be sure to reboot your health by joining the next Genius Body Transformation Challenge that kicks off on January 1st.
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If you've ever tried to weigh your worth on a scale, this episode is for you. In this episode, I'll unpack the concept of "self-worth" without any fluff or frills. I'll give you a boots-on-the-ground approach to improving your own opinion of yourself that will allow you to become more like the best of yourself—in mind, body, and everything else.
Oh, and this episode marks the one year anniversary of the podcast! Mind blown. Thank you for being the most awesome part of what makes this podcast awesome!
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Did you know you have a second brain? Your gut is known as your second brain. The health of your gut is at the root of your physical and mental health. If you want to lose weight the smarter way, you need to get your gut health in check. Find out how on this week's episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
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Creating motivation is one of the most important skills you can learn when you want to lose weight. It's the difference between losing weight and struggling to lose weight. This is not something we are typically taught. People tend to think that they either have motivation or they've lost it. Find out what nobody is telling you about motivation in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast. This episode will give you a nudge of motivation and then it will be like riding a bike. You'll have to practice, but once you get the hang of creating it for yourself you'll never forget how to do it... even if you get a little rusty.
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Complaining doesn't solve problems. The problem is it FEELS productive so we do it and then we overdo it without realizing it. Complaining gets in the way of taking action and creating results. The solution? Doing a Complaint Detox. Tune into this week's episode to find how to get complaining out of your system so you can start thinking constructively instead!
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Loneliness is about not being able to be around other people, right? Wrong! In this episode, find out what causes loneliness and what you can do about it. Being alone doesn't have to mean you are alone. Listen in to find out what you can do to feel connected when you feel lonely.
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Are you going through a hard time? This episode will help you get through it.
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Most of us have no idea how to communicate with ourselves without judgement, blame, frustration, or justification. We talk ourselves in and out of things, go back and forth on decisions, and have trouble following through on the things we say we’re going to do. When that inner dialogue is full of conflict and criticism, it gets in the way of the relationship we have with ourselves and, by extension, the relationship we have to everything else in our lives. When we improve the way we speak to ourselves, the way we experience life improves. When it’s you against you, you’re always going to walk away from that fight the loser. Learn how to get yourself on your own side in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
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I am beyond excited to share with you what I have been working on.
What has come together in a matter of weeks was years and years in the making.
Everyday, I wake up and go to bed thinking about how I can make weight loss easier and coaching more accessible to you.
I hold nothing back and give you all my secrets in my podcast and now in my NEW book. All before you ever sign-up for one of my seminars or to work with me one-on-one in Think Yourself Slim.
If weight loss has been hard, I want you to know that there is a better way.
A way that will make your life easier.
A way that is driven by internal changes rather than an external plan.
A way that is progressive and sustainable instead of being all-or-nothing.
A way that allow you to get to know what your body needs instead of telling you what your body should look like.
A way that will empower you instead of restrict you.
A way that will get you a better life, not just a better body.
A way to actually GET. IT. DONE.
In my book, The Genius Body, I will tell you how.
This could be the start of the best chapters in your life.
Don't wait to turn the first page. Listen to the audio of the intro to the book in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast. And stay tuned for a very special announcement at the end of the episode!
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When we are in physical or emotional pain, there is our pain and then there is the pain that we are in pain. Through this mindfulness practice you will learn to soften around your pain. The point is not to get rid of your pain, but to understand it, open to it, and release some of its intensity.
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The biggest thing between you and the changes you want to make isn't...
your body
your boyfriend
or your bank account.
If you aren't feeling blown away by your life
and you thought things would be different by now,
that's because of YOUR BRAIN.
You can't use the force of your own mind against itself to change.
When it’s you against you,
you’re not coming away from that fight a winner.
In fact, you'll just end up feeling like you're losing it.
This is why no matter how badly you want to change
or how hard you work at it,
you keep ending up back in the same place you started:
feeling unhappy and like something is missing
...again
...and again
...and again.
The solution to creating more of the results you really want is to align your mind with the actions you want to be taking.
In this episode, you will learn how to use a tool called "The Model" to take charge of your happiness first.
Then create the life you've ALWAYS wanted and a body you REALLY love.
