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The Fitnessista Podcast: Healthy In Real Life - 027: Cultivating healthy relationships with Silvy Khoucasian

027: Cultivating healthy relationships with Silvy Khoucasian

01/23/19 • 39 min

The Fitnessista Podcast: Healthy In Real Life

Our personal relationships with friends, family, and our partner can dramatically impact how our mental health. I’m so excited to be chatting with Silvy Khoucasian today all about healthy relationships: what they mean, and how to build stronger, lasting connections.

Some of the things we discuss in today’s episode:

The #1 reason why relationships fail

The 5 love languages and how they can change over time

Beating the 7-year itch and how to keep things exciting

Tips for dealing with anxiety

How huge life events can impact our relationships

and so.much.more

Please check out this one! It’s a good one, and listening to Silvy’s beautiful calming voice is worth it alone. She shares so much incredible information in this episode and I really hope you love it.

Here’s a little bit about Silvy:

Silvy Khoucasian has a Master’s Degree in Psychology (Marriage and Family Therapy) and has has dedicated herself to helping individuals and couples heal from trauma, create healthy emotional boundaries and establish real and lasting connection within their relationships. Silvy has always been fascinated by culture and has extensively studied the way human beings behave in group settings. Growing up in the USA as a young immigrant from Armenia, Silvy has personally experienced how much culture plays a huge part in the roles we take on both in society as well as in our own family system.

Silvy also has a long history in the theatrical arts, where she has witnessed immense healing through the art of performance and role play. She uses drama therapy to help clients discover parts of themselves; parts that are difficult to access or that may have been suppressed for various reasons.

Find Silvy on her site, on Facebook, and on Instagram.

Thank you so much for listening and for all of your support with the podcast! Please leave a rating or review if you enjoyed this episode. If you leave a rating, head to this page and you’ll get a little “thank you” gift from me to you.

You can listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.

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Our personal relationships with friends, family, and our partner can dramatically impact how our mental health. I’m so excited to be chatting with Silvy Khoucasian today all about healthy relationships: what they mean, and how to build stronger, lasting connections.

Some of the things we discuss in today’s episode:

The #1 reason why relationships fail

The 5 love languages and how they can change over time

Beating the 7-year itch and how to keep things exciting

Tips for dealing with anxiety

How huge life events can impact our relationships

and so.much.more

Please check out this one! It’s a good one, and listening to Silvy’s beautiful calming voice is worth it alone. She shares so much incredible information in this episode and I really hope you love it.

Here’s a little bit about Silvy:

Silvy Khoucasian has a Master’s Degree in Psychology (Marriage and Family Therapy) and has has dedicated herself to helping individuals and couples heal from trauma, create healthy emotional boundaries and establish real and lasting connection within their relationships. Silvy has always been fascinated by culture and has extensively studied the way human beings behave in group settings. Growing up in the USA as a young immigrant from Armenia, Silvy has personally experienced how much culture plays a huge part in the roles we take on both in society as well as in our own family system.

Silvy also has a long history in the theatrical arts, where she has witnessed immense healing through the art of performance and role play. She uses drama therapy to help clients discover parts of themselves; parts that are difficult to access or that may have been suppressed for various reasons.

Find Silvy on her site, on Facebook, and on Instagram.

Thank you so much for listening and for all of your support with the podcast! Please leave a rating or review if you enjoyed this episode. If you leave a rating, head to this page and you’ll get a little “thank you” gift from me to you.

You can listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.

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026: Meal Planning Hacks with Ashley Reaver, MS, RD, CSSD

It's 2019 and so many of us and so many of us have goals of becoming fitter, stronger, happier and healthier in the new year. Nutrition is a huge part of this and how we set ourselves up for success (or don't!) can have a huge impact on our progress.

Today I'm chatting with Ashley Reaver about meal prep, meal planning hacks, and tips for getting comfortable in the kitchen. She shares so much amazing advice in this episode and I hope you love it!

We discuss:

What do you do if you don’t like to cook?

How to plan for a week of meals?

How can you minimize food waste?

What are some of the habits of her most successful clients?

What are some online resources for finding healthy meals?

Favorite travel snacks

and so.much.more.

Here’s a little bit about Ashley:

Ashley is the founder of Ashley Reaver Nutrition LLC and My Weekly Eats, a health and wellness blog and social media brand that focuses on easy, make ahead recipes and meal plans. When she isn’t working with her clients, Ashley is experimenting in her kitchen, spending time outdoors, or traveling with her husband, Eric.

Ashley is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Sports Special Dietitian who has a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University, completed her Dietetic Internship at California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona, and has a Masters of Science in Nutrition Science and Policy from Tufts University. In addition to nutrition counseling, Ashley has also worked at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the United States Department of Agriculture, and InsideTracker.

Resources from this episode:

The Instant Pot

6 tools for the beginner cook

Well Plated

The Real Food RDs

Pinch of Yum

Fit Foodie Finds

Find Ashley on her blog here and on Instagram.

Thank you so much for listening and for all of your support with the podcast! Please leave a rating or review if you enjoyed this episode. If you leave a rating, head to this page and you’ll get a little “thank you” gift from me to you.

You can listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.

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