You may have heard the saying “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” Sometimes, all we need to relieve a bit of stress – and we’re all a bit stressed – is to let out a roar. This primal act, when done right, can help you let go of whatever you need to. In this episode, we share four ways that screaming or roaring can help reduce anxiety and stress.
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Holly Skodis is a yogi and vegan who shares so much in common with the LYT Yoga® philosophy. After healing from health issues through a plant-based diet and studying with Dharma Mitra in New York, she began to develop a deep spiritual connection to the path of veganism.
We touch on how the journey of redefining yoga, for herself, has helped her throughout life, how yoga helped her feel at home again in her body after giving birth, and how her combined passions have led to the Yoga is Vegan project.
She takes such a gentle and nonjudgmental approach to this path. Her story is inspiring to anyone, whether they decide to follow it or not.
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One of the most common myths about the body is this idea that we should constantly be stretching our hamstrings. It’s really common for your hamstrings to feel tight. Most people feel this and assume that they need to stretch them out. That’s the myth. A feeling is not the same as actual, structural tightness, so stretching often won’t solve the problem. What should you do, instead?
It comes down to joint mobilization and stabilization. Working the right muscles will help alter your perception of tightness where there isn’t any. Ultimately, tightness is just an opinion your brain has, and sometimes it gets it wrong. Listen to hear what you really need to be doing to address your hamstring tightness.
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Mara Smith is the founder and CEO of Inspiro Tequila, a tequila brand created, owned, and inspired by women. It’s her aim to inspire and support other female founders by sharing her story.
We learn that it’s never too late to reenter the workforce or to start your own business. A large gap in your resume doesn’t make you unhirable, and chances are, you’ve been developing a whole new set of incredible skills in that time, even if it isn’t backed up by an official title.
We talk about Mara’s journey, how she founded Inspiro, what it’s like to run day to day. Plus, our first experiences with tequila once we reached drinking age…
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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!
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With Valentine’s Day, it’s time to make sure you’re remembering to extend love to yourself. Self-compassion is incredibly important and we now know that it leads to better mental health overall. In this episode, I share a handy acronym to remind you to send some love inward as well as to those around you.
S: not selfish
E: emotional intelligence
L: leads to self-esteem
F: find community
These are the steps to building your self-compassion and becoming a stronger, healthier person in the process. To find out what each one means, listen to the episode now.
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Rachelle McCloud wants us to leave our pain in the past. Talk therapy is valid and has a lot to offer, but so much of it is about thoughts, stories, and reliving old chapters of our lives to find out why things happened. Rachelle McCloud has a new approach, which is to bypass all that. She wants to take us straight to the root cause so that we can find a solution.
She has some amazing insights into how our bodies process (or don’t process, as is often the case) trauma and pain. Sometimes, we might not have processed something mentally, but it’s still stored in our muscles and our physical self. Rachelle’s mission is to find where and when we’re doing this so that we can finally move past it.
We talk about this, as well as more on two of my favorite topics: how the brain works and how we think. It all ties into our mental and physical health so there’s so much to learn here.
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