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Your commitment towards your goals seems to come and go. You’ve started over on Monday 100 times. Deep down you know you have what it takes. What can you do to follow through when you just don't feel like it? Listen in to this episode to find out how to create the kind of unconditional commitment that actually creates results.
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Why is it so hard to eat only one cookie or just a handful of chips?
What makes it so hard to stop eating when you feel possessed to eat more?
If you want to know the answers to these questions, tune into this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
You’ll also learn...
How to ditch the diet rules for a tool called Bright Lines
Why willpower never works when you’re trying to eat better
And how to restrict your food without feeling restricted
Don’t wait to checkout this episode! I’ll walk you through exactly what works to actually stick to the way you want to be eating.
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The number one reason most people think they haven’t achieved their goals yet is...
... You guessed it! Not enough willpower.
The problem is...
Willpower does NOT work.
Willpower is LIMITED.
Let’s be honest, your willpower was gone the moment you rolled over in bed and checked your phone first thing in the morning.
It used to drive me crazy that I seemed to be taking so much more action than a lot of the people who actually had the result I was after.
Now I know that it’s because they weren’t using willpower.
They are using something else.
I will tell you what that something else is.
If you want to eliminate the need for willpower AND get better results, this episode of The Mind Body Academy will be a game changer.
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There is a way to outwit your cravings without feeling miserable and deprived.
A way that doesn’t require more willpower or self-discipline.
A way that can help you manage your weight to a T without putting everything you eat under a microscope.
If you have a hard time crushing your cravings...
There is a smarter way.
If you want to know how, this episode is too important to skip over.
Check out this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast and I will show you exactly how to decrease and even eliminate your cravings.
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When I was a kid, my parents sent me off to a shrink after their divorce.
In our first session, he told me I was “angry”.
And then I got angry that he thought I was angry.
Ever prove someone right by trying to prove them wrong?
This happens all the time when we try to control other people’s opinions of us.
People will have all kinds of opinions about you.
They will think they know you better than you know yourself.
They will think they know what’s in your best interest.
No matter what you do to control their opinion or change yourself so that they like you more,
There's always going to be THAT person who feels insulted by your existence just because.
Nothing you can do about that.
You don't know why people like you or why they don't like you.
When you try to control other people's opinions of you, what ends up happening is that you don't even end up showing up as yourself.
Listen to this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast to find out how to take control of your own opinion.
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It's hard to get shit done when you feel like a bag of poop.
Like lose the weight.
Or build your business.
Or make enough money to fill up a swimming pool.
In this episode, I will teach you how to flush out your craptastic thinking so you can start feeling better and get back to focusing on what REALLY matters.
Life isn't always rainbows and daisies.
It isn't supposed to be.
So when you stop feeling like crap about feeling like crap, you'll feel a lot less...
Well... shitty.
Listen in to this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast to find out how to stop feeling like shit.
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Wouldn’t it be nice to be happy all the time? Wrong!
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that when...
You’re stuck in the feeling of “nothing is changing”
Or spinning out in the feeling of “everything is going wrong”
This fuels an undercurrent of anxiety that something needs to be fixed or improved so that you can finally be happy.
But happiness is not something we arrive at.
There is no better future moment where life magically snaps I to place.
When we think happiness is on the backend of some achievement, we end up building a bridge between where we are and where we want to be that we can’t see the end of.
If you want happiness to be in reach, you need to get good at making yourself happy where you are now.
THEN you can create the life you really want.
That is what you will learn in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
How to take charge of your happiness FIRST.
Then create the life you’ve ALWAYS wanted.
Tune into this episode to find out why trying to make yourself happier is probably making you unhappier and what you can do to change that.
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If you find yourself thinking “I’m so busy” or “I’m doing so much”,
Notice the quality of your doing.
It doesn’t matter how hard you’re working at what you’re doing if that’s not producing results.
Do you know why you haven’t achieved what you want to achieve yet?
You’re too busy thinking that what you’re doing isn’t enough or why what you’re doing won’t work.
You’re not focused on what will work.
Actions don’t create results.
Action backed by the one thing I teach you in this podcast episode does.
