The Work IN to move out of stress, tension & anxiety
The Work IN is for fitness professionals and refugees from the body brand nation who are ready to make trauma informed instruction the gold standard of professionalism across the industry. You'll find mentorship and professional perspectives to help fitness professionals and wellness educators who want to set themselves apart using a creative, trauma sensitive approach so that they can get lasting results for their clients and avoid burnout for themselves.
Episodes
200 episodes
Anandamaya kosha your bliss body
Welcome back to our series on the koshas. We've discussed Annamaya, our physical body layer, pranamaya kosha our energetic/breath layer, manomaya kosha our mental layer and last week we discussed Vijnanamaya kos...
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Season 4
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Episode 198
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20:41
Vijnanamaya Kosha wisdom self
We continue our exploration of the koshas this week with the 4th kosha. Vijnanamaya kosha is our wisdom body. The seat of our intellect.We strive for both wisdom and intellect and yet struggle to define them in practical ways. That’s our Wor...
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Season 4
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Episode 197
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25:15
Manomaya kosha your mental self
We are rarely who we think we are. Or are we? Manomaya kosha is the mental illusion over our true self. Our Work IN today we’re discussing our mind, its monkey aspects, squirrelish behavior and how to untangle the truth of who we are.
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Season 4
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Episode 196
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22:13
Pranamaya kosha breath of life
Without breath, we cease to exist and yet we spend very little of our time or attention understanding its healing power. Unless we’re in a yoga class. That’s our Work IN today, exploring pranamaya kosha, our energetic self, through the breat...
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Season 4
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Episode 195
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32:23
Annamaya Kosha your physical self
Annamaya Kosha Your physical selfWelcome to our series on the koshas. The Koshas are the 5 layers of self, set one within the other from the physical body to the Bliss body. Today is all about Annamaya Kosha. Anna meaning food ...
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Season 4
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Episode 194
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26:45
Lifting the veils: An introduction to the Koshas
Stress and trauma is overwhelming because it permeates every layer of our being. Having a deeper understanding of what those layers are can help us start the healing process toward post traumatic growth. Today our work IN is an introduction ...
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Season 4
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Episode 193
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18:34
Sexism in medicine: Misogyny, gaslighting and trauma in women's healthcare Part 2
Welcome back this is part 2 of our hysterical history. Today we shift into examples of medical misogyny in modern medicine.Our work IN today is a mix of healthcare history and a rebellious call to action for women everywhere to...
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Season 4
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Episode 192
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34:39
Hysterical history: Medical misogyny, gaslighting and trauma in women's healthcare
There is to this day a pattern of dismissal that is compounded by a lack of value placed on the female patient's lived experience and a distinct bias and inequality when it comes to research and precision guidelines for women. This is ...
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Season 4
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Episode 191
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28:37
Connecting all the hard things
One of the most powerful tools we have to build resilience and overcome chronic stress and trauma is connection. It’s the first thing that is sacrificed in the face of stress injury and yet it is the number one thing we need if we’re going t...
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Season 4
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Episode 190
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23:49
Hard Things: Good hard sleep
Ep 189 Hard things: Good hard sleepSleep is a hard thing. Good sleep is even harder.The complexity of our network of systems makes it even harder to isolate the keys to getting a great night’s sleep when literally anythin...
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Season 4
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Episode 189
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35:16
Uncommon sense on your plate
Eating “right” is a hard thing but not because it’s actually hard to do. Experts keep changing their minds, making unsupported nutrition recommendations that are riddled with conflicts of interest and have resulted in the exact opposite of h...
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Season 4
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Episode 188
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34:42
Hard is sexy
Goldilocks got it wrong. At least when it comes to exercise. Hard is sexy. Hard is effective. Hard makes everything easier. Hard exercise is required to maintain and build the kind of muscle that supports health span not just life span. That...
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Season 4
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Episode 187
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21:00
Hard things for health
They say yoga poses don’t begin until you want to quit. That is true for everything in health and wellness. If we want to be strong, healthy and well beyond the false sense of security that comes with mainstream medical health markers we nee...
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Season 4
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Episode 186
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29:13
Full time fitness fallacy
I’m killing the dream of a full time fitness career today on The Work IN. Working full time as a fitness instructor or coach and making a living is not realistic. At least not the way we traditionally think of full time in other career...
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Season 4
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Episode 185
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44:29
Putting the professional back in the fit pro
Let’s face it, the fitness and wellness industry attracts all kinds of people and there are all kinds of ways to succeed in it. The assumption is that people who work in wellness, from instructors and trainers to studio and gym owners, are w...
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Season 4
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Episode 184
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18:41
What makes trauma release yoga different?
What makes trauma release yoga different from every other kind of yoga?They say comparison is the thief of joy but it can also be an excellent guide post. Today we’re going to take a deep dive into the differences between tradi...
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Season 4
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Episode 183
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27:54
Using the 5 stages of grief to conquer chronic stress
Grief and stress are part of the human condition. We don’t need to live very long before we experience either one. What’s interesting is the recovery process for each can be remarkably similar. Chronic long term stress can feel remarkably li...
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Season 4
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Episode 182
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25:07
Retreat with intention
Yoga retreats sound so nice. Full disclosure, I’ve never been on a retreat per say and I have all the excuses to prove it. I’ve done yoga teacher training that lasted a week but I’ve never had the time to take away from my family, my job for...
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Season 4
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Episode 181
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30:14
Redefine your subconscious identity pathology
When you live long enough, you’re going to accumulate trauma. Sometimes it’s big T trauma and sometimes it’s little t. The big T is stuff like assault, abuse, or car accidents, or combat, or witnessing a horrific event of some kind. Little t...
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Season 4
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Episode 180
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30:02
Stress: My favorite addiction
Until about the age of 7 we don’t have the ability to reject any ideas or beliefs that we’re exposed to. Our baby brains haven’t developed that kind of filtering yet. So our early years are marinating in the beliefs of our caregivers about w...
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Season 4
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Episode 179
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26:52
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Hypervigilance: A recipe for socially acceptable addiction
178 Hypervigilance: A recipe for socially acceptable addiction Hypervigilance is a common stress and trauma response where it feels like you’re always on high alert. Even when you’re exhausted you can’t fall asleep, you ha...
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Season 4
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Episode 178
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23:29
The ultimate gaslight
Safe self regulation. The holy grail of trauma recovery. Safe self regulation is the ability to rise to any challenge, any threat from outside or inside the body and then return back to our “normal” socially engaged baseline. In trauma...
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Season 4
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Episode 177
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15:44
Sick care, fear programming and the power of placebos
What do you believe about your health? Who makes and keeps you healthy? Who is the expert in your physical, mental and emotional health? Today on the Work IN we’re going to talk about how our health beliefs and fear programming can make us a...
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Season 4
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Episode 176
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23:25
Menopause metamorphosis: Sleep + Hot flashes
Welcome back to our last episode in our menopause metamorphosis series. Today we are talking about sleep.For the past few weeks we’ve been talking about how menopause and perimenopause affects our bones, our muscles,our pelvic floor, our gut...
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Season 4
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Episode 175
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30:30
Menopause metamorphosis: Gut health
Welcome back to our series on all the changes in menopause that go beyond hot flashes. Today we’re talking about the gut and gut health. We have discussed the importance of the gut microbiome in previous podcasts but never in relation to per...
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Season 4
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Episode 174
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26:12
