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I gain so much joy from fostering relationships with my clients and teaching them how to re-connect with their bodies through movement. I am a business owner, a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), and a personal trainer. In addition to training I also co-host the podcast: Gal Pals, as well as hosting the Liveng Proof Podcast for 4+ years.
I work with clients to help them gain acceptance of their body, and provide tools to connect and move their body in a sustainable and joy-filled way. You can read more about my training philosophy here.
If you’re like me, and you prefer to listen, you can check out these podcast episodes to learn more about my training philosophy & values:
– Wellness Without Obsession: A Non-Weight Loss Approach to Training
– Non-Diet Personal Training: Trainer Consulting
I graduated from the University of New Hampshire, which is where I earned my B.S. in Biology. I became an NASM certified personal trainer in 2013, which is when I also started my own business Liveng Proof, LLC. I’ve worked as a trainer ever since. I am now a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS).
I have worked with many clients over the years who have a history of an eating disorder, exercise addiction, or just a rocky relationship with exercise/ their bodies. I love working with clients and watching them deepen their relationship to their body and restore their relationship with movement.
There’s a lot of pressure on personal trainers to deliver a service to clients that want to lose weight or change their bodies. As I began my own path to recovery from diet culture, I struggled to offer my services in good conscience to my personal training clients. What the industry seemed to want, went against my inner values of trying to promote and educate clients on the practice of intuitive movement, intuitive eating, and body respect.
As I made this transition, one thing became clear: I wanted my clients to feel empowered. I wanted them to walk away with tools they could access to feel more connected to their body.
My training approach began to shift away from weight loss and an appearance-based focus, towards educating my clients on things like their anatomy, biomechanics, and respiration. My goal was to increase things like their proprioceptive awareness and decrease things like self-demonizing their body’s appearance. My training began to center more on optimizing their movement & increasing their overall sense of well being. I no longer wanted to support any practices that reinforced weight loss, diets, or appearances.
Perhaps you’re like me, and you’re a trainer with a history of an eating disorder and exercise addiction. You want to promote wellness without obsession to your clients. You want to coach in a way that honors your values. And you feel overwhelmed by the industry’s deeply rooted diet-culture values, which heavily promote things like weight loss and body transformations.
My consultations are for anyone who wants to become a personal trainer without contributing to diet culture. It’s also for pre-existing trainers that want to learn how to work with clients in a way that aligns with intuitive eating based principles & a wellness without obsession approach. If you’re done with supporting diet culture messages of weight loss, dieting, and body shame, to yourself and your clients, this offer is for you.
I’d love to work with you to help you train in a way that speaks to your inner values and serves your clients beyond the standards of diet culture. These days personal training is so bogged down with weight loss, body transformations, and drastic before and afters. If these ideals don’t resonate with you it can be challenging to “make it” in the industry.
This program is for anyone who wants to be a trainer that honors intuitive eating based principles, body respect, and wants to help reinvent the personal training narrative.
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Chelsea Connors is a Certified Life Coach, Therapist and speaker using a holistic approach to mental and emotional well-being. She supports her clients in navigating the anxiety and stress that is often overwhelming in the “real world” so that they can feel more grounded, intentional and joyful in life. She’s on a mission to change the conversation around emotional well-being and to normalize the ups and downs that happen just by being human.
RECS MENTIONED IN THE INTRO:
@ohhappydani
@isabelfoxenduke
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Fearing The Black Body by Sabrina Strings
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CONNECT WITH CHELSEA:
www.chelseaconnors.com
IG: @chelseaconnors_
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monthly membership: https://chelseaconnors.lpages.co/becoming-you-waitlist/
IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:
While you’re here!! Helpful links for you to help #BlackLivesMatter movement. Remember, this is a marathon not a sprint – so do what you can every day to be conscious in your efforts to help.
To help educate yourself – documentary “13th” on netflix really opened my eyes to some things that I just did not know and I’d highly recommend giving it a watch!
Petitions to sign!! – https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#p…
The Bail Project: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/…
Where to donate: https://nymag.com/strategist/article/…
How to support Black Lives Matter without money: https://www.allure.com/story/how-to-s…
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It’s always my hope that even if you have a different story that you can hear parts of yourself in the conversations had here, and that you can walk away with tools on how to navigate the not-often-spoken about topics that may be holding you back from living in the present. My mission is to offer you tools, insights and stories to help you on your journey.
But one of those journey’s I have neglected to address – which now seems glaringly obvious – is that of racism.
I overlooked this experience most likely because of my privilege as a white person. I am waking up to my role as the “good white liberal”. No one wants to be thought of as racist, but by not speaking up about this topic – is in fact condoning it. So by not speaking about systemic racism I was playing a role in contributing to it.