Tune into The Mind Body Academy Podcast to find out what you’re missing.
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Let me ask you:
Have you ever taken a hard look at yourself and thought, “I don’t really like what I’m seeing”?
So you try to fix that by trying to lose weight, or working harder, or with a new job, a new guy (or girl), the swipe of a credit card, etc.
And you feel good about yourself for a little while, until you find yourself right back where you started....
Underwhelmed by yourself and feeling like something is missing.
What if I told you there was ONE thing that you could shift to change that.
It has allowed me to become one of the happiest people I know and it was the key to overcoming my struggle with my weight.
My life used to be the opposite of that. I used to struggle with chronic depression and disordered eating and I was in a downward spiral.
There was a point in my life when I thought it would always be that way.
That’s why I want to share the one thing I focused on to turn everything around in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
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In today's episode, I'm covering the first stage of weight loss: mindset mastery. This is where you need to focus if you find yourself wanting to lose the weight, but not fully believing its possible or sabotaging your efforts when you believe you "should" be able to lose the weight but you're not doing it. You'll also learn why it's so important to understand which stage of weight loss you're at and which signs to pay attention to determine which stage you're at.
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Do you know the difference between fixing vs solving your weight loss problem? I always tell my clients: "You can lose the weight and not have solved your problem." Before you start another hopeless diet or try to drag yourself back to the gym, listen in to find out what I mean. Find out what weight loss coaching is and what Think Yourself Slim is all about.
Most of us do not know how to disagree with someone without shutting down or shutting them down and totally disconnecting. This meditation will help you work with emotions like anger in a conversation so that you can depersonalize and diffuse the tension around other people's beliefs, judgements, behaviours, and opinions.
Disagreement can be the beginning of understanding and reconnection. Find out how by listening in and practicing this meditation today.
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Do you find yourself regularly shutting down or wanting to shut people down when they're being difficult? This meditation will help you release some of the hard feelings you have toward them by drawing on your compassion and common humanity.
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Not being able to listen often costs us our peace and, at times, our relationships.
This episode covers how to be in a conversation when what you need to listen to each other about may be charged with intense or difficult emotions.
Listening is a skill and it must be practiced. The episode concludes with a deep listening practice that will support you in re-training your listening attention.
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Over the course of this meditation series called Give Peace a Chance, you will be guided through mindfulness teachings and practices that will help you navigate times of difficulty. You will learn how to create a safe container in which to practice conflict resolution, starting with you.
So many people describe to me how it feels like they are at war with themselves. Learn to make peace in your own two feet, right where you stand.
We begin today with a compassion meditation to begin this self-study journey of becoming a teacher of peace.
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The secret to mindful eating ISN'T cutting out all the foods you love. What we add in is just as important as what we take out and today I will teach you how to include the foods you love AND be making a healthy choice at the same time.
If mindful and health conscious eating FEELS bad, you aren't going to be able to keep it up long-term. There is a better way. Listen in to find out how.
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In this meditation, we're diving into a fresh understanding of the nature of desire and why changing how we think about our desire for food can create so much food freedom. We tend to want to get rid of our desire for food we can't have or rush to satisfy our craving, but I want to suggest a new way to approach this feeling.
It will change the way you think about desire and, if you ask me, it's kind of the secret to everything.
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There will be many times when we want to eat even if we're not hungry. Then what?
In this meditation, you'll learn a technique called Surfing Cravings so you don't have to use willpower to resist the temptation.
When you learn to surf, cravings stop having control over your eating patterns.
Channel your best inner chilled out surfer dude and listen in to find more.
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In this meditation, you will learn a technique called RAIN that will help you digest your emotions so they don't weigh so heavy on you and so that you can release them instead of stuffing them down with food.
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I recommend that you do this meditation 1-2hrs after waking up and before you have anything to eat. It will allow you to get a better read on your true physical hunger.
In this session, you'll learn how to use a tool called the Hunger Scale. The meditation will help you fine tune the tool to your body so you know exactly when your body is telling you it's truly hungry and when it's telling you that you've had enough to eat.
If you learn this one tool and commit to applying it, you will solve your problem with mindless eating.
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In this meditation you will learn about the concept of "Mind Fullness".
