109. How To Get Your Mind Right And Your Body Tight With Lunden Souza
02/01/22 • 32 min
In this episode, we talk with Lunden Souza about self-love and what it takes to be at least a little more content in your own skin. She offers simple steps you can take to improve your relationship with yourself, and shares strategies to help you become the better, healthier version of yourself that you’ve always wanted to be.
Lunden is a fitness and lifestyle transformation coach. She is also the host of the Self Love and Sweat Podcast.
What We Discuss with Lunden:- 00:00 Intro
- 7:13 A passion for fitness
- 9:42 Challenges we all face
- 12:28 What is self love?
- 16:14 Strength in vulnerability
- 18:43 Why habits are important
- 22:58 Do what works for you
- 27:00 The Self Love and Sweat Podcast
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In this episode, we talk with Lunden Souza about self-love and what it takes to be at least a little more content in your own skin. She offers simple steps you can take to improve your relationship with yourself, and shares strategies to help you become the better, healthier version of yourself that you’ve always wanted to be.
Lunden is a fitness and lifestyle transformation coach. She is also the host of the Self Love and Sweat Podcast.
What We Discuss with Lunden:- 00:00 Intro
- 7:13 A passion for fitness
- 9:42 Challenges we all face
- 12:28 What is self love?
- 16:14 Strength in vulnerability
- 18:43 Why habits are important
- 22:58 Do what works for you
- 27:00 The Self Love and Sweat Podcast
Like this show? Please leave us a review here – even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally!
Resources:
Get your Free Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens!
Connect with The Fit Mess Podcast on:
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108. How to UnFu*k Your Relationship Before It's Too Late with Gary John Bishop
ABOUT THE EPISODE:
Everyone wants that amazing, fulfilling, and profoundly connected relationship we’ve all read about and dreamed of with someone who gets you and you get them, and all is wonderful in the world. But what is the reason some of us don’t have it? Maybe you don’t know shit about having an authentically great relationship! That's according to our guest this week. The “Sex Pistols of Self-Help,” Gary John Bishop is also the author of “Love Unfucked: Getting Your Relationship Shit Together.” It’s the latest title from his “Unfuck Yourself” series.
In this episode of The Fit Mess, Gary shares why you need to stop shifting blame in your relationships, take responsibility, and face yourself first if you truly want a real relationship that actually works.
What We Discuss with Gary:- 00:00 Intro
- 2:22 Thoughts create reality
- 5:36 Why Love UnFu*ked is an important book now
- 9:58 Which relationships need help
- 11:22 Self-reflection leads to growth
- 14:21 Don’t change for other people
- 19:06 People don’t change but relationships do
- 24:39 Why you keep attracting assholes
- 28:17 Can you be loved if you don’t love yourself
- 30:08 What Gary’s wife thinks about his relationship advice
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110. How to Escape the Darkness: Why Exercise is Powerful Medicine For the Mind with Dr. J.M. Thompson
Untreated child traumas in life, depression, and alike usually either form from deep-rooted causes or spark from very early experiences that start during childhood. For that reason, these issues aren't the type one can take a break from nor run away from. Yes, you can't run away from it. But you can still try running! How? In this episode of The Fit Mess, Dr. J.M. Thompson talks about why exercise is a powerful medicine for the mind, how one can train tolerance and endurance through running, and what he tells about in his book Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir.
Find out how you can adopt new practices in life in this episode of The Fit Mess with Dr. J.M. Thompson!
How Running Works Against Mental Issues
When the mind struggles with mental disorders, it becomes challenging to stay in the here and now of life. For individuals who experience these and other mental conditions, the mind tends to preoccupy feelings and emotions of the past. It weighs it down. And as the mind gets busy with before issues, this is when you tend to lose a sense of where you are in the world. For the individuals that become victims of this, the predictability of things gets lost.
For Dr. J.M. Thompson, author of Running is a Kind of Dreaming, endurance activities is a proven counter for these types of issue. From experience, Dr. Thompson speaks of running as a form of grounding. It becomes one's coming into the right now of the moment. Like any other physical activity, it helps create predictability and presence of mind. It also creates a strong connection between your brain and body and denies you the option of isolation.
Listen more to how Dr. J.M. Thompson explains the benefits of endurance activities to mental health in this episode of The Fit Mess!
About Dr. J.M. Thompson:
J.M. Thompson was born in England. He holds a BA in English literature from Oxford University and a doctorate in clinical psychology. He completed his psychology training at the University of California, San Francisco, where he conducted research on the brain mechanisms of meditation and the physiology of trauma.
He is also an ordained Zen practitioner and certified yoga teacher. He has finished over 40 ultramarathons, and multiple solo adventures runs in the Sierra Nevada, the Grand Canyon, and Death Valley. Thompson currently serves as a staff psychologist at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.
Outline of the Episode:
[01:22] Zach – on running for an early-out from work
[02:27] Moving your body can move so many things in your life
[05:18] Athletic Greens for more energy, better gut health, and an optimized immune system!
[07:06] Dr. J.M. Thompson – on running before it's too late
[10:53] What is it about endurance activities that work so well on our mentality?
[12:12] An unhealthy mental state can result in a loss of predictability
[16:02] The difference between accessing your flow state in a gym and outdoors
[19:25] Your experience is your experience, and it's worthy of care
[22:13] How does one simply pick up a new practice?
[24:05] Dr. J.M. Thompson – on recovery, healing, and the experience of his book Running is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir
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