Welcome back, Lovers! 

This week on Love Your Bodd, we are focusing on Forgiving Yourself for gaining weight. 

It can happen for a plethora of reasons, and it's time to examine how you react to it, because we can be very unkind to ourselves when this happens. 

5 ways to stop beating yourself up for gaining weight: 

Heather was OUT IN THOSE SAN DIEGO STREETS finding cosplayers to interview for this special San Diego Comic Con edition of Love Your Bodd!

The group of people rallied up for this episode includes: a drag Poison Ivy, two She Hulks, a cosplay FAMILY, a curvy self-made DnD cosplay, a burlesque dancer who doubles as Psyloche, an all-to-accurate Harley Quinn, AND the perspective of a cosplayer who has Spina bifita - she dishes on all of the ins-and-outs of cosplay/comic con in a wheelchair! 

Check out the cosplayers on the @love_your_bodd instagram account here! 

In this episode of Love Your Bodd, Heather reflects on her experiences traveling this week and reminds herself to take better care of her body in her future travels. 

She talks about the importance of hydration, the normalcy of bloating, and ways that you can/should incorporate movement into your travels to keep blood flowing in dat bodd. 

She ends by talking about some fun and inspiring experiences she had that started with a CIZE class on the beach, and ended in a fully choreographed dance at the reception of her friend's wedding. Life is incredible. 

Hi Lovers! Megan Yelaney is BACK! YAY!! She's been on the podcast a couple times before - her first full episode is titled "Protect Your Mind" and in that interview we dive deep into her journey with exercise and becoming a health/fitness coach.

In THIS Episode, we discuss the many ways her life has changed since then by having clients "Ditch the Diet" and find ways to eat that work best for them. One way she has done that is through incorporating Intermittent Fasting - which we discuss in minor detail. See reference links for more info. 

We also discuss the THREE most common - and also most costly mistakes that people make when they decide to take on a new lifestyle - 

3 Costly Mistakes People Make When Trying to Create a "Healthy" Lifestyle:

1. GOING ALL IN RIGHT AWAY: Having an "all or nothing" mentality inevitably ends up making you feel like a failure after the smallest human mistakes. Baby steps are the way to go. 

2. UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS: Things take longer than you think they will.

3. TRY TO GO IT ALONE: Accountability is KEY. Having others to help you out is not only awesome motivation but it also makes the process more FUN! 

Find Megan:

Instagram & Snapchat: @MeganYelaney
Blog: FitActorTravels.com
YouTube: Megan Yelaney
FB: facebook.com/MeganYelaneyFitness
Pinterest: Megan Yelaney

Referenced In This Episode:

Megan's Intermittent Fasting (IF) Blog Posts: 
How Intermittent Fasting Can Improve your Health Help you lose fat
Intermittent Fasting: How to Do It The Right Way for YOUR Body
Intermittent Fasting for Women: The 5 Top Myths and to Not Let it Stop You
Intermittent Fasting for Women: How to do it Safely and Lose Fat

Chalene Johnson's IF Podcast Episodes:
Stop Dieting 
Jimmy More
Sara Solomon Pt 1
Sara Solomon Pt 2

Chalene Johnson's All-or-Nothing Mindset Podcast Episode: The All Or Nothing Mindset is Killing Your Progress

Megan's Intermittent Fasting LIVE Workshop:  https://www.fitactortravels.com/

Welcome back, Lovers! 

In today's episode of Love Your Bodd you are going to hear from a body positive personal trainer named Jenna! She's been a personal trainer for 11 years but it hasn't always been so "body positive." 

Jenna has a unique story of gaining weight to improve her health - both mentally and physically. As a personal trainer, she felt she needed to maintain a certain look: flat stomach, no body fat, size zero. Luckily, her discovery of Body Positivity opened up her eyes to a whole new world and way of living. She went from a size zero, miserable, living off supplements with no energy to a size 14/16, intuitively eating and moving, improved energy, and happily/healthily enjoying life. 

Let's listen to and explore her story together. 

Here is a call to action to all fitness professionals: WHERE are my true Body Positive fitness pros at?! Give Heather and Jenna a shout out so they can add you to their arsenal of warriors promoting body positivity in the fitness industry. Moving because you love it, not as punishment. Taking the shame out of gym setting. Taking the need to track every single thing out of the equation. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

The organization F.I.T.4ALL (previous love your bodd guest) certainly stands for this. As does another previous Love Your Bodd guest, Shanna Tyler. Now that I'm thinking about it, many previous LYB guests are. Such as Megan Yelaney and Sam Darby! But we need more and we need to be connected!! Jenna and I need a network of Body Positive connections we can send people to all over the world! 

