The Mind Body Academy Podcast

Join the 30-Day Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Apply for a FREE consult: https://bit.ly/think-yourself-slim-apply Learn more: www.thegeniusbody.com Your lovability is not determined by other people's capacity to love you. It's determined by your ability to love. Tune into this week's episode to find out how you can experience more love.

Join the 30-Day Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Apply for a FREE consult: https://bit.ly/think-yourself-slim-apply Learn more: www.thegeniusbody.com To gluten or not to gluten? That's the question everyone is asking about these days. In this episode, I clear up whether the gluten-free label that seems to get slapped on just about everything these days is another diet fad or something we truly ought to be mindful of so that we can enjoy better health.

Join the 30-Day Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Apply for a FREE consult: https://bit.ly/think-yourself-slim-apply Learn more: www.thegeniusbody.com Do you have too much to do and too little time to do it in? In this episode, I share my process for overcoming overwhelm and producing instead of procrastinating without all the pressure.

Join the 30-Day Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Apply for a FREE consult: https://bit.ly/think-yourself-slim-apply Learn more: www.thegeniusbody.com Emotional health isn't a size, shape, or number. It isn't something you can measure on a scale. It's the invisible strength you show up with when faced with the pressures, stresses, and challenges that come your way. Most of people take this strength for granted. They expect it be there without having to put in the reps like they do at the gym. They don't incorporate emotional fitness into their lives and because of this they end up carrying the weight of their emotions around with them. So much of the focus in the field of mental health is on treating mental health. In this episode, you'll learn how you can create and condition your emotional health and release the mental weight that's been holding you back in life.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com If you're thinking that going sugar-free means munching on a bunch of lettuce and celery sticks, think again! When we're fixated on what we're taking out of our diets, we often forget to properly plan for what we'll be adding in. That's because most people cutback with the mindset that they HAVE TO do it, instead of making it something fun and desirable they actually WANT TO do. And even when they want to, people can't seem to. Why is that? In this episode, you'll learn the essentials of overcoming sugar addiction. You'll discover it has very little to do with willpower and everything to with biochemistry. You'll also listen to me talk about my health scare that lead me to care and why you should to.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Lots of people gage their health based on how much they weigh. They tend to assume that someone who is skinny is in better health than someone who is overweight or obese. They also think that they can eat whatever they want if it doesn't make them gain weight. This is 100% wrong. In this episode, you'll learn about "diabesity" and "skinny fat syndrome" - either of which might be affecting you or someone you care about. Listen in level up your understanding of what it truly means to be "healthy".

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com I know what it feels like to live with anxiety while trying to juggle the demands of life and simultaneously trying to dodge curve balls out of left field. Like say... a global pandemic. If you feel like you're dropping some balls, I've got you covered in this episode. Listen in to find out how you can unwind your anxious mind.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com On this episode of The Mind Body Academy podcast, you'll learn exactly why you self-sabotage and what you can do about it. Take control of your life and achieve even the highest of ambitions by applying what you learn in this episode. PS. Oh hey! It's episode 50. Celebrate with me by sending an episode of the podcast to a friend and telling them why it made you think of them. Cheers to 50 more and many many more!

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com   In this episode, you'll learn to set and keep your New Years resolution to lose weight. A lot of us get a little... shall we say... "overenthusiastic" when it comes to setting new goals for the year ahead. We want it all. I'll teach you how to reel it in so you can actually get it done.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Get Biome Medic: www.thegeniusbody.com/shop-supplements   Most of us are so preoccupied with what's IN our food that we forget all about what's being put ON our food. I used to shrug and think that, whatever it is, it can't be that bad for us. Yep, I've eaten more unwashed fruits and veggies than I care to admit. I've also looked at organic and non-organic produce and thought to myself that the biggest difference was probably the price. I couldn't have been more wrong. In the context of the pandemic, we need to be asking ourselves why we are so vulnerable right now. What we're living through with the pandemic of COVID-19 is the intersection of the pandemic of the virus with the pandemic of chronic disease and obesity. In this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast, we explore the impact of chemical farming and environmental stress on our immune systems. You'll also learn about glyphosate, one of the most harmful toxins on your food that you've probably never heard of.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Worried about gaining weight over the holidays? In this episode of The Mind Body Academy podcast, I'll give you the tools to navigate the holidays and enjoy all the foods you love without worrying about weight gain.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com If you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight. WRONG! The vast majority of conventional nutritionists and doctors have it mostly wrong when it comes to weight loss. The biggest misconception is that it's just a question of "calories in, calories out". In this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast, you'll find out exactly why calories don't matter and you'll discover what does. If after listening to this episode, you're inspired to detox to end your sugar addiction and eliminate your carb cravings, be sure to reboot your health by joining the next Genius Body Transformation Challenge that kicks off on January 1st.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com If you've ever tried to weigh your worth on a scale, this episode is for you. In this episode, I'll unpack the concept of "self-worth" without any fluff or frills. I'll give you a boots-on-the-ground approach to improving your own opinion of yourself that will allow you to become more like the best of yourself—in mind, body, and everything else. Oh, and this episode marks the one year anniversary of the podcast! Mind blown. Thank you for being the most awesome part of what makes this podcast awesome!