Sometimes, our minds are so full that in our unconscious attempt to digest some of what's weighing on us, we eat. We're eating to try to satisfy the mind rather than the body.
In this session, you will learn to "clear the table" in your mind before you sit down to eat at the table so you can sit down at the table with a clear mind and truly nourish yourself from the inside out and the outside in.
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In this meditation, you will learn how to create a "Stable Table" to support a balanced way of eating.
The four pillars you will draw on will be the mental, the emotional, the physical, and the spiritual.
By the end of this session, you will truly understand why it's so hard to eat only when you're hungry and to stop when you're full and what you can do to move yourself toward food freedom.
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If you think exercise is an effective way to lose weight, think again.
My approach might go against the grain of everything you've ever been taught about weight loss, but it's the key to creating a body that FEELS as good as it looks.
Trying to change your body through fitness to change your thoughts about yourself is never going to produce the change you want to see.
Find out how you can start to muscle up your mental and emotional body to create true and lasting physical changes.
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We tend to have A LOT of thoughts about our bodies. We believe that if this or that changed, then we would finally be acceptable to ourselves. We practice rejecting our bodies over and over, hoping that one day that will teach us something about loving them.
Chasing body image perfection is a marathon with no end in sight because there is no finish line up ahead.
The finish line is your body right now, this very second. It's already here.
This practice is designed to help you arrive back in your body. It will support you in neutralizing and relaxing into the body so you can experience it from within your body, instead of from inside your mind.
Discover all you aren't seeing because of what you are seeing by listening to this meditation today.
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This meditation is designed to support you in meeting what is with smile-like acceptance.
With this practice you’ll be playing with the imagery of a smile. Thich Nhat Han calls this "smile yoga" because the image and felt sense of a smile relaxes us and allows us tend and befriend our own inner life, especially when doing so may not prove easy.
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So many of us spend our days up in our heads. When our heads hit the pillow at night, our minds are so restless that we aren't able to give our bodies deep rest.
This practice is a progressive relaxation practice designed to ease you out of your mind and get you back in your body. You will be using the technique of contraction and de-contraction of specific muscles and muscle groups as a sort of self-massage. This will allow you to detoxify and release any backlog of stress that may have accumulated in your tissues over the course of the day as well as the cumulative stress that you have stored over the course of your lifetime.
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The questions we ask ourselves are some of the most powerful tools we can use to create and direct our lives.
Learning to ask high-quality, empowering questions allows us to generate the skill of making everything figureoutable.
The problem is that in a world where you can pop any question into search bar, many of us have stopped coming up with our own answers. This has created a "don't know mind" where we reflexively answer "I don't know" instead of putting our brains to work on coming up with an answer or a better question.
This meditation is designed to teach you how to open a mental search bar so that you’re better able to inquire within and access your own insights and wisdom.
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The acronym RAIN is a powerful tool for working through difficult emotions. It offers a way of interrupting habitual patterns of emotional reactivity and creating new patterns of responsiveness. It is this skill that allows us the emotional agility and flexibility to adapt to challenging circumstances and use them as an opportunities for strength and betterment.
This meditation is inspired by the work and teachings of Tara Brach and Byron Katie.
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How you are feeling right now is the whole reason you are doing or not doing what you actually want to be doing.
How you feel determines everything else in your life.
Your ability to create success for yourself in any area of your life is directly proportionate to your capacity and willingness to experience ANY emotion.
If you want to create a better life for yourself, you need to know how to feel better.
And that is exactly what you’ll learn in this week’s episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
Most of us are used to wanting and accumulating things, accomplishments, and accolades from a place of scarcity. We think of wanting from a place of 'not having'.
Gratitude allows us to practice wanting from a place of abundance. It allows us to practice wanting what we already have.
Happiness isn't about how much you have, but about how much you are able to notice. Use this practice to deepen your appreciation for your life.
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Does it sometimes feel like you're slowly spiralling out of control?
Like you can't tell up from down anymore?
This practice is designed to help stabilize your attention in the body and lift the weightiness of your thoughts off your shoulders.
When sending off a crew into outer-space, Russian astronauts say: Miakoi Posadki. It means “Soft Landings.”