Find Jenna

Instagram:

@bodypositivefitness_

@bopomove

Website: www.bodypositivefitness.ca

Referenced in this Episode:

Whitney Way Thore

My Big Fat Fabulous Life

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls by Jess Baker 

Health At Every Size by Linda Bacon

Body Positive Power by Megan Crabbe (@bodyposipanda)

HAPPY PRIDE EPISODE, LOVERS! 

This episode comes in two parts:

Part I is clips/blurbs from Previous Love Your Bodd guests, Love Your Bodd listeners, & Host Heather's friends and family on what PRIDE means to them and why it's important. Starting with a history lesson on The Stonewall Uprising and moving into some diverse opinions on PRIDE. 

In Part II, Heather was out at NYC Pride interviewing Pride-goers about their experiences. It's a true celebration of representation for LGBTQ+ individuals! 

Referenced in this Episode:

Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P. Johnson

The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative 

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Out of the Darkness Walks

The Chipped Cup

Dyke March

Resources:

Gay Pride Event Calendar

Planned Parenthood - Transgender Hormone Therapy 

The Trevor Project

The Human Rights Campaign Resources

Find Your Local LGBTQ Center

Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing - 

https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com

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Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram

www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd

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In a totally raw, unplanned episode, Heather shares her "appearance based" struggles and how she has had to look at them from a place of acceptance instead of something she has to "fix."

She also shares her biggest takeaways from the F.I.T.4ALL Fit Fest Panel on Body Positivity, Health at Every Size, and how they stay "F.I.T." by F.I.T4ALL standards. 

And lastly, she shares her notes from Gabrielle Bernstein's talk at the PopSugar Playground event. 

Mentioned on Today's Episode: 

Lys's Love Your Bodd Episode #31

Adrenal Fatigue

Fitspodcast

Mentioned on Instagram: 

F.I.T.4ALL: @f.i.t.4all

Akira: @prettybig5 @prettybigmovement

Colleen: @leenahlovesherself

Holly: @eating_peanut_better

Deanna: @mizz_deegreen

fitspodcast: @fitspodcast

Gabrielle Bernstein: @gabbybernstein

This week's Love Your Bodd Guest is Sam Darby! She's a Body Image & Food Freedom coach and personal trainer who has struggled with diets, exercise, and a "fear of becoming fat."  She teaches women how to break free from dieting, quit the self-hatred and live a life full of happiness and abundance without guilt and food obsession. Brilliant! 

In this Episode we talk about everything from Sam's Anorexia, to her obsession with trying new diets and workout programs, and follow her journey into Health at Every Size and Food Freedom. Which she totally discovered on accident while looking for the next big program that was going to give her that "dream body." Little did she know her dream body was there all along! 

Find Sam

Website: samanthadarbybreakfree.com

Blog: samanthadarbybreakfree.com/blog

Instagram: @iamsamdarby

Free Guide, 5 Ways to End the Diet Cycle:  samanthadarbybreakfree.com/freeguide

Required Love Your Bodd Reading: Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon 

LGBTQ+ Lovers! We want to hear from you!!! 

Grab your phone and record a blurb for Love Your Bodd about what PRIDE means to you. You could be featured ON THE PODCAST! Send your blurb to loveyourboddcast@gmail.com - about 2-5 mins and share as much or as little as you want about yourself. Name, where you're from, how you heard about love your bodd, are all optional - what we want to know is what pride means to YOU! 

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com

Tweet: @LoveYourBodd

Instagram: @love_your_bodd

Facebook: Love Your Bodd

Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram

www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd

GET HELP:

Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing - 

https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/

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Outside of the US? Don’t worry you can get online international training here:

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Love Popflex Activewear? Buy here and save:

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The views expressed on this podcast are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer(s).

Welcome back, Lovers! This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather interviews Brock J, a Cosplayer she met at New York Comic Con. 

The first half of the episode focuses on cosplay and Brock’s upbringings in foster care. The second half of the episode dives DEEP into Brock’s fitness journey and his recovery experience after having his leg shattered in an accident. 

Not only is he a cosplayer, he's also very into health & self-improvement. He has a deep connection to his body thanks to MMA and Yoga. His experience with yoga was transformative in helping him heal post-injury. He's also a competitive power lifter and a member of the US Coast Guard. Listen to hear all about his experiences and how they make him stronger every day! 