Here are some resources you may want to look into:
Books:
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Shows, Movies, & Documentaries :
#blackAF (Netflix)
13th (Netflix)
When They See Us (Netflix)
Dear White People (Netflix)
12 Years A Slave
Greenbook
Podcasts:
Balance Black Girl Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/balanced-black-girl/id1438982040
Body Trauma: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/body-trauma-a-storytelling-podcast/id1510247972
2 Dope Queens: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-dope-queens/id1097193327
Pod Save The People: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod-save-the-people/id1230148653
@balancedles
@balancedblackgirlpod
@thefriendIneverwanted
@bodytraumapod
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In this weeks Liveng Proof Podcast episode I’m share a recent episode I recorded on my second podcast: Gal Pals. This was a very special conversation that invited me to dig deep and reflect on myself. It brought up a lot of interesting stories as you will see.
What kind of birthday dessert do you like?
So your sun sign is a ______ do you relate to the typical characteristics of this sun sign?
What’s your type:
Myers Briggs:
Enneagram:
4 Tendencies:
If you had to change careers to something totally different and your education was paid for what would you train to do?
What is something that most people assume about you that isn’t true?
When do you feel the most like the most confident badass version of YOU?
What is one item of clothing that makes you feel YOU?
What is something you’ve recently discovered or re-discovered that you really like?
What is a part of your daily routine that you are loving right now?
I know you feel a deep connection with trees which is so beautiful- tell me about how that’s unfolded for you?
What are some lessons you’ve learned from trees?
What is a favorite birthday memory?
What’s one of the best gifts you’ve ever received?
What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?
Biggest lesson you learned from __ ?
What is something you’ve gotten better at this year?
What is something you still want to work on?
Imagine the best version of YOU – you’re doing all your self-care, you’re feeling good, you’re wise AF – what words of wisdom would you have for us?
If you could sit down with 10 year old self and tell her about your life now what would you be excited to tell her?
What are you most excited about this year?
What’s bringing you joy lately?
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GEORGIE
Instagram: @georgiemorley
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Madison Morrigan is a 4x international award winning life coach, speaker, and creator of Awaken Her Soul, a 14 week mentorship program designed to help womxn embody their worth, power and fullness. Centered on self-responsibility and full expression, Madison coaches ambitious and creative womxn to shed layers of old programming keeping them small and finally come home to their true selves. Madison has her degree in interpersonal communication with an emphasis in psychology from Missouri State University, has a certificate in conflict resolution and legal mediation, and is proudly Certified BYCA Coach. This conversation started rolling from the moment I hit record. I decided to just roll with a less “official” starting point and I kind of like the comfortability of it.
How she chose her name (Morrigan is the celtic goddess of war, death, and rebirth)
Divorcing her husband & recent coming out experience as queer
The resistance that she feels when she feels oblisgated to inform people of her sexualtiy
Wrestingling with not wanting exploiting herself for other people’s understanding, but also share authentically
Social media can make us feel like “we” are the product, it can hinder us to really see one another as people
“When we treat ourselves like a product, people stop seeing us as a person”
How do you know what is sacred (aka not to be shared publicly)?
Is social media, trauma bonding?
She shares about her childhood, growing up with an alcoholic parent who she was enmeshed with
Her experience with spirituality & religion
Her coping mechanism of overidentification with high performance /work addiction
Understanding our coping mechanisms/ trauma responses served us at one point but may no longer (once we feel ready to heal)
Healing her relationship with high performance & owning her voice
Upleveling ourselves into things that scare us
Getting comfortable experiencing life as a participant/student/peer, accepting instead of being the leader and space holder
The vulnerability of being seen in my power around other women, in person
Realizing the self work, only works when we’re showing up eventually in relationship
There’s information in our patterns (Am I usually the leader? Am I usually the space holder? Do I do things to avoid being the object of attention?)
We are not our pain and/or trauma. We are not our coping mechanisms. We are not our beliefs or our stories.
Target analogy: Outside ring: our person, our personality, the stories we tell ourselves (the self we become to accommodate the world). Middle ring: True Essence (who you’re actually here to be, outside of what culture/ or your trauma tells you to me). Inner ring: True Divine self (we are all connected and made of the same thing)
Why authenticity is not simply disclosure
Processing forgiveness: I don’t have to be punish, resent, withhold, or be angry with someone to feel justified in my feelings
Coming to terms with that you “I will never get what I needed” and learning to protect and honor your inner child
Learning to honor & feel our anger and grief
Unlearning self-abandonment
Embracing forgiveness and allowing (allowing yourself to feel your feelings)
Forgiveness in the ability to soften around something
She speaks to the idea of both/and
Pendulate the ability to fluctuate between two places in your body
The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) Test
Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home
Instagram: @madisonmorrigan
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/madisonmorrigan
Website: madisonmorrigan.com
Email: [email protected]
Mastermind Class: Rising Sovereign
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Evie O’Conner is a trauma-informed yoga teacher and therapist in training. She is currently completing a Masters in the Clinical Mental Health program in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology. Her offerings focus on awareness, allowance and integration of all layers of self: physical, mental, emotional, energetic, spiritual, societal, cultural and ancestral. Evie teaches yoga classes, leads women’s groups and circles, offers 1:1 inner-child healing sessions, teaches Intuitive Eating and this year, is very excited to be taking on clients in her therapy practice. Evie believes deeply in each individual’s capacity for self-healing and views healing as a lifelong, non-linear journey. Her aspiration is to hold space for her clients to reconnect to the healer within themselves and the medicines of the natural world.