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Did you know you have a second brain? Your gut is known as your second brain. The health of your gut is at the root of your physical and mental health. If you want to lose weight the smarter way, you need to get your gut health in check. Find out how on this week's episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Creating motivation is one of the most important skills you can learn when you want to lose weight. It's the difference between losing weight and struggling to lose weight. This is not something we are typically taught. People tend to think that they either have motivation or they've lost it. Find out what nobody is telling you about motivation in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast. This episode will give you a nudge of motivation and then it will be like riding a bike. You'll have to practice, but once you get the hang of creating it for yourself you'll never forget how to do it... even if you get a little rusty. 

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Complaining doesn't solve problems. The problem is it FEELS productive so we do it and then we overdo it without realizing it. Complaining gets in the way of taking action and creating results. The solution? Doing a Complaint Detox. Tune into this week's episode to find how to get complaining out of your system so you can start thinking constructively instead!

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Loneliness is about not being able to be around other people, right? Wrong! In this episode, find out what causes loneliness and what you can do about it. Being alone doesn't have to mean you are alone. Listen in to find out what you can do to feel connected when you feel lonely.  

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Are you going through a hard time? This episode will help you get through it.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Most of us have no idea how to communicate with ourselves without judgement, blame, frustration, or justification. We talk ourselves in and out of things, go back and forth on decisions, and have trouble following through on the things we say we're going to do. When that inner dialogue is full of conflict and criticism, it gets in the way of the relationship we have with ourselves and, by extension, the relationship we have to everything else in our lives. When we improve the way we speak to ourselves, the way we experience life improves. When it's you against you, you're always going to walk away from that fight the loser. Learn how to get yourself on your own side in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com I am beyond excited to share with you what I have been working on. What has come together in a matter of weeks was years and years in the making. Everyday, I wake up and go to bed thinking about how I can make weight loss easier and coaching more accessible to you. I hold nothing back and give you all my secrets in my podcast and now in my NEW book. All before you ever sign-up for one of my seminars or to work with me one-on-one in Think Yourself Slim. If weight loss has been hard, I want you to know that there is a better way. A way that will make your life easier. A way that is driven by internal changes rather than an external plan. A way that is progressive and sustainable instead of being all-or-nothing. A way that allow you to get to know what your body needs instead of telling you what your body should look like. A way that will empower you instead of restrict you. A way that will get you a better life, not just a better body. A way to actually GET. IT. DONE. In my book, The Genius Body, I will tell you how. This could be the start of the best chapters in your life. Don't wait to turn the first page. Listen to the audio of the intro to the book in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast. And stay tuned for a very special announcement at the end of the episode!

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com When we are in physical or emotional pain, there is our pain and then there is the pain that we are in pain. Through this mindfulness practice you will learn to soften around your pain. The point is not to get rid of your pain, but to understand it, open to it, and release some of its intensity.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com The biggest thing between you and the changes you want to make isn't... your body your boyfriend or your bank account. If you aren't feeling blown away by your life and you thought things would be different by now, that's because of YOUR BRAIN. You can't use the force of your own mind against itself to change. When it's you against you, you're not coming away from that fight a winner. In fact, you'll just end up feeling like you're losing it. This is why no matter how badly you want to change or how hard you work at it,  you keep ending up back in the same place you started: feeling unhappy and like something is missing ...again ...and again ...and again. The solution to creating more of the results you really want is to align your mind with the actions you want to be taking. In this episode, you will learn how to use a tool called "The Model" to take charge of your happiness first. Then create the life you've ALWAYS wanted and a body you REALLY love.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Your commitment towards your goals seems to come and go. You've started over on Monday 100 times. Deep down you know you have what it takes. What can you do to follow through when you just don't feel like it? Listen in to this episode to find out how to create the kind of unconditional commitment that actually creates results.    