Brock on Insta

@xsilverxsurferx

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com

Tweet: @LoveYourBodd

Instagram: @love_your_bodd

Facebook: Love Your Bodd

Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram

www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd

Welcome to THE SLIMDOWN where Host Heather and her special Slimdown Co-Host Adare discuss body positivity and diversity in the media. Positives and Negatives. 

THIS WEEK we talk about Hollywood and actors who drastically gain and lose weight to take on a role. 

Join our discussion or add to it for future episode topics!! Use social media links below to connect. 

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com

Tweet: @LoveYourBodd

Instagram: @love_your_bodd

Facebook: Love Your Bodd

Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram

www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd

REFERENCED - RESEARCH ARTICLES AND LINKS:

Renee Zellweger/Bridget Jones 
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/renee-zellweggers-right-nine-stone-not-overweight/

Hello there, Lovers! This new episode of Love Your Bodd is focused on helping you get over those feelings of being overwhelmed. In life, in your job, in your relationship ... whatever it is you are going through, you can get through it! Here are the tips:

1. Brain Dump! Get your thoughts out of your head and onto paper - dump it out! Then organize it, prioritize it, and schedule it! 
2. Take a deep breath, focus on breathing and being in the moment. 
3. Delegate what you can. Outsource. 
4. Get an accountability buddy! 
5. TAKE ACTION! 
6. LET GO OF PERFECTION.

Failure is always an option. Not that you should focus on failure - please don't focus on failure - just know that it's always a possibility. You can set yourself up for success, but you can never be prepared for every bad thing that could happen. 

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com 

Tweet: @LoveYourBodd

Instagram: @love_your_bodd

Facebook: Love Your Bodd

Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram

www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd

Get Resources:

Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing - 

https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/

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Outside of the US? Don’t worry you can get online international training here:

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Love Popflex Activewear? Buy here and save:

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The views expressed on this podcast are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer(s).

In today's episode, Heather reflects on an overwhelming feeling of loneliness & sadness that struck her this weekend. She could narrow the feeling down to several things but she wants to talk to you all ... and herself ... about how these feelings are normal. Feel the thing. Move on. Practice Gratitude. Let Go. 

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com

Tweet: @LoveYourBodd

Instagram: @love_your_bodd

Facebook: Love Your Bodd

Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram

www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd

Get Resources:

Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing - 

https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/

Wanna become a Pop Pilates Instructor? Follow this link to find a training near you: https://www.poppilateslife.com/a/527/osBvwVQc

Outside of the US? Don’t worry you can get online international training here:

https://www.poppilateslife.com/a/528/osBvwVQc

Love Popflex Activewear? Buy here and save:

http://rwrd.io/bqhuiwv

Sign up for your BEACHBODY ON DEMAND 14 DAY FREE TRIAL:

https://www.teambeachbody.com/signup/-/signup/club?referringRepId=445873

(Select the bottom right option unless you wanna bite the bullet and sign up for the full monty! Heather will be your coach if you follow the link above!)

The views expressed on this podcast are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer(s).

This week on Love Your Bodd we've got a LIVE recording of the Out of the Box Theatrics' Women in Theater Panel! This live recording was moderated by Love Your Bodd Host, Heather Boddy. She interviewed panelists Elizabeth Flemming, Amiee Turner, Sammi Cannold, Alex Chester, Awoye Timpo about their experiences being a woman in the theater industry. 

Meet the Panelists:

Sammi Cannold is a theater director whose recent credits include Ragtime on Ellis Island and Violet on a moving bus at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). Sammi recently served as the associate director on the Broadway production of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (dir. Rachel Chavkin) and is currently the associate director on In the Body of the World (dir. Diane Paulus/MTC) as well as Lempicka  (dir. Rachel Chavkin/Williamstown). Sammi has directed numerous concerts, workshops, and readings at A.R.T., 54 Below, Playwrights Realm, The Montalban Theater, New York Theatre Barn, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Don’t Tell Mama, and Primary Stages. She has also served as an Artistic Fellow at the A.R.T. and a Sundance Institute Fellow (for which she directed a developmental workshop of a new musical by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire). She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. from Harvard University. www.sammicannold.com 

Alex Chester is a proud member of Broadway Diversity Project. She is a former contributor to HuffPo and currently writes for Onstage Blog and Manhattan Digest. She is the creator of Hapa Mag - an online magazine by Hapas for Everyone, and is the founder/producer of WeSoHapa, a multiracial inclusive theatre company. Alex is also part of the podcast “We’re Not All Ninjas.” Theatre credits include: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” - Madison Square Garden (NYC), Minnie Fay in “Hello Dolly” directed by Lee Roy Reams at NAAP(Off-Broadway), “Bubble Boy” at 54 Below (NYC/Original Cast Recording), “Brass Heart” - Royal Family Productions (NYC). Her resume of commercial work includes campaigns for companies including UPS, H&M, AT&T and Major League Baseball. 

