Moxiecast

004: The Mental Workout Behind the Physical One, with Charlene Hutsebaut

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Behind every physical workout is a mental workout. Are you using the 'go hard, or go home' approach? What if there was a gentler way to prime yourself for wellbeing that actually worked and felt way better? So you ate cake.  Or A cake.  Now you stare at yourself in the mirror, disgusted, and tell yourself you need to spend 3 hours on the treadmill working it off, you pig. Being mean to ourselves can be motivating, but honestly, there's got to be a better way. The mental prep we do for exercise - how we see ourselves, how we motivate ourselves, how we're in relationship with our bodies - spills over into how we show up in life.  We pound ourselves at work. Then we pound ourselves at the gym (or do the opposite, which might involve a sofa, a spoon, and a jar of Nutella). We don't listen to our bodies. Instead we often expect too much, push ourselves and then beat ourselves up for our perceived failures. If you're a self-beater-upper and you're sick of it, today's episode is for YOU. I'm in conversation with Cha