Listen in to this meditation to give yourself a soft landing in the midst of whatever you have going on in your life.
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Self-compassion may seem like a fluffy concept to some, but when we're hard on ourselves when things get hard, it lowers our failure tolerance and costs us the intimacy in our relationships and our capacity to take consistent action toward our dreams.
This meditation practice is inspired by the work of Kristin Neff. It is called a 'self-compassion break.'
If you're struggling or facing a difficult situation, give yourself a much needed self-compassion break by listening in to this meditation.
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Our brains are like super computers. But sometimes they get a little fried from so much thinking, analyzing, strategizing, and processing. We need a way to reboot because everything works better after it's been unplugged, even your brain.
This practice is designed to get you out of your head and back into your body so you can hit reset on your day. Let go of the unnecessary stress and tension of the 'thinking mind' and feel good about where you are right now in your body by listening in.
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The breath is one of the most powerful tools we have to improve our lives.
Athletes use it to push past their edge and perform. You can learn to use it to push past your mental edge to exercise more clarity and focus in your daily pursuits.
Discover this simple equal breathing practice to restore more balance in your life and improve your capacity to pay attention.
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The way we begin our day sets the tone for how we experience the rest of our day.
I like to say that everyday is a good day to have a good day. The best way to start having more good days is to decide at the start of each day that YES today will be a good day.
Good days don't just happen to us. Good days are made by how we show up for them.
Build the skill of creating good days in this first meditation in the The Mind Body Academy Podcast Meditation Toolkit.
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We’re all experiencing more time at home than we’re typically used to.
Full disclosure... I have become bffs with my furniture and I now regularly enjoy casual conversation with my walls.
The world “out there” feels unpredictable and uncertain.
The world inside our homes feels insulated and confining. Not quite like home.
Why is that?
Because right now we’re spending A LOT of time in our minds.
We’re trying to predict how long this will last and what will happen next.
But when we come back to our breath and connect back to our bodies, we touch in to a place of refuge where life supports itself.
Where our breath is breathed and our heart beats without us having to exert any conscious effort.
It’s a beautiful relief to pause and BE.
To NOT have to fix, or change, or do anything.
To feel right at home wherever you stand.
And right now we need people like you to take a stand and stay home.
Home in your home.
And home in your body.
Because we can’t control or clean up the mess this virus is making in the world and in our economies, but we can organize a few messy sock drawers in our minds and feel the comfort and warmth of being at home.
Listen to this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast to find out how to put your emotional home in order so you feel the comfort and safety of being at home in your body.
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You probably DON’T KNOW how to breathe.
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Many of us breathe like we’re fish that are keeping their heads above the water.
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We’re drowning in a world full of air.
Stressed. Anxious. Depressed. Just trying to catch our next breath.
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We rarely (if ever) think to breathe.
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Really breathe.
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Consciously breathe.
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Yet, the breath is this air bridge between where you are and where you want to be.
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It regulates your stress.
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It allows you to discharge the intensity of your emotions and process them through.
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It spaces out your thoughts so you can think clearly.
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It’s a natural performance enhancer.
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It can allow to decrease inflammation in your body so you can speed up healing or support you in becoming healthier.
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And in case the breath’s resume isn’t impressive enough, it’s also what’s keeping you alive.
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Still got no time to take a breather?
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Better think again.
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When you learn to pay attention to your breath and use it as a tool, it’s not only your breath that will improve but your life.
Let your breath blow your mind and help you feel more alive!
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To breathe with ease, take a deep dive into this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
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Stress gets to us.
It can make us feel very out of control.
It can make us feel like we’re losing our mind a little bit (or a lot a bit).
It can make us panic watch the news, spend so much imagining that we might get sick that we feel sick, inhale all the food in the refrigerator, and be too flustered to get any focused work done.
Stress layered on top of our problems is itself a problem.
Stress is infectious.
It’s normal to get stressed, but when we stay stressed we aren’t thinking in solutions and we suppress our best ideas.
In our frenzy to panic-fix what’s going on, what we’re really chasing after is the place where you can finally relax again and enjoy your life.
The success and relief we are all after isn’t about how much you hustle; It’s about how well you can relax.
The good news?