Follow her on Twitter/Insta @AlexFChester @WeSoHapa @TheHapaMag www.WeSoHapa.com www.HapaMag.com www.AlexChester.com

Liz Flemming is the Founding Producing Artistic Director of Out of the Box Theatrics, an Actor's Equity Non Profit Off-Broadway Theater here in NYC. After several years touring and working in the regional circuit as a professional actor, Liz shifted focus to make a difference within our theatre community taking on inclusivity on the stage with the creation of OOTB. With OOTB she produced site-specific immersive productions of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown , "Master Harold"...and the Boys , The Owl and the Pussycat , and Songs for a New World . Along with her completion of two sold out seasons, she produced Alice at Alice's starring Alice Ripley, a series of Open Mics, and several cabarets and special events for OOTB. Independently she was asked to produce the new musical Mommie Dearestwritten by Christina Crawford with music by David Nehls, and Sam’s Room with New York Theater Barn. This year she will join The Cell Theater as Lead Producer along with her development of Out of the Box Theatrics. She hopes to #changethestage one show at a time.

Awoye Timpo ’s directing credits include: The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater), Skeleton Crew (Chester Theater), Sister Son/ji (Billie Holiday Theater), Carnaval (National Black Theatre), Ndebele Funeral (59E59, South African tour, Edinburgh Festival); The Libation Bearers (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), Araby (La MaMa), In the Continuum(Juilliard); Clybourne Park (Farmers Alley), The Vanished (Novisi). Producer: CLASSIX, a reading series exploring classic plays by Black playwrights. Broadway: Associate Director, Jitney ; Assistant Director, Shuffle Along . Other: ABC/Disney, Cherry Lane, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Ma-Yi, New Dramatists, NOW Africa, Page 73, PEN World Voices, Rising Circle, Royal Shakespeare Company, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and WNYC.

Amiee Turner began her career at a very young age and never stopped blazing a unique trail. While still a teenager Amiee had already toured as Kristine in A Chorus Line and Cassandra in CATS and made her Broadway debut in David Merrick's 42nd Street . She quickly established herself as a NYC actress and added another five Broadway shows to her list of credits. As an actress, Amiee is a proud member of AEA. She has toured the USA and Europe and played many regional theatres including The Huntington and Goodspeed. Her work as a director began in Connecticut and has taken her up and down the East Coast. As a producer she oversaw 23 productions at Theatre By The Sea, 42 productions at Ocean State Theatre, founded A.I.S.O.P.  Theatre Co. in NYC, and produced and starred in the award winning independent film "Sunday on the Rocks"  with Tony Award winners Cady Huffman and Julie White. Amiee currently travels across the country as an actor and director and teaches audition workshops at the university level. Other job titles Amiee has held include restaurant manager, Director of Entertainment for an NBA-D League team, Development Director for a major regional theatre, choreographer, and mother of two college age kids.

Find Out of the Box

Website: ootbtheatrics.com

Twitter: @OOTBTheatrics

Instagram: @ootbtheatrics

Facebook: Out of the Box Theatrics

Nocturne Tickets - web.ovationtix.com

By Adam Rapp | Directed by Amiee Turner

April 24-29 - Extended to May 6th
440 East 9th Street, NYC

Open Mic Nights 

05/07/18 - 7:30pm–10:00pm

($10 cover charge) - Scone, Tea, and wine available for purchase.

Where: Alice’s Tea Cup 220 East 81st street
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenue)

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com

Tweet: @LoveYourBodd

Instagram: @love_your_bodd

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Get Resources:

Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing - 

https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/

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The views expressed on this podcast are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer(s).

Welcome to the LIVE recording of the "Redefining the New Year's Resolution" Panel from the January 2018 F.I.T. Fest. The panel features Shanna Tyler, Heather Boddy, and Tina Tang.

Okay, yes this was recorded in January but HEY Y'ALL ITS APRIL! Remember what Shanna Tyler said in her episode (#62) about how she now focuses on life in quarters - well this is a new quarter for you, which means that it’s a perfect time to check in and see how you are doing on your goals. In your life. Check in with yourself truly about your happiness. An April - September resolution! 

