Bodies Outside The Box

What happens when exercise stops being something you do to control your body and becomes something that actually adds to your life?
In this episode, I’m joined by mixed movement coach Olive to talk about healing your relationship with exercise after orthorexia, rigidity, and exercise obsession.
Olive shares their journey from highly controlled exercise to finding freedom through climbing, strength training, yoga, calisthenics, pole, and play.
We talk about exercise guilt, consistency vs. rigidity, aesthetic goals, knowing when to push vs. rest, and how getting physically stronger can change the way you show up far beyond the gym.
Because healing your relationship with exercise doesn’t mean you stop caring about your training.
You can get strong, challenge yourself, chase goals, AND actually enjoy moving your body.

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Your nervous system isn't broken. It's not a wound that needs healing. And our obsession with “healing” it fits a little too perfectly into a wellness culture that constantly gives us something new about ourselves to fix.
But that doesn't mean nervous system regulation doesn't matter.
In this episode, we're getting nerdy about
what your nervous system is actually doing when you're triggered
why you can't always think your way out of dysregulation
and what becomes possible once you're regulated enough to actually listen to your body.

This episode is specifically created with folks who struggle with body image, disordered eating, or are in eating disorder recovery in mind—but the tools and concepts we're talking about can be useful for anyone who wants to better understand their nervous system and themselves.
We get into:
What “healing” your nervous system actually means + why regulation is about more than calming down

What happens in your brain when you're triggered + why positive affirmations don't always help

Bottom-up + top-down regulation tools, with specific applications for body image + disordered eating

Neuroplasticity, interoception + how your nervous system learns and adapts

Questions to help you investigate what's underneath a trigger + build a relationship with your body outside of crisis moments

Because the goal isn't to become permanently calm or never get triggered again. It's learning how to stay with yourself, get curious, and understand what your body is trying to communicate instead of constantly trying to fix it.
Dr. Stephen Porges — Polyvagal Theory, neuroception + nervous system regulation

Dr. Dan Siegel + Matthew Lieberman — “name it to tame it” + affect labeling

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk — trauma + the brain

Cheryl Groskopf, LMFT, LPCC — somatic regulation practices

Kati Morton, LMFT — bridge statements

Byron Katie — The Work

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Everyone's Trying to Lose Weight (Again!): How to Stay Connected to Your Recovery
If it feels like everyone around you is suddenly on a GLP-1, talking about weight loss, or shrinking their body... you're not imagining it. And if you're in eating disorder recovery or working to heal your relationship with food, it makes sense that this season feels especially hard.
In this episode, we're talking about why GLP-1 medications can feel so triggering, how to navigate the grief and comparison they can bring up, and—most importantly—how to stay connected to yourself and your recovery in the middle of it all.
This isn't an anti-GLP-1 episode. It's a compassionate conversation for anyone who has chosen a different path and is wondering how to protect their peace while everyone around them seems to be chasing weight loss.
In this episode, we'll cover:
Why GLP-1s can feel so activating during eating disorder or disordered eating recovery

The psychology behind comparison and social modeling

How to practice body neutrality even when it's hard

Practical tools to stay grounded when weight loss conversations are everywhere

How to respond when friends or family bring up GLP-1s

Ways to strengthen self-trust instead of getting pulled back into diet culture

Whether you're recovering from an eating disorder, healing chronic dieting, or simply trying to build a healthier relationship with food and your body, I hope this episode reminds you that you don't have to follow what everyone else is doing to care for yourself well.
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**GLP-1 deep dive from the How To Fitness Podcast folks!
** My Episode on Body Neutrality + why it's sexy!!
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The Perspective Shift on Health & Fitness That We All Need
This week I’m joined by Kate Lyman and Michael Ulloa from the How to Fitness podcast for a conversation about wellness culture, sustainable health habits, and what happens when “being healthy” starts becoming less about authentic health — and more about optimization and chasing wellness trends.
We talk about:
how rigid ideas about health can actually keep people stuck and lead to disordered eating patterns

the pressure to do fitness and nutrition “optimally” and why it's BS

the importance of flexibility within a sustainable approach to health

why evidence-based health matters immesly in a world full of food-fear, weird trends, and constant wellness marketing

the impact of obsessing over “health” and what people miss out on when their lives become consumed by self-monitoring

how orthorexia, wellness culture, and disordered eating patterns can quietly reinforce perfectionism, fear, and control

how to become a more conscious consumer of health and wellness content — and the red flags to watch for

which habits actually support a healthy and fulfilling life (and which ones are mostly noise)

why so many people feel emotionally attached to control around food and exercise

This conversation felt like such an important reminder that health is supposed to support your life — not become your entire life.
This is about more flexibility, self-awareness, nuance, joy, and actually finding what works for your real life.
Health can be fun!!
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-Lizzie

I’m sharing the deepest dive I’ve ever done into my own story — from body obsession, bulimia, orthorexia, perfectionism, purity culture, and disembodiment… to healing, self-trust, mindfulness, and finally feeling at home in myself again.
In this episode, we talk about:
growing up in diet culture + purity culture
childhood sexual abuse and disconnection from the body
restriction, body checking, and calorie counting
how my eating disorder escalated in college
wellness culture and orthorexia
the overlap between perfectionism, control, and “health”
how yoga and mindfulness helped me reconnect with myself
what actually helped me heal
My hope is that somewhere in my story, you see pieces of your own and feel a little less alone.
Because healing is possible.
And life gets so much fuller when your body is no longer the center of everything.
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