IN THIS EPISODE I SHARE:
- Why I couldn’t release the episode I had planned & the value of rolling with it
- Why I tried the Ivy Lee method and ultimately why I stopped
- The productivity vortex
- Behaviors/practices (like productivity and exercise) that are positively reinforced in our society, can be negative/numbing for some while beneficial for others
- Learning to recognize when things don’t feel good for me and knowing I can stop
- Letting go of the shame I used to carry in stopping a practice that wasn’t serving me
- I unpack the fears I’ve carried around the concept of “do your best”
- I share how ‘The 4 Agreements’ explains “doing your best”
- Overdoing and underperforming
- Finding the middle ground and why this theme keeps showing up for me
- Growing up with the message: the only way to improve at something is to be hard on yourself
- Changing our patterning is not instantaneous, and how this does not align with out instant-results focused culture
- The stages of change
- What allows people to preserve through the discomfort of change
- In my eating disorder recovery: the first obstacle of re-establishing a healthy relationship with food and I am now in process of my second obstacle: healing my relationship with exercise
- Valuing the “likes” vs. valuing the people behind the likes
- What I’m struggling with now in regards to fitness/exercise
- Why I don’t enjoy tracking things anymore
- Labeling certain kinds of workouts as “good” or “bad” (dichotomous thinking)
- The association I noticed I was making between intense workouts and old ED thought patterns
- Why I started feeling guilty to do higher intensity workouts
- Less intense, slower paced workouts are not better or worse than higher intensity workouts
- The exercise rules I am working through
- How to break the thought patterns
- Fear Setting (Tim Ferriss)
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Mr. Rodgers Documentary on Netflix
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