FIND F.I.T4ALL : 

fit4all.org

Instagram: @f.i.t.4all

FB: FIT 4 ALL 

f.i.t.spo podcast - @fitspodcast

THE PANEL HOSTS:

Caitie: @caitie.did

(Caitie's Episode is #49 on LYB, check it out!)

James: @jamesissmiling

(James's Episode is #50 on LYB, check it out!)

THE PANEL MEMBERS:

Shanna Tyler: @shannatyler_

(Shanna's Episode is #62 on LYB, check it out!)

Tina Tang: @ironstrongfit

Heather Boddy: @heatherboddy

(Host of Love Your Bodd)

F.I.T. 4 ALL ON LOVE YOUR BODD

The F.I.T. 4 ALL PANELS are Episodes 44 & 45

Also from F.I.T. 4 ALL, Erin S - Episode 47 & Katie Rose - Episode 48. Be sure to download and listen to those as well :)

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com

Tweet: @LoveYourBodd

Instagram: @love_your_bodd

Facebook: Love Your Bodd

Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram

www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd

Get Resources:

Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing - 

https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/

Wanna become a Pop Pilates Instructor? Follow this link to find a training near you: https://www.poppilateslife.com/a/527/osBvwVQc

Outside of the US? Don’t worry you can get online international training here:

https://www.poppilateslife.com/a/528/osBvwVQc

Love Popflex Activewear? Buy here and save:

http://rwrd.io/bqhuiwv

Sign up for your BEACHBODY ON DEMAND 14 DAY FREE TRIAL:

https://www.teambeachbody.com/signup/-/signup/club?referringRepId=445873

(Select the bottom right option unless you wanna bite the bullet and sign up for the full monty! Heather will be your coach if you follow the link above!)

The views expressed on this podcast are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer(s).

 "I think I just wanted people to see that I was in pain. I couldn't say that. I couldn't say, 'Hi, I'm Becky, I'm in pain. This is me being thinner than I should be so this is what pain means to me.'" 

- Becky S

 This week on Love Your Bodd we explore the importance of reaching out when you are in pain. Verbalizing your feelings can be incredibly difficult and can manifest in your mental health in all sorts of negative ways. For Becky, her inability to verbalize her pain led to an eating disorder. This week's guest Becky is incredibly open about her struggles with Anorexia, Exercise Addiction, Recovery, and most recently Bodybuilding. Listen to hear her talk about the winding road that is recovery and how lifting weights has both helped her recover but on the flip side, how competing in her first ever bikini competition brought back some of her disordered thinking. 

**Trigger Warning** This episode can be potentially triggering for anyone who is struggling with an eating disorder, has struggled with one in the past, or who is in recovery. See below (Born This Way Links) for helpful resources. 

Find Becky:

Facebook: facebook.com/beckysillz

Instagram: @baybeebella

Becky's written note on Anorexia to Recovery: https://www.facebook.com/notes/becky-silliness/anorexia-battle-to-recovery/10151503704631028/

Becky's Images from the Bikini Comp: facebook.com/beckysillz

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com

Tweet: @LoveYourBodd

Instagram: @love_your_bodd

Facebook: Love Your Bodd

Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram

www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd

Get Resources:

Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing - 

https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/

Wanna become a Pop Pilates Instructor? Follow this link to find a training near you: https://www.poppilateslife.com/a/527/osBvwVQc

Outside of the US? Don’t worry you can get online international training here:

https://www.poppilateslife.com/a/528/osBvwVQc

Love Popflex Activewear? Buy here and save:

http://rwrd.io/bqhuiwv

Sign up for your BEACHBODY ON DEMAND 14 DAY FREE TRIAL:

https://www.teambeachbody.com/signup/-/signup/club?referringRepId=445873

(Select the bottom right option unless you wanna bite the bullet and sign up for the full monty! Heather will be your coach if you follow the link above!)

The views expressed on this podcast are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer(s).

This week on Love Your Bodd, Shanna Tyler is here to give you some real talk about practicing yoga, body love, and how to set goals! She's a self-starting #GIRLBOSS, Yoga Instructor, and isn't afraid to follow her passions. 

Listen to hear Shanna talk about:

• Growing up feeling like fitness was mandatory & fast forward into her discovery that she could do it because she WANTS to
• Practicing Yoga and how it lead to self love 
• Women of color representation in Yoga
• Goal-setting
• Finding your passion
• Setting boundaries to build structure in your life
• And how you have the same amount of time in the day as Beyoncé does! 