You can learn to relax NOW.
You don’t have to wait for the current situation to change.
Can I get a hallelujah?
Yes, you can not only survive but thrive through the caronapocalyse.
It may feel like the world as you know it is ending, but remember that the world is round so that the place that might feel like the END may also only be the beginning.
In part 1 of this 5 part series on Mindfulness, learn how to stress less with Mindfulness, not so you can get good at meditation but so that you get good at life.
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Will I get sick?
Will someone I love get sick?
Will I lose my business?
Will I be able to afford my living expenses?
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When we’re waiting to see what happens next, we have a stress response before the possible future event has occurred.
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The anticipation is often worse than the event itself.
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It leads us to panic.
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It leads us to freak out at people we love.
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It leads us to fixate on the possible problem and create problems on top of the problems we’re facing now.
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It’s imperative that we engage in PREVENTATIVE MENTAL HEALTHCARE to deal with our pre-traumatic stress so that we know 1000% that we can handle whatever happens next.
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Right now, the world is experiencing a health crisis.
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Right now, people are already ending up in the hospitals from overdoses, over-drinking, attempted suicides, and out of sheer panic.
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Right now, people are losing their health, their jobs, their life savings, and their security.
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We need a way to cope.
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This is exactly what you’ll learn in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
This very first guest episode of the The Mind Body Academy Podcast features the Lion of Olympic Weightlifting. This world record holder and four time world champion is 65 years young and has trained the minds and bodies of the likes of Tim Ferriss and Naval Ravikant.
In our conversation, he shares the secrets to creating not only the body of an elite athlete, but the happy body of an everyday athlete that will last you a lifetime. Happy listening!
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Sometimes our stress makes us consume everything in sight.
Sometimes our stress consumes US and we can't bring ourselves to eat anything at all.
Our bellies and our brains are in cahoots. They work together. When you feel like you're going bonkers, your appetite goes up and down.
Find out what you can do to manage your stress and get your body to cooperate with your desire to lose weight.
You'll learn about a technique called FEAR SETTING that Tim Ferriss came up with so you go from focusing on your stress to focusing on solutions.
If you want to stress less and properly digest to boost your immune system and keep your weight loss on track, you won't want to miss this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
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Eating takes your mind off stress, but it does NOT resolve your stress.
It doesn't make the coronavirus go away.
It doesn't add a couple of decimals to your bank account.
It doesn't bring everything back to normal.
To tell the truth, it doesn't even make us feel better. It usually ends up making us feel worse.
So how do we solve what eating doesn't?
Find out how to stop stress eating on this week's episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
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If you are what you eat, then who are you?
Most people aren't fully conscious of the choices they are making around how they eat and what they eat, but, whether conscious or not, those choices reveal both our biological makeup and our belief systems. When we cultivate a relationship to our food, we nourish the relationship with ourselves.
Listen in to find out exactly how on this week's episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
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Lose weight without ever having to diet again. EVER.
Find out how on this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
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I am going through some of the hardest things I’ve ever had to experience before in my life.
I know most of you would never be able to tell because of all my smiley pictures.
F.Y.I. I really do have a resting smile face. It’s not something I hide behind.
I just remember really struggling one day a long time ago and my brain literally told me: “You can smile or you can struggle. Both are optional.” Struggling with the struggle is rarely what gets us out of the struggle.
In order to remain calm & even keep a smile on your face when you’re facing adversity, you have to be training your brain.
But what does “training your brain” even mean?
Find out in this week’s episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.
My wish for all of you is to be able to have peace in your hearts in moments of crisis just as I do right now. My hope is for you to be able to navigate change with courage when the brain is flooded with fear that drowns out all but that last breath of hope.
I know that it’s possible because I’m living it.
And sure, I coach on weight loss, but above all I want you to know that my commitment is to teaching peace. That is truly how the heaviness gets lifted.
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Do you quit too easily?
I’m not just talking big quits.
I’m talking little quits.
Quits that feel so small that most of you aren’t making them count.
Little quits feel justified. They feel legit.
Like shrugging off skipping the gym after a long day at work.
They seem like no big deal.
So we sweep them under the rug and try not to think about them.
