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
191 episodes
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
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
Menopause metamorphosis: Menopause brain
Menopause brain…We say it like it’s a bad thing. We laugh it off as if it’s a joke when deep down we wonder if we’re losing our mind. It’s not a joke. And it’s not a loss either. It’s actually an update. During perimenopause and menopause ev...
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Season 4
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Episode 173
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32:45
Menopause metamorphosis: Bone health
Have you heard? 50 is the new 30. It’s true you’re as old as you believe you are. But the body ages from the inside out. Our bones are the architecture of our body and we take it for granted for the first half of our lives. Then we start to ...
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Season 4
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Episode 172
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27:20
Menopause metamorphosis: The Pelvic floor
Today we begin a series of episodes on the metamorphosis of menopause and perimenopause.and how to use yoga and the principles behind a yoga lifestyle to tap into a deeper well of wellness for longevity and health beyond ...
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Season 4
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Episode 171
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29:55
Weight loss and wellness lies
They say women are excellent multitaskers. That’s a lie. What we’re really good at is overriding our body and nervous system to the point of exhaustion and suffering through undernourishment. There is no multitasking in diet and exercise. Yo...
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Season 4
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Episode 170
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29:15
The business backbone you need to stand and deliver your dharma
The nature of entrepreneurship is experimental. There isn’t any certainty that what you have to offer is what people want. So we test and investigate and try things. There comes a point in every business and especially wellness business wher...
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Season 4
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Episode 169
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30:48
Somatics and trauma informed yoga with Shaye Molendyke
My guest today is Shaye Molendyke is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT 900-hour), Trauma-informed E-RYT-500, and Continuing Education Provider (YACEP. Shaye has more than 5,000 teaching hours.Shaye is a 28-year Air Forc...
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Season 4
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Episode 168
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56:00
Meditation as medicine: Why Yoga Nidra works
Meditation as medicine. Why Yoga Nidra works for mental health. NSDR non sleep deep rest is all the rage these days, thank you Andrew Huberman. But it has been around in the form of Yoga Nidra for thousands of years. What ...
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Season 4
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Episode 167
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30:08
Body networking for the fit pro with Colleen Jorgensen
Today on the Work IN we are so excited to have our favorite Osteopath and pain care educator, Colleen Jorgensen back with us on The Work IN. As you may remember Colleen is also a Pain Care Aware Trainer, therapeutic pilates, yoga and somatic...
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Season 4
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Episode 166
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43:46
Body networking with Colleen Jorgensen
Today on the Work IN we are so excited to have our favorite Osteopath and pain care educator, Colleen Jorgensen back with us on The Work IN. As you may remember Colleen is also a Pain Care Aware Trainer, therapeutic pilates, yoga and somatic...
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Season 4
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Episode 165
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41:47