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. You can’t run yourself into the ground without rest and balanced nutrition and get stronger. Skinny and healthy aren’t the same thing. Today on The Work IN we’re talking about some of those weight loss lies and how to start working with the body so we can feel safe, strong and confident in our own skin.

People are wired for connection. It’s an evolutionary survival mechanism innate in even the most introverted of us. And it’s repeated from our cultural community and tribal tendencies all the way down to a cellular level in the body. Connection in the context of health and wellness can look like mindfulness practices, building self awareness through meditation and journaling, setting healthy boundaries, improving work life balance, strengthening relationships with family and friends, getting involved in your community, building your own communication and leadership skills, tapping into hobbies and activities that bring you joy.

On the surface those things might not seem as critical to our health as getting our blood pressure under control or lowering our cholesterol and losing weight. But it’s precisely BECAUSE those things are critical that we need to acknowledge the influence that our connection to ourselves and our community has on those more measurable health outcomes. Today we’re discussing the internal and external connections that matter when we’re making changes to our health.

In this Best of Replay my guest is Nate Sleger. He's a speaker, author and fitness industry expert, who has had his start as a personal trainer and and a nutrition coach. He's the host of the begin with podcast, where he interviews experts to uncover the behind the scenes of fitness, motivation and lasting results. Nate is also the founder and operator of begin within fitness. A 100% online personal training and nutrition coaching studio designed to remove barriers to fitness and make it easy. Today we're going to be talking about how to lift the pressure and stress of prescriptive fitness and how trauma informed principles overlap when it comes to maintaining long term health habits. Part of being a trauma informed FitPro is understanding that we are really teaching our clients to be trauma informed for themselves, helping them build their own awareness. So they can get the results they want. After all, they are the ones who have to do the work. And that can't happen if we overwhelm them right out of the gate. And it really can't happen if we ourselves don't have an integrated self regulation practice to share. So today let's get right to our work in with Nate Slager. Nate, thank you so much for joining me on the work in