Website: www.evieyoga.com
Instagram: @eviemarie.oconner
Email: [email protected]
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IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:
Her natural curiosity & desire to learn as a child
Our humanness is the doorway to the spiritual.
What’s come up for her during this global uncertainty
Informed consent in how we heal
The western approach of the medical model. What this model excludes.
She offers an alternative inclusive approach to the medical model – for those who have not found resolution with the medical model – one that offers the patient agency and sovereignty in their healing journey.
How seductive it can feel to use ways to escape reality
The non-linear journey of healing
She shares about her own struggle with an eating disorder from ages 10-19
Having gratitude for our coping mechanisms
Learning to sit with our own pain rather than obsessing about the symptom.
Learning how the symptom (obsessive thoughts about food + body, or depression, anxiety, etc.) is an indicator of something that needs our attention.
Working with diagnoses in mental health: when are they helpful? When are they harmful? Who do they serve? Who do they disempower?
How a mental health diagnosis can feel like a trap to some and empowering to others.
Everyone is the master and expert of their own experience
The power differential that can occur between a therapist and client (therapeutic aggression).
How we can lean more towards a client centered approach where co-creation is the foundation of the relationship.
The anti-psychiatry movement
The history of diagnoses in mental health
Psychiatry is a modern day witch hunt
The history of the DSM
How have mental health diagnoses created a broader cultural implication of pathologizing the human experience?
Archetypes: pathologizing the neurotic expression vs. the wisdom expression
What are the causes of mental illness?
Are there some causes that don’t get validated as much as others?
At the end of the day- what matters most is how each individual/client works with diagnoses and if they experience it as helpful or harmful.
Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
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Jill Zimmerman, DPT utilizes a movement based approach she unravels the layers of poor posture, dysfunctional breathing patterns, stress, and body mechanics to discover the underlying cause of aches and pains. The birth of her child sparked a special interest in pelvic floor function and diastasis recti and has been incredibly influential in her everyday work.
Currently Jill offers online consultations where she helps people find the root cause of hard to solve struggles with their body. She is also available to consult with trainers, therapists, yoga instructors or other wellness professionals who want to learn more about my methodology or need advice in helping a client or patient of their own.
CONNECT WITH JILL
Instagram: @jillzimmermanpt
Phone: 843-509-2577
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://perfectlyfitcharleston.com/
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IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:
What is diastasis recti?
What are common considerations people could take into account regarding healing/correcting their diastasis?
How you can test yourself for diastasis recti
The emphasis for creating alignment & how we organize pressure
The body takes the path of least resistance
The pelvic floor function (also leaking, prolapse)
The three diaphragms in the body (glotis, respiratory, and pelvic floor)
Compensation tension patterns people have to deal w/ the physical demands of life
When belly breathing isn’t necessarily the ideal breathing strategy
What is normal “at-rest” breathing?
Why “pull your belly button in towards your spine” isn’t an effective coaching cue
Muscle guarding and abdominal gripping (and GI issues / gut inflammation/ED disorders) – recruiting more muscle tension than is necessary for the task at hand
The importance of fully exhaling (to avoid stacked breath)
Jill’s traumatic birth story
Tension shifting theory
VIDEO MENTIONED:
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Bri (she/her) is a mental health and lgbtq+ advocate who goes by Little Wandering Soul online. She is originally from NJ, but has called Boston, MA her home for the past 8 years. Bri started Little Wandering Soul on Instagram in January 2019 when she was going through a hard time. Her relationship was deteriorating and she was just back to work after being on a leave of absence for her mental health struggles. As she struggled to find passion in her work, love life and within myself she took to Instagram as a way to express herself.
She started to write transparently and authentically about what was going on in her life. About her struggles with depression, anxiety, coming out and her life-long journey of learning to love herself.
As time went on and she wrote more about my experiences, people began reaching out and sharing their stories. Bri began feeling like she wasn’t alone anymore – she felt encouraged, valued and like she had purpose.
It’s been less than a year and she is so grateful for this platform that has given her opportunity, connection, confidence and most importantly, a way to give back to her community.
