04- Integrating Mind, Body, and Spirit

Spill Your Guts! with Rachel and Mandi

In this episode, our hosts expound on major erroneous perspectives within the fitness community, including the pressures that come with such beliefs.

Rachel and Mandi highlight the impact that these views have on people's journeys, noting the appropriate mindset to incorporate into our fitness journey.

• [03:46] About Rachel's path to being the best version of herself. She talks about how there is a lot of power in saying something very positive about ourselves and truly believing it.
• [21:30] Within the fitness community, there's a general assumption of what fitness looks like and the comfort that comes with that look. This creates a constant cycle of body shaming despite how good people look or how much work they put in. Hence the trending idea of body positivity with the caveats included by the fitness world is quite nonsensical.
• [39:15] Your fitness can be a love story; it should feel like freedom. Feeling trapped is a sign that you may not be on the right fitness path. The realization comes with age, that in the grand scheme of life, your body appearance alone has little relevance.
• [42:40] About the much-publicized upcoming thin body trend. Largely, the noise surrounding this trend is rebranding and also aimed at putting down people who have accomplished so much that criticism is hard.
• [49:40] Is the fitness industry evolving to being less about aesthetics? With the pandemic, a lot of people started to change their views on health to be less about appearance and more holistic. However, with normalcy returning, things are reverting to the way they were.
• [54:00] What to do when you get stuck in these mind-body-spirit plateaus; sit in it and take inventory because your body mind or spirit is holding you there for a reason. There is something to uncover to get things moving again. Don't try to rush through those plateaus. A plateau is a gift.

"The least interesting thing about us is our bodies; they're just housing the spirit"

"Strength training is so important because it manifests and shows up outside of the gym"

"Some of the most unhealthy people I know have the highest appearance of fitness and health"

"If you are feeling trapped, held down, imprisoned by your wellness plan, you have not arrived at the right wellness plan"

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Chapters

1. 04- Integrating Mind, Body, and Spirit (00:00:00)

2. Embracing 40 and Living Authentically (00:00:14)

3. Body Standards in All-Girl Schools (00:15:32)

4. Body Positivity and Fitness Culture (00:20:13)

5. Body Positivity and the Mind-Body Connection (00:26:08)

6. Wellness as a Love Story (00:39:48)

7. TikTok and Body Image (00:44:57)

8. Body Positivity and Overcoming Plateaus (00:52:07)