“See,” we tell ourselves, “no mess.”
Except... a hidden mess is still a mess.
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A mess is not a problem if you take responsibility for fixing it. The problem most of us face is just that there’s a whole bunch of mess we don’t want to deal with.
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In episode 13 of the Mind Body Academy Podcast, learn how to change the conversation you have with yourself and clean up your thinking. It’s the key to making your commitment to what you’re going after CONSISTENT.
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You're sitting there. Staring at your screen.
Waiting for motivation to kick in.
You feel tired. There's nothing in your mind that tells you: GET UP! and tackle your massive to-do list. Go get your "peach" to work or workout.
Deep down you know that it would probably bring you closer to your goals.
But you can't.
You're glued to the sofa.
It always seems to be a battle where you either do too little or try to do so much that you end up crashing right back on the couch...
You ask yourself:
Why can't this be easy? How do other people do it so effortlessly?
You decide that even thinking about it makes you feel tired and confused...
Your mind drifts away.
You just lost another hour.
And soon the day is over and you weren't as productive as you wanted to be.
Sound familiar?
Let's talk about how to actually fix this in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast. Discover the mental athletics of the “just do it” mindset.
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Today's episode is all about mastering your cravings. Very often we're taught WHAT to eat or we know WHAT to do, but when it comes time to do it, it's hard to "just do it" because we have the urge to do something else.
You'll learn to become un-phased by your cravings by using a technique called surfing.
On this weeks episode, we get a little hippy-dippy and I lead you through a guided meditation so you can test out the waters for yourself and practice riding out the waves of craving without falling off and giving in or giving up.
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Ok y’all this is the one where I pull off the proverbial robe and reveal. This one is personal.
On this week’s milestone episode of the podcast, I share with you my weight loss journey and it contains none of the things you’re used to hearing in just such a story. What it taught me is what have now become the pillars of my weight loss coaching program, Think Yourself Slim.
Tune in to find out the lessons that quite literally shaped me. They have the power to do the same for you.
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For those of us trying to do it all, knowing just HOW to do it all feels real important.
We want know how to lose weight, how to make more money, how to become famous… It seems everything comes attached with a “how to” attached to it today and a "for dummies" manual.
Yet, most of us attribute our lack of results to not knowing the how. We scratch our heads while looking at those who seem to have it all and wonder: "What am I missing?" “Surely there's some expert, or guru, or spirit guide who holds the answer,” we mumble to ourselves with bated breath. Then with the glimmer of hope and expectation in our eyes, we set forth on the quest to find them. We put down the credit card, we buy the book, we enrol in the course, we drink the Kool-Aid, and down the rabbit hole we go. We try to find something or someone that will fix things for us only to discover that... looking for the how won't help you find it.
So what will?
In this episode, you'll learn how discovering the how for yourself is the difference between quitting and success and the secret to doing anything. At the end of the day, the best guarantee is the one you are willing to give yourself.
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Person tares up to-do list.
The world does not, in fact, combust into a giant heap of ash.
Onlookers flummoxed.
What do you think would happen if you tore up your to-do list? Would it be armageddon? Chaos? Conflict? The end of life as you know it?
I know that you think that throwing away your to-do list would throw your whole life outta whack, but in this week’s episode of the podcast, I’ll teach you how the secret to achieving more isn’t actually doing more; It’s believing that the things you are choosing to do will get you the result you want.
You’ll learn how to create a BELIEF PLAN so you can line all your ducks up in a row without feeling like you're a quack without a paddle.
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Who here has been and been suuuper motivated to go after a new goal, only to wake up one morning a year from then in the same place they started, scratching their head and wondering what the hell happened between now and then?
In this week’s episode of the podcast, I’m going to teach you how to set and achieve your goals so you don’t end up doing the same thing over and over that keeps you ending up in the same place for YEARS. We are going to bust that cycle.
You can be the Olympic hurdler of going after your goals, but the motivation to set a goal alone will not push you past the finish line when you’re trying to make big leaps forward 🏁 Eventually goal fatigue will set in and you’ll give up all together if you don’t have a process to keep going when the going gets hard.