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Why is it so hard to eat only one cookie or just a handful of chips?   What makes it so hard to stop eating when you feel possessed to eat more?   If you want to know the answers to these questions, tune into this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.   You'll also learn...   How to ditch the diet rules for a tool called Bright Lines   Why willpower never works when you're trying to eat better   And how to restrict your food without feeling restricted   Don't wait to checkout this episode! I'll walk you through exactly what works to actually stick to the way you want to be eating.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com The number one reason most people think they haven't achieved their goals yet is...   ... You guessed it! Not enough willpower.   The problem is...   Willpower does NOT work.   Willpower is LIMITED.   Let's be honest, your willpower was gone the moment you rolled over in bed and checked your phone first thing in the morning.   It used to drive me crazy that I seemed to be taking so much more action than a lot of the people who actually had the result I was after.   Now I know that it's because they weren't using willpower.   They are using something else.   I will tell you what that something else is.   If you want to eliminate the need for willpower AND get better results, this episode of The Mind Body Academy will be a game changer.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com There is a way to outwit your cravings without feeling miserable and deprived.   A way that doesn't require more willpower or self-discipline.   A way that can help you manage your weight to a T without putting everything you eat under a microscope.   If you have a hard time crushing your cravings...   There is a smarter way.   If you want to know how, this episode is too important to skip over.   Check out this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast and I will show you exactly how to decrease and even eliminate your cravings.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com When I was a kid, my parents sent me off to a shrink after their divorce.   In our first session, he told me I was “angry”.   And then I got angry that he thought I was angry.   Ever prove someone right by trying to prove them wrong?   This happens all the time when we try to control other people's opinions of us.   People will have all kinds of opinions about you.   They will think they know you better than you know yourself.   They will think they know what's in your best interest.   No matter what you do to control their opinion or change yourself so that they like you more,   There's always going to be THAT person who feels insulted by your existence just because.   Nothing you can do about that.   You don't know why people like you or why they don't like you.   When you try to control other people's opinions of you, what ends up happening is that you don't even end up showing up as yourself.   Listen to this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast to find out how to take control of your own opinion.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com It's hard to get shit done when you feel like a bag of poop.   Like lose the weight.   Or build your business.   Or make enough money to fill up a swimming pool.   In this episode, I will teach you how to flush out your craptastic thinking so you can start feeling better and get back to focusing on what REALLY matters.   Life isn't always rainbows and daisies.   It isn't supposed to be.   So when you stop feeling like crap about feeling like crap, you'll feel a lot less...   Well... shitty.   Listen in to this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast to find out how to stop feeling like shit.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Wouldn't it be nice to be happy all the time? Wrong!   It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that when...   You're stuck in the feeling of “nothing is changing”   Or spinning out in the feeling of “everything is going wrong”   This fuels an undercurrent of anxiety that something needs to be fixed or improved so that you can finally be happy.   But happiness is not something we arrive at.   There is no better future moment where life magically snaps I to place.   When we think happiness is on the backend of some achievement, we end up building a bridge between where we are and where we want to be that we can't see the end of.   If you want happiness to be in reach, you need to get good at making yourself happy where you are now.   THEN you can create the life you really want.   That is what you will learn in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.   How to take charge of your happiness FIRST.   Then create the life you've ALWAYS wanted.   Tune into this episode to find out why trying to make yourself happier is probably making you unhappier and what you can do to change that.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com If you find yourself thinking “I'm so busy” or “I'm doing so much”,   Notice the quality of your doing.   It doesn't matter how hard you're working at what you're doing if that's not producing results.   Do you know why you haven't achieved what you want to achieve yet?   You're too busy thinking that what you're doing isn't enough or why what you're doing won't work.   You're not focused on what will work.   Actions don't create results.   Action backed by the one thing I teach you in this podcast episode does.   Tune into The Mind Body Academy Podcast to find out what you're missing.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Let me ask you:   Have you ever taken a hard look at yourself and thought, “I don't really like what I'm seeing”?   So you try to fix that by trying to lose weight, or working harder, or with a new job, a new guy (or girl), the swipe of a credit card, etc.   And you feel good about yourself for a little while, until you find yourself right back where you started....   Underwhelmed by yourself and feeling like something is missing.   What if I told you there was ONE thing that you could shift to change that.   It has allowed me to become one of the happiest people I know and it was the key to overcoming my struggle with my weight.   My life used to be the opposite of that. I used to struggle with chronic depression and disordered eating and I was in a downward spiral.   There was a point in my life when I thought it would always be that way.   That's why I want to share the one thing I focused on to turn everything around in this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com In today's episode, I'm covering the first stage of weight loss: mindset mastery. This is where you need to focus if you find yourself wanting to lose the weight, but not fully believing its possible or sabotaging your efforts when you believe you "should" be able to lose the weight but you're not doing it. You'll also learn why it's so important to understand which stage of weight loss you're at and which signs to pay attention to determine which stage you're at. 