Find Shanna: 

Website: www.shannatyler.com

Blog Post Referenced (Making Time): www.shannatyler.com/blog

Instagram: @shannatyler_

Self Soul Sport Insta: @selfsoulsport

Some Reference Links from the Episode: 

Shanna's Episode on the Fitspodcast (iTunes)

Dr. Chelsea Roberts: @chelsealovesyoga 

Koya Webb: @koyawebb 

Evernote App

Quote: "The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel." - Steve Furtick

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com

Tweet: @LoveYourBodd

Instagram: @love_your_bodd

Facebook: Love Your Bodd

Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram

www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd

Get Resources:

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"I felt like jumping on the rooftops & going 'okay, wait a minute, there's stuff we can do! We don't need to spend thousands and thousands of dollars at a fertility clinic, we can step back here, listen to what your body is saying, and make major change!'" - Sarah Clark, Fertility, Lifestyle, & Health Coach 

This week's guest is an intelligent woman who specializes in fertility. If you are up for having your mind blown, tune in. In this episode, Heather and Sarah dig deep about a mind-body connection and all the effects that NOT listening to your body can have on you. What you eat, how you feel, your physical health, mental health, environmental stressors, genes, etc are ALL connected and can have a major impact on the way you live. These things can also affect fertility which is why Sarah's practice focuses so much on the mind-body connection when it comes to your ability to reproduce. 

Sarah was in her mid twenties when she discovered she had Premature Ovarian Failure (POF) but she didn't let that deter her from having her first child via (IVF) In-vitro Fertilization. She was sick all the time, spending way to much money, and suppressed her feelings of not being able to conceive naturally. After much hard work, she was able to have success with IVF of her second child but she still hadn't taken her health into her own hands. Both of her children have food intolerances that, in theory, may have been preventable if she had taken better care of her body and listened to the way it was whispering to her. 

Fast forward to Sarah in her 40s, newly awoken after taking a life coaching course - which led her to take a health coaching course - where she discovered all of her own food sensitivities. She thought about how this may have affected her ability to conceive and that curiosity led to her practices as a Fertility Coach today, and her "Get Pregnant Naturally" podcast, where she helps women do just that - get pregnant naturally. 

Sarah's Freebie:

3-day Fertility Diet Challenge: https://fabfertile.clickfunnels.com/optin9689923

Find Sarah:

Subscribe to: Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast

Website: www.fabfertile.com

Email: sarah.clark@sesacoaching.ca

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fabfertile/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sesacoaching/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/fabfertile

Some things we talk about that may need noting:

H Pylori - a stomach bacteria that, when dormant is perfectly fine, but when found in excess, can lead to stomach cancer. 

Endometriosis - when an abnormal tissue grows outside the lining of the uterus. 

Celiac Disease - An immune reaction to eating gluten (bloating/diarrhea) 

Some Resources Sarah Mentions: 

• Clarity Cleanse, Habib Sadeghi

• Dirty Genes, Ben Lynch

• Louise Hay - Mirror Work

• Alice Domar (Pioneer of mind//body fertility)

• Oprah & Deepak’s 21-Day Meditation Experience 

Goal Weight. Let's talk about it. Pretty much everyone has one. That number in the back of your mind that you strive for every day. That number that you pray is on the scale every time you step on. Hoping each time to be closer. Maybe you are at your goal weight! Wow! Congratulations, you are one of the few! What would happen though, if you stepped on the scale and you weren't anymore? 

In today's episode of Love Your Bodd, Heather explains why having a goal weight is actually depleting your happiness instead of giving you something motivational to work on. By the end of the episode, you will learn different ways to frame your health goals so that you aren't focused on the number on the scale. 

Setpoint/Appestat: 

• The weight you maintain when you listen and respond to your body's signals of hunger and fullness.
• The weight you maintain when you don't fixate on your weight or food habits.
• The weight you keep returning to between diets.
  (from Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon)

4 Ways Your Goal Weight is "Weighing You Down": 

1. Your weight is not an accurate measure of your physical health OR progress. 
   • You cannot physically measure blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease, any of the internal factors that are said to be caused by being "overweight" by stepping on a scale. 
   • Muscle weighs more than fat!
     Image 1 - 
     
     
     
     Image 2 - real fat vs real muscle 
     
2. Gives You A Negative Relationship with your body. 
   • Leads to regulation, guilt, binging
   • eat less, exercise more - no longer enjoy food or exercise
   • calorie restriction/meticulous calculation
     
     
3. Negatively Affects on your Mental Health
   
   
4. Negatively Affects your Happiness & Lifestyle Choices 

What can we do to Change this?!

Make Motivationally Framed Goals that are NOT related to a number. 