I’m going to teach you how you can fuel yourself forward using a carry-over effect from accumulating wins that cascades like dominos across your entire life. It's a process I developed that is inspired by Tim Ferriss, Brooke Castillo, and Hal Elrod.
I truly believe that the purpose for setting big goals for ourselves is to become the fullest version of ourselves and the only obstacle to your greatness is…
YOU.
Are you ready to tip your first domino?
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Oh hey there, goal-getters! It’s the start of a new year and a new decade so many of you have big plans to become a new you.
When we set big goals, initially we are able to fuel ourselves forward from excitement, but eventually doubt and discouragement creep in and our initial motivation starts to dip.
So how do you develop the skill of taking consistent action towards your goal even when you’re not feeling motivated or when you’re confused about what to do next?
In this episode, I’ll teach you my exact strategy for evaluating your current results so you’ll never not know what to do and you’ll never get stuck or plateau. This process of evaluation will reveal to you exactly why you don’t have the result already. It’s a method I picked up from my business coach Stacey Boehman and it will rock your socks off.
So hold on to your trousers, this episode is going to be a blast. If you want this year to be YOUR YEAR, you won’t want to miss this one.
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Fall in love with meal prepping with the KISS Method.
In this episode, I’ll teach you to spice up your cooking life so you can improve your relationship to food. They say a good cook never tells, but I’m going to share my secret hacks so you can prep your food in a way that will simplify your life.
A lot of what holds people back in the kitchen is the feeling that they don’t have time to cook or that cooking healthy foods is tedious and complicated. The KISS Method is simple, straight-forward, and a huge time saver.
It’s the key to living an optimized life and unlocking your weight loss success.
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Have you ever munched on a piece of lettuce in an attempt to “eat clean” and felt the sudden urge to commiserate with grass-fed animals, practically wondering aloud how the heck people survive on a diet like this?
That might be the tinciest bit dramatic, but most people have tried the odd plan or diet that made them feel like they might go bonkers if they were to try and keep it up.
In this week’s episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast, I’ll teach you the 24-Hour Mind-Full Meal Plan and it ain’t your typical meal plan. No mam!
It’s not all diety and restrictive and it won’t make you lose your mind in an attempt to shrink your waistline.
You'll learn how mindfulness can be applied to food planning and how that will allow you to lean out, lose weight, or optimize your health in a way that actually makes sense.
Losing weight doesn’t have to involve loads of deprivation, calorie counting, or a permanent residence at the gym. There is a way that will have you measuring tons of fun instead of trying to measure your worth on a scale.
The secret? Making DECISIONS AHEAD OF TIME, one day at a time. When you focus on the micro, the macro takes care of itself.
Let me show you.
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Who is the leading expert on weight loss and how can you get their advice working for you... for free... right away?
In this week's episode, you'll find out! And no, this is not some shameless self-promotion ploy. Although, you have to admit that "guru Sarah" has a nice ring to it, especially if you imagine a group of people chanting it to the sound of little bells and cymbals.
But I digress...
Today's episode is all about ditching the fads and fixes and saying an emancipated "heck no!" to the age-old diet mentality like we're a bunch of bra-burning, liberated feminists locking arms in the 60s—except by the end of the episode, you'll be more focused on what you want to BUILD than what you want to BURN.
Discover the expert secrets that will allow you to make changes that will last you a lifetime, instead of changes that only ever seem to last a season.
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So many of us struggle to feel good in our bodies. When we get sick, gain weight, and age, our tendency to distrust and disconnect from our bodies becomes more apparent.
Most people blame their bodies for the way they feel. They think their bodies are the problem. They're in a hurry to fix and change them. They think they'll only be happy once they look like a different version of themselves.
Yet, the body is never our problem. Our problem is always how we are relating to our bodies. Our problem is that we haven't developed the skill of challenging and cherishing our bodies in equal measure.
In this episode, you'll learn how to love your body right away so you can live into a body that feels as good as it looks.
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Have you ever felt like you should be smart enough to figure how to make money, lose weight, or find a better mate, but still been unable to convert what you know into a result? Most people think they’re facing a knowledge gap, but the reason you keep coming up short of what you want isn’t what you think. In this episode, you’ll find out what you need to know about yourself to help you start reaching your goals.