She makes sure to leave everyone with this message as they find her page: While every story is different, know you are never alone in your struggle.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Growing up with a surrogate younger sister
Navigating her parents divorce when she was 12, after her Dad came out as gay
How she processed her Dad’s sexual orientation
Her experience coming out as a gay woman
She shares how her eating disorder developed and evolved
Looking for coping strategies when we don’t feel like we have the tools to handle
The shame cycle (binge/restrict cycle)
Her experience with embracing her cystic acne
Normalizing imperfect skin
Intentionally placing yourself in environments that serve you
The healthy coping strategies she’s cultivated over the years
Her process of looking for a therapist
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Armchair Expert Ep. with Whitney Cummings
CONNECT WITH BRI
Instagram: @littlewanderingsoul
YouTube: Little Wandering Soul
Facebook: @littlewanderingsoul
Tumblr: little wandering soul
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Haley Jakobson is a writer of plays, poetry, and creative non-fiction. When she isn’t scribbling on the subway, Haley acts as the Artistic Director and co-founder of Brunch Theatre Company, an inclusive platform for emerging theatre artists to join the conversation. Brunch Theatre’s newest show, Donuts and Holes, is all about revolutionizing sex education as we know it. In her writing Haley explores mental health and wellness, sex and trauma, queerness, and bodies. A poet in the millennial era, Haley reaches an audience of 13k readers on her instagram, @haleyjakobson. She self-published her first book of poetry, Write Like Prayers, in 2017. Haley lives in Brooklyn and is a gemini.
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IN THIS EPISODE:
Her experience as a survivor of sexual assault
Reminders for survivors → Sharing your truth has NOT always felt good → REVERTIGO
When we have trauma the fear that can come from opening pandora’s box —
I will feel a lot of things I don’t want to feet
What if it never goes away or gets better?
“Though words hold feelings, they don’t feel feelings – bodies do that”
“People aren’t going to like us and that fact should never ever, ever be more important than trusting ourselves…I’d rather trust myself than like myself”
Her healing process
Yoga and how it helped her her feel safe in your body again
Keeping it casual — in this culture int can feel impossible to be intentional with our romantic partners
Sex seems so easy and effortless on TV and in movies — the inadaquacy we can feel when that isn’t our experience
Her story of coming out & misogyny withdrawl
How her partner supports her
CONNECT WITH HALEY:
IG: @haleyjakobson
website: haleyjakobson.com
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Instagram: @livengproof
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Jenn Hardy, PhD, is a licensed counseling psychologist in private practice in Maryville, TN. She completed her doctoral degree at Penn State University in 2010 with specialized training in psychodynamic therapy, attachment theory, and career/vocational issues. Wanting to help a larger audience than could ever fit on a clinical caseload, she also writes on about relationships, career-related issues, resilience, and other psycho-educational topics. To see more of what she’s been writing and talking about, check out her website and consider subscribing to her quarterly newsletter.
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What is trauma & our stress response to it
The ACE test
PTSD & complex PTSD
Why self-criticism doesn’t work: “A tree doesn’t grow any faster when you sit there and criticize it. And neither do you”
“Sometimes we need to spend a little time around someone to remember the reasons why we don’t”
Recipe for self-forgiveness & being gentle on yourself
The nuances of conflict
Self mercey
The dialectic of two seemingly opposed concepts and how they can co-exist
waking the line of being authentic and private simultaneously
Defense and blame with a working example: parents with a child who has an eating disorder
Attachment styles: infant and adult
Attachment anxiety // attachment avoidance
Coding attachment style with toddlers **FACT CHECK: cardinal time for the strange test is 12-24 mos
The circle of security research based intervention — a tool that can be used by parents who have insecure attachment style, to develop a secure attachment with their babes
Experiences in Close Relationships Scale
Consistent doesn’t mean perfect
Website: www.drjennhardy.com
Instagram @drjennhardy
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Tami Amanda Sasson Is a licensed social worker, Personal Betterment Strategist, Yoga Teacher and is empowering women to re-awaken to their power, wholeness & worth through self-healing. She shares with potential clients that working with her is a very different experience as she incorporates her training as a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, somatic awareness practitioner and coach to bring you strategies that truly work and last. Enter to win these SIX lightroom mobile presets TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:+ Leave an itunes review+ Take a screenshot & email it to [email protected]+ That’s it! I will select a winner from the next 10 written itunes reviews I receive 🙂 SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS: Her childhood and role as a lost middle child The sexual trauma she experienced and the long term effects (as a young child) Intergenerational trauma + epigenetics Her desire to live in a fantasy world as a child The rules she learned to abide by in her family: keeping secrets, staying quiet, Inner child and shadow work Coping strategies she developed in her teen years to deal with her trauma Her baseline of fight/flight, normal = extreme, over active, hyper vigilant Her experience with […]
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