66 - Note to Self: You Are Human | Body Image & Loneliness

This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather sits down with Kelsey Lane Davidson - an expert in finding a balance when it comes to fitness. Kelsey is a strength and conditioning coach that helps you get fit in the chaos that is life. She has a background in university athletics, corporate wellness and helping everyday folks getting fitter. Additionally, Kelsey is a wife, dog mom, multi-passionate entrenpeur, podcaster and actress.

In this episode we talk about health and fitness as it relates to stress, hormones, and the chaos that is live. 

Kelsey gives us some tangible tips on being more intentional when it comes to our relationship with fitness but also that there’s an ebb and flow. 

Kelsey is also the first guest to appear on the Love Your Bodd PATREON! In her exclusive interview we do some myth busting about being in the fitness industry as well as chat about what Kelsey would change if she could (or is actively trying to change!) Make sure to join us on Patreon to hear that! 

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Instagram: @kelseylanefitness
Website: https://kelseylanedavidson.com/
Podcast:  @beunapologeticallyyouradio

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It's Heather's first "Heart to Heart" Episode and this week we are talking about the lack of body diversity in Disney Princesses (and "Strong Disney Heroines"). 

Representation is SO important so listen as Heather discusses her own personal experience projecting "seeing herself" in Princesses that don't accuratley represent her. 

 Here are the resources referenced throughout the episode:

Pocahontas Article
Esmerelda Video
Alex Light’s Instagram Post

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This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather welcomes her good friend and business coach, Megan Yelaney! Heather and Meg have a long history of friendship so the interview flows naturally and hits on so many incredible topics:

• How Megan changed Heather’s life - the ripple effect and how you never know where a connection can lead
• Dishing about what it was like being Beachbody coaches, how it affected us, the rebrand from Beachbody to Bodi
• Making empowered decisions when it comes to food and fitness 
• Replacing one obsession with another whether its “healthy” or not
• Ditching the scale
• Separating yourself from how you look
• Eating for joy!
• Goal setting and feeling unsatisfied when you reach certain goals
• Tools on how to free up mental space by not thinking about food and body 

*CW: weight loss, before/after photos, disordered eating habits, beachbody company*

Connect with Megan:

#PrettyAwkward Entrepreneur Podcast: https://meganyelaney.com/podcast

Instagram: @meganyelaney
Tiktok: @theawkwardentrepreneur

Take Megan’s Unique Coach Approach Quiz: https://meganyelaney.com/quiz

For more info about Megan’s SOSA program (the “calls” Heather and Megan kept referring to in the interview): DM Megan “LOVE YOUR BODD” on Instagram! 

Resource - Atomic Habits by James Clear

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This week on Love Your Bodd we have the wonderful Sabrina Castro! Sabrina was on LYB 5 years but and our philosophies of fitness and life in general have changed so much since then. In this episode, we talk about her lockdown depression and how it completely changed the way she views herself and her career, and how like a phoenix out of the ashes, she has opened up her own Pilates studio in Manhattan with size inclusive philosophies!

CONTENT WARNING: We discuss depression, weight loss, and weight gain in this episode. 

Connect with Sabrina on instagram: @sabrinathefitnesswitch
Pilates Coven Instagram: @pilatescoven
Pilates Coven Website

Sabrina’s List of size inclusive Fitness Professionals who helped her with her journey:
@bodypositivefitness_
@powerpluswellness
@fatbodypilates
@bodyposibarre
@get2werk
@curveswithmoves
@freethejiggle
@allison_skewes
@radpilates
@gwenheadpilates
@size_diverse_pilates
@thekineticteacher
@bodyposibarre
@tiffanycroww
@flexwithvera
@taralaferrara
@noordinarynoire
@rozthediva
@requisitepilates
@rootandreachpilates
@bpfaofficial
@foodandfearless

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This week is our 100TH EPISODE!!!! Heather is so excited to share this HUGE milestone with you all, thank you for the support! 

This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather interviews Dionne Reed, a wellness entrepreneur who has a passion for helping her clients reduce stress and overwhelm by focusing on their mental and physical wellbeing through breathwork, holistic nutrition, and coaching. 

Together, Heather and Dionne discuss SO MUCH - including:

• time management around food
• the difference between a dietitian and a holistic nutritionist
• what breathwork is and how it can help you reduce stress, overwhelm, and improve your overall health
• New Years comparisons (everyone is sharing their highlight reels right now) and how you can set more realistic goals for yourself
• how to priotitize rest
• why the BMI is BS
• hypocrisies and discrepancies in diet culture
• tracking food from an observational standpoint 
• CONTENT WARNING - we do breifly discuss Dionne's experience with restrictive and disordered eating patterns

FIND DIONNE:
@radiance.wellness 

Website:
www.radiancewellco.com/services

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Where do harmful beliefs about our bodies come from? How can we work through those beliefs so that we aren't constanty berating our bodies? We answer these questions and more in my interview with Anthea Spiteri, a coach who helps women feel confident in themselves and their body from the inside out.

Your body is not the problem! Anthea and I discuss where "blaming your body" might stem from and she gives you tangible tools to work through those harmful thoughts. 

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This week we welcome Miss Mai (they/them) to the podcast! We talk about everything from decriminalizing sex work, to healing generational trauma, to gender dysphoria, to internalized fatphobia. It's a whirlwind and I appreciate Mai's willingness to be open and vulerable and share their experiences with you. There's so much to gain from hearing Mai's story. 

Find Mai:
https://www.multiverseofmai.com

LIVE from New York Comic Con 2022: Join Heather and panelists Stardust Megu, Patrick Diamond, and Rachel Lauria in a discussion about fitness, body image, and self worth. 

The great thing about hosting this panel at different events with different panelists is that each time the discussion is different and new. It's important to talk about cultivating safe spaces, whether that be in the cosplay realm, fitness world, social media, or a combination of all. 

Connect with Heather and the panelists below! 

Stardust Megu: @stardust_megu 

Patrick Diamond: @diamondqualitycosplay
 @diamondqualityphotography

Rachel Lauria: @rachelcizeitup
https://linktr.ee/b2afitness

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LIVE from C2E2 (Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo) Heather hosts this panel all about making cosplay and fitness work for YOU. 

PANELISTS:
Adare W of Pink Lemonade Pastries, cosplayer and pastry chef extraordinaire!  
Laura J, educator and activist.
Alex Rose, cosplayer and photographer known as @poison_rose_cosplay on instagram
Troy Bushido of Superhero Forge, cosplayer and nerdy fitness professional. @superhero.forge @troybushido

Heather was out at C2E2 (Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo) interviewing cosplayers about why they chose their cosplays and how they feel in them. 

Here are some of the cosplayers interviewed in this episode: 
@histore.uriah & friends
@splendidtreasure88
@vampysnow
@ivyeyes & @missjoeychell

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