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com Do you know the difference between fixing vs solving your weight loss problem? I always tell my clients: "You can lose the weight and not have solved your problem." Before you start another hopeless diet or try to drag yourself back to the gym, listen in to find out what I mean. Find out what weight loss coaching is and what Think Yourself Slim is all about.

Most of us do not know how to disagree with someone without shutting down or shutting them down and totally disconnecting. This meditation will help you work with emotions like anger in a conversation so that you can depersonalize and diffuse the tension around other people's beliefs, judgements, behaviours, and opinions. Disagreement can be the beginning of understanding and reconnection. Find out how by listening in and practicing this meditation today. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Find out how by clicking here: www.thegeniusbody.com  

Do you find yourself regularly shutting down or wanting to shut people down when they're being difficult? This meditation will help you release some of the hard feelings you have toward them by drawing on your compassion and common humanity. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Find out how by clicking here: www.thegeniusbody.com

Not being able to listen often costs us our peace and, at times, our relationships. This episode covers how to be in a conversation when what you need to listen to each other about may be charged with intense or difficult emotions. Listening is a skill and it must be practiced. The episode concludes with a deep listening practice that will support you in re-training your listening attention.  Ready to take this work to a deeper application in your life? Click here to find out how: www.thegeniusbody.com

Over the course of this meditation series called Give Peace a Chance, you will be guided through mindfulness teachings and practices that will help you navigate times of difficulty. You will learn how to create a safe container in which to practice conflict resolution, starting with you. So many people describe to me how it feels like they are at war with themselves. Learn to make peace in your own two feet, right where you stand. We begin today with a compassion meditation to begin this self-study journey of becoming a teacher of peace. To take this work to a deeper application, click here: www.thegeniusbody.com

The secret to mindful eating ISN'T cutting out all the foods you love. What we add in is just as important as what we take out and today I will teach you how to include the foods you love AND be making a healthy choice at the same time. If mindful and health conscious eating FEELS bad, you aren't going to be able to keep it up long-term. There is a better way. Listen in to find out how. Ready to create next level results in your life? Find out how by clicking here www.thegeniusbody.com

In this meditation, we're diving into a fresh understanding of the nature of desire and why changing how we think about our desire for food can create so much food freedom. We tend to want to get rid of our desire for food we can't have or rush to satisfy our craving, but I want to suggest a new way to approach this feeling. It will change the way you think about desire and, if you ask me, it's kind of the secret to everything. Ready to take this work to a deeper application in your life? Find out how we could work together by clicking here: www.thegeniusbody.com

There will be many times when we want to eat even if we're not hungry. Then what? In this meditation, you'll learn a technique called Surfing Cravings so you don't have to use willpower to resist the temptation. When you learn to surf, cravings stop having control over your eating patterns. Channel your best inner chilled out surfer dude and listen in to find more. Ready to take this work to a deeper application in your life? Learn how we could work together by clicking here: www.thegeniusbody.com

In this meditation, you will learn a technique called RAIN that will help you digest your emotions so they don't weigh so heavy on you and so that you can release them instead of stuffing them down with food. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Apply to work with me by clicking here: www.thegeniusbody.com