Productive, Positive, & Present! 

"I am, I have, I will..." 

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Thank you again to Chalene Johnson and her lessons in the 131 Method, which give me confidence daily when it comes to food freedom, confidence, and motivating self talk surrounding food. I am learning SO MUCH! 

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"Change your thoughts and you can change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale 

"We are not disturbed by things, but rather the view we take of them." - Epiuctetus 

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare

What is the voice inside your head saying to you? Is it negative? If so, that's totally normal. Is it positive? That's normal, too!  On today's Love Your Bodd episode, Heather sits down with you solo to teach you about self-talk and the labels we place on the events that happen in our lives. 

Self Talk Lesson this Episode:

Self-talk: The action or practice of talking to oneself, either externally (aloud) or internally (mentally). 

Self-Talk is how people evaluate and respond to events in their lives. It is typical for most people to feel some things are good (staying on a meal plan, adhering to an exercise program, winning a league championship), while others things are viewed as bad (going off a meal plan, stopping an exercise regimen, losing a league championship game). But in reality, events are simply events. It is the evaluation of events that make them positive or negative, and this in turn determines one’s emotional, mental, and physical responses to the events. In fact, sometimes things that were initially evaluated as bad eventually turned out to be good.

Types of Self Talk:

1. Motivational self-talk: The act of practicing self-talk in a positive manner, focusing on increasing energy, effort, and positive attitude.
2. Instructional self-talk: The act of practicing self-talk in which an individual focuses on the technical or taskrelated aspects of performance in order to improve execution.
3. Negative self-talk: The act of practicing self-talk in a negative manner focusing on critical and self-demeaning statements that negatively affects goal attainment.

Ways to Focus on Motivational Self-Talk

1. Take away the labels. There is no "good" or "bad" or "positive" or "negative." 
2. Practice Gratitude.
3. Create Confidence / Gain knowledge. 
4. Practice Mantras! "Keep your phrases short and specific, use the first person and present tense, construct positive phrases, say your phrases with meaning and attention, speak kindly to yourself, repeat phrases often." (- From AFAA Mental Toughness textbook, Ch. 1)
5. Create Routines & Systems to create control & help with decision making. 
   (P.S. Here's the Obama article about his routine - https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2012/sep/17/barack-obama-secret-weapon-routine)

I'd like to give credit in this episode to AFAA & the Mental Toughness course I am currently completing, which inspired me to share the self-talk info. 

I would also like to credit Chalene Johnson and her lessons in the 131 Method, which give me confidence daily when it comes to food freedom, confidence, and motivating self talk surrounding food. 

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Welcome to Part 2 of the Girls in Capes interview! Please, if you haven't already, go listen to Part 1 first, where you will learn all about Girls in Capes and the ladies involved in the panel! 

In Part II of this 2 part interview, we discuss PROBLEMATIC MEDIA! Problematic favorites as in problematic creators, problematic FANDOMS, and problematic content. What makes something problematic? Why do we, as consumers of media, continue to support works that are problematic? What can we do to change the problematic media that is popular today?! 

Listen to us discuss OUR problematic favorites as well as flip everything in the opposite direction to works that are more inclusive! Like last week, the moral we want you to take away from this episode is that money talks. Throw your money at the types of stories you want to hear whether it be movies, books, television, what have you! Spend your dollars where they are going to count. Media outlets will recognize this and start creating more diverse works! 

Find Girls In Capes

Website: girlsincapes.com

Facebook: facebook.com/GirlsInCapes

Twitter: @GirlsinCapes

Instagram: @girlsincapes

Links to Titles mentioned in the Episode:

Problematic Fandom Incidents -

• Rick & Morty Riot at McDonalds
• Steven Universe Twitter Bullying (Suicide Attempt)

Personal Problematic Favorites -

• Steven Moffat - read about DR WHO on GIC here 
• Meghan talks about Penny Dreadful - read the article she wrote about it for GIC here
• Emi mentions Citrus, a Yuri title manga turned anime which is now available on Crunchyroll
• FF vs MM fiction article - Dahlia Adler
• Feliza's Problematic Fav: Food Wars! 
• Christina is heartbroken about Joss Whedon because Buffy and Firefly were her favorites and shaped the way she views media today. Read more about Joss Whedon's hypocrisy here. And added quote from an article Christina sent later - "His work has plenty of male gaze and women in refrigerators and some narratively pointless rape scenes—it’s all right there, in hundreds of hours of television and film—but boy, it sure is a lot more comfortable to listen to a guy tell you he’s a feminist than listen to a lot of women telling you he’s not." - Laura M. Browning AV CLUB Article
• His brother Jed Whedon seems to treat women much better in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 
• Examples that the panelists no longer support because of how problematic they are - Fantastic Beasts (because of Johnny Depp allegations), The 100 (because of the treatment of the character Lexa), Supernatural (because of the treatment of women and characters of color)
• Girls in Capes also no longer reviews work written by straight white men. 