I recommend that you do this meditation 1-2hrs after waking up and before you have anything to eat. It will allow you to get a better read on your true physical hunger. In this session, you'll learn how to use a tool called the Hunger Scale. The meditation will help you fine tune the tool to your body so you know exactly when your body is telling you it's truly hungry and when it's telling you that you've had enough to eat. If you learn this one tool and commit to applying it, you will solve your problem with mindless eating. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Find out how we can work together by clicking here: www.thegeniusbody.com

In this meditation you will learn about the concept of "Mind Fullness". Sometimes, our minds are so full that in our unconscious attempt to digest some of what's weighing on us, we eat. We're eating to try to satisfy the mind rather than the body. In this session, you will learn to "clear the table" in your mind before you sit down to eat at the table so you can sit down at the table with a clear mind and truly nourish yourself from the inside out and the outside in. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Find out how by clicking here www.thegeniusbody.com

In this meditation, you will learn how to create a "Stable Table" to support a balanced way of eating. The four pillars you will draw on will be the mental, the emotional, the physical, and the spiritual. By the end of this session, you will truly understand why it's so hard to eat only when you're hungry and to stop when you're full and what you can do to move yourself toward food freedom. Ready to take this work to the next level? Click here to find out more: www.thegeniusbody.com

If you think exercise is an effective way to lose weight, think again. My approach might go against the grain of everything you've ever been taught about weight loss, but it's the key to creating a body that FEELS as good as it looks. Trying to change your body through fitness to change your thoughts about yourself is never going to produce the change you want to see. Find out how you can start to muscle up your mental and emotional body to create true and lasting physical changes. Ready to take this work to the next level? Click here to find out how: www.thegeniusbody.com

We tend to have A LOT of thoughts about our bodies. We believe that if this or that changed, then we would finally be acceptable to ourselves. We practice rejecting our bodies over and over, hoping that one day that will teach us something about loving them. Chasing body image perfection is a marathon with no end in sight because there is no finish line up ahead. The finish line is your body right now, this very second. It's already here. This practice is designed to help you arrive back in your body. It will support you in neutralizing and relaxing into the body so you can experience it from within your body, instead of from inside your mind. Discover all you aren't seeing because of what you are seeing by listening to this meditation today. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Apply to work with me today by clicking here: www.thegeniusbody.com

This meditation is designed to support you in meeting what is with smile-like acceptance. With this practice you'll be playing with the imagery of a smile. Thich Nhat Han calls this "smile yoga" because the image and felt sense of a smile relaxes us and allows us tend and befriend our own inner life, especially when doing so may not prove easy. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Click here to find out how you can work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com

So many of us spend our days up in our heads. When our heads hit the pillow at night, our minds are so restless that we aren't able to give our bodies deep rest. This practice is a progressive relaxation practice designed to ease you out of your mind and get you back in your body. You will be using the technique of contraction and de-contraction of specific muscles and muscle groups as a sort of self-massage. This will allow you to detoxify and release any backlog of stress that may have accumulated in your tissues over the course of the day as well as the cumulative stress that you have stored over the course of your lifetime. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Click here to find out how to work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com

The questions we ask ourselves are some of the most powerful tools we can use to create and direct our lives. Learning to ask high-quality, empowering questions allows us to generate the skill of making everything figureoutable. The problem is that in a world where you can pop any question into search bar, many of us have stopped coming up with our own answers. This has created a "don't know mind" where we reflexively answer "I don't know" instead of putting our brains to work on coming up with an answer or a better question. This meditation is designed to teach you how to open a mental search bar so that you're better able to inquire within and access your own insights and wisdom. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Click here to find out how: www.mindbody.academy  

The acronym RAIN is a powerful tool for working through difficult emotions. It offers a way of interrupting habitual patterns of emotional reactivity and creating new patterns of responsiveness. It is this skill that allows us the emotional agility and flexibility to adapt to challenging circumstances and use them as an opportunities for strength and betterment. This meditation is inspired by the work and teachings of Tara Brach and Byron Katie. Ready to take this work to a deeper application? Find out how by clicking here: www.thegeniusbody.com

Join the Genius Body Detox: www.thegeniusbody.com/detox Work with me: www.thegeniusbody.com   How you are feeling right now is the whole reason you are doing or not doing what you actually want to be doing.   How you feel determines everything else in your life.   Your ability to create success for yourself in any area of your life is directly proportionate to your capacity and willingness to experience ANY emotion.   If you want to create a better life for yourself, you need to know how to feel better.   And that is exactly what you'll learn in this week's episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.