Answers to the Instagram Question: "Given the shift in the industry lately, and the push to support female filmmakers/writers/artists, who are some underrated female artists that you think we can support with our dollars? Bonus points if they are ladies (or female identifying) of color."

• Ava Duvernay & A Wrinkle In Time!  <- Love Letter To Black Girls Article 
• Ryan Coogler (Black Panther)
• Feliza's list of author's to follow:
• Audrey Coulthurst (Ink Mistress) 
• Fonda Lee (Jade City)
•  Marjorie M. Liu (Monstress) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29396738-monstress-vol-1?ac=1&from_search=true
• Emily Skrutskie (The Abyss Surrounds Us)
• Leanna Renee Hieber (The Eterna Files) 
• Kelly Thompson (Marvel/Nancy Drew)
• Delilah S. Dawson (Ladycastle) 
• Discussion of Ladycastle brought up Her Land by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
•  Julie Murphy (Dumplin')
• Emily Andras (Wynonna Earp)

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This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather sits down with the Founder of the online publication "Girls in Capes," along with several ladies of the writing team, to talk about representation in geek culture! 

In Part I of this 2 part interview, we discuss "Girls in Capes" and why is it so important today. We also talk about how media influences us from a young age and how that carries over into our adult life/personality. The goal of the discussion is to take a closer look at the way we consume media compared to ways we can support works that are more inclusive. Part 2 takes it much deeper with discussions on problematic favorites and what makes them so "problematic." But you'll have to wait until next week for that! 

One moral we want you to take away from this episode is that money talks. Throw your money at the types of stories you want to hear whether it be movies, books, television, what have you! Spend your dollars where they are going to count. Media outlets will recognize this and start creating more diverse works! 

Find Girls In Capes

Website: girlsincapes.com

Facebook: facebook.com/GirlsInCapes

Twitter: @GirlsinCapes

Instagram: @girlsincapes

Links to Titles mentioned in the Episode:

Childhood Favorites -

• Emi mentions Zoids & Tenchi Muyo!
• Christina mentions the "Protector of the Small" Series by Tamora Pierce 
• Meghan mentions Beetlejuice & Sailor Moon 

Current Favorites (in terms of Representation) -

• Christina mentions One Day At A Time 
• Meghan mentions a "championing their own voices movement" which can be defined as when a marginalized individual writes their own perspective on marginalization
• She also mentions how she used her platform to help champion these voices by linking to their articles in her review of Black Panther, which can be found here! 
• Emi mentions Yuri titles which is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving love between women in manga, anime, and related Japanese media
• She also mentions Crunchyroll as a way to legally stream Anime!

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This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather has an interview with the very kick-ass Stardust Megu! They talk all things cosplay -  from gender to race to body type. Stardust shares her story about how cosplay literally saved her life. She was severely bullied as a kid and once she discovered comic con and cosplay, her whole world changed. Listen to hear her story about going from insecure to SUPER CONFIDENT. And be sure to check out her Instagram to see her talented cosplays! 

FIND STARDUST

Instagram: @stardust_megu

Some links to things we talk about:

Check out @princessology on instagram - the creator of #28daysofblackcosplay

Here's the link to the master list of black cosplayers that Stardust mentions - by Petite Ebby Cosplay (@chibimagicalgirl)! Feel free to check it out:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ft1WfcxTD52pZ9xMSAlUuf0nGQaCiGMZ

And here's a link to her mention of @pencils_and_pincushions cosplay!

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Does your career rely heavily on what you look like? For most dancers and models, body image can be a huge issue. 

In this episode of Love Your Bodd, Heather talks to an old friend, Rachel Eten, about what it was like to grow up as a dancer and later, what it's like to have a professional modeling career. Luckily, Rachel has been able to stay sane and keep control over her own body in industries where it is common to feel like other people have control over it. 

Rachel shares the weird ins-and-outs of modeling; she shares how exercise has never been her thing (she even shares her own fun term for "exercise"); and lastly, we talk about her pregnancy, motherhood, and how she feels an intense pressure to get her pre-pregnancy body back - not from the industry but from herself. 

Find Rachel

Instagram: @rachelgeiman

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